Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky reviews

This is Martha Argerich’s third recording of Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto – and I can confidently say the best. Recorded live in Warsaw in 2006, just two months after her acclaimed performance in Lugano (on Warner), Argerich, her fellow soloist, trumpeter Jakub Waszezeniuk, and the Sinfonia Varsovia under Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky, present an even more polished, spontaneous and characterful account, yet avoiding those moments of over self-conscious point making to be found in the Lugano version.