Martha Argerich & Friends: Live from the Lugano Festival 2012

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Martha Argerich & Friends: Live from the Lugano Festival 2012

Several of the ensembles could have benefited from more sustained period of rehearsal, yet they still communicate vibrancy and the sheer enjoyment possible when fine musicians get together to... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 13th May 2013
Catalogue No: 7211192
Label: Warner Classics
Series: Martha Argerich Lugano Festival
Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

13th May 2013
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August 2013

Editor's Choice
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Shortlisted - Chamber

Mozart: Sonata for Piano Four Hands in D Major, K. 381

Work length15:14

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Martha Argerich (piano), Maria João Pires (piano)
Recorded: 2012-06-25
Recording Venue: Lugan Festival, Switzerland

I. Allegro

Track length4:59

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II Andante

Track length6:10

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III Allegro molto

Track length4:05

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Schumann: Stücke im Volkston (5), Op. 102

Work length17:05

$6.50

$8.50

Gautier Capuçon (cello), Martha Argerich (piano)
Recorded: 2012-01-01
Recording Venue: Lugano Festival

I Mit humor: "Vanitas vanitatum"

Track length3:14

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II Langsam

Track length3:48

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III Nicht schnell, mit viel Ton zu spielen

Track length4:38

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IV Nicht zu rasch

Track length2:02

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V Stark and markirt

Track length3:23

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Mahler: Piano Quartet (in one movement) in A minor

Work length12:35

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Martha Argerich, Lily Maisky (piano), Sascha Maisky (violin), Lyda Chen (viola), Mischa Maisky (cello)
Recorded: 2012-06-23
Recording Venue: Lugano Festival, Switzerland

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K503

Work length31:14

Album only

Martha Argerich (piano)
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Jacek Kaspszyk
Recorded: 2012-06-15
Recording Venue: Lugano Festival, Switzerland

I. Allegro maestoso

Track length14:22

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II. Andante

Track length7:36

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III. Allegretto

Track length9:16

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Brahms: Variations on a theme by Haydn for orchestra, Op. 56a 'St Anthony Variations'

Work length17:25

Album only

Martha Argerich (piano), Nicholas Angelich (piano)
Recorded: 2012-06-11
Recording Venue: Lugan Festival, Switzerland

Dvořák: Piano Quartet No. 2 in E flat, Op. 87

Work length33:18

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Martha Argerich, Ilya Gringolts (violin), Nathan Braude (viola), Torleif Thedéen (cello), Polina Leschenko (piano)
Recorded: 2012-06-13
Recording Venue: Lugano Festival, Switzerland

I Allegro con fuoco

Track length7:51

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II Lento

Track length9:57

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III Allegro moderato, grazioso

Track length6:35

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IV Finale. Allegro, ma non troppo

Track length8:55

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Martucci: Theme with Variations for 2 pianos in E flat Major Op.58

Work length12:58

Album only

Nelson Goerner (piano), Rusudan Alavidze (piano)
Recorded: 2012-06-08
Recording Venue: Lugano Festival

Smetana: Sonata in E minor for Two Pianos, Eight Hands

Work length10:40

Album only

Martha Argerich (piano), Anton Gerzenberg (piano), Daniel Gerzenberg (piano), Lilya Zilberstein (piano)
Recorded: 2012-06-20
Recording Venue: Lugano Festival

Smetana: Rondo for 2 pianos, 8 hands in C major

Work length4:08

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Martha Argerich (piano), Anton Gerzenberg (piano), Daniel Gerzenberg (piano), Lilya Zilberstein (piano)
Recorded: 2012-06-20
Recording Venue: Lugano Festival

Prokofiev: Sonata No.2 in D Major Op. 94bis

Work length22:11

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Martha Argerich (piano), Renaud Capuçon (violin)
Recorded: 2012-06-08
Recording Venue: Lugano Festival

