Vienna Philharmonic, Martha Argerich and Zubin Mehta – Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54 & Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E-Flat Major (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Vienna Philharmonic, Martha Argerich and Zubin Mehta – Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54 & Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E-Flat Major (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:39:47 minutes | 997 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Platoon

The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (German: Wiener Philharmoniker) is a symphony orchestra based in Vienna, Austria, and considered one of the best in the world.

The main concert hall of the orchestra is it. Musikverein is a concert hall of the Society of Music Lovers (Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde). The musicians are recruited from the Vienna Opera Orchestra, where they must first play for at least three years. The orchestra was founded in 1842 by Otto Nicolai.

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Seiji Ozawa, Martha Argerich – Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2; Grieg: Holberg Suite (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Seiji Ozawa, Martha Argerich – Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2; Grieg: Holberg Suite (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:34 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.

Four decades of friendship and musical partnership brings these two titans of classical music together again. Eagerly anticipated follow-up to their now-legendary recording of the first concerto. Recorded live in concert in Japan in May 2019.

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Martha Argerich, Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, Kazuyoshi Akiyama – Music for Peace (2016) DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Martha Argerich, Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, Kazuyoshi Akiyama – Music for Peace (2016)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,82 MHz | Time – 37:18 minutes | 1,47 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:18 minutes | 807 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

In August 2015, the 70th anniversary of the American bombing and the end of the World War II, Martha Argerich co-starred with the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kazuyoshi Akiyama. The monumental live performance is here.

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Martha Argerich, Seiji Ozawa, Mito Chamber Orchestra – Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 & Piano Concerto No. 1 (Live) (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Martha Argerich, Seiji Ozawa, Mito Chamber Orchestra – Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 & Piano Concerto No. 1 (Live) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:39 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.

Two Legends together on record for the first time; first new release from Seiji Ozawa since his Grammy win for Best Opera in 2016.

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Martha Argerich, Sergei Babayan – Prokofiev for Two (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Martha Argerich, Sergei Babayan – Prokofiev for Two (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:00:10 minutes | 468 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Pianists Martha Argerich and Sergei Babayan have recorded two selections from Prokofiev’s music for stage and screen in magnificent two-piano transcriptions by Babayan. The new album features Babayan’s twelve-movement transcription of numbers from the ballet Romeo and Juliet and his seven-movement suite transcribed from Prokofiev’s incidental music for Hamlet and Eugene Onegin, film score for The Queen of Spades and opera War and Peace.

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Martha Argerich – Martha Argerich and Friends Live from Lugano 2015 (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Martha Argerich – Martha Argerich and Friends Live from Lugano 2015 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 03:38:37 minutes | 1,93 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

“Few other musicians spark such adoration among peers and juniors alike as does Martha Argerich,” wrote the British magazine Pianist. The reasons for this adoration are richly in evidence at the annual Progetto Martha Argerich, part of the Lugano Festival in Switzerland.

The 15th edition of the Progetto takes place in June 2016, shortly after Argerich’s 75th birthday – it is hard to believe that 51 years have passed since she triumphed at the seventh International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, where one of the judges (Eugene List) described her as “volcanic … one of nature’s happenings”. Argerich remains a phenomenon, both as a supreme pianist and as a dynamic, much-loved mentor to young musicians. This 3-CD set, recorded in June 2015 and the twelfth Argerich-Lugano release in the Warner Classics catalogue, once again portrays her in both roles.

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Martha Argerich – Martha Argerich & Friends: Live From Lugano 2014 (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Martha Argerich – Martha Argerich & Friends: Live From Lugano 2014 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 03:14:57 minutes | 1,78 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

Warner Classics is pleased to release the 12th annual 3-album 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 music’s wonders.” The recordings celebrate the musical fruits of a project in which young artists join seasoned performers, including Martha Argerich herself, to explore wide-ranging chamber music and orchestral repertoire, both well-known and rarely heard.

