CHOPIN / SCRIABIN / GRIEG / BEETHOVEN / etc
Verbier Festival - Best of 2014 Evgeny Kissin, Sergei Babayan, Martha Argerich, Daniil Trifonov (piano), Ingela Brimberg (soprano), Daniel Hope (violin), etc / Verbier Festival Orche [ Erato / 2 CD - released 25/Jul/2015 ] Evgeny Kissin has recorded a captivating recital of Chopin Polonaises and Impromptus. The live performance was recorded at Switzerland's acclaimed Verbier Festival in July, 2004. |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music - Robert Schumann (Piano Concerto, 1845) Martha Argerich (piano) / Gewanhausorchester Leipzig / Riccardo Chailly [ EuroArts / DVD - released 9/Nov/2009 ] The DVD series "Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music" features one of the world's most fascinating pianists, highlighting piano repertoire from the Romantic period. Martha Argerich - often regarded as the greatest pianist of our time - plays... |
SCHUMANN
Symphonies / Concertos Gidon Kremer (violin) & Martha Argerich (piano) / Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 13/Aug/2007 ] "The musical adventurer par excellence, ...the scholarly conductor with temperament, the thinking musician who makes music with rough edges." Gramophone |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 10, 19 & 20 Martha Argerich (piano) / Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, Jörg Faerber, with Alexandre Rabinovitch (piano) [ Warner Classics Original Jacket Reissues / CD - released 20/May/2015 ] Martha Argerich - as ever, irresistibly brilliant and charismatic - is the soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto No 20, K466 and pairs up with fellow-pianist Alexandre Rabinovitch for the delightful Concerto No 10 for two pianos, K365. Rabinovitch... |
BRAHMS / SCHUMANN
Piano quartet No 1 Op 25 / Fantasiestucke Op 88 Gidon Kremer (violin) Yuri Bashmet (viola) Mischa Maisky (cello) Martha Argerich (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 10/Sep/2002 ] "In a quartet of stars, it's the phenomenal Argerich whose playing is the bedrock" - Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine (April 2004) |
MUSSORGSKY / BEETHOVEN
Live From Salzburg 2008 [Moussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition / Beethoven - Triple Concerto Op. 56] Martha Argerich (piano) Renaud Capucon (violin) Gautier Capucon, cello) / Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela / Gustavo Dudamel [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 4/May/2009 ] Gustavo Dudamel's thrilling debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2008 recorded live in the heat of the moment at the Grosses Festspielhaus. |
SCHUMANN / BACH / BRAHMS
Schumann / Bach / Brahms: Violin Sonatas Itzhak Perlman (violin) Martha Argerich (piano) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/2016 ] "Argerich's piano playing is supremely alive, moving under Perlman's muscular melody in ebbing, tugging waves...Perlman's tone may be fractionally less sweet than it was nearly two decades ago, but the sense of line in his playing remains supreme." |
MENDELSSOHN
Violin Concerto in D minor / Concerto for Violin & Piano Gidon Kremer (violin) Martha Argerich (piano) / Orpheus Chamber Orchestra [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 10/Aug/2013 ] |
BEETHOVEN
Cello Sonatas Nos. 3, 4 & 5 Mischa Maisky (cello) & Martha Argerich (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Music for Two Pianos Martha Argerich (piano) with Gabriela Montero (piano), Nelson Goerner (piano), Lilya Zilberstein (piano), etc [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 4/Nov/2014 ] Martha Argerich's long career has taken in many outstanding solo performances, but she has often professed to feeling 'lonely' on stage. This CD showcases the area in which she feels truly at home: her extensive and fruitful collaborations with other... |
MOZART / BEETHOVEN / PROKOFIEV / RAVEL
Early Recordings Martha Argerich (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 20/May/2016 ] Martha Argerich's exhilarating early recordings, released here for the first time, include sonatas by Mozart and Beethoven that appear nowhere else in her discography; Prokofiev's Third Sonata is also a recording première. |
SCHUMANN / DEBUSSY / BARTOK
Live From Buenos Aires Martha Argerich, Daniel Barenboim (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 18/Mar/2016 ] "this concert...is clearly an emotional homecoming...If there's less youthful elan and rhythmic incisiveness in her playing with Barenboim [compared to earlier recordings with Kovacevich], their easy rapport in this music comes across with astonishin |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: 24 Preludes / Piano Sonata No 2 Op 25 Martha Argerich (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon The Originals / CD - released 1/Apr/2002 ] "In this complete version of the Preludes, recorded twenty seven years ago, the tigress of the keyboard laid down one of her finest Chopin performances. A great Chopin disc" (MusicWeb, 2002) |
BEETHOVEN / DEBUSSY / FRANCK / HAYDN / PROKOFIEV / SCHUMANN / etc
Martha Argerich: The Complete Sony Recordings Martha Argerich (piano) with James Galway (flute), Ivry Gitlis (violin), Berlin Philharmonic, London Sinfonietta [ Sony Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 10/Jul/2016 ] Martha Argerich - The Complete Sony Classical Recordings is a 5 CD original jackets collection containing 2 CDs remastered from the original analogue tapes using 24bit/96 kHz technology. Martha Argerich (born June 5, 1941) is an Argentine pianist,... |
LISZT / RAVEL / PROKOFIEV / BRAHMS / CHOPIN
Martha Argerich - Debut Album Martha Argerich (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon The Originals / CD - released 1/Jan/2006 ] "This is a staggering first recording by any reckoning. Mercurial and marvellous." (Gramophone) |
SCHUMANN
Fantasie in C major Op 17 / Fantasiestucke Op 12 [recorded 1976] Martha Argerich (piano) [ Sony Originals / CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] "this is classic Argerich: incandescent and mercurial, she seems to have a limitless range of colour at her disposal. The Fantasie possesses tenderness; the Fantasiestucke soar." (BBC Music Five Stars) |
CHOPIN / BEETHOVEN / PROKOFIEV / MENDELSSOHN / RAVEL / SHOSTAKOVICH / TCHAIKOVSKY
Martha Argerich Collection 2: The Concerto Recordings (7CD) Martha Argerich (piano) with various orchestras & conductors [ Deutsche Grammophon / 7 CD Box Set - released 10/Nov/2009 ] Volume 2 - the Concerto Recordings, on 7 CDs, comprising all of Argerich's concerto recordings with Deutsche Grammophon, from her scintillating début playing Prokofiev and Ravel under Claudio Abbado in 1967 to her most recent collaboration in 2004. |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Toccata / Partita No 2 / English Suite No 2 Martha Argerich (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon The Originals / CD - released 18/Mar/2000 ] "Nothing I have heard from her on disc has ever impressed me more, either from the viewpoint of fine pianism or perceptive musicianship. Besides controlled fingerwork and vivid characterization, achieved through judicious contrasts of tempo and... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Martha Argerich & Friends: Live from Lugano 2013 Martha Argerich (piano) and friends [ Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2014 ] "With Martha at the keys, Beethoven's First Piano Concerto sparkles and winks, with friendly assistance from the Dutch conductor Hubert Soudant and the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana...But as usual the special treats come in the lighter items, whe |