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1 Beethoven: Piano Trio No.5 In D, Op.70 No.1 - Allegro  
2 Beethoven: Piano Trio No.5 In D, Op.70 No.1 - Largo  
3 Beethoven: Piano Trio No.5 In D, Op.70 No.1 - Presto  
4 Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op.15 - Von fremden  
5 Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op.15 - Kuriose Geschichte  
6 Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op.15 - Hasche-Mann  
7 Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op.15 - Bittendes Kind  
8 Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op.15 - Gluckes genug  
9 Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op.15 - Wichtige Begebenheit  
10 Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op.15 - Traumerei  
11 Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op.15 - Am Kamin  
12 Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op.15 - Ritter vom Steckenpferd  
13 Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op.15 - Fast zu ernst  
14 Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op.15 - Furchtenmachen  
15 Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op.15 - Kind im Einschlummern  
16 Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op.15 - Der Dichter spricht  
17 Schubert: Grand Rondeau In A Major, D. 951  
18 Ravel: Ma mere l'oye - Pavane de la Belle  
19 Ravel: Ma mere l'oye - Petit Poucet  
20 Ravel: Ma mere l'oye - Laideronnette  
21 Ravel: Ma mere l'oye - Les entretiens  
22 Ravel: Ma mere l'oye - Le jardin feerique  
23 Schubert: Sonata For Arpeggione & Piano In A Min., D. 821 - Allegro  
24 Schubert: Sonata For Arpeggione & Piano In A Min., D. 821 - Adagio  
25 Schubert: Sonata For Arpeggione & Piano In A Min., D. 821 - Allegretto  
26 Bartok: Sonata For Violin & Piano No.1, Sz. 75 - Allegro appassionato  
27 Bartok: Sonata For Violin & Piano No.1, Sz. 75 - Adagio  
28 Bartok: Sonata For Violin & Piano No.1, Sz. 75 - Allegro  
29 Lutoslawski: Variations on a theme by Paganini for 2 pianos  
30 Mildred & Patty Hill: Happy Birthday  
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Recorded live at the 2007 Verbier Festival, this very special evening took place when the Festival gave pianist Martha Argerich carte blanche to program any repertoire and with any colleagues she desired.  The result was a special evening of music-making with an eclectic cast of friends and colleagues.  Amidst all the chamber music, Argerich also performs Schumann's Kinderszenenin a rare solo moment.  

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  • Martha Argerich Festival offers the opportunity to hear some of the musicians closest to the legend / NEWS REBEAT
    Posted At: July 25, 2023 12:00 AM
    NEWS REBEAT's Charles writes….In addition to the joy of seeing and hearing Martha Argerich over and over again in Colón, the Festival that bears her name offers the opportunity to hear some of the musicians closest to the legend of the piano, and peek into boundless human and musical complicities. This is the case of the great Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer, with whom Argerich has been sharing concerts, rec...
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  • Argerich Festival begins in the clouds with Martha Argerich and the Buenos Aires Philharmonic / Nation World News
    Posted At: August 14, 2022 12:00 AM
    Nation World News writes……With an extraordinary concert, on Friday at the Teatro Colón, the Festival which celebrated in the name of, began Martha Argerich, With the great Argentine pianist, director Charles Dutoit At the head of the Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra, once again a full and revered theater occupied. a tight and fascinating interpretation of G. concert inBy Maurice Ravel, a long-awaited nig...
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  • Some of the greatest pianists of all time are women. Here are 14 of them from CLASSIC fM
    Posted At: July 11, 2018 12:00 AM

    From Martha Argerich to Clara Schumann, some of the greatest pianists who've ever lived were – and are – women. Here, listed alphabetically, are some of our favourite classical female pianists of all time. #1 on the list is Martha Argerich. An astonishing virtuoso who is still moving audiences at the age of 77, Martha Argerich is arguably the greatest living pianist, and can take on...
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  • Martha Argerich, high point of Celebrity Series / The Boston Musical Intelligencer
    Posted At: October 25, 2017 12:00 AM

