Martha Argerich & Friends: Live from the Lugano Festival 2014

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Martha Argerich & Friends: Live from the Lugano Festival 2014

Even more than some years' instalments, Lugano 2014 is a celebration not just of the inimitable Argentinian but also of the most obscure alleyways of classical music…[Weinberg's Fifth Violin... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2015 More…

Release Date: 11th May 2015
Catalogue No: 2564613460
Label: Warner Classics
Series: Martha Argerich Lugano Festival
Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K466

Work length30:48

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Martha Argerich (piano)
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Jacek Kaspszyk

I. Allegro (Live)

Track length14:03

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II. Romance (Live)

Track length8:55

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III. Rondo - Allegro assai (Live)

Track length7:50

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Beethoven: Variations (7) on "Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen", for Cello and Piano, WoO 46

Work length9:57

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Martha Argerich (piano), Mischa Maisky (cello)

Milhaud: La création du monde, Op. 81b

Work length18:18

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Martha Argerich, Eduardo Hubert (piano), Dora Schwarzberg (violin), Michael Guttmann (violin), Nora Romanoff (viola), Mark Drobinsky (cello)

I. Prelude (Live)

Track length4:59

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II. Fugue (Live)

Track length1:37

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III. Romance (Live)

Track length3:45

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IV. Scherzo (Live)

Track length1:23

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V. Finale (Live)

Track length6:34

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Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 11

Work length30:50

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Martha Argerich, Akane Sakai (piano), Anton Gerzenberg (piano), Daniel Gerzenberg (piano), Lilya Zilberstein (piano)

I. Allegro di molto (Live)

Track length9:51

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II. Andante (Live)

Track length6:33

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III. Menuetto - Allegro molto (Live)

Track length6:07

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IV. Allegro con fuoco (Live)

Track length8:19

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Borodin: Piano Quintet in C minor

Work length20:47

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Martha Argerich, Andrey Baranov (violin), Geza Hosszu-Legocky (violin), Nora Romanoff (viola), Jing Zhao (cello), Alexander Mogilevsky (piano)

I. Andante (Live)

Track length4:40

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II. Scherzo - Allegro non troppo (Live)

Track length5:28

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III. Finale - Allegro moderato (Live)

Track length10:39

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Bridge: Cello Sonata in D minor, H125

Work length23:50

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Martha Argerich, Gautier Capuçon (cello), Gabriela Montero (piano)

I. Allegro ben moderato (Live)

Track length10:28

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II. Adagio ma non troppo (Live)

Track length5:14

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Molto allegro e agitato (Live)

Track length8:08

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Poulenc: Sonata for Two Pianos

Work length6:30

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Martha Argerich (piano), Dagmar Clottu (piano)

I. Préude. Modéré (Live)

Track length1:59

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II. Rustique. Naif et lent (Live)

Track length2:11

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III. Final. Très vite (Live)

Track length2:20

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Poulenc: Cello Sonata, Op. 143

Work length22:08

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Martha Argerich, Francesco Piemontesi (piano), Gautier Capuçon (cello)

I. Allegro. Tempo di Marcia (Live)

Track length5:35

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II. Cavatine. Très calme (Live)

Track length6:12

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III. Ballabile. Très animé (Live)

Track length3:28

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IV. Finale. Largo, très librement - Presto subito - Largo (Live)

Track length6:53

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Scriabin: Fantasy for 2 Pianos in A Minor (Live)

Work length7:31

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Martha Argerich, Alexander Mogilevsky (piano), Daniel Rivera (piano)

Weinberg: Violin Sonata No. 5 in G Minor, Op. 53

Work length24:10

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Martha Argerich (piano), Gidon Kremer (violin)

I. Andante con moto (Live)

Track length5:07

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II. Allegro molto (Live)

Track length6:04

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III. Allegro moderato (Live)

Track length4:58

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IV. Allegro - Andante - Allegretto (Live)

Track length8:01

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Warner Classics is pleased to release the 12th annual 3CD set of highlights from the Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano, described in The Times (London), as “community music-making on a deluxe scale, with performers and listeners mutually uplifted by music’s wonders.” The recordings celebrate the musical fruits of a project in which young artists join seasoned performers, including Martha Argerich herself, to explore wide-ranging chamber music and orchestral repertoire, both well-known and rarely heard.

In addition to Ms Argerich, the 2014 Festival featured long-time collaborators such as Gidon Kremer, Gabriela Montero, Mischa Maisky, Gautier Capuçon and Lilya Zilberstein, as well as many of Ms Argerich’s young protégées, including pianists Anton and Daniel Gerzenberg and violinists Geza Hosszu-Logocky and Andrey Baranov, winner of the 2012 Queen Elizabeth Competition. Also featured are pianists Alexander Mogilevsky, Francesco Piemontesi, Daniel Rivera, Dagmar Clottu, Akane Sakai, Eduardo Hubert, violinists Dora Schwarzberg and Michael Guttman, violist Nora Romanoff and cellists Jing Zhao and Mark Drobinsky.

