Great Pianists of the 20th Century – Martha Argerich

Martha Argerich

Martha Argerich is an Argentine pianist.-Early life:Argerich was born in Buenos Aires and started playing the piano at age three...

is the second volume of the Great Pianists of the 20th Century box set and is the first of two volumes dedicated to her. The album features music by the composers Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...

, Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...

, Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...

, Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music...

, and Maurice Ravel

Maurice Ravel

Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...

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Sergei Prokofiev

Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26±±

± London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado

Claudio Abbado

Claudio Abbado, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , is an Italian conductor. He has served as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Vienna State Opera,...

±± Berlin Philharmoniker conducted by Claudio Abbado

Claudio Abbado

Claudio Abbado, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , is an Italian conductor. He has served as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Vienna State Opera,...

±±± RSO Berlin conducted by Riccardo Chailly

Riccardo Chailly

Riccardo Chailly, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian conductor. He started his career as an opera conductor and gradually extended his repertoire to encompass symphonic music.-Biography:...

Disc 1

1. "Allegro maestoso" – 5:08
2. "Quasi adagio" – 4:23
3. "Allegretto vivace - Allegro animato" – 4:03
4. "Allegro marziale animato" - 4:01
5. "Allegramente" – 8:11
6. "Allegro assai" – 9:02
7. "Presto" – 3:55
8. "Allegro ma non tanto" – 15:26
9. "Intermezzo. Adagio" – 11:00
10. "Finale. Alla breve" – 13:53

Disc 2

1. "Sinfona. Grave adagio - Andante" – 4:15
2. "Allemande" - 4:18
3. "Courante" - 2:08
4. "Sarabande" - 3:54
5. "Rondeaux" - 1:17
6. "Capriccio" - 3:06
7. "Modéré" - 3:59
8. "Mouvement de menuet" - 3:01
9. "Animé" - 3:37
10. "Ondine" - 6:19
11. "Le gibet" - 6:42
12. "Scarbo" - 9:18
13. "Andante - Allegro" - 9:00
14. "Tema con variazione" - 9:03
15. "Allegro ma non troppo" - 9:03