Martha Argerich - Overview | Deutsche Grammophon

Martha Argerich will celebrate her 85th birthday this June. Marking the occasion DG present a comprehensive new A–Z digital library, available for streaming and download. Comprising her complete recordings for Deutsche Grammophon & Philips, released across six volumes and organized A–Z by composer here are presented her complete solo, concerto, duo, and chamber music recordings.

Accompanying the digital A-Z, we are happy to announce the reissue the 48-CD of Argerich’s ‘Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon’, available now.

Martha Argerich is nothing less than the High Priestess of the Piano, and her essential legacy is with DG and Philips. If the solo recordings are relatively few in number – each a gem, from Chopin to Ravel and Bach and Schumann – her partnerships with the great artists of her time are unrivalled. One only has to think of Claudio Abbado, Nelson Freire, Gidon Kremer and Mischa Maisky, and more recently Daniel Barenboim.

With this box you can trace Martha Argerich’s recording career from early Chopin, the famous Ravel and Prokofiev Concertos disc with Claudio Abbado, through her comprehensive series of chamber-music recordings with Gidon Kremer and Mischa Maisky, to the more recent live outings with long-time partner Nelson Freire and Daniel Barenboim. On the way there is overwhelming Rachmaninoff, a scintillating ‘Carnival of the Animals’, and much more.