EMI was the chosen label by Martha Argerich to release her Lugano concerts for over a decade now, but probably because of EMI´s hypothetical sale this year, DG took over for this 4 cd release of mostly concertos with orchestra. As you can see it is packaged in a beautiful book with the cds inside, inconvenient of course, but the book is pretty.
I´m such a big Argerich fan that it would be repetitive and needless to shower her again with praise.
The performances are miraculous of course, but it is indeed sad that she has recorded most of these concertos before, this is her sixth commercial recording of the Schumann for example, and though each performance is unique, it is a great pity to think that she might never record Beethoven´s 4th and 5th, or the Brahms piano concertos.
But one should never complain about the greatness of a goddess, and Argerich is definitely one.
