Anne-Sophie Mutter’s dream comes true
NewsThe volinist writes:
A concert with the goddess!
This is a life long dream come true: Franck Sonata with Martha Argerich. Words canโt describe what music making with this gigantic genius is like.
And then the Mendelssohn Trio with Mischa Maisky! What an evening in Hamburg.
(Mischa and I gave her each 40 roses โ for her second 40th birthday)
This could be a variant on the Gershwin song:
Mutter, Martha, Mischa Maisky
fol-de-de-rol, folde-de-rol
Photos: Daniel Dittus
“La vie en rose(s)” ๐
Looking forward to hearing this awesome combination of talent!
Adorning herself with borrowed plumes, over and over again.
I have recollections of reading that Martha Argerich — who has undoubtedly recorded the Franck Sonata more often than any other musician, pianist or violinist (or cellist or violist or clarinet player, just to mention the other instruments which have muscled in on the piece) — is actually not all that fond of the piece, and referred to it as the Franckenstein Sonata.
Let’s add flutist to that list since she recorded it with Jimmy Galway.
One measure of true greatness comes when you can deliver an astounding performance of music you personally don’t much care for.
Which Mendelssohn trio?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sonate fรผr Violine und Klavier e-Moll KV 300c
Cรฉsar Franck
Sonate fรผr Violine und Klavier A-Dur M 8
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Klaviertrio d-Moll op. 49
Fantastic! Oh to have been in Hamburg!
I really hope this concert was recorded!
Maybe opposite. Martha got chance to play with A-SM. Lambert Orkis’s a dream partner of Anne-Sofie M. He’s main reason that I attend their performances every year in San Francisco. Misha Maysky’s a dream partner.
There’s that very old recording of her doing Franck with Ruggiero Ricci and more recently with Perlman. Plus I think she did with the flute player James Galway.
You would think it could have been arranged some time ago, no?
Awesome! When and how can we hear that?
Flutist Jean Pierre Rampal played a transcription of Franck’s violin sonata with Robert Veyron-Lacroix in Masonic Auditorium, San Francisco. The “Chronicle” reviewer said it was the sort of program you might hear at a convention of flutists. Classic recordings are by Rubinstein-Heifetz and Cortot-Thibaud.
I remember Cortot-Thibaud playing Franck in Paris. Glorious!
. That’s a long memory indeed, Ed. I wonder what year you may have heard them? I can well believe it was glorious. I heard Cortot once, by himself, but Thibaud only on their records of Franck, Chausson, Faure, Beethoven, Debussy and trios with Casals.
Hairdressers about to reopen?
Sorry but this really makes me laugh. I know Anne-Sophie is thinking Martha is amazing, and she is, but this doesn’t mean Martha wants to be dubbed a “goddess.” I just hope Martha hasn’t gone into hiding wondering what the H@#$)* that is supposed to mean, and how she could ever fulfill such a designation without becoming a monstrosity.
And I want to hear the two play together, which isn’t going to happen has Martha gone into seclusion to escape it all.
Now Florence Foster Jenkins, I think she might be happy being dubbed a goddess, but…..
When Mutter played Beethoven sonatas with Lambert Orkis in Chicago on their tour, one of his legs, the right I think, was in a cast to the hip.