    Undoubtedly Sunday afternoon will turn out to have been a high point of this year's Celebrity Series of Boston's roster of stars. Pianist extraordinaire Martha Argerich appeared on this series in 1982 and in 1989 (with Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Armin Jordan, music director). She had cancelled four times with the Boston Symphony , and was famously replaced by a very young Yuja Wang. Now on a U.S. to...
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  • Martha Argerich makes first Carnegie Hall appearance in nine years / New York Times
    Posted At: October 23, 2017 12:00 AM

    Antonio Pappano, the longtime music director of the Royal Opera in London, has absorbed a few lessons from the theater. He knows that casting is critical. Consider the lineup for his Carnegie Hall debut, which stretched over Friday and Saturday evenings. There was the elite symphony orchestra that Mr. Pappano also leads: the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia of Rome. Joining them on Fri...
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  • Martha Argerich is Capital Public Radio - Artist Of The Week
    Posted At: August 10, 2017 12:00 AM

    There is a growing divide between the audiences of today and classical musicians of the 21st century. As many know, the bulk of what we call the classical music canon was produced hundreds of years ago, and by composers that are now deceased. When this music was conceived, composers had their favorite performers for whom they would write their music. And oftentimes, the interpreter was just as revered as...
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  • Martha Argerich is cool. Capital Public Radio - Artist Of The Week
    Posted At: August 7, 2017 12:00 AM

    Martha Argerich is cool. That's not a descriptor that gets used too often alongside a world class musician. Renowned, iconic, legendary.  Those are words more commonly associated with an artist of Argerich's caliber. There is a sense of high society or high art that coincides with describing a classical musician. And in some respects, rightfully so. These artists practice hours upon hours, d...
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  • Martha Argerich makes long-awaited debut down under with Beethoven / dailytelegraph
    Posted At: June 20, 2017 12:00 AM

    Pianist Martha Argerich is one of the acknowledged modern day greats of classical music and she makes her long-awaited Australian debut with Sydney Symphony Orchestra and former husband, Swiss maestro Charles Dutoit, at the end of this month. She'll be playing Beethoven's first piano concerto (although his second was started earlier) and to mark her appearance here Deutsche Grammophon has re-released on ...
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  • CIPC to present Martha Argerich in Cleveland debut with Sergei Babayan / Cleveland Classical
    Posted At: May 2, 2017 12:00 AM

    The Cleveland International Piano Competition (CIPC) announced today that it will present legendary pianist Martha Argerich in her Cleveland debut in a duo piano performance with her friend and colleague Sergei Babayan on Monday, October 30, at 7:30 pm in Severance Hall. "It's unbelievable that this is Martha's first performance in Cleveland," CIPC president and CEO Pierre van der Westhuizen said during ...
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  • Pianists flock to Lunenburg to play for Martha Argerich / CBC News - Nova Scotia
    Posted At: April 1, 2017 12:00 AM

    For Dorothy Khadm-Missagh, learning music from one of the world's greatest living pianists in an intimate setting in the tiny town of Lunenburg, N.S., is a dream come true. Khadm-Missagh is one of six young pianists taking a week-long master class with Martha Argerich, the three-time Grammy award winning piano player. "I grew up seeing Martha as a really exemplary pianist. Especially as a woman," sai...
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  • Martha Argerich set for Beethoven with Sydney Symphony this June speaks with 'The Age'
    Posted At: February 9, 2017 12:00 AM

    There are a few things everyone in the music world knows, or thinks they know, about Martha Argerich, the Argentine-born pianist. She's private, moody and unpredictable. She's wildly beautiful, with a long, thick mass of hair – once dark, now gray – and a radiant, quick smile, and at 75, she still wears the peasant blouses and cotton pants of a teenager circa 1968. And she plays the p...
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  • Martha Argerich interview with CBS This Morning
    Posted At: December 27, 2016 12:00 AM

    Pianist and longtime classical music star Martha Argerich first played in the world's great concert halls in the 1960s. She's often described as a musical genius, but she's also been a recluse for decades. So when we discovered Argerich would be a Kennedy Center Honoree, we hoped she would agree to an interview. She met with Seth Doane in Rome, where they talked about her remarkable and enduring career. ...
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  • Martha Argerich has 3 daughters with 3 different musician dad's / 2paragraphs
    Posted At: December 25, 2016 12:00 AM

