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Martha Argerich, Renaud Capucon, Mischa Maisky - Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Op. 56; Schumann: Piano Concerto, Op. 54 (2004)

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Martha Argerich, Renaud Capucon, Mischa Maisky - Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Op. 56; Schumann: Piano Concerto, Op. 54 (2004)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Op. 56; Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto, Op. 54 (2004)
Martha Argerich, piano; Renaud Capuçon, violin; Mischa Maisky, cello;
Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 309 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 182 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI | # 7243 5 57773 2 4 | Time: 01:04:35

The Beethoven Triple Concerto is a strange work, with the most important–-or at least prominent–-solos given to the cello; it is the instrument which introduces each movement. The remarkable Martha Argerich wisely allows Mischa Maisky to shine in his solos and leading position, but her contribution is anything but back seat. Her customary virtuosity is everywhere in evidence, and, in a way, she turns the piano into the spinal column of the work, with the violin and cello playing around her. Every time Maisky is about to lapse into a mannerism which might detract–-too much sliding, a dynamic slightly exaggerated–-Argerich brings him back, and both of them play with handsome tone. Capucon's violin is recorded a bit stridently (this was taped live in Lugano), but his playing is equally stunning. Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky leads the orchestra matter-of-factly until the final movement, when he catches the proper fire. In the Schumann A minor concerto Argerich is wonderful the solo passages and a fine partner in orchestrated ones and she really makes much of both the lyrical runs and the dance-like passages in the last movement. Recommended.

Seiji Ozawa, Saito Kinen Orchestra - Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 7, Choral Fantasy (2017) [Blu-Ray]

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Seiji Ozawa, Saito Kinen Orchestra - Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 7, Choral Fantasy (2017) [Blu-Ray]

Seiji Ozawa, Saito Kinen Orchestra - Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 7, Choral Fantasy (2017) [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 21957 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 83 min + 24 min (bonus) | 20,4 Gb
Audio1: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 24-bit | Audio2: DTS-HD MA / 5.0 / 48 kHz / 3664 kbps / 24-bit
Classical | EuroArts

Seiji Ozawa is not only a world-famous Japanese conductor, but also a founder and director of the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto, home of the Saito Kinen Orchestra, which in 2015 was renamed the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival (OMF). In this all-Beethoven program, Ozawa conducts the popular Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 2 & 7, performed with his fellow colleagues of the Saito Kinen Orchestra.

Martha Argerich - Martha Argerich Plays Ravel (2024)

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Martha Argerich - Martha Argerich Plays Ravel (2024)

Martha Argerich - Martha Argerich Plays Ravel (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 288 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 185 Mb | 01:19:39
Classical | Label: Warner Classics

Martha Argerich is an Argentine classical concert pianist. She is widely considered to be one of the greatest pianists of all time. Born and raised in Buenos Aires to Jewish-Spanish parents, Argerich gave her debut concert at eight before receiving further piano training in Europe. At an early age, she won several competitions, including the VII International Chopin Piano Competition, and has since recorded numerous albums and performed with leading orchestras worldwide.

Martha Argerich - Chopin (The Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon) (2021)

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Martha Argerich - Chopin (The Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon) (2021)

Martha Argerich - Chopin (The Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon) (2021)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1,27 Gb | Total time: 360:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 486 0008 | Recorded: 1961-2010

This 5 CD set brings together Martha Argerich’s complete studio, live and radio recordings on Deutsche Grammophon, and documents her special, intuitive and passionate relationship with Chopin’s music.

Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky - Schubert: Sonata for Arpeggione, Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 73 (1985)

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Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky - Schubert: Sonata for Arpeggione, Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 73 (1985)

Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky - Schubert: Sonata for Arpeggione, Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 73 (1985)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 53:24 | 222 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Philips | Catalog: 412 230-2

In 1823 Johann Georg Stauffer invented the arpeggione, a freak instrument, a hybrid of 'cello and guitar, with strings tuned in fourths. Schubert invested such attractive melodies in this queer contraption, he must have believed in its future. The melodies that float throughout the "Sonata for Arpeggione", are indeed attractive to say the least. The first point that strikes one in this performance is the clarity that cellist Mischa Maisky maintains.