The piano has been at the heart of all Lugano Festival programmes, from the Festival’s inception, in performances of standard repertoire alongside rarely heard compositions and the 2014 season was no exception. Each year the Festival includes a piano concerto with Ms Argerich as soloist and this time it is Mozart’s Concerto No 20 in D minor, K466, with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana conducted by Jacek Kaspszyk. Argerich also performs sonatas with each of two long-standing collaborators, cellist Mischa Maisky and violinist Gidon Kremer. She joins Maisky in Beethoven’s Variations on ‘Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen’ based on Papageno and Pamina’s duet in Mozart’s opera Die Zauberflöte and Kremer, a champion of the work of Shostakovich’s younger friend and colleague Mieczysław Weinberg, in the composer’s Fifth Violin Sonata.

The Swiss pianist Dagmar Clottu appears for the first time in this series, joining Argerich in Francis Poulenc’s Piano Sonata for four hands. Gautier Capuçon and Francesco Piemontesi perform Poulenc’s Cello Sonata and Capuçon performs the Cello Sonata in D minor by Frank Bridge with Gabriela Montero.

Other works featured include Darius Milhaud’s jazzy ballet, La création du monde, performed in the composer’s arrangement for piano quintet; Alexander Borodin’s early Piano Quintet; Felix Mendelssohn’s First Symphony, composed at the age of 15, in an arrangement by Ferruccio Busoni for four players at two pianos; and Alexander Scriabin’s Fantasy in A minor, envisaged as a work for piano and orchestra but only sketched for two pianos, and neither orchestrated nor performed during his lifetime.

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. 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 protégées.

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 fourteenth season of the Progetto Martha Argerich will take place from 10-29 June 2015 and will include performances by many of the artists appearing on these recordings.

Artists

Martha Argerich (piano), Martha Argerich (piano) & Mischa Maisky (cello), Eduardo Hubert (piano), Dora Schwarzberg (violin I), Michael Guttmann (violin II), Nora Romanoff (viola) & Mark Drobinsky (cello), Akane Sakai (piano), Lilya Zilberstein (piano), Anton Gerzenberg (piano) & Daniel Gerzenberg (piano), Alexander Mogilevsky (piano), Andrey Baranov (violin I), Geza Hosszu-Legocky (violin II), Nora Romanoff (viola) & Jing Zhao (cello), Gautier Capucon (cello) & Gabriela Montero (piano), Dagmar Clottu (piano), Gautier Capucon (cello) & Francesco Piemontesi (piano), Alexander Mogilevsky (piano) & Daniel Rivera (piano), Gidon Kremer (violin) & Martha Argerich (piano)

Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, Jacek Kaspszyk

Reviews

August 2015

Even more than some years' instalments, Lugano 2014 is a celebration not just of the inimitable Argentinian but also of the most obscure alleyways of classical music…[Weinberg's Fifth Violin Sonata] exudes such intensity…brilliantly caught by Kremer and Argerich, the latter letting rip in the final stomping piano chords…a riveting performance, and one of the highlights of a compelling box.

July 2015

Argerich is on fine form…[there is]much wonderful music...and the best of the performances are uniquely special as ever

21st June 2015

Lugano’s Progetto Martha Argerich celebrates its 14th “edition” this year under the charismatic, if sometimes elusive, Argentine Klaviertigress, who gathers a select group of colleagues for chamber-music-making of the highest qualities. As she rarely ventures into the studio these days, it’s a treat to have her first recording of Mozart’s great D minor Piano Concerto.

13th May 2015

The music-making always has a tremendous energy and relaxed enjoyment about it, and there’s invariably something unexpected in the compilations...In everything...there’s a sense of specialness, of off-the-cuff music-making of the highest class.

27th June 2015

It is indicative of the companionable spirit with which Argerich directs her Lugano project that you can hear her play all sorts of things that lie outside her familiar repertoire...And then there is her customary appearance in a concerto, this time Mozart’s D minor K466...a performance seething with drama.

29th May 2015

she is characteristically muscular in the Mozart, forceful in some Beethoven variations for piano and cello (Mischa Maisky gracefully yielding in an unequal battle) and superbly pungent in partnership with Dagmar Clottu in Poulenc’s very Stravinsky-like Piano Sonata for four hands...Best of all, she is a sympathetically wistful partner for Gidon Kremer

Martha Argerich & Friends: Live from the Lugano Festival 2014

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