Martha Argerich & Friends: Live from the Lugano Festival 2010

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the sustained quality of music-making on display here ensures that the collective result is something much more than a high-powered musical love-in...her approach [to the Chopin] is as fresh... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 7th Mar 2011
Catalogue No: 0708362
Label: Warner Classics
Series: Martha Argerich Lugano Festival
Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

June 2011

Editor's Choice

Schumann: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor, Op. 105

Work length16:24

$3.90

$5.10

Martha Argerich (piano), Renaud Capuçon (violin)
Recorded: 2010-06-01
Recording Venue: June 2010, Auditorio Stelio Molo, Lugano

I. Mit leidenschaftlichem Ausdruck

Track length7:17

$1.30

$1.70

II. Allegretto

Track length3:52

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III. Lebhaft

Track length5:15

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Chopin: Rondo in C major for two pianos, Op. 73

Work length9:03

$1.30

$1.70

Lilya Zilberstein (piano), Sergei Edelmann (piano)
Recorded: 2010-06-01
Recording Venue: June 2010, Auditorio Stelio Molo, Lugano

Brahms: Variations on a theme by Schumann for four hands, Op. 23

Work length16:39

Album only

Lily Maisky (piano), Nicholas Angelich (piano)
Recorded: 2010-06-01
Recording Venue: June 2010, Auditorio Stelio Molo, Lugano

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

Work length38:21

Album only

Martha Argerich (piano)
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Jacek Kaspszyk
Recorded: 2010-06-01
Recording Venue: June 2010, Palazzo dei Congressi, Lugano

I. Allegro maestoso

Track length19:28

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II. Romanze (Larghetto)

Track length9:19

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III. Rondo (Vivace)

Track length9:34

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Schumann: Adagio and Allegro in A flat major, Op. 70

Work length8:50

$2.60

$3.40

Gautier Capuçon (cello), Martha Argerich (piano)
Recorded: 2010-06-01
Recording Venue: June 2010, Auditorio Stelio Molo, Lugano

Langsam, mit innigem Ausdruck

Track length3:48

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Allegro, rasch und feurig

Track length5:02

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Liszt: Les Préludes, symphonic poem No. 3, S97

Work length15:32

Album only

Martha Argerich (piano), Daniel Rivera (piano)
Recorded: 2010-06-01
Recording Venue: June 2010, Auditorio Stelio Molo, Lugano

Korngold: Piano Quintet in E major, Op. 15

Work length29:12

Album only

Alissa Margulis (violin), Lucia Hall (violin), Mark Dobrinskji (cello), Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg (viola), Alexander Mogilevsky (piano)
Recorded: 2010-06-01
Recording Venue: June 2010, Auditorio Stelio Molo, Lugano

Mäßiges Aeitmass, mit schwungvoll blühendem Ausdruck

Track length10:32

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Adagio: mit größter Ruhe, stets äußerst ausdrucksvoll

Track length10:35

Album only

Finale: Gemessen beinahe pathetisch

Track length8:05

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Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos & Percussion, BB 115, Sz. 110

Work length27:01

Album only

Martha Argerich (piano), Danilo Grassi (percussion), Louis Sauvêtre (percussion), Stephen Kovacevich (piano)
Recorded: 2010-06-01
Recording Venue: June 2010, Auditorio Stelio Molo, Lugano

I. Assai lento - Allegro molto

Track length13:25

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II. Lento ma non troppo - Un poco più andante - Agitato

Track length6:39

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III. Allegro non troppo

Track length6:57

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Granados: Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 49

Work length14:32

$3.90

$5.10

Alissa Margulis (violin), Gabriela Montero (piano), Geza Hosszu-Legocky (violin), Lyda Chen (viola), Natalia Margulis (cello), Martha Argerich (piano)
Recorded: 2010-06-01
Recording Venue: June 2010, Auditorio Stelio Molo, Lugano

I. Allegro

Track length4:52

$1.30

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II. Allegretto quasi andantino

Track length5:07

$1.30

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III. Largo - Molto presto

Track length4:33

$1.30

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Stravinsky: Stravinsky / Arr Griguoli

Work length17:39

$7.80

$10.20

Alessandro Stella (piano), Carlo Maria Griguoli (piano), Giorgia Tomassi (piano)
Recorded: 2010-06-01
Recording Venue: June 2010, Auditorio Stelio Molo, Lugano

The Firebird Suite: Introduction

Track length2:31

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The Firebird Suite: Dance and variations

Track length1:26

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The Firebird Suite: The Princesesses' Dance

Track length3:57

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The Firebird Suite: Infernal Dance of King Kaschei

Track length4:21

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The Firebird Suite: Berceuse (Firebird's Lullaby)

Track length2:41

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The Firebird Suite: Finale

Track length2:43

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George Gershwin (1898-1937), Percy Grainger: Fantasy for two pianos on Gershwin's Porgy and Bess

Work length16:26

Album only

Alexander Gurning (piano), Gabriela Montero (piano)
Recorded: 2010-06-01
Recording Venue: June 2010, Auditorio Stelio Molo, Lugano

Schnittke: Piano Quintet, Op. 108

Work length30:06

$6.50

$8.50

Dora Schwarzberg (violin), Jorge Andres Bosso (cello), Lilya Zilberstein (piano), Lucia Hall (violin), Lyda Chen (viola)
Recorded: 2010-06-01
Recording Venue: June 2010, Auditorio Stelio Molo, Lugano

I. Moderato

Track length6:33

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II. In Temp di Valse

Track length7:09

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III. Andante

Track length7:01

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IV. Lento

Track length4:37

$1.30

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V. Moderato pastorale

Track length4:46

$1.30

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EMI Classics is pleased to release the latest instalment of highlights from the Martha Argerich Project at the Lugano Festival. This is the eight annual 3-CD set celebrating the musical fruits of a project in which young artists join seasoned performers, including Ms. Argerich, to explore wide-ranging chamber music and orchestral repertoire, both well known and rarely heard. The CDs, recorded in the summer of 2010, are being released in anticipation of the Festival’s 2011 season in June.