I Moderato

Track length7:30

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II Presto - Poco piu mosso del - Tempo I

Track length4:32

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III Andante

Track length3:17

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IV Allegro con brio - Poco meno mosso - Tempo I

Track length6:52

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Debussy: Debussy / Arr Griguoli

Work length20:56

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Giorgia Tomassi (piano), Alessandro Stella (piano), Carlo Maria Griguoli (piano)
Recorded: 2012-06-23
Recording Venue: Lugano Festival

La mer, L. 109: I. De l'aube à midi sur la mer

Track length7:18

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La mer, L. 109: II. Jeux de vagues

Track length6:14

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La mer, L. 109: III. Dialogue du vent et de la mer

Track length7:24

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Medtner: Piano Quintet in C major Op. post

Work length25:23

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Lilya Zilberstein (piano), Dora Schwarzberg (violin), Lucia Hall (violin), Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg (viola), Jing Zhao (cello)
Recorded: 2012-06-20
Recording Venue: Lugano Festival

I Molto placido

Track length7:48

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II Andantino con moto

Track length4:54

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III Finale.: Allegro vivace

Track length12:41

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Mores: Military Tap

Work length2:11

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Martha Argerich (piano), Alejandro Petrasso (piano)
Recorded: 2012-06-20
Recording Venue: Lugano Festival

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Recording of the Week, Martha Argerich and Friends Live from Lugano

13th May 2013

Highlights from the pianist’s month-long annual festival in southern Switzerland include Mozart with Maria João Pires, Schumann with Gautier Capuçon, Brahms with Nicholas Angelich, and piano quartets by Mahler and Dvořák.

EMI Classics is pleased to release the 10th annual 3CD set of highlights from the Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano, “the delightful festival where youth meets experience and both benefit” (Gramophone). The Times described Argerich’s Lugano Festival as “community music-making on a deluxe scale, with performers and listeners mutually uplifted by music’s wonders”. The set is being released in anticipation of the Festival’s 2013 season.

Reviewing the 2011 Live from Lugano release, Nicholas Kenyon wrote in The Observer, “There are not many reliable annual treats among classical CDs these days, but the series of live recordings from Martha Argerich's Lugano festival are now a highlight of each year.” Andrew Clark in the Financial Times wrote, “Every June [Argerich] and a clutch of friends and protégés make music in a style that reflects her free spirit and total dedication. Even when Argerich is not playing, she seems to inspire the performance.”

In addition to Argerich, the performers in 2012 included many familiar names from previous Live from Lugano releases, among them the violinist and cellist brothers Renaud and Gautier Capuçon and pianist Nicholas Angelich, all of whom record for Virgin Classics. The current set also welcomes back Mischa Maisky, Lilya Zilberstein, Polina Leschenko, Dora Schwarzberg, Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg, Lyda Chen, Ilya Gringolts, Georgio Tomassi, Carlo Maria Griguoli and Alessandro Stella. Newcomers include the pianists Maria João Pires and Nelson Goerner.

The repertoire of Martha Argerich and Friends – Live from Lugano 2012 puts the piano at the centre of the programming, focusing particularly on piano duets and rarely performed and recorded compositions. There is a group from the Austro-German Classical and Romantic tradition, followed by works from Slavic composers, sounds from Italy and France and, as a send-off, a two piano arrangement of an Argentinean tango. The performance of Mahler’s Piano Quartet is something of a family affair, performed by Ms Argerich’s longest-standing artistic collaborator Mischa Maisky, his pianist daughter Lily and violinist son Sascha and Ms Argerich’s daughter Lyda Chen. The orchestral work in this year’s set is Mozart’s Concerto K503 with Argerich and the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana conducted by Jacek Kaspszyk.

Martha Argerich’s passion, technical virtuosity, temperament, commitment and supreme artistry have illuminated the music world and left audiences spellbound since she won the 1964 International Chopin Competition. Reluctant to perform solo for many years, she has continued to perform chamber music and concertos with orchestra where, in her own words, “I feel the musicians moving about. I watch them and I also move. I’m more natural.”

