These performances recorded live at the 2006 Lugano Festival are examples of Martha Argerich at her best. Argerich has always been a supremely virtuosic pianist with artistic temperament to spare, and these performances embody all those qualities to the hilt. With the flashy but never self-indulgent trumpeter Sergei Nakariakov and the superbly ...
Even though Louis Spohr lived well into the Romantic era, and was a contemporary of such cutting-edge figures as Beethoven, Berlioz, Paganini, Liszt, and Wagner, his music stayed remarkably Classical in form and substance, and sounded conservative in style, even late in his career. It shouldn't be surprising to find that his Symphony No. 1 in E ...
While recordings of Beethoven's Concerto for piano, violin and cello and orchestra in C major, Op. 56, have never been thick on the ground and listeners must therefore be grateful for every single one, isn't this July 2002 recording by Martha Argerich, Renaud Capuçon, and Mischa Maisky with Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky conducting the Orchestra ...
Donizetti wrote this one-act comedy, Il giovedì grasso (Fat Thursday), early in his career, in 1829, and while it contains no blockbuster arias or ensembles, it's entirely enjoyable and an excellent demonstration of the composer's comic sensibility. The stock characters of Italian comedy are strongly drawn and, lasting just an hour, the music and ...
Why is EMI re-releasing on its Great Artists of the Century series ofMartha Argerich's 2002 recording of Schumann's Piano Concerto coupled with her 1978 recording of solo works of Schumann, Ravel, and Ginastera? While there is no question that Argerich is one of the great pianists, it is uncertain which century these recordings belong to: the ...
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