As a chamber music event, this series has become a laboratory that gives guest artists a chance to prove themselves not only in well-known masterpieces but also in rarely performed repertoire.

This is Martha Argerich’s 70th birthday year, and this year, the Live from Lugano series will be redesigned, starting with this edition. The new cover concept will be incorporated into future Lugano releases and the previous editions will be scheduled for redesign as necessary. The new design reflects the vibrancy of both Argerich and the festival.

The piano stands at the centre of the programming, not only with works originally written for it but also with transcriptions, which played an important historic role in the diffusion of music in remote areas and within family circles.

This brilliant 3-CD set features the breathtaking Martha Argerich and an exciting assembly of classical stars and up-and-coming talent including Gautier Capuçon , Renaud Capuçon, Gabriela Montero , Alissa Margulis , Geza Hosszu-Legocky , Lida Chen, , Natalia Margulis , Nicholas Angelich , Stephen Kovacevich , Lilya Zilberstein, Sergei Edelmann, Lily Maisky, Daniel Rivera , Alexander Mogilewsky, Giorgia Tomassi , Carlo Maria Griguoli , Dora Schwarzberg , Alessandro Stella Alissa Margulis, Lucia Hall, Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg, Mark Drobinsky, Louis Sauvêtre, Danilo Grassi and Jorge Bosso as well as Orchestra della Svizzera italiana

The repertoire features includes: Schumann’s Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano in A minor, op. 105 and Adagio and Allegro for Cello and Piano, Op. 70, Chopin’s Rondo in C Major, Op. 73 for 2 Pianos, Brahms’ Variations on a Them by Schumann, Op. 23, Liszt’s Les Préludes, Symphonic Poem No. 3, the Korngold Piano Quintet in E Major, Op. 15, Bartók’s Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion Sz 110, Granados’ Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 49, Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite (1919) – Version for 3 Pianos by Carlo Maria Griguoli, Schnittke’s Piano Quintet Op. 108 and the Gershwin/Grainger Fantasy for Two Pianos on Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess.

Few artists have nurtured and promoted emerging young musicians with the level of personal commitment shown by Martha Argerich. In the process, she has created inspired and inspirational chamber music partnerships mixing established and up-and-coming artists. A legend in her own lifetime for her technical mastery and passionate artistry, Argerich possesses an infectious spirit that has fired her own performances and partnerships as well as those of her colleagues and protégés.

Reviewing the CD set highlighting the 2007 Festival, The Financial Times wrote, “The music flies off the page, like a high-calibre jam session in which the participants throw away worldly cares and listen to each other in the moment of performance. There's polish aplenty, as one might expect of well-established musicians, but more to the point, the CD radiates the freshness and electricity of a special occasion. What's so endearing about Argerich's festival concept is that she blends younger players with more experienced colleagues, so there's a cross-fertilisation of ideas. Even when she plays no part … the same invigorating spirit presides.” Gramophone said, “Martha Argerich can put you on alert with just one phrase. A sequence of phrases … becomes the aural embodiment of an archer drawing a bow to maximum stretch. …. The tension is palpable, [the] artists playing into the music to extract all it offers - and clawing listeners out of themselves.”

The ninth season of the Martha Argerich Project takes place in June 2011. Many of the artists on these CDs will take part again this year.

Reviews

June 2011

the sustained quality of music-making on display here ensures that the collective result is something much more than a high-powered musical love-in...her approach [to the Chopin] is as fresh as ever, and she brings to the music a sense of unexaggerated surrounding immensity in the way that only great artists can...the articulation and control [in the Bartok] are so superb that the work's magisterial power truly comes across.

2nd April 2011

the 2010 edition strikes me as among the best...It includes two electrifying Schumann performances from Argerich and the Capuçon brothers...plus an equally stunning Bartók Sonata for two pianos and percussion featuring Argerich with ex-spouse Stephen Kovacevich...To cap it all, Argerich returns to her youth with a sensational Chopin Piano Concerto No 1, digging into the music’s expressive core as never before.

June 2011

if I was to pick one instance of the electricity and expressive freedom encountered on these three CDs it would have to be Argerich's recreation of Chopin's First Concerto...she has rarely sounded more vehement, personal or beguiling. As for the finale, I doubt whether it has ever been played with a more riotous or consuming brilliance in its entire history...All in all, these discs are a reminder of a unique, formidable and ever-enchanting artist.

31st March 2011

Even when Argerich is not directly involved, her unique musical spirit seems to hover over the performances; there's a freshness, a sense of discovery, about all the playing here, and it's never dull.

15th May 2011

Argerich encourages many youthful talents to blossom; she is joined by her former partner Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich for a fine Bartók sonata for two pianos and percussion, rhythmically focused but never brittle...Her solo turn is Chopin's First Concerto, eloquently shaped, with the most rivetingly exuberant finale you could hope to hear.

Martha Argerich & Friends: Live from the Lugano Festival 2010

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