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• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 - 1847): Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66:
• 1 Mendelssohn: Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66: I. Allegro energico e con fuoco 10:36
• 2 Mendelssohn: Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66: II. Andante espressivo 07:09
• 3 Mendelssohn: Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66: III. Scherzo 03:21
• 4 Mendelssohn: Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66: IV. Finale. Allegro appassionato 08:21
• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897): Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in G Major, Op. 78:
• 5 Brahms: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in G Major, Op. 78: I. Vivace ma non troppo 11:57
• 6 Brahms: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in G Major, Op. 78: II. Adagio 08:15
• 7 Brahms: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in G Major, Op. 78: III. Allegro molto moderato 08:42
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791):
• 8 Mozart: Andante and Variations for Four-Handed Piano in G Major, K. 501 07:38
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827): Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 'Kreutzer':
• 9 Beethoven: Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 'Kreutzer': I. Adagio sostenuto — Presto 13:38
• 10 Beethoven: Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 'Kreutzer': II. Andante con variazioni 15:31
• 11 Beethoven: Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 'Kreutzer': III. Finale. Presto 08:50
• Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828): Fantasia for Four-Handed Piano in F Minor, D. 940:
• 12 Schubert: Fantasia for Four-Handed Piano in F Minor, D. 940: I. Allegro molto moderato 05:02
• 13 Schubert: Fantasia for Four-Handed Piano in F Minor, D. 940: II. Largo 02:32
• 14 Schubert: Fantasia for Four-Handed Piano in F Minor, D. 940: III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace 05:30
• 15 Schubert: Fantasia for Four-Handed Piano in F Minor, D. 940: IV. Finale. Allegro molto moderato 05:22
• Pyotr Ilytch Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893): Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Minor, Op. 23: I
• 16 Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Minor, Op. 23: I. Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso 20:22
• 17 Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Minor, Op. 23: II. Andantino semplice – Prestissimo – Tempo I 06:53
• 18 Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Minor, Op. 23: III. Allegro con fuoco 07:05
• Les Noces:
• 19 Les Noces: Part I : The Tresses 05:07
• 20 Les Noces: Part I : The Bridegroom's House 05:58
• 21 Les Noces: Part I : The Departure of the Bride 03:19
• 22 Les Noces: Part II : The Wedding Feast 10:29
• Domenico Scarlatti (1685 - 1757):
• 23 Scarlatti: Sonata in E Major, K. 495 04:26
• 24 Scarlatti: Sonata in E Major, K. 20 02:44
• 25 Scarlatti: Sonata in A Flat, K. 109 06:34
• 26 Scarlatti: Sonata in B Minor, K. 128 05:11
• 27 Scarlatti: Sonata in G Major, K. 55 02:06
• 28 Scarlatti: Sonata in D Minor, K. 32 02:53
• 29 Scarlatti: Sonata in G Major, K. 455 03:14
• Concerto for Four Harpsichords and Strings in A Minor, BWV. 1065:
• 30 Concerto for Four Harpsichords and Strings in A Minor, BWV. 1065: I. Allegro 03:43
• 31 Concerto for Four Harpsichords and Strings in A Minor, BWV. 1065: II. Largo 02:43
• 32 Concerto for Four Harpsichords and Strings in A Minor, BWV. 1065: III. Allegro 03:17
• Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856): Kinderszenen, Op. 15:
