Martha Argerich Edition: Concertos

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Release Date: 9th May 2011
Catalogue No: 0940312
Label: Warner Classics
Series: Martha Argerich Edition
Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

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

Work length38:02

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Martha Argerich (piano)
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Charles Dutoit
Recorded: 1998-10-31
Recording Venue: 29-31 Oct 1998, L'Église de St. Eustache, Montréal

I. Allegro maestoso

Track length19:13

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II. Romanze (Larghetto)

Track length9:24

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III. Rondo (Vivace)

Track length9:25

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Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21

Work length31:00

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Martha Argerich (piano)
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Charles Dutoit
Recorded: 1998-10-31
Recording Venue: 29-31 Oct 1998, L'Église de St. Eustache, Montréal

I. Maestoso

Track length13:43

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II. Larghetto

Track length8:50

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III. Allegro vivace

Track length8:27

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Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D flat major, Op. 10

Work length16:01

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Martha Argerich (piano)
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Charles Dutoit
Recorded: 1997-10-30
Recording Venue: 29-31 October 1997, L'Eglise de St. Eustache, Montréal Montreal

I. Allegro brioso

Track length6:56

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II. Andante assai

Track length4:34

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III. Allegro scherzando

Track length4:31

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Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3, BB 127, Sz. 119

Work length24:57

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Martha Argerich (piano)
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Charles Dutoit
Recorded: 1997-10-30
Recording Venue: 29-31 October 1997 L'Eglise de St. Eustache, Montréal

I. Allegretto

Track length7:22

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II. Adagio religioso -[poco più mosso] - tempo I

Track length10:45

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III. Allegro vivace - [presto]

Track length6:50

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

Work length29:09

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Martha Argerich (piano)
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Charles Dutoit
Recorded: 1997-10-18
Recording Venue: 16 & 18 October 1997, L'Eglise de St. Eustache, Montréal Montreal

I. Andante - Allegro

Track length9:43

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II. Tema (Andantino) & Variations

Track length9:39

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III. Allegro ma non troppo - meno mosso - Allegro

Track length9:47

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Beethoven: Triple Concerto for Piano, Violin, and Cello in C major, Op. 56

Work length35:23

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Martha Argerich (piano), Mischa Maisky (cello), Renaud Capuçon (violin)
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky
Recorded: 2003-06-30
Recording Venue: June 2003, Live recording: Palazzo dei Congressi, Lugano

I. Allegro

Track length16:57

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II. Largo

Track length5:32

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III. Rondo all polacca

Track length12:54

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Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54

Work length29:11

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Martha Argerich (piano)
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky
Recorded: 2002-06-30
Recording Venue: June 2002, Live recording: Auditorio Stelio Molo, Lugano

I. Allegro affettuoso

Track length13:36

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Intermezzo (Andantino grazioso)

Track length4:59

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Allegro vivace

Track length10:36

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Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor for piano, trumpet & strings, Op. 35

Work length21:45

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Martha Argerich (piano), Sergei Nakariakov (trumpet)
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Alexander Verdernikov
Recorded: 2006-06-17
Recording Venue: June 17 2006, Palazzo dei Congressi, Lugano, Switzerland

I. Allegro moderato

Track length5:56

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II. Lento

Track length7:25

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III. Moderato

Track length1:28

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IV. Allegro con brio

Track length6:56

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Falla: Noches en los jardines de España

Work length23:27

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Martha Argerich (piano)
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Alexander Vedernikov
Recorded: 2009-06-01
Recording Venue: June 2009. Lugano Festival, Auditorio Stelio Molo, Lugano.

I. En la Generalife

Track length10:00

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II. Danza lejana

Track length4:34

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En los jardines de la Sierra de Córdoba

Track length8:53

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Mikhail Pletnev: Fantasia Elvetica

Work length32:03

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Martha Argerich (piano), Alexander Mogilevsky (piano)
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Mikhail Pletnev
Recorded: 2008-06-01
Recording Venue: Live in Concert June 2008. Palazzo dei Congressi, Lugano

I. Maestoso

Track length6:36

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II. Tranquillo

Track length12:24

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III. Temps di marcia - Andante

Track length6:36

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IV. Tempo di polka - Più vivo - Allegro

Track length6:27

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Martha Argerich was born on 5th June 1941 in Buenos Aires. Her interest in the piano showed itself when she was three. Vincenzo Scaramuzza, her teacher, impressed on her the importance of feeling and the singing lyrical line – a facet of her playing which remains immediately recognisable. At the age of eight she made her debut concert playing Beethoven’s first concerto and the following year she gave Mozart’s Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466 and Bach’s French Suite in G, BWV 816.

In 1955 her family moved to Europe so that Martha could study with Friedrich Gulda in Austria; in this she was supported by the Argentine government who gave her parents diplomatic posts in their Embassy in Vienna. She won both the Geneva Music and Ferruccio Busoni International Competitions in 1957, but it was her winning the seventh Chopin Piano competition in Warsaw that confirmed her as a major talent at the age of 24.

Her formidable technique has often been compared to that of Horowitz. She is reputed to have learnt Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit in three days having been told it was extremely difficult. Her solo career lasted for a quarter of a century during which her talent for interpreting the romantic classics, notably Chopin and Liszt, were matched by her brilliance in the 20th century masters Ravel, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and Messiaen. Her decision to limit her performances to chamber music and concerto was taken, as she admitted in interviews, to her feeling of loneliness on stage alone. This has been her career path for the last 30 years and she retains the aura of one of the most brilliant of all pianists of modern generations.

She has been particularly generous in supporting the next generation of artists.

She appears regularly as a jury member at important competitions and her friends and protégées captivate audiences with exquisite performances of chamber music at her festival at Lugano. Now at the age of 70 we can salute her as the phenomenon she undoubtedly is and wish her continued success in all aspects of her life.

Martha Argerich Edition: Concertos

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