Piano Duos II - Schumann, Debussy, Bartók Martha Argerich

• Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856): 6 Studien in kanonischer Form, Op.56 - Arr. 2 Pianos:
• 1 1. Nicht zu schnell 02:27
• 2 2. Mit innigem Ausdruck 03:26
• 3 3. Andantino 01:55
• 4 4. Innig 03:27
• 5 5. Nicht zu schnell 02:16
• 6 6. Adagio 02:54
• Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918): En blanc et noir, L.134 - for 2 pianos:
• 7 1. Avec emportement 04:21
• 8 2. Lent. Sombre 06:12
• 9 3. Scherzando 04:26
• Béla Bartók (1881 - 1945): Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion, Sz. 110:
• 10 1. Assai lento 13:24
• 11 2. Lento, ma non troppo 06:50
• 12 3. Allegro non troppo 07:24
• Total Runtime 59:02

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PERAL MUSIC einen weiteren Live-Mitschnitt der legendären Konzerte von Daniel Barenboim und Martha Argerich aus dem Teatro Colón – aktuell aus dem Sommer 2015. Aufgenommen wurde das Programm im Juli während der zweiten Auflage des 2014 gegründeten Festivals „Festival de Música y Reflexión“ von Daniel Barenboim in seiner argentinischen Heimat. Nach dem überragenden Erfolg des ersten Albums im Vorjahr gaben sich auch diesmal die Pianisten Daniel Barenboim und Martha Argerich die Ehre eines kammermusikalischen Duo-Abends in ihrer gemeinsamen Geburtsstadt Buenos Aires. Auf dem Programm standen Werke für zwei Klaviere: Debussys Bearbeitung von Robert Schumanns 6 Studien in kanonischer Form, Debussys Eigenkomposition En blanc et noir und die Sonate für 2 Klaviere und Schlagzeug von Bela Bartók. „Ein Jahr später zaubert die spannende Begegnung zwischen der lebhaften Martha und dem Meister Daniel erneut herrliche, ja fabelhafte Ergebnisse. Das war Magie vom ersten Ton an“, berichtete die argentinische Presse begeistert.

Der Veröffentlichung voran geht bereits das nächste Zusammentreffen der beiden Musiker: am 20. September in Wien und gleich zweimal am 21. und 22. September in Berlin spielt Martha Argerich unter dem Dirigat von Daniel Barenboim gemeinsam mit der Staatskapelle Berlin Beethovens Klavierkonzert Nr. 2, Op. 19.

Im April 2014 startete Daniel Barenboim sein eigenes digitales Label PERAL MUSIC in Kooperation mit Universal Music. PERAL MUSIC veranschaulicht Barenboims umfassendes Wirken als Dirigent, Pianist, Kammermusiker und Pädagoge.

Martha Argerich, Klavier
Daniel Barenboim, Klavier
Percussionisten des West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

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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