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Martha Argerich and Friends: Live from the Lugano Festival 2015 Johannes Brahms 1833–1897 Franz Schubert 1797–1828 Trio in E flat, Op.40 (for viola, violin and piano) 11 Variations, Op.35 D813 17.24 1 I Andante — Poco più animato 7.52 2 II Scherzo: Allegro 6.47 Martha Argerich piano 3 III Adagio mesto 7.52 Alexander Mogilevsky piano 4 IV Finale: Allegro con brio 6.29 Recorded: 23.VI.2015, Auditorio Stelio Molo, RSI, Lugano Nathan Braude viola Recording producer, engineer & editor: Ulrich Ruscher Ilya Gringolts violin Alexander Mogilevsky piano Johannes Brahms 12 Scherzo from F-A-E Sonata 6.05 Recorded: 27.VI.2015, Auditorio Stelio Molo, RSI, Lugano Recording producer, engineer & editor: Ulrich Ruscher Mayu Kishima violin Akane Sakai piano Robert Schumann 1810–1856 Six Canonic Etudes, Op.56 (arr. Claude Debussy for 2 pianos) Recorded: 12.VI.2015, Auditorio Stelio Molo, RSI, Lugano 5 I Pas trop vite 2.29 Recording producer, engineer & editor: Ulrich Ruscher 6 II Avec beaucoup d’expression 3.09 7 III Andantino 1.37 Johannes Brahms 8 IV Espressivo 3.18 Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op.114 9 V Pas trop vite 2.07 13 I Allegro 8.36 10 VI Adagio 3.35 14 II Adagio 8.00 15 III Andante grazioso 4.59 Martha Argerich piano 16 IV Allegro 5.17 Lilya Zilberstein piano Paul Meyer clarinet Recorded: 12.VI.2015, Auditorio Stelio Molo, RSI, Lugano Gautier Capuçon cello Recording producer, engineer & editor: Ulrich Ruscher Nicholas Angelich piano Recorded: 27.VI.2015, Auditorio Stelio Molo, RSI, Lugano Recording producer, engineer & editor: Ulrich Ruscher 2 Ferdinand Ries 1784–1838 Béla Bartók 1881–1945 Piano Quintet in B minor, Op.74 23 Romanian Folk Dances, Sz.56 6.24 17 I Grave — Allegro con brio 9.30 (arr. Zoltán Székely for violin and piano) 18 II Larghetto 4.59 19 III Rondo: Allegro 7.23 Géza Hosszu-Legocky violin Martha Argerich piano Andrey Baranov violin Lyda Chen viola Recorded: 25.VI.2015, Auditorio Stelio Molo, RSI, Lugano Jing Zhao cello Recording producer, engineer & editor: Ulrich Ruscher Enrico Fagone double bass Lilya Zilberstein piano Claude Debussy 1862–1918 En blanc et noir Recorded: 14.VI.2015, Auditorio Stelio Molo, RSI, Lugano 24 I Avec emportement 3.59 Recording producer & engineer: Ulrich Ruscher 25 II Lent — Sombre 6.57 Editor: Uta Ruscher 26 III Scherzando 4.08 Joaquín Turina 1882–1949 Martha Argerich piano Piano Trio No.2 in B minor, Op.76 Stephen Kovacevich piano 20 I Lento — Allegro molto moderato 6.09 21 II Molto vivace 2.34 Recorded: 20.VI.2015, Auditorio Stelio Molo, RSI, Lugano 22 III Lento — Andante mosso — Allegretto 5.43 Recording producer, engineer & editor: Michael Rast Alissa Margulis violin Natalia Margulis cello Jura Margulis piano Recorded: 23.VI.2015, Auditorio Stelio Molo, RSI, Lugano Recording producer & engineer: Ulrich Ruscher Editor: Uta Ruscher 3 Luis Bacalov b.1933 Philip Glass b.1937 Porteña (Latitud 34°36'30") for 2 pianos and orchestra Suite from Les enfants terribles (arr. for 3 pianos) 27 I Porteña 3.23 42 I Overture 3.10 28 II Nocturnal 1.15 43 II The Somnambulist 3.26 29 III Cadenza 0.15 44 III She Took the Path 1.54 30 IV Porteña (quasi jidish) 3.13 45 IV Paul’s End 3.33 31 V Secuencia (quasi) canónica 0.53 32 VI Gardeliana 2.20 Alberto Ginastera 1916 –1983 33 VII Malandra 1.59 Dances from Estancia , Op.8a (transcr. C.M. Griguoli for 3 pianos) 34 VIII Tanghora 2.12 46 I Los Trabajadores Agrícolas 2.37 35 IX Bajofondo 1.11 47 II Danza del Trigo 2.38 36 X Corrientes y 9 de julio 4.54 48 III Los Peones de Hacienda 1.38 37 XI Finale 0.44 49 IV Danza final (Malambo) 3.10 Martha Argerich piano Eduardo Hubert piano Giorgia Tomassi piano Orchestra della Svizzera italiana / Alexander Vedernikov Carlo Maria Griguoli piano Alessandro Stella piano Recorded: 10.VI.2015, Palazzo dei congressi, Lugano Recording producer, engineer & editor: Michael Rast Recorded: 14.VI.2015, Auditorio Stelio Molo, RSI, Lugano Recording producer, engineer & editor: Ulrich Ruscher Francis Poulenc 1899–1963 Sonata for 2 pianos 38 I Prologue: Extrêmement lent et calme 5.12 39 II Allegro molto — Très rythmé 4.46 40 III Andante lyrico — Lentement 5.48 41 IV Épilogue: Allegro giocoso 4.16 Sergio Tiempo piano Karin Lechner piano Recorded: 12.VI.2015, Auditorio Stelio Molo, RSI, Lugano Recording producer, engineer & editor: Ulrich Ruscher 4 Argerich in Lugano 2015 Summer 2015 saw the fourteenth edition of the Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano, once again bringing together the Argentine pianist with colleagues both young and not so young. The aim of the Progetto continues to be to offer opportunities for collegial chamber performance, combining players from across the generations and giving rise to the exchange of ideas that always results from these events. Once again, the repertoire, while focusing