Mischa Maisky, Martha Argerich - In Concert (2005)

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Mischa Maisky, Martha Argerich - In Concert (2005)

Mischa Maisky, Martha Argerich - In Concert (2005)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 342 MB | 01:12:19
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon

This disc is the reason that recordings exist: to preserve great performances of great music in transparent sound. This April 2003 recording made in Flagey Hall in Brussels of performances by cellist Mischa Maisky and pianist Martha Argerich is certainly among the best performances ever made of this repertoire. Indeed, only the Rostropovich and Shostakovich performances can compare with them and, even there, it is arguable that Maisky and Argerich's are equally convincing.

Martha Argerich, Gidon Kremer - The Berlin Recital (2009)

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Martha Argerich, Gidon Kremer - The Berlin Recital (2009)

Martha Argerich, Gidon Kremer - The Berlin Recital (2009)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 508 MB | MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) - 298 MB | 01:56:32
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics

Violinist Gidon Kremer and pianist Martha Argerich are two of the greatest living virtuosos on their instruments and, though they are wholly individualistic players, they get along extremely well together. German Romantic Robert Schumann and Hungarian modernist Béla Bartók don't have much in common at first blush: one is dreamy and poetic, the other brutal and cerebral.

Martha Argerich, Nelson Freire - Music for Two Pianos: Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Lutoslawski (1983)

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Martha Argerich, Nelson Freire - Music for Two Pianos: Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Lutoslawski (1983)

Martha Argerich, Nelson Freire - Music for Two Pianos: Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Lutoslawski (1983)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 37:18 | 150 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Philips | Catalog: 6514 369

Like her other duo-recording venture with pianist Alexandre Rabinovitch, this album again demonstrates why pianist Martha Argerich is the grand dame of two-piano works. This album, with pianist Nelson Freire, offers another interpretation of the Rachmaninoff Second Suite for Two Pianos as well as a transcription of Ravel's La Valse and Lutoslawski's Variations on a Theme of Paganini. Unlike many other piano duos, Argerich and Freire are capable of drawing an amazingly convincing, almost symphonic sound out of their two instruments.

Martha Argerich, Gidon Kremer, Mischa Maisky - Dmitri Shostakovich, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Trios (1999)

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Martha Argerich, Gidon Kremer, Mischa Maisky - Dmitri Shostakovich, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Trios (1999)

Dmitri Shostakovich, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Trios (1999)
Martha Argerich, piano; Gidon Kremer, violin; Mischa Maisky, violoncello

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 330 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 208 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 459 326-2 | Time: 01:19:18

Wow! This is music making on a cosmic scale. You may hear some jaded critic offer up the following generic comment about this release: "These three players, gathered together for only the second time, naturally can't equal the subtle give and take of more established chamber ensembles." Bull. All three artists rank among the most inspirational and experienced chamber players of our time, and here they set the notes on fire in performances of shattering intensity, improvisational spontaneity, and (in the Tchaikovsky) Herculean grandeur. Argerich's performance of the concerto-like piano part of the Tchaikovsky Trio is especially impressive; she seems to know instinctively when to dominate the proceedings and when to let her partners take over; and the final "Theme and Variations"–a huge movement half an hour in length–seldom has sounded so cohesive and meaningful. As to the Shostakovich, well, what can I say? This is one of the most profoundly moving experiences in music, and how well this trio knows it! The three players find the perfect tempo for the third movement Passacaglia, then build the tragic finale as inexorably as fate itself.

Mischa Maisky & Martha Argerich - Johann Sebastian Bach: Three Sonatas for Violoncello and Piano, BWV 1027-1029 (1985)

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Mischa Maisky & Martha Argerich - Johann Sebastian Bach: Three Sonatas for Violoncello and Piano, BWV 1027-1029 (1985)

J. S. Bach: Three Sonatas for Violoncello and Piano, BWV 1027-1029 (1985)
Mischa Maisky, cello; Martha Argerich, piano

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 183 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 111 Mb | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 415 471-2 | Time: 00:43:26

These three sonatas - composed originally for the viola da gamba and harpsichord - are very musically-appealing compositions. And unlike previous Baroque cahmber-music tradition, the harpsichord is not relegated to mere continuo but projected into the spotlight as co-soloist - perhaps to showcase some of Bach's keyboard virtuosity. There are several fine period recordings of these works on viola da gamba and harpsichord (Savall, Peri, Crum, Wispelwey) or modern cello with harpsichord (Ma, Tortelier). But if your taste favors all modern instuments (cello, piano), then this circa-80's CD by the legendary Martha Argerich and Misha Maisky is the ticket.

