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 students can't be beat. Take, for example, this three-disc set of performances taken from the 2005 Lugano Festival. Although Argerich and her cellist friend Mischa Maisky are the only ...
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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 students can't be beat. Take, for example, this three-disc set of performances taken from the 2005 Lugano Festival. Although Argerich and her cellist friend Mischa Maisky are the only big names here, the playing is fabulous from start to finish. Does it matter that pianists Nicholas Angelich, Renaud Capuçon, and Gautier Capuçon are nearly unknown when their performance of Mendelssohn's D minor Piano Trio is so ardent? Does it matter that Lilya Zilberstein, Dora Schwarzberg, Lucy Hall, Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg, and Marc Drobinsky are nearly as unknown -- Zilberstein has recorded for DG and Decca -- when their Brahms' F minor Piano Quintet is so passionate? Although...
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Add this copy of Live From the Lugano Festivals 2005 to cart. $8.50, like new condition, Sold by Streetlight_Records rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Cruz, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by Warner Classics.