upon the Central European classics, ranged far and wide, and the musicianship on offer was of the highest quality. Colleagues included performing partners from throughout Argerich’s career, such as her contemporary Stephen Kovacevich, with younger musicians including the cellist Gautier Capuçon, the violinist Ilya Gringolts and the pianist Nicholas Angelich. Argerich’s own contributions included a sequence of works for four hands at either one or two pianos. The most prolific contributor to the four-hand repertoire is undoubtedly Schubert, whose Variations on an Original Theme was at one time a party piece for Sviatoslav Richter and Benjamin Britten, although it is new to Argerich’s discography. Her partner in this performance is Alexander Mogilevsky, winner of the first Tchaikovsky International Competition for Young Pianists in 1992 and a regular visitor to Lugano for the Progetto. The theme-and-variations was a favourite form of Schubert’s, and this A flat set shows his ingenuity in exploring a rather plain allegretto theme over eight variations of ever-increasing contrapuntal and harmonic involvement. Schumann looked back to the example of Schubert but also to Bach, the chief influence upon his Canonic Studies. These were initially composed for the “Pedal-Flügel”, a piano to which a set of organ-like pedals is added, with separate strings to play bass notes. This was a short-lived contraption, so these six studies are usually played in arrangement: commonly for piano trio, although Bizet prepared a version for two players at one piano, while Debussy laid them out for two pianos. Robert and Clara Schumann shared a passion for Bach and for counterpoint, but beyond the first study, these canonic pieces are remarkable for how little they sound like the Leipzig master; Argerich is joined to perform them by her long-time duet collaborator Lilya Zilberstein. Argerich and Kovacevich made an important recording of Debussy’s En blanc et noir in 1977 and have returned to it together more recently, not least for Kovacevich’s 75th birthday concert at London’s Wigmore Hall, as well as during the 2015 Progetto. One of Debussy’s final works, the title refers to the black and white keys of the piano, although the music clearly alludes to the conflict engulfing Europe at the time. Argerich’s major contribution to this recorded selection is Porteña (Latitud 34°36'30") , the title of which refers to the Buenos Aires birthplace of its composer, Luis Bacalov (born 1933), best known for his Oscar-winning score for the 1994 film Il postino . Argerich is joined by pianist Eduardo Hubert and the Svizzera Italiana Orchestra under Alexander Vedernikov in a work that was premiered only a month earlier at the Teatro Colón in the Argentinian capital. She also joins the Swiss American violinist Géza Hosszu-Legocky in Bartók’s Romanian Folk Dances , adapted by Zoltán Székely (dedicatee of the Second Violin Concerto) from the piano originals. 53 The piano was naturally enough at the core of the 2015 Progetto, and other piano works performed during its three-week span included Poulenc’s delicious Sonata for Two Pianos (siblings Sergio Tiempo and Karin Lechner) and two works that form the latest instalment in what has become something of a Progetto tradition: works arranged by Carlo Maria Griguoli for three pianos. The Pianos Trio (Griguoli, Giorgia Tomassi and Alessandro Stella) played suites from Philip Glass’s “dance opera” Les enfants terribles and Ginastera’s vigorous ballet Estancia . The remainder of this recorded selection from the 2015 Progetto was performed by Argerich’s favourite collaborative musicians — ever under her watchful eye. Their recitals include two Brahms trios: the Horn Trio in its arrangement for piano, violin and viola (the latter taking the horn’s role) and the autumnal late Clarinet Trio. The melancholy tone of the Horn Trio is a reminder that it was written in the aftermath of the death in 1865 of the composer’s mother, Christiane, while the Clarinet Trio comes from Brahms’s “Indian summer”, during which the playing of the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld had inspired him to abandon his retirement and compose not just this ravishing trio but also the Clarinet Quintet and two sonatas. The young Belgian Israeli viola player Nathan Braude takes the horn part in the Op.40 Trio, joined by Mogilevsky and the Russian violinist Ilya Gringolts; Paul Meyer (who has already recorded Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet with the Capuçon Quartet for Warner Classics) takes the lead in the Clarinet Trio, along with Progetto regulars Nicholas Angelich and Gautier Capuçon. And there’s still more Brahms: the Scherzo he composed for the remarkable “F-A-E” Sonata, whose other movements are by Schumann and Albert Dietrich.

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