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Martha Argerich
The Legendary 1965 Recording

Album : The Legendary 1965 Recording
Composer(s) : Frederic Chopin
Performer : Martha Argerich
Release date : 1999
Recording date : 1965
Label : EMI Classics
Number of discs : 1
Total size : 87,4 MB
Total time : 00:52:10

Individual track details :
1. Piano Sonata No.3 In B Minor, Op.58: I. Allegro maestoso.
2. Piano Sonata No.3 In B Minor, Op.58: II. Scherzo: Molto vivace.
3. Piano Sonata No.3 In B Minor, Op.58: III. Largo.
4. Piano Sonata No.3 In B Minor, Op.58: IV. Finale: Presto, non tanto.
5. Mazurka No.36 In A Minor, Op.59 No.1.
6. Mazurka No.37 In A-flat, Op.59 No.2.
7. Mazurka No.38 In F-sharp Minor, Op.59 No.3.
8. Nocturne No.4 In F, Op.15 No.1.
9. Scherzo No.3 In C-sharp Minor, Op.39.
10. Polonaise No.6 In A-flat, Op.53.

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This CD truly deserves its legendary status. It was recorded way back in 1965 at the start of what has turned out to be one of the most exciting and frustrating careers in history; exciting because Argerich is arguably the greatest pianist alive, and frustrating because she refuses to give solo recitals, preferring the support of friends and colleagues in chamber or orchestral concerts. That makes her rare solo outings all the more precious. This disc exactly duplicates her debut recital for DG, which release and subsequent exclusive contract forestalled EMI until now. Rumor had it that the EMI was better, and on the whole it is, though both are pretty exceptional by any standards. The differences are relatively minor, but include an even more brilliant response to the Polonaise in A flat, tighter rhythm in the Scherzo No. 3, and a few incidental touches in the Sonata No. 3 and elsewhere. Chopin lovers and fans of this artist certainly need no further recommendation. Now, if only she would record some new solo repertoire - we can only hope.
--David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com

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Artur Rubinstein
The Chopin Collection

Album : The Chopin Collection
Composer(s) : Frederic Chopin
Performer : Artur Rubinstein
Release date : 1986
Label : RCA
Catalog #: RD89911
Number of discs : 1
Total size : 153 MB
Total time : 01:07:10

Individual track details :
4 Impromptus
1. No. 1 in A-flat, op 29. 01
2. No. 2 in F-sharp, op 36. 02
3. No. 3 in G-flat, op 51. 03
4. Fantasie-impromptu in C-sharp minor, op 66. 04
5. Barcarolle. 05
6. 3 Nouvelles etudes. 06
No. 1 in F-minor. No. 2 in A-flat. No. 3 in D-flat
7. Bolero. 07
8. Berceuse. 08
9. Tarantelle. 09
10. Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise, op 22.

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Martha Argerich
J. S. Bach: Toccata, Partita, English Suite no. 2

Album : J. S. Bach: Toccata, Partita, English Suite no. 2
Composer : Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer : Martha Argerich
Release date : 2000
Recording date : 1980
Label : Deutsche Grammophon
Number of discs : 1
Total size : 46 MB (mp3), 193 MB (APE & CUE)
Total time : 00:50:13

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Toccata in C minor, Op. BWV 911
1. Toccata in C minor 10.58

Partita No. 2 in C Minor, Op. BWV 826
2. Sinfonia 4.16
3. Allemande 4.18
4. Courante 2.08
5. Sarabande 3.54
6. Rondeau 1.17
7. Capriccio 3.03

English Suite No. 2 in A minor, Op. BWV807
8. Prelude 4.19
9. Allemande 2.56
10. Courante 1.32
11. Sarabande 4.08
12. Bouree 1/2 3.55
13. Gigue 3.20

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A lot of pianophiles have been waiting for the reissue of this 1980 LP, Argerich's only Bach recording. She played the same Partita at her Carnegie Hall recital in the Spring of 2000, suggesting that she just doesn't play much Bach. These performances have the pianist's typical intensity of approach. Her fingers do the talking, with some dazzling clear articulation reminiscent of Glenn Gould on a good day, and she seldom blurs any of the textures. She also has a very good feeling for Bach's dance rhythms; the closing Gigue of the Partita makes you want to jump up and put on your dancing shoes. Argerich uses an unusually wide dynamic range for Bach, and some of the dreamy slow movements won't be to the taste of all listeners. Nobody, though, will be able to ignore these performances; while they are playing, they seem like the only way to do it. The 1980 sound is still fine, and although the disc is LP length (50 minutes), the price is right.
--Leslie Gerber