In addition to Ms Argerich, the 2014 Festival featured long-time collaborators such as Gidon Kremer, Gabriela Montero, Mischa Maisky, Gautier Capuçon and Lilya Zilberstein, as well as many of Ms Argerich’s young protégées, including pianists Anton and Daniel Gerzenberg and violinists Geza Hosszu-Logocky and Andrey Baranov, winner of the 2012 Queen Elizabeth Competition. Also featured are pianists Alexander Mogilevsky, Francesco Piemontesi, Daniel Rivera, Dagmar Clottu, Akane Sakai, Eduardo Hubert, violinists Dora Schwarzberg and Michael Guttman, violist Nora Romanoff and cellists Jing Zhao and Mark Drobinsky.

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Martha Argerich – Martha Argerich & Friends Live at the Lugano Festival 2013 (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Martha Argerich – Martha Argerich & Friends Live at the Lugano Festival 2013 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 03:06:59 minutes | 1,69 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

Warner Classics is pleased to release the 11th annual 3CD set of highlights from the Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano, “the delightful festival where youth meets experience and both benefit” (Gramophone). The Times described Argerich’s Lugano Festival as “community music-making on a deluxe scale, with performers and listeners mutually uplifted by music’s wonders”. In addition to Argerich, the performers in 2013 included many familiar names from previous Live from Lugano releases. Among the performers who took part in the series for the first time are the violinist and Queen Elisabeth Competition winner Andrey Baranov and the pianists Thomás Alegre, Alessandro Mazzamuto, Maria Meerovitch.

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Martha Argerich – Martha Argerich and Friends Live from the Lugano Festival 2016 (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Martha Argerich – Martha Argerich and Friends Live from the Lugano Festival 2016 (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 03:35:23 minutes | 1,94 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

The previous batch from the 2015 Lugano Festival was especially rich, with many of the chosen moments being particularly thrilling (Brahms’ Trio, Poulenc’s Sonata for two pianos). The 2016 Festival would in turn see one great event: the tremendous Martha agreed to play on stage, for the first time in more than thirty years, Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit. She was worried at the thought of measuring herself against her own success from forty years ago—she recorded in 1974 for Deutsche Grammophon a Ravel LP featuringGaspard, Sonatine and Valses nobles et sentimentales, which is still in everyone’s memory despite its disappointing sound recording. On the spot, it’s obviously all the magic from a sound completely revealing itself, and the permanence of a vision. The truly haunted tone of Le Gibet leaves a lasting impression, Scarbo’s goblin literally shatters when Ondine, completely radiant, screams her recollections of Liszt and remembers just as much Une barque sur l’océan written a few years before. The rest of the testimonies from this 2016 Lugano Festival is as varied as usual. We’ll start with the rarity among the musical repertoire that is Busoni’s Violin Concerto, in D major (like the ones from Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky), also being the opus 35 (like the ones from Tchaikovsky, Korngold), under Renaud Capuçon’s determined bow. As for the two pianos, a classic from Argerich’s repertoire, Mozart Sonata for Two Pianos K. 488 that she’s enjoyed playing regularly with her friends for a few years, here with Sergey Babayan. And let’s not forget the very sincere Horn Trio from Brahms, with the trio Capuçon, Angelich & Guerrier (in 2015, a version without horn was unforgettable), or especially Bach’s Sonata by Martha Argerich and Tedi Papavrami, which could make us forget to not have this duo play the five other works written by Bach for the same formation. We cannot ignore the too short moment from the duo Tiempo & Lechner, as thrilling as ever, here in two Falla’s dances. During this 2016 edition, Argerich also played Ravel’s Concerto in G major. Maybe not in its most extraordinary version, but listening to its phrasings, accents, and nuances that are so personal in the Adagio assai this work remains the source of a rare emotion. May this Lugano Festival resuscitate in a few years with the participation of generous sponsors nostalgic of these incredible moments.

