MARTHA ARGERICH: THE LUGANO RECORDINGS (22 CDS)

The box comprises all (live) recordings made by Martha Argerich at the Lugano Festival, from 2002 to the last edition in 2016, and released by EMI Classics and Warner Classics. An impressive collection of 22CDs without equivalent. It includes a variety of genres: some solo piano music, lots of music for piano duo and among them many arrangements, chamber works and concertos.

Disc 1 -
1 CD1
2 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791
3 Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K 466 with Orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana · Jacek Kaspszyk Conductor
4 Piano Sonata in C Major, K 545 Arr. for Two Pianos By Edvard Grieg with Piotr Anderszewski Piano
5 Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K 503 with Orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana · Jacek Kaspszyk Conductor
- Disc 2 -
1 CD2
2 Mozart
3 Sonata for Piano Four Hands in D Major, K 381 with Maria Joao Pires Piano
4 Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major, K 448 (375A) with Sergei Babayan Piano
5 Fantasia in F minor, K 608 Arr. for Two Pianos By Ferruccio Busoni with Lilya Zilberstein Piano
6 Sonata for Piano Four Hands in F Major, K 497 with Cristina Marton Piano
- Disc 3 -
1 CD3
2 Mozart
3 Andante & Variations in G Major for Piano Four Hands, K 501 with Stephen Kovacevich Piano
4 Joseph Haydn 1732-1809
5 Piano Trio in G Major, Hob. XV:25 with Renaud Capuçon Violin · Gautier Capuçon Cello
6 Ludwig Van Beethoven 1770-1827
7 Violin Sonata in G Major, Op. 30/3 with Renaud Capuçon Violin
8 Trio for Piano, Clarinet and Cello in B Flat Major, Op. 11 with Marek Denemark Clarinet · Mark Drobinsky Cello
9 Variations in E Flat Major on "Bei Männern, Welche Liebe Fühlen" from Mozart's Zauberflöte, Woo 46 with Mischa Maisky Cello
- Disc 4 -
1 CD4
2 Beethoven
3 Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15 with Orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana · Hubert Soudant Director
4 Piano Quartet in C Major, Woo 36 with Renaud Capuçon Violin · Lyda Chen Viola · Gautier Capuçon Cello
5 Piano Trio in D Major "Ghost", Op. 70/1 with Renaud Capuçon Violin · Mischa Maisky Cello
- Disc 5 -
1 CD5
2 Beethoven
3 Concerto for Piano, Violin, Cello and Orchestra in C Major "Triple Concerto", Op. 56 with Renaud Capuçon Violin · Mischa Maisky Cello
4 Orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana · Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky Conductor
5 Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 5/2 with Mischa Maisky Cello
6 Fantasy for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra in C minor "Choral Fantasy", Op. 80 with Laura Antonaz · Alice Rossi · Martha Fumagalli · Elisabeth Gillming
7 Martin Steffan · Gerhard Nennemann · Matteo Bellotto Solo Singers
8 Coro Della Radiotelevisione Svizzera
9 Orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana · Diego Fasolis Conductor
- Disc 6 -
1 CD6
2 Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750
3 Violin Sonata in C minor, BWV 1017 with Tedi Papavrami Violin
4 Franz Schubert 1797-1828
5 Variations in a Flat Major for Piano Four Hands, D 813 with Alexander Mogilevsky Piano
6 Felix Mendelssohn 1809-1847
7 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Opp. 21 & 61 (Excerpts) Arr. for Two Pianos with Cristina Marton Piano
8 Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 49 with Renaud Capuçon Violin · Gautier Capuçon Cello
- Disc 7 -
1 CD7
2 Frédéric Chopin 1810-1849