Martha Argerich - Great Works for Solo Piano: Bach, Chopin, Ravel, Schumann... (2023)

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Martha Argerich - Great Works for Solo Piano: Bach, Chopin, Ravel, Schumann... (2023)

Martha Argerich - Great Works for Solo Piano: Bach, Chopin, Ravel, Schumann… (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 825 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 481 MB
2:59:18 | Classical | Label: Warner Classics

There are very few good pianists, many average ones, and only one Martha Argerich. Born in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 1941, this shooting star of the piano galaxy - who would've become a doctor had music not managed to tempt her away - has barely ever followed in anyone else's footsteps, and it works. Despite the range of her discography, there are no "intégrales", and her calendar is so eclectic it seems like she never signs a contract, if only to preserve her artistic freedom. Independent, unpredictable, impetuous, these are Martha Argerich's trademarks. Her music is both her sensuality and her family, working with a whole host of collaborators, from Daniel Barenboim to Gidon Kremer, Charles Dutoit and Stephen Kovacevich.

Renaud Capuçon, Martha Argerich - Beethoven, Schumann, Franck: Violin Sonatas (2022)

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Renaud Capuçon, Martha Argerich - Beethoven, Schumann, Franck: Violin Sonatas (2022)

Renaud Capuçon, Martha Argerich - Beethoven, Schumann, Franck: Violin Sonatas (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 366 Mb | Total time: 83:26 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 486 3533 | Recorded: 2022

When pianist Martha Argerich and violinist Renaud Capuçon gave a recital at the 2022 Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival, their extraordinary rapport was evident to all present. Captured live, their programme included three major works for violin and piano, all in the key of A: Schumann’s Sonata No. 1 Op. 105, Beethoven’s Sonata No. 9 Op. 47, “Kreutzer”, and Franck’s Sonata.

Gidon Kremer, Martha Argerich - Beethoven: The 10 Violin Sonatas (2005)

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Gidon Kremer, Martha Argerich - Beethoven: The 10 Violin Sonatas (2005)

Gidon Kremer, Martha Argerich - Beethoven: The 10 Violin Sonatas (2005)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 03:45:23 | 944 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Catalog: 4767256

Beethoven’s ten violin sonatas span the period from 1797-1812, and the G major work ending the series (which he evidently revised prior to its publication in 1816) came as long after the Kreutzer as the difference in opus numbers suggests – the nine intervening years saw the appearance of Symphonies Nos. 4-8 and much else. Stylistically, this last sonata looks forward to his third period and its lyricism differs markedly from the fire of its predecessor, while the other eight are youthfully confident; it is perhaps significant that only two of the whole series are in a minor key.

Martha Argerich, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra & Lahav Shani - Martha Argerich Performs Beethoven and Ravel (2023)

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Martha Argerich, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra & Lahav Shani - Martha Argerich Performs Beethoven and Ravel (2023)

Martha Argerich, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra & Lahav Shani - Martha Argerich Performs Beethoven and Ravel (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 194 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 117 Mb | 00:51:02
Classical | Label: Avanti Classic

Legend of the piano Martha Argerich is releasing her first ever album partnering the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of its new musical director, Lahav Shani.

Martha Argerich & Nelson Freire ‎- Salzburg: Johannes Brahms, Sergey Rachmaninov, Franz Schubert, Maurice Ravel (2009)

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Martha Argerich & Nelson Freire ‎- Salzburg: Johannes Brahms, Sergey Rachmaninov, Franz Schubert, Maurice Ravel (2009)

Martha Argerich & Nelson Freire ‎- Salzburg (2009)
Johannes Brahms - Sergey Rachmaninov - Franz Schubert - Maurice Ravel

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 252 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 166 Mb | Scans ~ 64 Mb
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 477 8570 | Time: 01:12:25

Pianists Martha Argerich and Nelson Freire are stupendous virtuosos, and there's nothing in this recording of their 2009 Salzburg recital of staggeringly difficult works they cannot play. They know each other so well as old duo piano partners that their playing is stunning in its unity, but their distinctive individuality also comes across. What's most impressive about this recital is how completely Argerich and Freire have made this music their own. Brahms' Haydn Variations sound freer and fresher, more playful, and more profound than ever. Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances are thrillingly rhapsodic, rapturous, and dramatic. Schubert's Grand Rondeau is more lyrical, intimate, and graceful than usual, and Ravel's La Valse more ecstatic and apocalyptically over-the-top frightening than in any comparable recordings, including Argerich's own earlier releases. Captured in wonderfully clear yet wholly present digital sound, the performances on this disc will be compulsory listening for anyone who loves music, any music.