Martha Argerich and Friends Live from the Lugano Festival 2016 Martha Argerich

• Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55:
• 1Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55: I. Ondine06:28
• 2Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55: II. Le gibet05:36
• 3Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55: III. Scarbo10:10
• Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924): Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35a, BV 243:
• 4Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35a, BV 243: I. Allegro moderato - Animando07:12
• 5Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35a, BV 243: II. Quasi andante - Poco agitato07:36
• 6Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35a, BV 243: III. Allegro impetuoso - Più stretto - Quasi presto07:13
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major, K. 448/375a:
• 7Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major, K. 448/375a: I. Allegro con spirito08:11
• 8Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major, K. 448/375a: II. Andante10:20
• 9Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major, K. 448/375a: III. Molto allegro07:08
• Manuel de Falla (1876-1946): Two Spanish Dances from La vida breve:
• 10Two Spanish Dances from La vida breve: Dance No. 103:22
• 11Two Spanish Dances from La vida breve: Dance No. 204:20
• Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major, M. 83:
• 12Piano Concerto in G Major, M. 83: I. Allegremente08:25
• 13Piano Concerto in G Major, M. 83: II. Adagio assai08:53
• 14Piano Concerto in G Major, M. 83: III. Presto04:27
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Fantasy in C Minor, Op. 80, "Choral Fantasia":
• 15Fantasy in C Minor, Op. 80, "Choral Fantasia": I. Adagio03:22
• 16Fantasy in C Minor, Op. 80, "Choral Fantasia": II. Finale (Allegro - Meno allegro - Allegro)17:06
• Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Trio in E-Flat Major, Op. 40:
• 17Trio in E-Flat Major, Op. 40: I. Andante08:25
• 18Trio in E-Flat Major, Op. 40: II. Scherzo (Allegro)07:37
• 19Trio in E-Flat Major, Op. 40: III. Adagio mesto07:59
• 20Trio in E-Flat Major, Op. 40: IV. Finale (Allegro con brio)06:36
• Alban Berg (1885-1935):
• 21Berg: Chamber Concerto for Violin and Piano with Thirteen Wind Instruments: I. Thema scherzoso con variazioni09:08
• 22Berg: Chamber Concerto for Violin and Piano with Thirteen Wind Instruments: II. Adagio14:20
• 23Berg: Chamber Concerto for Violin and Piano with Thirteen Wind Instruments: III. Rondo ritmico con introduzione12:08
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Violin Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, BWV 1017:
• 24Violin Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, BWV 1017: I. Largo03:55
• 25Violin Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, BWV 1017: II. Allegro04:05
• 26Violin Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, BWV 1017: III. Adagio03:15
• 27Violin Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, BWV 1017: IV. Allegro04:51
• Claude Debussy (1862-1918):
• 28Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, L. 86 (Arr. for Two pianos)08:28
• Marcelo Nisinman (1970- ):
• 29Hombre Tango04:32
• Total Runtime03:35:08

Info for Martha Argerich and Friends Live from the Lugano Festival 2016

The latest instalment of highlights from Martha Argerich's performances at the Lugano Festival is the 14th annual three disc set celebrating 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.

The 15th annual festival, which ran from 7-30 June 2016, featured international soloists such as Nicholas Angelich, Stephen Kovacevich, and Renaud Capuçon as well as many of her young protégés, including Karin Lechner and Sergio Tiempo, and her daughter Lyda Chen. The festival also celebrated the occasion of Martha’s 75th birthday, and she features on many of the performances on this highlights collection, including Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit and Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major.

