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Martha Argerich and Friends: Live from the Lugano Festival, 2006

1 review
Gautier Capuçon, Jorge Bosso, ...

EMI Classics, 2007

Lots of Schumann, not much Argerich, plus some real oddities
EMI has gotten into the pleasanat habit of issuing a 3-CD bargain box of Martha Argerich's summer music from Lugano, and they are caviar for chamber music lovers, mixing familiar and unfamiliar works in sterling live performances. It's hard to think of any comparable series meeting such high standards since the heyday of the Marlboro Festival under Rudolf Serkin in the Fifties and Sixties. This ...

Montero Plays Chopin

1 review
Gabriela Montero

ALP, 2007

The World's Best Chopin Interpreter?
Gabriela Montero is the best Chopin player I have ever heard. She even surpasses the great pianist Leif Ove Andsnes which is especially evident in the slow passages. Chopin might have played just like this!

Bach & Beyond : Improvisations
Gabriela Montero

EMI Classics France, 2008

Martha Argerich & Friends Live from the Lugano Festival, 2007

2 reviews
Jorge Bosso, Marc Drobinsky, ...

EMI Classics, 2008

More great chamber music from Lugano, even with an overload of piano duos
Before commenting on the contents of the latest installment of chamber music from the Lugano Festival in Switzerland, here's the detailed playlist: Bartók: Violin Sonata No. 1, Sz 75 Renaud Capuçon (violin) & Martha Argerich (piano) Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 5 in D major, Op. 70 No. 1 'The Ghost' Martha Argerich (piano), Renaud Capuçon (violino) & Mischa Maisky (violoncello) Piano ...

Martha Argerich and Friends Live from the Lugano Festival 2005: Chamber Music

7 reviews
Gautier Capuçon, Mark Dobrinsky, ...

EMI Classics, 2006

Stars and some lesser lights (for now) shining
'Martha Argerich and Friends Live from the Lugano Festival 2005: Chamber Music' is bound to collect awards when the Grammies come out. This 3 CD set of a live concert is a filled with joy, impassioned playing, variation in repertoire and exuberant music making as any set on the market. Martha Argerich holds the throne here but as is her manner she shares the stage with such gifted young ...

Rhapsody

2 reviews
Gautier Capuçon, Sergey Prokofiev, ...

VIRGIN CLASSICS, 2008

ELEGANCE & INTENSITY: Ms MONTERO AND Mr CAPUÇON ARE A DAZZLING DUO!!
Five BEAUTIFUL Stars!!! On the CD "Rhapsody", award-winning classical stars play beautiful 20th Century piano/ cello rhapsodies by two Russian master composers and two adaptations. Gautier Capuçon the brilliant cello virtuoso, who comes armed with two cellos, and Gabriela Montero the acclaimed piano virtuoso, known for her classical music improvisational prowess, meld their talents to form an ...

Gabriela Montero plays Chopin, Falla, Ginestera, etc. [Includes Bonus CD]

22 reviews
Frederic Chopin, Manuel de Falla, ...

EMI Classics, 2005

Non-professional Review
Okay, I listen almost exclusively to classical music, but I do so simply for the pleasure and nothing more. I cannot tell you about Gabriela Montero's technique, and, when she improvises, I have no ability to judge the music's intrinsic value, authenticity, or whatever. I can only tell you this: while I own many dozens of albums, running the full spectrum of the classical genre, I value none of ...

Bach & Beyond - Gabriela Montero

23 reviews
Johann Sebastian Bach, Gabriela Montero, ...

EMI Classics, 2006

Sublime
This is compositional improvisation at the highest possible level - stunning - with everything that music is or is supposed to have: the highs, the lows, the emotions, the amazingly transparent technical ability. Not only is she a brilliant performer of such composers as Chopin, Bach, Debussy, Granados and some of the modernists like Prokofiev, but she has entirely absorbed the musical idiom of ...

Brahms, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov: Music for Two Pianos
Johannes Brahms, Witold Lutoslawski, ...

EMI Classics, 2008

Brahms: Sonata for 2 pianos in F minor, Op. 34b Martha Argerich (piano) & Lilya Zilbertstein (piano) Variations on a theme by Haydn, Op. 56b for 2 Pianos Martha Argerich (piano) & Polina Leschenko (piano) Lutoslawski: Variations on a Theme of Paganini for 2 Pianos Martha Argerich (piano) & Giorgia Tomassi (piano) Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 'Classical' Transcribed for two pianos by Rikuya Terashima Martha ...

Baroque Album

9 reviews
Gabriela Montero

EMI Classics, 2007

Superb Interplay of Style, Art, Multiple Eras, and Total Beauty
Need a treat, a classical music improvisation treat on the piano? Well, here it is. This is a really beautiful recording. I am listening to Albinoni and Bach and Handel and Vivaldi all spun just slightly differently by this astonishingly talented pianist, Gabriela Montero. Sometimes when Glenn Gould was playing he would hum along to the music. And he'd be so carried away with himself well, ...

Baroque Album
Gabriela Montero

Baroque
Gabriela Montero

EMI Classics Int'l, 2008

Gabriela Montero en Concert à Montréal

2 reviews
Frederic Chopin, Franz Liszt, ...

Palexa Records, 2006

I Love Her Work
This live concert captures Gabriela fluidly playing Chopin on piano. Perfect music to listen to while reading or holding a glass of wine and savoring the day's accomplishments. Add this to your Amazon shopping cart and you won't regret it.

Baroque
Gabriela Montero

EMI Classics, 2007

Bach and Beyond
Gabriela Montero

EMI Europe Generic, 2006

It seems that to much of the classical world, improvisation is a lost art. Once a common skill, musicians are now rarely seen without a score. In her second recording for EMI Classics, Gabriela Montero has returned to this tradition, and presents 'Bach & Beyond'. Others may have used Bach's music as a starting point for improvisation - take Keith Jarrett or Jacques Loussier - but Gabriela's style is different. She uses all of her musical ...

Voces de Tierra
Eleanor Weingartner, Eduardo Gamboa, ...

Urtext Records, 2006

Irasema Terrazas is one of Mexico's leading female vocalists, and here she presents a program of favorite songs and cycles by living Mexican composers. Terrazas graduated with highest honors from the National School of Music and did postgraduate studies at the famed Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland, with scholarships including one from Mexico's Foreign Ministry. Her artistic merit has earned several awards, including the 1999 prize ...

Baroque
Gabriela Montero

EMI Classics Int'l, 2008

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