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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
Ivo Pogorelic, piano

Artist: Ivo Pogorelic
CD title: Mussorgsky/Ravel
Release date: 1997
Recording date: 1975
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Classical
Type: MP3 format sound
Quality: 160-320 Kbit/s
Time: 01:01:58
Total size: 75,2 MB

Tracks:
01. Pictures at an Exhibition – Promenade [1:42]
02. Pictures at an Exhibition - I. Gnomus [2:58]
03. Pictures at an Exhibition – Promenade [1:02]
04. Pictures at an Exhibition - II. Il vecchio castello [5:29]
05. Pictures at an Exhibition – Promenade [0:35]
06. Pictures at an Exhibition - III. Les Tuileries [1:06]
07. Pictures at an Exhibition - IV. Bydlo [4:19]
08. Pictures at an Exhibition – Promenade [1:02]
09. Pictures at an Exhibition - V. Ballet des poussins dans leur coque [1:46]
10. Pictures at an Exhibition - VI. Samuel Goldenberg und Schmuyle [2:45]
11. Pictures at an Exhibition – Promenade [1:43]
12. Pictures at an Exhibition - VII. Limoges - le marché [1:22]
13. Pictures at an Exhibition - VIII. Catacombae- Sepulcrum romanum [2:18]
14. Pictures at an Exhibition - Con mortuis in lingua mortua [3:54]
15. Pictures at an Exhibition - IX. La Cabane sur des pattes de poule [4:10]
16. Pictures at an Exhibition - X. La Porte des Bohatyrs de Kiev [6:07]
17. Valses nobles et sentimentales - I. Modéré - très franc [1:39]
18. Valses nobles et sentimentales - II. Assez lent, avec une expression intense [3:00]
19. Valses nobles et sentimentales - III. Modéré [2:45]
20. Valses nobles et sentimentales - IV. Assez animé [1:33]
21. Valses nobles et sentimentales - V. Presque lent, dans un sentiment intime [2:03]
22. Valses nobles et sentimentales - VI. Vif [0:30]
23. Valses nobles et sentimentales - VII. Moins vif []3:24]
24. Valses nobles et sentimentales - VIII. Epilogue- Lent [4:37]

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Ivo Pogorelich’s performance of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition is hardly tailor-made for ‘easy listening’ or for musical philistines (as in Schumann’s time, they are still very much with us). Magnificently unsettling, he offers a re-creation of the most concentrated force and drama, articulated with a crystalline mastery. Received wisdom is challenged at every level and doubting Thomases provoked to speak of exaggeration or undue idiosyncrasy can usually be answered by reference to the score. Pogorelich’s cleansing and revitalizing is at once evident in the opening “Promenade” where each single crotchet and quaver is accented precisely as marked before Mussorgsky’s more subdued chordal extension. “The gnome” is truly vivo and meno vivo with the sharpest differentiation between fortissimo and piano, while in “The old castle” the troubadour sings his song of “old, unhappy, far-off things/And battles long ago” with the most arresting sense of the composer’s con dolore marking. The central and relative calm of “Tuileries” is played in a touchingly unfamiliar way and if “Bydlo” commences fortissimo rather than piano, is more inclined towards pesante than sempre moderato, the effect is both uncompromising and indelibly Russian. “Unhatched chickens” is ideally rather than manically paced (memorably scherzino and vivo leggiero) while “Limoges” is clarified with a prodigious force and mastery. “Catacombe” and “Con mortuis in lingua mortua” provide an oasis of pulsating and shimmering calm, and how cunningly Pogorelich differentiates the semiquavers and tremolandos at the heart of Baba-jaga’s frenzied flight. A magisterial view of the “Great Gate of Kiev” concludes a performance of rare poetic verisimilitude, a reminder of music fired at “point blank range” and of the “fiercest modernity” (Pierre Jasmin in his superb accompanying notes).
To an even greater extent Pogorelich’s way with Ravel’s Valses nobles et sentimentales is not for the faint-hearted. But if his lavish rubato and inflexion and sometimes moonstruck tempos make conventional Francophiles throw up their hands in despair, and turn to more accommodating interpretations, I can only say that Pogorelich’s ideas are more acute than arbitrary, a richly personal response to Ravel’s demands for freedom and fantasy (avec une expression intense, peu plus lent et rubato, mysterieux, etc.). True, Pogorelich’s tempo for No. 3, where modere becomes lent will cause comment, his sudden vif in No. 6 set the fur flying. Yet such is his magic and focus that the results are fascinating and hypnotic, particularly when backed by such million dollar pianism. You may well end simultaneously in a critical frame of mind yet pondering when you last enjoyed Ravel’s piquancy and “subtle correspondences” (Jasmin again) so much; a delicious paradox magnificently recorded and presented by DG.'

