SCHUMANN
Symphonies / Concertos Gidon Kremer (violin) & Martha Argerich (piano) / Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 13/Aug/2007 ] "The musical adventurer par excellence, ...the scholarly conductor with temperament, the thinking musician who makes music with rough edges." Gramophone |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 10, 19 & 20 Martha Argerich (piano) / Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, Jörg Faerber, with Alexandre Rabinovitch (piano) [ Warner Classics Original Jacket Reissues / CD - released 20/May/2015 ] Martha Argerich - as ever, irresistibly brilliant and charismatic - is the soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto No 20, K466 and pairs up with fellow-pianist Alexandre Rabinovitch for the delightful Concerto No 10 for two pianos, K365. Rabinovitch... |
BARTOK / BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / BUSONI / JANACEK / MESSIAEN / PROKOFIEV / etc
Violin Sonatas Gidon Kremer (violin) with Martha Argerich, Valery Afanassiev and Oleg Maisenberg [ DG Collector's Edition / 8 CD - released 9/Oct/2003 ] The present set includes the complete Beethoven and Brahms Sonatas, as well as the two well-known Schumann Sonatas, plus Sonatas by Richard Strauss, Busoni, Bartok, Janacek, Prokofiev, and Messiaen's Theme and Variations - restoring many recordings... |
BRAHMS / SCHUMANN
Piano quartet No 1 Op 25 / Fantasiestucke Op 88 Gidon Kremer (violin) Yuri Bashmet (viola) Mischa Maisky (cello) Martha Argerich (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 10/Sep/2002 ] "In a quartet of stars, it's the phenomenal Argerich whose playing is the bedrock" - Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine (April 2004) |
MUSSORGSKY / BEETHOVEN
Live From Salzburg 2008 [Moussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition / Beethoven - Triple Concerto Op. 56] Martha Argerich (piano) Renaud Capucon (violin) Gautier Capucon, cello) / Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela / Gustavo Dudamel [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 4/May/2009 ] Gustavo Dudamel's thrilling debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2008 recorded live in the heat of the moment at the Grosses Festspielhaus. |
SCHUMANN / BACH / BRAHMS
Schumann / Bach / Brahms: Violin Sonatas Itzhak Perlman (violin) Martha Argerich (piano) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/2016 ] "Argerich's piano playing is supremely alive, moving under Perlman's muscular melody in ebbing, tugging waves...Perlman's tone may be fractionally less sweet than it was nearly two decades ago, but the sense of line in his playing remains supreme." |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Classical 2016 Jonas Kaufmann, Placido Domingo, Martha Argerich, Vilde Frang, David Fray, Christina Pluhar, Hilliard Ensemble, etc [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2016 ] A double album filled with performances by today's musical headline-makers - from established stars of the concert hall and opera house to young talents who have captured the imagination of audiences of all ages. |
MENDELSSOHN
Violin Concerto in D minor / Concerto for Violin & Piano Gidon Kremer (violin) Martha Argerich (piano) / Orpheus Chamber Orchestra [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 10/Aug/2013 ] |
BEETHOVEN
Cello Sonatas Nos. 3, 4 & 5 Mischa Maisky (cello) & Martha Argerich (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Music for Two Pianos Martha Argerich (piano) with Gabriela Montero (piano), Nelson Goerner (piano), Lilya Zilberstein (piano), etc [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 4/Nov/2014 ] Martha Argerich's long career has taken in many outstanding solo performances, but she has often professed to feeling 'lonely' on stage. This CD showcases the area in which she feels truly at home: her extensive and fruitful collaborations with other... |
MOZART / BEETHOVEN / PROKOFIEV / RAVEL
Early Recordings Martha Argerich (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 20/May/2016 ] Martha Argerich's exhilarating early recordings, released here for the first time, include sonatas by Mozart and Beethoven that appear nowhere else in her discography; Prokofiev's Third Sonata is also a recording première. |
Martha Argerich
Various: Coffrets Rtl Classiqu [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 28/Feb/2011 ] |
BRAHMS / DEBUSSY / DVORAK / MAHLER / MOZART / SMETANA / etc
Live from Lugano 2012 Martha Argerich and Friends [ Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 13/May/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
BRAHMS / DEBUSSY / DVORAK / MAHLER / MOZART / SMETANA / etc
Live from Lugano 2014 Martha Argerich and Friends [ Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 15/May/2015 ] Warner Classics is pleased to release the 12th annual 3CD set of highlights from the Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano, described in The Times (London), as "community music-making on a deluxe scale, with performers and listeners mutually uplifted by |
BARTOK/ BRAHMS / DEBUSSY / GLASS / GINASTERA / SCHUMANN / etc
Martha Argerich & Friends: Live from Lugano 2015 Martha Argerich and Friends [ Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 5/May/2016 ] In June 2016, Martha Argerich - both a phenomenal pianist and a much-loved mentor to young musicians - celebrates her 75th birthday before hosting the 15th edition of the Progetto Martha Argerich at the Lugano Festival in Switzerland. |
RAVEL / BUSONI / MOZART / FALLA / BEETHOVEN / DEBUSSY / etc
Martha Argerich & Friends: Live from Lugano 2016 Martha Argerich and Friends [ Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 22/Aug/2017 ] "She may be 76, but her playing has lost none of its phenomenal precision and brilliance…In Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit Argerich is like a cat, velvet pawed until the moment for a predatory pounce. I have never heard 'Ondine' delivered with such delic |
J. S. BACH
Peaceful Bach Martha Argerich, Avi Avital, Lisa Batiashvili, Rafal Blechacz, Helene Grimaud, Murray Perahia, Hilary Hahn, etc [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 10/Jun/2019 ] A 2CD album of Bach's most relaxing melodies played by legendary artists and upcoming stars like Murray Perahia, Giuliano Carmignola, Rafal Blechacz, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, etc |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky Masterworks Edition [27 CD set] Martha Argerich, Claudio Abbado, Thomas, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Emerson Quartet, Mirella Freni, Gidon Kremer, Nathan Milstein, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra [ Deutsche Grammophon / 27 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2015 ] "Argerich has never sounded on better terms with the piano, more virtuoso yet engagingly human. Lyrical and insinuating, to a degree her performance seems to be made of the tumultuous elements themselves, of fire and ice, rain and sunshine"Gramophone |
SCHUMANN / DEBUSSY / BARTOK
Live From Buenos Aires Martha Argerich, Daniel Barenboim (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 18/Mar/2016 ] "this concert...is clearly an emotional homecoming...If there's less youthful elan and rhythmic incisiveness in her playing with Barenboim [compared to earlier recordings with Kovacevich], their easy rapport in this music comes across with astonishin |