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Martha Argerich – J.S. Bach: Toccata In C Minor BWV 911; Partita No.2 In C Minor, BWV 826; English Suite No.2 In A Minor, BWV 807 (1980/2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Martha Argerich – J.S. Bach: Toccata In C Minor BWV 911; Partita No.2 In C Minor, BWV 826; English Suite No.2 In A Minor, BWV 807 (1980/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:15 minutes | 965 MB | Genre: Klassik
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

„This is a thing of beauty. It is also a model of unusually pure piano-playing, with very little pedal and only occasional ‘agogics’ – the small delays which draw attention to a structural landmark. Argerich achieves character with great discipline, by varying her touch, by balancing sounds immaculately against each other, and by her irresistible sense of rhythm, so important in the dance movements of the Partita and Suite. Her buoyancy and alertness in the lively movements are almost alarming. And who else would dare make the Sarabande in the Partita so simple? You’ll feel years younger after listening.“ (Adrian Jack, Classical-Music.com)

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Martha Argerich – Debut Recital (1995) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Martha Argerich – Debut Recital (1995)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:28 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Here, on this richly filled CD, is a positive cornucopia of musical genius. Martha Argerich’s 1961 disc remains among the most spectacular of all recorded debuts, an impression reinforced by an outsize addition and encore: her 1972 Liszt Sonata. True, there are occasional reminders of her pianism at its most fraught and capricious (Chopin’s Barcarolle) as well as tiny scatterings or inaccuracies, yet her playing always blazes with a unique incandescence and character.

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Martha Argerich – Chopin: The Legendary 1965 Recording (2021 Remastered Version) (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Martha Argerich – Chopin: The Legendary 1965 Recording (2021 Remastered Version) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 52:10 minutes | 1,91 GB | Genre: Classique
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

Martha Argerich has been described as “unquestionably one of the greatest pianists of all time”. She recorded a Chopin recital for EMI (now Warner Classics) in 1965, shortly after her victory in the prestigious Chopin Competition, but it only became available in 1999, when it appeared on CD. For Argerich’s 75th birthday on 5 June, it finally sees its first release on LP, the format originally intended.

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Martha Argerich – Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58 & Scherzos, Baracolle, Mazurkas, Polonaises (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Martha Argerich – Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58 & Scherzos, Baracolle, Mazurkas, Polonaises (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:29:37 minutes | 3,03 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Martha Argerich has been an outstanding Chopin interpreter for decades. In celebration of her 80th birthday on June 5th, 2021 Deutsche Grammophon presents the exceptional pianist’s Complete Chopin Recordings, starting with this stunning rendition of the 3rd Piano Sonata, alongside Scherzos, Baracolle, Mazurkas, and Polonaises.

“When I don’t play Chopin for a while, I don’t feel like a pianist.”
– Martha Argerich

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Martha Argerich – Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 2, Introduction & Polonaise brillante & Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 65 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Martha Argerich – Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 2, Introduction & Polonaise brillante & Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 65 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:08:12 minutes | 2,33 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Martha Argerich has been an outstanding Chopin interpreter for decades. In celebration of her 80th birthday on June 5th, 2021 Deutsche Grammophon presents the exceptional pianist’s Complete Chopin Recordings, continuing with this collection of rendition where she is joined by the National Symphony Orchestra Washington and Mstislav Rostropovich!

“When I don’t play Chopin for a while, I don’t feel like a pianist.”
– Martha Argerich

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Martha Argerich – Chopin: 24 Préludes, Piano Sonata No. 2 (2002) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Martha Argerich – Chopin: 24 Préludes, Piano Sonata No. 2 (2002)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:01:24 minutes | 1,94 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

This classic 1977 release features a stunning interpretation of Chopin’s Préludes by pianist Martha Argerich, still considered a reference recording of the set by many critics. The programme also an equally impressive Piano Sonata No. 2, recorded in 1975.

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