3 Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 with Orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana · Jacek Kaspszyk Conductor
4 Introduction & Polonaise in C Major, Op. 3 for Piano and Cello with Gautier Capuçon Cello
5 Franz Liszt 1811-1886
6 Les Préludes, S 97 Arr. for Two Pianos By the Composer with Daniel Rivera Piano
7 Réminiscences de Don Juan, S 656 (After S 418) Arr. for Two Pianos By the Composer with Mauricio Vallina Piano
- Disc 8 -
1 CD8
2 Robert Schumann 1810-1856
3 Kinderszenen, Op. 15
4 Fantasiestücke, Op. 73 for Piano and Cello with Gautier Capuçon Cello
5 Violin Sonata No. 1 in a Minor, Op. 105
6 Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 121
7 With Renaud Capuçon Violin
- Disc 9 -
1 CD9
2 Schumann
3 Piano Concerto in a Minor, Op. 54 with Orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana · Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky Conductor
4 Fantasiestücke, Op. 88 for Piano, Violin and Cello with Renaud Capuçon Violin · Gautier Capuçon Cello
5 Piano Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 47 with Renaud Capuçon Violin · Lyda Chen Viola · Gautier Capuçon Cello
- Disc 10 -
1 CD10
2 Schumann
3 Andante & Variations for Two Pianos in B Flat Major, Op. 46 with Gabriela Montero Piano
4 Piano Quintet in E Flat Major, Op. 44 with Dora Schwarzberg Violin · Renaud Capuçon Violin
5 Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg Viola · Mark Drobinsky Cello
6 Violin Sonata No. 1 in a Minor, Op. 105 with Géza Hosszu-Legocky Violin
7 FÜNF Stücke Im Volkston, Op. 102 for Cello and Piano with Gautier Capuçon Cello
- Disc 11 -
1 CD11
2 Schumann
3 Adagio & Allegro, Op. 70 for Piano and Cello with Gautier Capuçon Cello
4 Six Canonic Etudes, Op. 56 Arr. for Two Pianos By Claude Debussy with Lilya Zilberstein Piano
5 Fantasiestücke, Op. 73 Arr. for Flugelhorn and Piano with Sergei Nakariakov Flugelhorn
6 Liszt
7 Concerto Pathétique, S 258 (After S 176) Arr. for Two Pianos By the Composer with Lilya Zilberstein Piano
8 Johannes Brahms 1833-1897
9 Variations on a Theme By Haydn, Op. 56B Version for Two Pianos with Polina Leschenko Piano
- Disc 12 -
1 CD12
2 Johannes Brahms 1833-1897
3 Sonata for Two Pianos in F minor, Op. 34B Arr. of Piano Quintet, Op. 34 with Lilya Zilberstein Piano
4 Variations on a Theme By Haydn, Op. 56B Version for Two Pianos with Nicholas Angelich Piano
- Disc 13 -
1 CD13
2 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
3 The Nutcracker - Suite, Op. 71A Arr. for Two Pianos By Nicolas Economu with Mirabela Dina Piano
4 Bedřich Smetana 1824-1884
5 9 Sonata in E minor 10.40 for Two Pianos, Eight Hands
6 10 Rondo in C Major 4.11 for Two Pianos, Eight Hands with Lilya Zilberstein Piano · Anton Gerzenberg Piano · Daniel Gerzenberg Piano
7 Juliusz Zarębski 1854-1885
8 Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 34 with Dora Schwarzberg Violin · Lucia Hall Violin · Lyda Chen Viola · Gautier Capuçon Cello
- Disc 14 -
1 CD14
2 Camille Saint-Saëns 1835-1921
3 Le Carnaval Des Animaux with Andrey Baranov Violin · Michael Guttman Violin · Lyda Chen Viola
4 Alexandre Debrus Cello ·Enrico Fagone Double Bass · Alfred Rutz Flute
5 Corrado Giuffredi Clarinet · Lilya Zilberstein Piano · Gregorio Di Trapani Percussion
6 Claude Debussy 1862-1918
7 Petite Suite for Piano Four Hands with Cristina Marton Piano
8 En Blanc Et Noir for Piano Four Hands with Stephen Kovacevich Piano
9 Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
10 Piano Concerto in G Major with Orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana
11 Jacek Kaspszyk Conductor
- Disc 15 -
1 CD15
2 Ravel
