Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Joseph Haydn, Ferencz Liszt, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sergey Rachmaninov, Maurice Ravel, Robert Schumann, Dmitri Shostakovich, Juliusz Zarebski
Performer: Martha Argerich, Sergio Tiempo, Dora Schwarzberg, Lucia Hall, Lida Chen, Gautier Capuçon, Lilya Zilberstein, Denis Kozhukhin, Renaud Capuçon, Yan Levionnois, Giorgia Tomassi, Carlo Maria Griguoli, Alessandro Stella, Cristina Marton, Alissa Margulis, Julian Steckel
Orchestra: Orchestral della Svizzera Italiana
Conductor: Jacek Kaspszyk
Number of Discs: 3
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Warner
Catalogue: 6447012
Release: 2012
Size: 642 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: no
CD 01
Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 8 in G major, Op. 30 No. 3
01. I. Allegro assai
02. II. Tempo di Minuetto, ma molto moderato e grazioso
Beethoven: Violin and Piano Sonata No. 8 in G Major, Op. 30 No. 3
03. III. Allegro vivace
Mozart: Sonata for Piano duet in F major, K497
04. I. Adagio – Allegro molto
05. II. Andante
06. III. Allegro
Haydn: Trio in C major Hob XV
07. I. Allegro
08. II. Andante
09. III. Finale: Presto
Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 73
10. I. Zart und mit Ausdruck
11. II. Lebhaft, leicht
12. III. Rasch, mit Feuer
CD 02
Liszt: Concerto pathétique in E minor for two pianos, S258
01. Allegro energico – Grandioso
02. Quasi fantasia – Andante sostenuto – Allegro agitato assai –
03. Andante, quasi marcia funebre – Più mosso – Allegro trionfante
Rachmaninov: Trio élégiaque No. 2 in D minor, Op. 9
04. I. Moderato – Allegro vivace – Meno mosso – Allegro
05. II. Quasi variazione
06. III. Allegro risoluto – Allegro molto – Tempo rubato
Shostakovich: Moscow Cheryomushki Suite, Op. 105 Arr Cornall
07. I. Un giro attraverso Mosca
08. II. Valzer
09. III. Danze
10. IV. Balletto
CD 03
01. Ravel: La Valse
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major
02. I. Allegramente
03. II. Adagio assai
04. III. Presto
Zarebski: Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 34
05. I. Allegro
06. II. Adagio
07. III. Scherzo: Presto
08. IV. Finale
EMI Classics is pleased to release the latest instalment of highlights from the Martha Argerich Project at the Lugano Festival. This is the ninth annual 3-CD 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 CDs, recorded in the summer of 2011, are being released in anticipation of the Festival’s 2012 season in June. As a chamber music event which celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2011, this series has become a laboratory that gives guest artists a chance to prove themselves not only in well-known masterpieces but also in rarely performed repertoire.
This is the second instalment released in slim-line clamshell packaging, which better represents the prestige of this release and makes it of suitable size for newspaper/magazine promotions.
As in previous years, the piano stands at the centre of the programming,
This 3CD set welcomes back mainly familiar names from the previous Live from the Lugano Festival releases including pianists Lilya Zilberstein, Sergio Tiempo and Polina Leschenko as well as Virgin Classics’ inimitable violin- and cello-soloist brothers, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon and violinists Lucia Hall and Lida Chen.
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 and inspirational 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 protégés.