Martha Argerich, piano
Renaud Capucon, violin
Sergei Babayan, piano
Sergio Tiempo, piano
Karin Lechner, piano
Nicholas Angelich, piano
David Guerrier, horn
Tedi Papavrami, violin
Stephen Kovacevich, piano
Ensemble ReEncuentros
Coro della Radiotelevisione della Svizzera Italiana
Diego Fasolis, conductor
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Alexander Vedernikov, conductor

Martha Argerich
was born in Buenos Aires. From the age of five, she took piano lessons with Vicenzo Scaramuzza. In 1955 she went to Europe with her family, and received tuition from Friedrich Gulda in Vienna; her teachers also included Nikita Magaloff and Stefan Askenase. Following her first prizes in the piano competitions in Bolzano and Geneva in 1957, she embarked on an intensive programme of concerts. Her victory in the Chopin Competition in Warsaw in 1965 was a decisive step on her path to worldwide recognition.

Martha Argerich rose to fame with her interpretations of the virtuoso piano literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. But she does not regard herself as a specialist in 'virtuoso' works - her repertoire ranges from Bach through Beethoven, Schumann, Liszt, Debussy and Ravel, to Bartók.

Martha Argerich has worked as a concert pianist with many famous conductors. She has also attached great importance to chamber music ever since, at the age of 17, she accompanied the violinist Joseph Szigeti - two generations older than herself. She has toured Europe, America and Japan with Gidon Kremer and Mischa Maisky and has also recorded much of the repertory for four hands and for two pianos with the pianists Nelson Freire, Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich, Nicolas Economou and Alexandre Rabinovitch. Martha Argerich has performed at Gidon Kremer's festival in Lockenhaus, at the Munich Piano Summer, the Lucerne Festival and at the Salzburg Festival, where she gave, for instance, a recital with Mischa Maisky in 1993.

She appeared with Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic at the 1992 New Year's Eve Concert with Strauss's Burleske and also at the Salzburg Festival at Easter 1993. May 1998 saw the long-awaited musical 'summit meeting' between Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky and Gidon Kremer. On the occasion of a memorial concert for the impresario Reinhard Paulsen, the three artists came together in Japan, where they performed piano trios by Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky (recorded live by DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON). In March 2000 Martha Argerich gave her first great solo appearance in almost 20 years in New York's Carnegie Hall.

Martha Argerich has close ties with DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON, dating back to 1967. She has recorded prolifically during this period: solo works by Bach, Brahms, Chopin, Liszt and Schumann; concerto recordings of works by Chopin, Liszt, Ravel and Prokofiev with Claudio Abbado, Beethoven with Giuseppe Sinopoli, and Stravinsky's Les Noces with Leonard Bernstein. Her recording of Shostakovich's First and Haydn's Eleventh Piano Concertos with the Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn conducted by Jörg Färber was crowned with the Tokyo RECORD ACADEMY AWARD in 1995 and that of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 with Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra was awarded the CD COMPACT AWARD in 1997.

She has also dedicated herself to chamber music, and has recorded works by Schumann and Chopin with Mstislav Rostropovich, and cello sonatas by both Bach and Beethoven with Mischa Maisky. She has made numerous successful recordings with Gidon Kremer, such as violin sonatas by Schumann and works by Bartók, Janácek and Messiaen (PRIX CAECILIA 1991), and Mendelssohn's concerto for violin and piano with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Their recording of Prokofiev sonatas and melodies received the 1992 Tokyo RECORD ACADEMY AWARD, the DIAPASON D'OR 1992 and the EDISON AWARD 1993. One of their most outstanding recording achievements was that of the complete Beethoven violin sonatas (Nos.1-3: RECORD ACADEMY AWARD 1985), which was concluded with the release of the Sonatas op. 47 'Kreutzer' and op. 96 in 1995. Among her more recent releases is the above-mentioned live recording of piano trios by Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky with Mischa Maisky and Gidon Kremer.

Martha Argerich takes a great supportive interest in young artists. In September 1999 the first International 'Martha Argerich' Piano Competition took place in Buenos Aires - a competition which does not only carry her name but in which she is president of the jury. In November 1999 the second 'Martha Argerich Music Festival' took place in southern Japan, with concerts and masterclasses being given not only by Martha Argerich but also by Mischa Maisky and Nelson Freire among others.

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