    Argentine pianist Martha Argerich is one of the five artists honored at the 39th annual Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C. The 75-year-old musician is referred to by many as the greatest pianist in the world. Her photographic memory – she's able "to reproduce music perfectly after a single hearing" – is only part of what constitutes her legendary status. Argerich has lived a whirlwind ...
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  • Martha Argerich receives Kennedy Center honor / Washington Post
    Posted At: December 4, 2016 12:00 AM

    There are a few things everyone in the music world knows, or thinks they know, about Martha Argerich, the Argentine-born pianist who is getting a Kennedy Center Honor on Sunday. She's private, moody and unpredictable. She's wildly beautiful, with a long, thick mass of hair - once dark, now gray - and a radiant, quick smile, and at 75, she still wears the peasant blouses and cotton pants of a teen...
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  • Martha Argerich. A name you need to know / Travel Pulse
    Posted At: November 3, 2016 12:00 AM

    Alas, one of the greatest treasures of Argentina does not play soccer. But she plays the piano, and she is brilliant. Martha Argerich is a name known mostly to aficionados of classical music, but certainly a name you should know. She is widely considered one of the great pianists of our time. Now in her 60s, Argerich still tours and, in fact, will play a rare date in the United States when she appears in...
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  • Martha Argerich - Early Recordings is Stereophile 'Recording for November 2016'
    Posted At: October 20, 2016 12:00 AM

    There is no dearth of recordings by the great Argentine pianist Martha Argerich-over 150 are listed in her discography-and here, in honor of her 75th birthday, are two more discs, comprising previously unreleased material. Argerich has been playing publicly since she was eight years old; in 1957, she won the Busoni and Geneva competitions and continued to concertize, but it was not until she won the Chop...
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  • Itzhak Perlman and Martha Argerich on new recording together / The Strad
    Posted At: September 14, 2016 12:00 AM

    ‘It's a very special relationship': violinist Itzhak Perlman and pianist Martha Argerich on recording together. Violinist Itzhak Perlman and pianist Martha Argerich talk about their first studio album together – released on Warner Classics 18 years after their last album together, a live recital from the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. Perlman and Argerich have recorded a live recital fr...
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  • Sydney Symphony - 2017 season features Australian debut of Martha Argerich / The Spectator
    Posted At: August 26, 2016 12:00 AM

    This is the time of the year when the major performing arts companies announce their seasons for next year, beginning the marketing to attract the commitment of vital subscribers. The Sydney Symphony Orchestra has already announced its 2017 season as has the Melbourne Symphony. The SSO season includes a number of ‘Special Events' which are linked to what the orchestra calls its Connoisseur Series a...
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  • Three By Martha Argerich / Musical Toronto
    Posted At: August 16, 2016 12:00 AM

    Martha Argerich has been presenting her own festival - Progetto Martha Argerich - in Lugano, Switzerland, for sixteen years. Earlier this year, her announcement that 2016 would be the festival's last season came as a great disappointment to her legions of fans who treasured this annual chamber music event in which they could hear her regularly perform with some of the world's greatest musicians and the t...
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  • Martha Argerich - Early Recordings / New Zealand Herald review
    Posted At: July 30, 2016 12:00 AM

    Deutsche Grammophon has taken Argentinian pianist Martha Argerich's 75th birthday very seriously. New releases include a Bueno Aires concert featuring Argerich with Daniel Barenboim in duos by Schumann, Debussy and Bartok, as well as a generous five-disc Chopin set. Included here are the composer's concertos, complete Preludes and two accounts of his cello sonata, 20 years apart, with Mstislav Ro...
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  • Martha Argerich - Chopin / KDFC: Album of the Week
    Posted At: July 18, 2016 12:00 AM

    Discover New Music with KDFC: San Francisco. Tune in throughout the week for tracks from KDFC's Album of the Week. More to discover with KDFC and KDFC.com. For the Week of July 18th, KDFC selects - Chopin from pianist Martha Argerich. "When I don't play Chopin for a while, I don't feel like a pianist," said Martha Argerich in a BBC interview. Our Album of the Week this week is a new 5 CD set ...
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  • alt-listening for the 4th - Young Martha Argerich / Philly.com
    Posted At: July 3, 2016 12:00 AM

