Where Martha is at her most Martha…
mainFrom my new Album of the Week review on sinfinimusic.com:
Watch Martha Argerich perform a concerto and you see an artist at work – aware of conductor and orchestra, to be sure, but immersed in her instrument and its sound, seldom coming up for air. Watch her performing chamber music, and you witness a different artist altogether. This is Martha at play, an instinctual musician in a musical conversation, every part of her body delighting in the process.
Over recent years, there have been two places to catch this experience…
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We love Martha! Only wish she would play a few more concerts…
One of my first musical experiences was watching Martha Argerich play the Prokofiev third concerto on Andre Previn’s Music Night in 1977. I was 14 at the time. Life would never be the same again…