• 33 Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15: I. Von fremden Ländern und Menschen 01:37
• 34 Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15: II. Kuriose Geschichte 01:05
• 35 Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15: III. Hasche-Mann 00:26
• 36 Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15: IV. Bittendes Kind 00:56
• 37 Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15: V. Glückes genug 00:59
• 38 Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15: VI. Wichtige Begebenheit 00:49
• 39 Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15: VII. Träumerei 02:39
• 40 Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15: VIII. Am Kamin 00:44
• 41 Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15: IX. Ritter vom Steckenpferd 00:39
• 42 Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15: X. Fast zu ernst 02:01
• 43 Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15: XI. Fürchtenmachen 01:30
• 44 Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15: XII. Kind im Einschlummern 02:10
• 45 Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15: XIII. Der Dichter spricht 02:16
• Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849):
• 46 Chopin: Introduction and Polonaise Brillante in C Major, Op. 3 08:46
• Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953): Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in D Major, Op. 94a: I
• 47 Prokofiev: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in D Major, Op. 94a: I. Moderato 07:29
• 48 Prokofiev: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in D Major, Op. 94a: II. Presto 04:35
• 49 Prokofiev: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in D Major, Op. 94a: III. Andante 03:22
• 50 Prokofiev: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in D Major, Op. 94a: IV. Allegro con brio 07:00
• Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26:
• 51 Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26: I. Andante – Allegro 09:25
• 52 Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26: II. Tema con variazioni 09:33
• 53 Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26: III. Allegro ma non troppo 09:49
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): Sonata for Four-Handed Piano in D Major, K. 381/123a:
• 54 Mozart: Sonata for Four-Handed Piano in D Major, K. 381/123a: I. Allegro 04:56
• 55 Mozart: Sonata for Four-Handed Piano in D Major, K. 381/123a: II. Andante 06:06
• 56 Mozart: Sonata for Four-Handed Piano in D Major, K. 381/123a: III. Allegro molto 04:09
• Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918): Petite Suite, L 65:
• 57 Debussy: Petite Suite, L 65: I. En bateau 03:44
• 58 Debussy: Petite Suite, L 65: II. Cortège 03:17
• 59 Debussy: Petite Suite, L 65: III. Menuet 02:33
• 60 Debussy: Petite Suite, L 65: IV. Ballet 03:23
• Enrique Granados (1867 - 1916):
• 61 Granados: Spanish Dance No. 5 (Fritz Kreisler) 03:47
• Fritz Kreisler (1875 - 1962):
• 62 Kreisler: Schön Rosmarin 02:05
• Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963): Sonata for Two Pianos:
• 63 Poulenc: Sonata for Two Pianos: I. Prologue 04:48
• 64 Poulenc: Sonata for Two Pianos: II. Allegro molto 04:34
• 65 Poulenc: Sonata for Two Pianos: III. Andante lyrico 05:18
• 66 Poulenc: Sonata for Two Pianos: IV. Epilogue 04:02
• Witold Lutoslawski (1913 - 1994):
• 67 Lutoslawski: Variations On A Theme By Paganini For Two Pianos 05:11
• Sergei Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943): Six Pieces for Four-Handed Piano, Op. 11:
• 68 Rachmaninov: Six Pieces for Four-Handed Piano, Op. 11: Waltz 04:34
• Total Runtime 05:58:45

