Martha Argerich & Daniel Barenboim: Piano Duos: Mozart, Schubert & Stravinsky

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Stravinsky's Rite of Spring prompts several adjectives: brutal, revolutionary, relentless, terrifying...But elegant? Urbane, seductive, sensuous? This astonishing performance is all that and... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 20th Oct 2014
Catalogue No: 4793922
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Length: 75 minutes

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Mozart: Sonata for 2 pianos in D major, K448

Work length24:39

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Daniel Barenboim (piano), Martha Argerich (piano)
Recorded: 2014-04-15
Recording Venue: Philharmonie, Berlin

1. Allegro con spirito

Track length8:01

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2. Andante

Track length10:01

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3. Allegro molto

Track length6:37

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Schubert: Variations in A flat major on a original theme, D813

Work length18:32

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Daniel Barenboim (piano), Martha Argerich (piano)
Recorded: 2014-04-15
Recording Venue: Philharmonie, Berlin

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Work length32:12

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Daniel Barenboim (piano), Martha Argerich (piano)
Recorded: 2014-04-15
Recording Venue: Philharmonie, Berlin

Part 1: The Adoration Of The Earth

Track length14:47

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Part 2: The Sacrifice

Track length17:25

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Recording of the Week, Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim perform piano duos

27th October 2014

James listens to the new duet disc from two of today's greatest pianists – Daniel Barenboim and Martha Argerich.

A magic moment in the history of classical music: Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim – both from Buenos Aires – team up for a duo recital at Berlin's Philharmonie.

A reunion of the two classical superstars after more than 15 years.

THE concert highlight from Berlin's fully packed Philharmonie on the occasion of the "Festtage der Berliner Staatsoper 2014"

“Stravinsky originally wrote the Rite of Spring in a two-piano version and one of the first performances was given privately by the composer and Claude Debussy. […] Argerich and Barenboim […] surely possessed even better technique than Stravinsky and Debussy and their commitment could hardly be exaggerated”. (The Guardian)

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Christmas 2014

Stravinsky's Rite of Spring prompts several adjectives: brutal, revolutionary, relentless, terrifying...But elegant? Urbane, seductive, sensuous? This astonishing performance is all that and more. Few orchestral accounts equal the colouristic range on offer here...This is keyboard sorcery near the levels reported of Chopin and Liszt.

25th October 2014

Who had the incendiary idea of bringing together two such combustible musicians? Their Mozart is absorbing, their Schubert richly imaginative.
But it is their Stravinsky...that is really breathtaking, a fusion of two wildly individual artistic minds who take the music and themselves to their limits.

October 2014

Barenboim's instinct is to sing out, to play to the very back of the hall...[Argerich] acts in a way as a moderating influence on Barenboim's flights, thanks surely in part to her years of experience as a chamber musician...These two-piano bodges always draw from critics the cliche that one misses the orchestral colouring of the work...This shattering performance sweeps away all such notions.

February 2015

There are few experiences in musical terms that are more satisfying than hearing performances of works you think you know in a way that makes you stop in your tracks. You submit to a new appraisal as it reveals aspects and nuances that you had been unaware of before. That is certainly what happened when I listened to this disc.

27th October 2014

This is proper seat-of-your-pants, roller-coaster stuff: it’s a live recording, and you really feel that palpable sense of excitement and adrenaline, which is hardly surprising given the amount of notes they have to play! It truly is a stunning example of amazing pianistic feats, and I recommend it very highly indeed.

26th October 2014

If The Rite of Spring is now so familiar that it has lost its notorious shock value, listen to this performance of Stravinsky’s four-hand arrangement, recorded live in Berlin in April. The very absence of the music’s spectacular orchestral colours brings out the audacity and violence of its assault on traditional harmony and rhythm.

26th October 2014

This is sensational: two of the world’s greatest pianists coming together for a seemingly spontaneous joint recital that hits dizzy heights of excitement. Not everything is perfect...But can the adolescents’ dance ever have sounded more eloquent than under Barenboim’s fingers, or the spring rounds more hypnotic than Argerich makes them?

31st October 2014

the audio experience has its own fire and majesty as these two old friends pitch in and strike sparks...an electrifying live recording.

Classical Music

If there is one disc any pianophile should not miss, it is this one...even the quieter moments possess great power…[this recording] delivers everything it promises and more.

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