Martha Argerich - The Warner Classics Edition - Box Set 46CDs

Label : Warner

Format : Flac (image + cue)

Cover : Yes

“Unquestionably one of the greatest pianists of all time” is how Gramophone magazine has described Martha Argerich. Her relationship with the label goes back to 1965 and her victory at the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw. Over several decades it has produced a rich catalogue of live and studio recordings, embracing a repertoire that spans three centuries, a diversity of genres, and collaborations with such figures as Charles Dutoit, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Gidon Kremer, Mischa Maisky and Itzhak Perlman. The complete recordings for EMI Classics, Teldec, Erato and Warner Classics are featured in this box.

Martha Argerich is a pianist of transcendent gifts and her special joy in musical collaboration is the key to the second part of this collection: the complete live recordings made at Switzerland’s Lugano Festival between 2002 and 2016 and released by EMI Classics and Warner Classics. Argerich is heard in solo works and concertos, but above all in intimate partnership with fellow instrumentalists, performers she sees as her musical “family”.

The new box is divided into two parts.

The first part (24 CDs) comprises all the recordings from the EMI Classics, Teldec, Erato and Warner Classics catalogues (except those from the Lugano Festival). It includes both live and studio recordings and a variety of genres: solo piano music, music for piano duo, chamber works and concertos. All are presented with their original coupling and cover artwork. These are all listed in the works on the right hand side of this page.

The second part (22 CDs) 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. It features a wide variety of genres: solo piano music, lots of music for piano duo and among them many arrangements, chamber works and concertos. These Lugano recordings were mostly originally released as an annual 3CD boxset – with Martha performing only a part of them – representing the highlights of the previous year’s festival concerts.

Complete tracklist : Martha Argerich - The Warner Classics Edition