Bryce Morrison, Gramophone 6/1997

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Martha Argerich
J. S. Bach: Toccata, Partita, English Suite no. 2

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Artur Rubinstein
The Chopin Collection_Polonaises

Album : The Chopin Collection_Polonaises
Composer(s) : Frederic Chopin
Performer : Artur Rubinstein
Recording Date: 1964
Release date : 1985
Label : RCA
Number of discs : 1
Total size : 136 MB (mp3), 241 MB (FLAC)
Total time : 00:59:29

Individual track details :
1. Polonaise in C-sharp Minor, Op.26
2. Polonaise in E-flat Minor, Op.26
3. Polonaise in A Major, Op.40
4. Polonaise in C Minor. Op.40
5. Polonaise in F-sharp Minor, Op.44
6. Polonaise in A-flat Major, Op.53
7. Polonaise-fantaisie in A-flat Major, Op.61

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Chopin's nationalistic side brought out the best in Artur Rubinstein. The pianist's stereo remakes yield nothing in pomp and swagger to his two earlier Polonaise cycles from the thirties and fifties, and benefit from upgraded engineering and more rhythmic exactitude. While Rubinstein's cheery traversal of the Polonaise Fantasie glosses over the work's brooding, introspective qualities, the pianist is thoroughly in his element elsewhere, especially in his signature A Flat and F Sharp Minor Polonaises. You won't go wrong with this disc.
--Jed Distler

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Brahms : Intermezzi, Rapsodien,Capriccio – Ivo Pogorelich

Album: Brahms: Intermezzi, Rhapsodien, Capriccio
Composer(s) : Johannes Brahms
Performer : Ivo Pogorelich
Release date : 1992
Label : Deutsche Grammophon
Number of discs : 1
Genre : Classical
Total size : 75,6 MB (mp3), 132 MB (APE)
Total time : 00:53:05

Individual track details :
1. Capriccio in f#, Op.76, No.1: Un poco agitato
2. Intermezzo in A, Op.118, No.2: Andante teneramente
3. Rhapsodien, Op.79 in b: Agitato
4. Rhapsodien, Op.79 in g: Molto passionato, ma non troppo allegro
5. Intermezzi, Op. 117: No.1 in E flat: Andante moderato
6. Intermezzi, Op. 117: No.2 in b flat: Andante non troppo e con molta espressione
7. Intermezzi, Op. 117: No.3 in c#: Andante con moto

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Artur Rubinstein
The Chopin Collection_The Waltzes

Album : The Chopin Collection_The Waltzes
Composer : Frederic Chopin
Performer : Artur Rubinstein
Recording Date: 1963
Release date : 1984
Label : RCA
Number of discs : 1
Total size : 114 MB (mp3), 143 MB (FLAC)
Total time : 00:49:55

Individual track details :
1. Op. 18 - In E-Flat ('Grande valse brillante')
2. Op. 34: No. 1 in A-Flat ('Valse Brillante')
3. Op. 34: No. 2 In A Minor ('Valse Brillante')
4. Op. 34: No. 3 In F ('Valse Brillante')
5. Op. 42: In A-Flat (The 'Two Four' Waltz)
6. Op. 64: No. 1 In D-Flat ('Minute' Waltz)
7. Op. 64: No. 2 In C-Sharp Minor
8. Op. 64: No. 3 In A-Flat
9. Op. 69: No. 1 In A-Flat ('L'Adieu') (Posth.)
10. Op. 69: No. 2 In B Minor (Posth.)
11. Op. 70: No. 1 In G-Flat (Posth.)
12. Op. 70: No. 2 In F Minor (Posth.)
13. Op. 70: No. 3 In D-Flat (Posth.)
14. In E Minor (Posth.)

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You just can't listen to this music without feeling good. These waltzes--aside from containing some of the most famous tunes ever written for the piano--are so lovely, so toe-tappingly appealing, so perennially fresh sounding (even the Minute Waltz) that you won't believe they're more than 150 years old. They sound like they were composed yesterday. A lot of the credit for this belongs to Rubinstein, who plays them with such grace and naturalness that you're hardly even conscious of a human being at the keyboard. The music seems to float effortlessly from Chopin's fertile imagination right into you heart and mind. It's so lovely it's almost embarrassing.
--David Hurwitz

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