Under the baton of Neeme Järvi, Martha Argerich and Mischa Maisky – long-time friends and chamber music partners – perform for the very first time the "Romantic Offering" for piano, cello, and orchestra by Shchedrin Lucerne Symphony Orchestra. The three amazing artists gathered again during the Verbier Festival in 2012 to play this work, a concert that was broadcast live on medici.tv.

In this concert at the Lucerne Festival Hall, we have the pleasure of listening to the pianist and the cellist discuss in César Franck's Sonata in A major for cello and piano. As for the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and Neeme Järvi, they offer a wonderful performance of the joyful Scherzo Capriccioso, Op. 66, one of Dvořák's most praised works, as well as Shostakovich's Symphony No. 9 in E flat Major, Op. 70, which lightness refers to the general feeling of relief caused by the end of the war.