3 Gaspard de la Nuit
4 La Valse Arr. for Two Pianos By the Composer with Sergio Tiempo Piano
5 Ma Mere L'oye for Piano Duet with Alexander Mogilevsky Piano
6 Piano Concerto in G Major with Orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana
7 Alexander Vedernikov Conductor
8 Debussy
9 Prélude a L'apres-Midi D'un Faune Arr. for Two Pianos By the Composer with Stephen Kovacevich Piano
- Disc 16 -
1 CD16
2 Sergei Rachmaninov 1873-1943
3 Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 Arr. for Two Pianos By the Composer with Nelson Goerner Piano
4 Suite for Two Pianos No. 1 in G minor, Op. 5 with Lilya Zilberstein Piano
5 Suite for Two Pianos No. 2, Op. 17 with Gabriela Montero Piano
- Disc 17 -
1 CD17
2 Sergei Prokofiev 1891-1953
3 Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25 "Classical" Arr. for Two Pianos By Rikuya Terashima with Yefim Bronfman Piano
4 Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Major, Op. 94Bis with Renaud Capuçon Violin
5 Rachmaninov
6 Six Morceaux, Op. 11 for Piano Four Hands with Lilya Zilberstein Piano
- Disc 18 -
1 CD18
2 Béla Bartók 1881-1945
3 Romanian Folk Dances, SZ 56 Arr. for Violin and Piano By Zoltán Székely with Géza Hosszu-Legocky Violin
4 Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, SZ 110 with Stephen Kovacevich Piano
5 Louis Sauvetre · Danilo Grassi Percussion
6 Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1, SZ 75 with Renaud Capuçon Violin
- Disc 19 -
1 CD19
2 Dmitri Shostakovich 1906-1975
3 Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings, Op. 35 with Sergei Nakariakov Trumpet
4 Orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana
5 Alexander Vedernikov Conductor
6 Concertino for Two Pianos in a Minor, Op. 94 with Lilya Zilberstein Piano
7 Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57 with Renaud Capuçon · Alissa Margulis Violins
8 Lyda Chen Viola · Mischa Maisky Cello
- Disc 20 -
1 CD20
2 Shostakovich
3 Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67 with Maxim Vengerov Violin · Gautier Capuçon Cello
4 Francis Poulenc 1899-1963
5 Piano Sonata for Four Hands, FP 8 with Dagmar Clottu Piano
6 Leoš Janáček 1854-1928
7 Concertino for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, Clarinet, Horn and Bassoon with Lucia Hall · Alissa Margulis Violins · Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg Viola
8 Corrado Giuffredi Clarinet · Zora Slokar Horn · Vincent Godel Bassoon
9 Witold Lutosławski 1913-1994
10 Variations on a Theme By Paganini for Two Pianos with Giorgia Tomassi Piano
- Disc 21 -
1 CD21
2 Mieczysław Weinberg 1919-1996
3 Violin Sonata No. 5, Op. 53 with Gidon Kremer Violin
4 Lutosławski
5 Variations on a Theme By Paganini for Two Pianos with Mauricio Vallina Piano
6 Mikhail Pletnev *1957
7 Fantasia Elvetica with Alexander Mogilevsky Piano
8 Orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana
9 Mikhail Pletnev Conductor
- Disc 22 -
1 CD22
2 Manuel de Falla 1876-1946
3 Noches en los Jardines de Espana with Orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana
4 Alexander Vedernikov Conductor
5 Mariano Mores *1922
6 Taquito Militar Arr. for Two Pianos By Ale Petrasso with Ale Petrasso Piano
7 Luis Bacalov *1933
8 Portena (Latitud 34°36'30") for Two Pianos and Orchestra with Eduardo Hubert Piano
9 Orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana
10 Alexander Vedernikov Conductor
11 Carlos Guastavino 1912-2000
12 Tres Romances Argentinos with Mauricio Vallina Piano
13 Astor Piazzolla 1921-1992
14 Tre Tanghi Arr. for Two Pianos By Eduardo Hubert with Eduardo Hubert Piano