Pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy has long been associated with the music of Russian heritage, and the music of Dmitry Shostakovich is certainly no exception. This five-disc box set, consisting primarily of previously released material, contains most of Shostakovich's important output within his solo keyboard works and inclusive chamber ...
It's often easy to fault compilations over the depth of their selections, the quality of their artists, the evenness of their reproduction, and general adherence to their themes; in many cases, listeners are left disappointed, especially by budget samplers that purport to give more for less. However, Deutsche Grammophon's Piano Moods is hard to ...
This isn't the first time Martha Argerich has recorded Brahms' Sonata for pianos (2) in F minor, Op. 34b. The first time was in 1993 with pianist Alexandre Rabinovitch on a disc of Brahms' piano music for two players. This time it's with Lilya Zilberstein on a disc with Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in D minor recorded at the 2002 Lugano Festival. ...
All too often, chamber music collaborations between established, accomplished soloists do not yield favorable results. Merely putting together virtuosic musicians does not mean they will play well together. Such is not the case with this recording of Martha Argerich's 2006 festival in Lugano. This album represents an amazing synthesis of well ...
These performances recorded live at the 2006 Lugano Festival are examples of Martha Argerich at her best. Argerich has always been a supremely virtuosic pianist with artistic temperament to spare, and these performances embody all those qualities to the hilt. With the flashy but never self-indulgent trumpeter Sergei Nakariakov and the superbly ...
Martha Argerich and Friends is drawn from recitals given during the first three years of the Martha Argerich Project Lugano Festival. Chamber music and mentoring young musicians have been two constants in Argerich's career, and the two are the reasons behind the project. The festival gives more experienced or well-known performers and those who ...
Finding decent albums of Edvard Grieg's best-known works is not difficult since they are regularly released by the major labels, and the handful of pieces nearly everybody knows -- the Piano Concerto in A minor, Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, From Holberg's Time (also known as the Holberg Suite), and Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, in various arrangements -- ...
Martha Argerich does not give solo piano recitals anymore. She does something better: she plays duo piano and chamber music with her friends and students. She's been doing it for a couple of decades, and willful as she is, she probably won't change. Besides, when it comes to duo piano and chamber music recitals, Argerich with her friends and ...
This remarkable disc features recordings of two live performances from 2002 at Martha Argerich's Lugano Festival: César Franck's Sonata for piano and violin, played by Alexandre Gurning and Renaud Capuçon, and Rachmaninov's Sonata for cello and piano, performed by Capuçon and Lilya Zilberstein. The CD cover and the liner notes mistakenly identify ...
As with previous issues in this outstanding series from Martha Argerich's Lugano Festival, the performers included here range from acknowledged masters such as cellist Mischa Maisky and pianist Stephen Kovacevich to near unknowns such as bassoonist Vincent Godel and clarinetist Corrado Giuffredi. Likewise, the repertoire ranges from the fairly ...
Written early in his compositional career, Rachmaninov's Six Moments Musicaux nonetheless show the breadth of what the virtuoso performer and composer was to offer later in his career. The six miniatures highlight two basic moods: melancholy and restlessness. Pianist Lilya Zilberstein brilliantly captures both of these characters. Her recorded ...
When EMI agreed to record Martha Argerich's appearances at the Lugano Chamber Music Festival, no doubt part of the contract included a clause stipulating it could release her two piano recordings separately. It only makes sense. While her dedicated fans might be avidly interested in everything the Argentinean pianist does, less ardent listeners ...
Martha Argerich's annual appearances at the Lugano Festival are highly sought after by her fans. Featuring the Argentinean pianist plus any number of her friends and protégés in a huge range of repertoire, the performances are as enjoyable as they are unusual and as thrilling as they are insightful. EMI began releasing three-disc sets containing a ...
The "Grand Piano Masters" series title for this disc may seem a little bit of a stretch when applied to the only moderately well-known Russian-born pianist Lilya Zilberstein, but she lives up to the billing here with Beethoven performances that can stand with anything on the market. The disc is a product of Germany's K&K label, which specializes ...
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