Info for Rendez-Vous With Martha Argerich, Vol. 2

After the tremendously successful first Rendez-Vous with Martha Argerich, this second volume will certainly thrill music lovers from all around the world again. For this new edition, Martha Argerich partners with high-profile musical friends such as Sylvain Cambreling, Renaud Capuçon, Charles Dutoit, Gabriela Montero, Edgar Moreau, Akane Sakai and many others in new repertoire like Mendelssohn’ Second Piano Trio, or in stalwarts of her repertoire such as Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto, Beethoven’s ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata or Schumann’s Kinderszenen. In total: 6 albums that will allow you to marvel at the art of Martha Argerich and her friends in state-of-the-art new recordings.

Martha Argerich
Nicholas Angelich
Sergei Babayan
Gabriele Baldocci
Khatia Buniatishvili
Renaud Capucon
Dong-Hyek Lim
Stephen Kovacevich
Karin Lechner
Mischa Maisky
Alexander Mogilevsky
Gabriela Montero
Edgar Moreau
Sophie Pacini
Tedi Papavrami
Europa Chor Akademie
Hamburger Symphoniker
Sylvain Cambreling
Charles Dutoit

Martha Argerich
was born in Buenos Aires. From the age of five, she took piano lessons with Vicenzo Scaramuzza. In 1955 she went to Europe with her family, and received tuition from Friedrich Gulda in Vienna; her teachers also included Nikita Magaloff and Stefan Askenase. Following her first prizes in the piano competitions in Bolzano and Geneva in 1957, she embarked on an intensive programme of concerts. Her victory in the Chopin Competition in Warsaw in 1965 was a decisive step on her path to worldwide recognition.

Martha Argerich rose to fame with her interpretations of the virtuoso piano literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. But she does not regard herself as a specialist in 'virtuoso' works - her repertoire ranges from Bach through Beethoven, Schumann, Liszt, Debussy and Ravel, to Bartók.

Martha Argerich has worked as a concert pianist with many famous conductors. She has also attached great importance to chamber music ever since, at the age of 17, she accompanied the violinist Joseph Szigeti - two generations older than herself. She has toured Europe, America and Japan with Gidon Kremer and Mischa Maisky and has also recorded much of the repertory for four hands and for two pianos with the pianists Nelson Freire, Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich, Nicolas Economou and Alexandre Rabinovitch. Martha Argerich has performed at Gidon Kremer's festival in Lockenhaus, at the Munich Piano Summer, the Lucerne Festival and at the Salzburg Festival, where she gave, for instance, a recital with Mischa Maisky in 1993.

She appeared with Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic at the 1992 New Year's Eve Concert with Strauss's Burleske and also at the Salzburg Festival at Easter 1993. May 1998 saw the long-awaited musical 'summit meeting' between Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky and Gidon Kremer. On the occasion of a memorial concert for the impresario Reinhard Paulsen, the three artists came together in Japan, where they performed piano trios by Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky (recorded live by DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON). In March 2000 Martha Argerich gave her first great solo appearance in almost 20 years in New York's Carnegie Hall.

Martha Argerich has close ties with DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON, dating back to 1967. She has recorded prolifically during this period: solo works by Bach, Brahms, Chopin, Liszt and Schumann; concerto recordings of works by Chopin, Liszt, Ravel and Prokofiev with Claudio Abbado, Beethoven with Giuseppe Sinopoli, and Stravinsky's Les Noces with Leonard Bernstein. Her recording of Shostakovich's First and Haydn's Eleventh Piano Concertos with the Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn conducted by Jörg Färber was crowned with the Tokyo RECORD ACADEMY AWARD in 1995 and that of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 with Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra was awarded the CD COMPACT AWARD in 1997.

She has also dedicated herself to chamber music, and has recorded works by Schumann and Chopin with Mstislav Rostropovich, and cello sonatas by both Bach and Beethoven with Mischa Maisky. She has made numerous successful recordings with Gidon Kremer, such as violin sonatas by Schumann and works by Bartók, Janácek and Messiaen (PRIX CAECILIA 1991), and Mendelssohn's concerto for violin and piano with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Their recording of Prokofiev sonatas and melodies received the 1992 Tokyo RECORD ACADEMY AWARD, the DIAPASON D'OR 1992 and the EDISON AWARD 1993. One of their most outstanding recording achievements was that of the complete Beethoven violin sonatas (Nos.1-3: RECORD ACADEMY AWARD 1985), which was concluded with the release of the Sonatas op. 47 'Kreutzer' and op. 96 in 1995. Among her more recent releases is the above-mentioned live recording of piano trios by Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky with Mischa Maisky and Gidon Kremer.

Martha Argerich takes a great supportive interest in young artists. In September 1999 the first International 'Martha Argerich' Piano Competition took place in Buenos Aires - a competition which does not only carry her name but in which she is president of the jury. In November 1999 the second 'Martha Argerich Music Festival' took place in southern Japan, with concerts and masterclasses being given not only by Martha Argerich but also by Mischa Maisky and Nelson Freire among others.

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