Martha Argerich - Carte Blanche (2015)

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Martha Argerich - Carte Blanche (2015)
EAC Rip | Flac (Tracks + cue + log) | 581 MB | MP3 320Kbps CBR | 326 MB | 2 CDs | Full Scans
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Catalog Number: 00235760

The first release in Deutsche Grammophon’s new partnership with the Verbier Festival that will see the release of exceptional concerts with great artists (2 sets per year from 2016) recorded by Verbier over the years. Something special was bound to happen when Martha Argerich was given carte blanche to invite whoever she wanted, to play whatever she and they chose at her Verbier Festival concert on 27 July 2007. She was the life and soul of the party, playing in seven works and making a rare solo appearance in Schumann’s Kinderszenen. Argerich’s artistic partners are Yuri Bashmet, Renaud Capuçon, Lang Lang, Mischa Maisky, Gabriela Montero, Julian Rachlin in a killer programme.

An uproarious encore was given by Gabriela Montero improvising a tango version of “Happy Birthday” (for Mischa Maisky’s daughter Lily Maisky).

This release offers over two hours of exceptional music-making with an enviable line-up of colleagues is now re-created on these two CDs.

Composer: Witold Lutoslawski, Béla Bartók, Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, …
Performer: Gabriela Montero, Martha Argerich, Renaud Capuçon, Julian Rachlin, …

Reviews:For almost ten years now I’ve looked forward to Warner’s annual collections of live recordings from the Lugano Festival, where legendary Argentine pianist Martha Argerich presides as a sort of den-mother, drawing together and energising the entire proceedings with her unique musical charisma and imagination. Now Deutsche Grammophon present something similar as the inaugural instalment of a new series of recordings from Verbier (there’ll be two volumes per year from 2016). Recorded live in 2007, it captures an evening when Argerich was given sole control over the artists and repertoire, with scintillating results.

Many of the personnel here (including one of Argerich’s long-term musical partners, the cellist Mischa Maisky, as well as her protégé Gabriela Montero, Yuri Bashmet and Renaud Capuçon) are also Lugano regulars, but none of the material here overlaps with the recordings from the other Swiss festival; following a barnstorming account of Beethoven’s ‘Ghost’ Trio’, there’s deliciously abrasive Bartók, quirky Ravel, ribald Lutosławski, and more. And in the lone solo spot, Argerich takes centre stage with a performance of Schumann’s Scenes from Childhood that captures the mercurial shifts from scrappy rough-and-tumble to dreamy exhaustion more than any I’ve come across in recent years.

For an artist who is almost as well known for her intensely private, almost reclusive nature, Argerich comes across as the most gregarious musical personality imaginable on these recordings, which burst with convivial spirit and the sheer joy of making music with true friends – in the best possible way, these performances give the impression of eavesdropping on an informal get-together, and remind me of the late-night (and usually red-wine-fuelled) ad-hoc play-throughs of favourite or newly-discovered chamber-music repertoire which inevitably used to happen on the summer orchestral courses which I so loved as a teenager. It goes without saying that Argerich and co. are ineffably more polished (and, I imagine, rather soberer!) than a bunch of Geordie kids up way past their bedtime ever were, but that sense of discovery and spontaneity is similarly tangible – none of these performances feel even remotely ‘phoned in’, though most of the artists here must have performed this repertoire more times than they care to remember).

Argerich has long since struck me as a sort of musical alchemist, and certainly everything and everyone she touches here turns to gold: I’ll confess that I’ve never been a signed-up member of the Lang Lang fan-club, but his partnership with Argerich in Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite elicits playing of liquescent tenderness and mordant wit that I’ve never experienced from this artist in other contexts.

It’s a tall order to settle on highlights from such an embarrassment of riches, but other than Argerich’s mesmerising solo Schumann I think I’d have to go for her incendiary collaboration with Gabriela Montero for Lutosławski’s four-hand variations on the famous Paganini Caprice No. 24. I hadn’t come across this work before and Argerich and Montero positively revel in Lutosławski’s impudent disruption of this most familiar of themes. Montero is well known as an improviser of great imagination and panache, and the pair of them attack this five-minute piece with such spontaneity that I had to remind myself now and again that I wasn’t listening to something that was genuinely being extemporised on the hoof. Her tango-influenced improvisation on Happy Birthday, for the cellist Mischa Maisky’s daughter Lily, brings the set to a suitably uproarious conclusion.

A joyous, life-affirming set of performances where the whole is most definitely more than the sum of its considerable parts – A-list soloists they may all be, but these recordings are all about collaboration at its finest.

Tracklisting:

Disc: 1
1. Allegro vivace e con brio
2. Largo assai
3. Presto
4. Von fremden Ländern und Menschen
5. Kuriose Geschichte
6. Hasche-Mann
7. Bittendes Kind
8. Glückes genug
9. Wichtige Begebenheit
10. Träumerei
11. Am Kamin
12. Ritter vom Stekenpferd
13. Fast zu ernst
14. Fürchtenmachen
15. Kind im Einschlummern
16. Der Dichter spricht
17. Grand Rondeau in A major D951 for piano duet
18. Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant
19. Petit poucet
20. Laideronette, impératrice des Pagodes
21. Les Entretiens de la Belle et la Bête
22. Le jardin féérique

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Disc: 2
1. Allegro moderato
2. Adagio
3. Allegretto
4. Allegro appassionato
5. Adagio
6. Allegro
7. Variations on a Theme of Paganini for two pianos
8. Improvisations on Happy Birthday to You for Lily Maisky

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