Martha Argerich breaks a rule with the Israel Phil
UncategorizedFrom the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
… The best, in this case, is Martha Argerich making her first recording with a reinvigorated Israel Philharmonic and its empathetic music director Lahav Shani. Argerich has often performed down the years in Israel, acknowledging a shared Jewish heritage. But the orchestral quality was variable, and she never wanted her Tel Aviv performances to be heard abroad — until now….
Read on here.
In The Critic here.
In Czech here.
Pictured: Argerich playing 4-hand with Lahav Shani
Martha plays a lot in Israel nowadays – she was here last week to play a concert honouring Ivry Gitlis and Pnina Salzman – she played Beethoven first concerto and the Carnival of the animal (with Iddo Bar Shari and her daughter Annie as narrator) she was in absolutely top form , as earlier this season when she played Prokofiev third concerto with the IPO and Shani- perhaps better than ever.
It is wonderful that Martha is still building new musical partnerships and encouraging younger artists.
Older than Biden and with 10 times the cognition and intelligence.
Biden has been a truly remarkable president thus far, even if he doesn’t play the piano as well as Ms. Argerich.
Where do you live? Mars? Because I live in DC
People cannot stand a real miracle when it involves a corrupt senile puppet undeserving of respect
I own a Charles O. Perry Mace and would like to sell it. Suggestions, please.
My god, this crap would be fine for the people who ‘love’ it, but i have a sneaking feeling that public funds are finding their way into the musician’s pockets. I’d rather fix a pothole (in A Minor).