she is considered to be one of the greatest pianists of the recorded era.
her debut concert at the age of 8 playing Mozart's piano concerto no.20 in D minor and Beethoven's first piano concerto in C major.
Argerich rose to international prominence when she won the seventh international chopin piano competition in Warsaw in 1965,at age 24 and now here in 2020 she is 79 and retired with an great resume.
she has done works by Chopin, Brahms, ravel , prokofiev and listz and others.
some of the box sets i own by her is
1)Complete Recordings On Deutsche Grammophone [48 CD Box Set]
2)The Lugano Recordings (20CD)
3)The Complete Duo Recordings [13 CD Box Set]
4)Martha Argerich - The Warner Classics Recordings (20CD)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Argerich
another person i want to introduced is Vladimir Ashkenazy born 6 July
1937 Gorky, Soviet Union (now Nizhny Novgorod, Russia)
he is a recognized solo pianist, chamber music performer and conductor.
he has recorded a wide range of piano repertoire, both solo works
and concerti.
Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier
Bach's French Suites
24 Preludes and Fugues of Shostakovich
complete sonatas by Beethoven
complete sonatas by Scriabin
the complete works for piano by Rachmaninoff
the complete works for solo piano by Chopin
the (almost) complete works for piano by Schumann
to name a few.
box sets i own by him is
1)Rachmaninov: Complete Works For Piano [11 CD]
2)Chopin: Solo Piano Works
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Ashkenazy
Valentina Lisitsa born 25 march 1973 in Kyiv, Ukrainian ssr. soviet union.
she has done works by listz, Chopin, and Rachmaninov.
cds i own by her is
1)Tchaikovsky: The Complete Solo Piano Works [10 CD]
2)Scriabin - The Complete Works [18 CD] which includes her and others as well.
she is still young and she will still produce more music as she goes and look forward to
what she will put out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Lisitsa
other box sets i own by others
1)Bach: Concertos (5cds) perform by Trevor pinnock
2)Bartok: Complete Solo Piano Works (8 cds) perform by Zoltan Kocsis
3)Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas(8cds) perform by Maurizio Pollini
4)Johannes Brahms: Complete Symphonies and Concertos(7 cds) perform by Bernard haitink and royal Concertgebouw orchestra
5)Bruckner: Sämtliche Symphonien(12 cds) perform by Stanislaw skrowaczewski and
rundfunk-sinfonieorchester saarbrucken
6)Sarah Chang: 5 Classic Albums
7)Chopin Complete Edition(17 cds) perform by various people
8)Chopin - Solo Piano Works(13 cds) perform by Vladimir Ashkenazy
17 cds)
9) Debussy-The Complete Works(33 cds)perform by various people
10)Dvorák: Complete Published Orchestral Works(17 cds)perform by various people
11)Dvorak-Complete Solo Piano Music(5 cds)perform by Stefan veselka
12)Dvorak: The 9 Symphonies(6cds)perform by Rafael kubelik and Berliner philharmoniker.
13)ultimate lisz-5 cds)by various people
14)Mahler: The Complete Works - 150th Anniversary Box(16 cds)by various people
15)Mendelssohn: 5 Symphonies, 7 Overtures(4 cds) perform by Claudio abbado and
the London symphony orchestra.
16)Complete Mozart Symphonies(11 cds)perform by Trevor pinnock
17)Rachmaninov: The Complete Works(32 cds)by various people
18)Royal Philharmonic & London Sym. Orchestra(10cds)
19)Schubert - String Quartets(6cds)perform by Melos quartet
20)Schumann Piano Works(4 cds) perform by Wilhelm kempff
21)Shostakovich The String Quartets(5 cds)perform by Emerson string quartet
22)Shostakovich: Complete Symphonies(12 cds)perform by mstislav Rostropovich
23)Sibelius: Complete Symphonies & Tone Poems(5 cds) perform by sir Colin Davis
and the Boston symphony orchestra
24)Ultimate Strauss Family-5 cds)perform by various people
25)R. Strauss: Orchestral Works(9 cds)perform by Rudolf Kempe and skaatskapelle Dresden
26)Pierre Boulez conducts Stravinsky(6cds)perform by Pierre Boulez
basically i like a sample of everything and i will continue to explore classical music.
i do still enjoy other music is that there is a lot of history to classical music when you think of alot of theses composer has been dead 200 years or more and some only been dead less than a hundred.
i commend alot of orchestras and conductors and pianist and so on for carry on some of theses composer who we would never know.
| Medieval era | (500–1400) |
| Renaissance era | (1400–1600) |
| Baroque era | (1600–1760) |
| Classical era | (1730–1820) |
| Romantic era | (1815–1910) |
| Modernist era | (1890–1950) |
| Postmodernist era | (since 1930) |
| 20th century | (1900–2000) |
| 21st century | (since 2000 |
