Dora Und

Dora Schwartzberg is a well-known teacher, soloist and orchestral musician, originally from Russia, but now living in Vienna. She is best known to disc-buyers as a chamber music colleague of Martha Argerich and others of the Martha Argerich Project, part of the Lugano Festival. With members of the Project she has recorded the Schumann Piano Quartet and Quintet for EMI and the Schumann violin sonatas for the present label avanticlassics, of which more later. She is heard again in Schumann’s Fantasiestücke on this disc and in two of the most famous French violin sonatas.

William Kreindler

The box comprises all (live) recordings made by Martha Argerich at the Lugano Festival, from 2002 to the last edition in 2016, and released by EMI Classics and Warner Classics. An impressive collection of 22CDs without equivalent. It includes a variety of genres: some solo piano music, lots of music for piano duo and among them many arrangements, chamber works and concertos.

When it came to setting his poems to music as art songs, Goethe preferred the approach of Carl Friedrich Zelter, who composed "carefully" and always focused on the rhythm of the language. Fortunately, not all composers adhered to the ideas of the poet prince, but rather, like Schubert for example, thought much more independently in terms of composition. The recording with Sofya Gandilyan and Fanie Antonelou thus creates a fascinating field of tension between the very different approaches of contemporary composers to Goethe's poetry.