EMI Classics marked the occasion of Martha Argerich’s 70th birthday in 2011 with the release of four multi-disc sets bearing some of her finest performances from 1965 to 2009.

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 chamber music partnerships mixing established and up-and-coming artists. After setting up Meeting Point at Beppu, Japan in 1996 and the Martha Argerich Festival in Buenos Aires in 1999, the pianist decided to create a similar gathering of musical minds in Europe. The southern Swiss town of Lugano was identified as an ideal setting for a project based on the spirit of building a community of close-knit relationships among young and established artists and the Progetto Martha Argerich was launched in 2002. More than a decade later, the Festival continues to retain its original experimental ‘feel’ because of the original programming and the emergence of new performing talents. Geoffrey Norris in The Daily Telegraph wrote, “It is always instructive to see who has been invited to perform at the Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano, because the cast list is a reliable guide to some of the most exciting talent in the musical world today.”

The twelfth season of the Martha Argerich Project will take place from 9 June to 3 July 2013 and will include performances by many of the artists on this set.

EMI would like to dedicate these recordings to the memory of Jurg ‘Abdul’ Grand, who founded the Martha Argerich Project at the 2002 Festival and co-directed the 2002 and 2003 events.

“Everything Martha Argerich touches turns to gold, not only her own piano playing but those around her whom she evidently inspires to new heights.” (The Observer)

“These discs are a reminder of a unique, ever-formidable and enchanting artist.” (Gramophone)

Artists

Maria João Pires (piano), Martha Argerich (piano), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Lily Maisky (piano), Sascha Maisky (violin), Lyda Chen (viola), Mischa Maisky (cello), Nicholas Angelich (piano), Polina Leschenko (piano), Ilya Gringolts (violin), Nathan Braude (viola), Torleif Thedéen (cello), Nelson Goerner (piano), Rusudan Alavidze (piano), Lilya Zilberstein (piano), Anton Gerzenberg (piano), Daniel Gerzenberg (piano), Renaud Capuçon (violin), Giorgia Tomassi (piano), Carlo Maria Griguoli (piano), Alessandro Stella (piano), Ale Petrasso (piano), Dora Schwarzberg (violin), Lucia Hall (violin), Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg (viola), Jing Zhao (cello)

Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Jacek Kaspszyk

Reviews

August 2013

Several of the ensembles could have benefited from more sustained period of rehearsal, yet they still communicate vibrancy and the sheer enjoyment possible when fine musicians get together to play chamber music in a relatively relaxed environment. Martha Argerich is the dominating presence, her performances among the most memorable in the set.

4th May 2013

every bit as captivating as previous instalments...The only time [Argerich] plays solo is in Mozart’s “Piano Concerto No 25”, almost every note of which she invests with her beguiling sense of discovery: a fabulous, thrills-and-spills performance in which the Argentine pianist, now in her 70s, defies her age.

August 2013

they tread the fine line between the immediacy and drama of live performance and the accuracy needed for the repeat listening of recorded performance with great dexterity. Each performance on the discs of the 2012 festival is so immaculate that it is an unfailing surprise when the applause appears at the end of a track

13th May 2013

Argerich’s only solo performance on this set is Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25, K403, which ends the first disc. It is a stunning reading, every note carefully thought about, with touch, balance and phrasing immaculate and her beautiful lyricism reminding us exactly why she is widely regarded as one of the finest pianists on the planet...a true ‘must-have’ if ever there was one!

17th May 2013

Even the more traditional repertoire tends to emerge piping hot. Nothing is hotter than Argerich and Nicholas Angelich’s electrifying romp through the two-piano version of Brahms’s Variations on a Theme by Haydn, a marvel of fleet fingering and communal joy.

Martha Argerich & Friends: Live from the Lugano Festival 2012

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