Martha Argerich Edition Solos & Duos: Box Set 6CDs (2011)

This boxed set is a veritable treasure trove, an embarrassment of riches, a golden hoard - you come up with the cliché and I’ll accept it. Released along with other sets to celebrate her 70th birthday it is a remarkable musical record of fabulous achievement packed with superlative performances that simply take the breath away.
This boxed set certainly shows all the music to its greatest advantage with every composer served magnificently by Martha Argerich and her chosen colleagues and, as I said in the beginning, I cannot imagine any composer from Mozart to Guastavino taking issue with her over interpretations. This is a set any piano music lover will treasure forever and no one will want to be without it once it’s theirs. I have only one criticism which concerns the accompanying booklet which, though it includes an interesting article about Martha Argerich herself, says little about the music and nothing at all about any of the fellow interpreters which seems to me to be insulting to some great pianists who deserve better.

Tracklist:

Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Piano Sonata No.3 in B minor, op.58
Mazurka in A minor, op.59 No.1
Mazurka in A flat major, op.59 No.2
Mazurka in F sharp minor, op.59 No.3
Nocturne in F major, op.15 No.1
Scherzo No.3 in C sharp minor, op.39
Polonaise héroïque in A flat major, op.53
Robert Schumann (1810-1856):
Kinderszenen, op.15



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Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Andante and Variations op.46 for two pianos

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Andante and Variations in G, K501 for two pianos
Piano Sonata in C, K545 with a freely arrangement for a second piano by Edvard Grieg

Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) /Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Fantasie für eine Orgelwalze for two pianos

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Réminiscences de Don Juan for two pianos S656
Concerto pathétique in E minor for two pianos S258

Gabriela Montero – piano, Stephen Kovacevich – piano, Piotr Anderszewski – piano, Lilya Zilberstein – piano, Mauricio Vallina – piano, Nelson Freire – piano, Martha Argerich – piano



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Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847):
A Midsummer Night’s Dream op.21 for two pianos

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897):
Sonata in F minor for two pianos
Variations on a theme by Haydn op.56b for two pianos

Cristina Marton – piano, Lilya Zilberstein – piano, Polina Leschenko – piano, Martha Argerich – piano



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Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Suite No.1, op.5 for two pianos
Suite No.2, op.17 for two pianos
Six Morceaux, op.11 for two pianos

Lilya Zilberstein – piano, Gabriela Montero – piano, Martha Argerich – piano



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Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Symphony No.1 in D major, op.25 “Classical”

Piotr Ilitch Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
The Nutcracker Suite, op.71a
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Concertino in A minor, op.94 for two pianos

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Ma Mère l’Oye – Suite for two pianos

Witold Lutosławski (1913-1994)
Variations on a Theme by Paganini for two pianos

Yefim Bronfman – piano, Mirabela Dina – piano, Lilya Zilberstein – piano, Alexander Mogilevsky – piano, Giorgia Tomassi – piano, Mauricio Vallina – piano, Martha Argerich – piano



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Olivier Messiaen (1909-1992)
Visions de l’Amen for two pianos

Carlos Gustavino (1912-2000)
Tres Romances argentinos for two pianos, op.2

Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Three Tangoes (transcr. for two pianos Eduardo Hubert)

Alexandre Rabinovitch – piano, Mauricio Vallina – piano, Eduardo Hubert – piano, Martha Argerich – piano

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