Live From Lugano 2009 [3CD]

Recital Fortepianowy
premiera polska: 2010-03-15
kontynent: Ameryka Południowa
kraj: Argentina
opakowanie: plastikowe etui
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Editor's info:
EMI Classics is pleased to release the latest instalment of highlights from the Martha Argerich Project at the Lugano Festival. This is the seventh annual 3-CD set celebrating the musical fruits of a project in which young artists join seasoned performers, including Ms. Argerich, to explore wide-ranging chamber music and orchestral repertoire, both well known and rarely heard. The CDs, recorded in the summer of 2009, are being released in anticipation of the Festival's 2010 season in June.

As a chamber music event, this series has become a laboratory that gives guest artists a chance to prove themselves not only in well-known masterpieces but also in rarely performed repertoire. The piano stands at the centre of the programming, not only with works originally written for it but also with transcriptions, which played an important historic role in the diffusion of music in remote areas and within family circles.

In addition to the inimitable Ms. Argerich, the performers include familiar names from previous Live from Lugano Festival releases, among them EMI Classics and Virgin Classics artists Sergio Tiempo and Renaud and Gautier Capuçon. They are joined by pianists Karin Lechner, Lilya Zilberstein, Alexander Mogilewsky, Kathia Buniatishvili, Daniel and Anton Gerzenberg, Polina Leschenko, Cristina Marton and Mauricio Vallina, violinists Lucy Hall, Alissa Margulis, Dora Schwarzberg, Geza Hosszu-Legocky and Lucia Hall, violists Lyda Chen and Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg, cellists Mark Dobrinsky and Jorge Bosso and double bass player Enrico Fagone.

The repertoire includes a number of rarely performed works such as Schumann's first composition for piano trio, the Phantasiestücke Op. 88, Mendelssohn's D Major Sextet for the unusual combination of piano, violin, two violas, cello and double bass, and Rachmaninov's Waltz and Romance for piano six hands, composed for his friends the Skalon sisters. Several of the works, including Mendelssohn's D Major Sextet and the Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, Chopin's Polonaise brillante Op. 3 and Rachmaninov's Waltz and Romance and Russian Rhapsody, were written when the composers were still teenagers. The discs also have a nationalistic flavor, with works by Chopin, Glinka, Rachmaninov, Bartók, Falla and Ravel.

The eighth season of the Martha Argerich Project takes place in June 2010. Many of the artists on these CDs will take part again this year.

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