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EMI Classics is pleased to release the latest installment of highlights from the Martha Argerich Project at the Lugano Festival. This is the ninth annual 3 CD set celebrating the musical fruits of a project in which young artist join seasoned performers, including Martha Argerich herself, to explore wide ranging chamber music and orchestral repertoire, both well known and rarely heard. The collection, recorded in the summer of 2011, is being released in anticipation of the festival s 2012 season in June.
As a chamber music event which celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2011, this series has become a laboratory that gives guest a chance to prove themselves not only in well-known masterpieces but also in rarely performed repertoire. Live at Lugano Festival 2011 welcomes back mainly familiar name from the previous Live released including Virgin Classics inimitable violin-and cello-soloist brothers, Renaud and Gautier Capucon. The 3-CD set includes Beethoven s Sonata in G major featuring Renaud Capucon as well as Haydn s Trio in C major featuring Polina Leschenko on piano, Alissa Margulis on violin and Julian Steckel on Cello