    Martha, our dear. Record labels are constantly mining the vaults, and with various degrees of reward, but Martha Argerich fans will be thrilled to greet at least a few of the works in Early Recordings, a new Deutsche Grammophon release of recordings from the very beginning of the pianist's career. Argerich is captured in early views of Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit and the Sonatine, as well as in Pr...
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  • Enter IPR's drawing for 2 sets of Martha Argerich' best!
    Posted At: June 24, 2016 12:00 AM

    When Martha Argerich plays piano, says Alex Ross, her "rivals become mere fans" and critics find their "well of superlatives running dry." She combines qualities "seldom contained in one person":   "brain-teasing technical agility" meets "an unaffected interpreter whose native language is music.... A lot of pianists play huge double octave, [but] few have the unerring naturalness of phrasing that al...
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  • Martha Argerich named honoree for 39th annual Kennedy Center Honors / NBC News
    Posted At: June 23, 2016 12:00 AM

    Argentine pianist virtuoso Martha Argerich will be recognized for her musical contributions at the 39th annual Kennedy Center Honors. "My late mother would be very proud today, and I would like to share this wonderful tribute with her," Argerich said in a statement. Argerich was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1941 and began playing piano when she was 3 years old. In 1957, she won the Bolzano and Gene...
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  • Martha Argerich - Early Recordings / Classical Radio Boston 'CD Of the Week'
    Posted At: June 13, 2016 12:00 AM

    From the imagination, curiosity, and wit of the WCRB staff, find personal reflections and comments about the music you hear every day on Classical Radio Boston. Check back often for the deep dive, the spontaneous revelation, and the beyond-the-broadcast connections that bring the music alive. For June 13, our CD of the Week: Martha Argerich: Early Recordings. In 1960 Martha Argerich was not yet a hou...
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  • Happy Birthday Martha Argerich
    Posted At: June 5, 2016 12:00 AM

    Born in 1941 Martha Argerich was not yet a household name by 1960. Her début album was not to be released by Deutsche Grammophon until the following year, and the popularity that she was to achieve on winning the 1965 Warsaw Chopin Competition was not yet hers for the taking. And yet she was not completely unknown. She was born in Buenos Aires in 1941 and had already attracted attention ...
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  • WQXR celebrates 75th birthday of Martha Argerich
    Posted At: June 3, 2016 12:00 AM

    Sunday, June 5, marks the 75th birthday of the Argentine pianist Martha Argerich. The notoriously private musician isn't celebrating publicly - a Deutshe Gramophon box set of her recordings for the label was released in time for the milestone. We'll be feting her by playing recordings of the artist throughout the day. In 2001, the French filmmaker Georges Gachot sat down with Argerich for thr...
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  • The elemental force of Martha Argerich / Sydney Morning Herald
    Posted At: November 13, 2015 12:00 AM

    Sometimes it seems that Martha Argerich​ is less a pianist than an elemental force. Tempestuous, emotionally fragile and astoundingly good, the Argentine with the Mona Lisa smile is not only one of the greatest musicians of the past 50 years but one of the most interesting. Notorious for cancelling concerts, and even entire tours, at very short notice, Argerich has barely played a solo rec...
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  • Martha Argerich awarded Royal Philharmonic Society's Gold Medal / BBC News
    Posted At: November 5, 2015 12:00 AM

    Pianist Martha Argerich has been awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society's (RPS) Gold Medal, one of classical music's highest honours. Argentinian-born Argerich, 74, follows in the footsteps of Placido Domingo and Antonio Pappano, among others. Argerich is known as one of the most innovative pianists and a strong supporter of new talent. The RPS said she was gifted with a "combination of technical...
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  • Martha Argerich, The Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon
    Posted At: October 11, 2015 12:00 AM

    It is universally agreed that there is no greater living pianist than Martha Argerich. On this mammoth and beautifully presented 48-disc box set – Martha Argerich, The Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon, a monarch among classical box sets for gift giving season – you'll hear the music that convinced the modern classical world of the 71-year old pianist's supremacy be...
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