Composer: Béla Bartók, Claude Achille Debussy, Zoltan Kodály, Witold Lutosławski, Frieder Meschwitz, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sergey Rachmaninov, Maurice Ravel, Alan Ridout, Charles Camille Saint-Saëns, Franz Peter Schubert, Robert Schumann, Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
Performer: Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky, Nelson Freire, Gidon Kremer, Isabelle van Keulen, Tabea Zimmermann, Georg Hörtnagel, Irena Grafenauer, Eduard Brunner, Markus Streckeler, Edith Salmen-Weber, Elena Bashkirova, Alois Posch, Nelson Freire, Stephen Kovacevich
Orchestra: Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Concertgebouw Orchestra
Conductor: iccardo Chailly, David Zinman
Number of Discs: 6
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Release: 2011
Size: 1.14 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
CD 01
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
01. 1. Allegro ma non tanto
02. 2. Intermezzo. Adagio
03. 3. Finale (Alla breve)
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23
04. 1. Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso – Allegro con spirito
05. 2. Andantino semplice – Prestissimo – Tempo I
06. 3. Allegro con fuoco
CD 02
Saint-Saëns: Le carnaval des animaux
01. Introduction et Marche royale du Lion
02. Poules et Coqs
03. Hémiones (Animaux véloces)
04. Tortues
05. L’Eléphant
06. Kangourous
07. Aquarium
08. Personnages à longues oreilles
09. Le Coucou au fond des bois
10. Volières
11. Pianistes
12. Fossiles
Saint-Saëns: Le carnaval des animaux
13. Le Cygne
14. Finale
15. Ridout: Ferdinand, For Speaker And Solo Violin
Meschwitz: Tier-Gebete, For Speaker And Piano
16. 1. Gebet des Ochsen
17. 2. Gebet der Maus
18. 3. Gebet der Katze
19. 4. Gebet des Hundes
20. 5. Gebet der Ameise
21. 6. Gebet der Elefanten
22. 7. Gebet der Schildkröte
23. 8. Gebet der Giraffe
24. 9. Gebet des Affen
25. 10. Gebet des Hahnes
26. 11. Gebet des alten Gaules
27. 12. Gebet des Schmetterlings
28. Ridout: Little Sad Sound, A Melodrama for Speaker & Double-Bass
CD 03
Schubert: Sonata in A minor ‘Arpeggione’, D821
01. 1. Allegro moderato
02. 2. Adagio
03. 3. Allegretto
Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 73
04. 1. Zart und mit Ausdruck
05. 2. Lebhaft, leicht
06. 3. Rasch und mit Feuer
Schumann: Stücke im Volkston (5), Op. 102
07. 1. Vanitas vanitatum (Mit Humor)
08. 2. Langsam
09. 3. Nicht schnell, mit viel Ton zu spielen
10. 4. Nicht zu rasch
11. 5. Stark und markiert
CD 04
Rachmaninov: Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos, Op. 17
01. 1. Introduction (Alla marcia)
02. 2. Waltz (Presto)
03. 3. Romance (Andantino)
04. 4. Tarantella (Presto)
05. Ravel: La Valse
06. Lutosławski: Variations on a Theme by Paganini, for two pianos
CD 05
Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos & Percussion, BB 115, Sz. 110
01. Assai lento – Allegro molto
02. Lento ma non troppo
03. Allegro non troppo
Mozart: Andante and Variations in G for Piano Duet, K501
04. Thema (Andante)
05. Variation 1
06. Variation 2
07. Variation 3
08. Variation 4
09. Variation 5
Debussy: En blanc et noir
10. 1. Avec emportement
11. 2. Lent. Sombre
12. 3. Scherzando
CD 06
Bartók: Concerto for 2 pianos, percussion & orchestra, BB 121, Sz. 115
01. 1. Assai lento – Allegro molto
02. 2. Lento ma non troppo
03. 3. Allegro ma non troppo
04. Kodály: Dances of Galanta
Argerich is now approaching her 70th birthday – on the 5th of June this year. One of the releases marking this occasion is a further instalment in the very successful Martha Argerich Collection (already available: Solo Recordings, Concerto Recordings, Chamber Ensemble Recordings) with a set devoted to her complete recordings for the Philips label.
Here we find her in partnership with Stephen Kovacevich and Nelson Freire, with discs of two-piano and piano duet works. Then there are the classic live recordings of the Tchaikovsky First and, above all, the Rachmaninov Third Concertos, with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra under Riccardo Chailly; as well as an inimitable Carnival of the Animals (with Freire, Kremer, Maisky and others).
Schubert and Schumann works for cello and piano feature Mischa Maisky.