“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”.
