The latest instalment of highlights from the Martha Argerich Project at the Lugano Festival. This is the 11th annual 3CD set celebrating the musical fruits of a project in which young artists join seasoned performers, including Martha Argerich herself, to explore wide-ranging chamber music and orchestral repertoire, both well-known and rarely heard.

Track listing:

Beethoven:

Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15

Martha Argerich (piano)

Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, Hubert Soudant

Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 5 No. 2

Mischa Maisky (cello) & Martha Argerich (piano)

Debussy: Petite Suite

Martha Argerich (piano) & Cristina Marton (piano)

Liszt:

La Lugubre Gondola I, S200 No. 1

Alissa Margulis (violin) & Jura Margulis (piano)

La Lugubre Gondola II, S200 No. 2

Alissa Margulis (violin) & Jura Margulis (piano)

Offenbach: Gaîté Parisienne - Ballet Suite, trascr. di C. M. Griguoli - prima esecuzione

Giorgia Tomassi (piano), Carlo Maria Griguoli (piano) & Alessandro Stella (piano)

Ravel: Violin Sonata in A minor ‘Sonate posthume’

Andrey Baranov (violin) & Jura Margulis (piano)

Respighi: Violin Sonata in B minor

Renaud Capuçon (violin) & Francesco Piemontesi (piano)

Saint-Saëns: Le carnaval des animaux

Martha Argerich (piano), Lilya Zilberstein (piano), Andrey Baranov (violin), Michael Guttman (violin), Lyda Chen (viola), Alexandre Debrus (cello) Enrico Fagone, double bass - Alfred Rutz, flute - Corrado Giuffredi, clarinet - Gregorio Di Trapani, percussion

Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40

Gautier Capuçon (cello) & Gabriela Montero (piano)