Festival de Lugano 2009 / Argerich

EMI Classics is pleased to release the latest installment of highlights from the Martha Argerich Project at the Lugano Festival. This is the seventh 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 2009, are being released in anticipation of the Festival's 2010 season in June.

Sunday Times
The latest instalment of Argerich's annual offering is the usual cornucopia of delights. Predictably, when Argerich herself plays...the flavour is often fevered, although not so in her aromatic reading of Falla's Noches en los jardines de Espana.

BBC Music Magazine
In all the performances, the players display a spontaneity and sense of enjoyment one hears too rarely in some of this repertoire.

The Telegraph
...if we were permitted to attach more than five stars to a release, this would be one of those occasions when a whole constellation would erupt...The rapport, rhythmic élan and passionate sensibility are simply mesmerising, the entire set of discs an unbounded pleasure.

The Observer
Everything Martha Argerich touches turns to gold: not only her own piano playing but those around her whom she evidently inspires to new heights. These chamber music collaborations buzz with spontaneity...can there be any more exuberant four minutes on disc than her piano duet scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream?

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Recording information: Lugano Festival, Switzerland (06/2009).

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Schumann, Robert : Phantasiestücke (4) for violin, cello & piano in A minor, Op. 88

Performers: Gautier Capuçon (Cello); Renaud Capuçon (Violin); Martha Argerich (Piano)
Running Time: 19 min. 23 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Written: 1842
Studio/Live: Live

Mendelssohn, Felix : A Midsummer Night's Dream - Incidental Music, Op. 21 :: Overture

Performers: Cristina Marton (Piano); Martha Argerich (Piano)
Running Time: 10 min. 41 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Written: 1843
Studio/Live: Live

Mendelssohn, Felix : A Midsummer Night's Dream - Incidental Music, Op. 21 :: Scherzo

Performers: Martha Argerich (Piano); Cristina Marton (Piano)
Running Time: 4 min. 18 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Written: 1843
Studio/Live: Live

Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849) : Introduction and Polonaise for Cello and Piano in C major, Op. 3

Performers: Martha Argerich (Piano); Gautier Capuçon (Cello)
Running Time: 9 min. 3 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Written: 1829-1830
Studio/Live: Live

Mendelssohn, Felix : Sextet for Piano and Strings in D major, Op. 110

Performers: Khatia Buniatishvili (Piano); Jorge Bosso (Cello); Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg (Viola); Dora Schwarzberg (Violin); Lida Chen (Viola); Enrico Fagone (Double Bass)
Running Time: 29 min. 15 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Chamber Music
Written: 05/10/1824
Studio/Live: Live

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Period Time: Modern

Béla Bartók (1881 - 1945) : Sonata for Violin and Piano no 2, Sz 76

Performers: Renaud Capuçon (Violin); Khatia Buniatishvili (Piano)
Running Time: 21 min. 25 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Written: 1922
Studio/Live: Live

Liszt, Franz : Réminiscences de Don Juan, for 2 pianos (after Mozart :: Don Giovanni), S. 656 (LW C26)

Performers: Martha Argerich (Piano); Mauricio Vallina (Piano)
Running Time: 2 min. 42 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Written: after 1843
Studio/Live: Live

Glinka, Mikhail : Gran sestetto originale, for piano & string quintet in E flat major, G. iv81

Performers: Marc Drobinsky (Cello); Alissa Margulis (Violin); Polina Leschenko (Piano); Lida Chen (Viola); Enrico Fagone (Double Bass); Géza Hosszu-Legocky (Violin)
Running Time: 21 min. 50 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Written: 1832
Studio/Live: Live

Rachmaninov, Sergei : Pieces (2) for piano, 6 hands, TN ii/22

Performers: Daniel Gerzenberg (Piano); Lilya Zilberstein (Piano); Anton Gerzenberg (Piano)
Running Time: 6 min. 35 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1890-1891
Studio/Live: Live

Rachmaninov, Sergei : Russian Rhapsody for 2 Pianos in E minor

Performers: Lilya Zilberstein (Piano); Alexander Mogilevsky (Piano)
Running Time: 4 min. 18 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1891
Studio/Live: Live

Falla, Manuel de : Nights in the gardens of Spain

Performer: Martha Argerich (Piano)
Conductor: Alexander Vedernikov
Running Time: 23 min. 25 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: Concerto
Written: 1909-1916
Studio/Live: Live

Ravel, Maurice : Rapsodie espagnole

Performers: Karin Lechner (Piano); Sergio Tiempo (Piano)
Running Time: 15 min. 19 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Written: 1907
Studio/Live: Live

Bloch, Ernest : Quintet for Piano and Strings no 1

Performers: Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg (Viola); Lucia Hall (Violin); Lilya Zilberstein (Piano); Alissa Margulis (Violin); Marc Drobinsky (Cello)
Running Time: 33 min. 5 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Form: Chamber Music
Written: 1921-1923
Studio/Live: Live

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