Martha Argerich & Claudio Abbado: The Complete Concerto Recordings

 
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Martha Argerich & Claudio Abbado: The Complete Concerto Recordings
Martha Argerich (piano) / Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado

[ Deutsche Grammophon / 5 CD Box Set ]

Release Date: Thursday 15 January 2015

This item is only available to us via Special Import.

With this special edition, DG pays tribute to an extraordinary musical partnership. The 5CD box set collects all the concerto recordings made by pianist Martha Argerich with conductor Claudio Abbado over more than 45 years.

Their final meeting on stage took place at the Lucerne Festival at Easter 2013, where they performed two Mozart concertos. This special occasion was recorded, and the release was not only highly praised but is also Deutsche Grammophon's most successful release of 2014 so far, winning numerous awards.

Martha Argerich and Claudio Abbado got to know each other through Friedrich Gulda, with whom they both studied in the late 1950s. Their close collaboration in the studio began in 1967 with Argerich's brilliant concerto-debut release of the Prokofiev Third and Ravel G major. Each recording since then has been a success, as much with the critics as on a commercial level.

"Lightning strikes as Argerich's Beethoven 3 is finally heard on disc" Recording of the Month Gramophone Magazine January 2005

Tracks:

Prokofiev:
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26

Ravel:
Piano Concerto in G major

Chopin:
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11

Liszt:
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S124

Ravel:
Piano Concerto in G major

Tchaikovsky:
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23

Beethoven:
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in B flat major, op. 19 (Cadenza: Beethoven)
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3
in C minor, op. 37

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Friedrich Gulda: Piano Concerto No.25 In C, K.503

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven:
Piano Concerto No.20 In D Minor, K.466