Product Description
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.
A 32-page full colour booklet contains photographs and new liner notes by Jed Distler.
Tracklisting
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Bartók: |
Sonata for Two Pianos & Percussion, BB 115, Sz. 110 with Stephen Kovacevich (piano) Concerto for 2 pianos, percussion & orchestra, BB 121, Sz. 115 with Nelson Freire (piano) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam, David Zinman |
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Debussy: |
En blanc et noir with Stephen Kovacevich (piano) |
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Kodály: |
Dances of Galanta Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam, David Zinman |
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Lutoslawski: |
Variations on a Theme by Paganini, for two pianos with Nelson Freire (piano) |
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Meschwitz: |
Tier-Gebete for speaker and piano Elena Bashkirova (speaker & piano) |
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Mozart: |
Andante and Variations in G for Piano Duet, K501 with Stephen Kovacevich (piano) |
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Rachmaninov: |
Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 Radio-Symphonie-Orchester, Berlin, Riccardo Chailly Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos, Op. 17 with Nelson Freire (piano) |
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Ravel: |
La Valse (for 2 pianos) with Nelson Freire (piano) |
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Ridout: |
Ferdinand the bull for speaker and violin Elena Bashkirova (speaker & piano) Little Sad Sound A melodrama for speaker and double-bass Alois Posch (double bass) |
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Saint-Saëns: |
Le Carnaval des Animaux with Mischa Maisky (cello), Nelson Freire (piano), Gidon Kremer (violin & speaker), Isabelle van Keulen (violin), Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Georg Hörtnagel (double bass), Irena Grafenauer (flute), Eduard Brunner (clarinet), Markus Streckeler (xylophone) & Edith Salmen-Weber (glockenspiel) |
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Schubert: |
Sonata in A minor 'Arpeggione', D821 with Mischa Maisky (cello) |
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Schumann: |
Fantasiestücke, Op. 73 with Mischa Maisky (cello) Stücke im Volkston (5), Op. 102 |
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Tchaikovsky: |
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23 Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks |
