Martha Argerich - Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No 3 - Previn
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Sergei Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No 3 in C major, Op 26
Martha Argerich, piano
London Symphony Orchestra
André Previn, conductor
May 1977 - เพลง
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This is not a performance, it's a miracle.
Martha Argerich is a living miracle. What a woman. What a musician.
Argerich crushes this frighteningly difficult piece. No fear whatsoever. She's some sort of goddess. Argerich turns 80 on June 6, 2021 and she's still concertizing!
5 июня
A month ago I watched her playing this same concerto at 81 years old in Buenos Aires....unbelievable and amazing!!
No puede parar. Cômo va a parar de tocar el piano,? Imposible. Qué maravilla.
And, she is not only 81, but she’s battled Cancer twice … and, won! ❤️❤️❤️
I love the way Martha just throws the notes out of her fingers and they always land at the right place at the right time. Such amazing talent. She is everything a piano performance genius should be.
Argerich definitely has the best Prokofiev 3 in my opinion.
until Yuja Wang appeared and amazed the world, nowadays she is the very best
Same here
@@guillermobadell6 I don’t really agree. I feel that’s she has more to learn
@@guillermobadell6 Yuja is technical but not sure about the very best. Lang Lang's interpretations are way more interesting and original than hers.
@@guillermobadell6 cringe
and her priceless expression at the end lol
I havent listened to a Prokofiev Piano concerto in years. Listened to Martha's rendition on no. 1 and enjoyed it. I hadnt thought of it before but it is so in the Rubinstein/ Rachmaninov/Tscaikowsky tradition but a little bit-like the classical symphony- a bit of a mickey take. Wonderful though.
I'm not quite sure what that expression signifies, but it's lovely to see it, as it is so spontaneous. Maybe it's just "Wow, did we just do that?!"
@@gfweis What we've done is nearly nothing !
She like "bam bitch"
She was like....Man how am I so good at this
Nobody plays this like Martha. Nobody. The last minute is the most virtuoso thing I have ever seen. I cannot recall another pianist who can play it at this fast tempo. It's like dancing on a razor's edge, but through it all she is totally calm.
Especially the 3rd movement!!
Not true. There are numerous MAGNIFICENT virtuoso pianists equalling here, some surpassing her in musicianship. She's not the most expressive and thoughtful musician. That's pretty certain. Like the second half of the third movement here that she just plows through with zero finesse and depth.
@@organboi I would listen to the audio only then, no visual and then listen to others if your for comparison. Your choice for musical interpretation but it might change something.
The look on their faces after the first movement makes me cry with laughter, I think they amazed themselves. This concerto floors me every single time. : )
Rest In Peace, André Previn.
Father of Soon Yi Previn folks. Woody Allen wasn't the father of Soon Yi. He didn't come into her life till she was 21 years old.
Yes I enjoyed him.conducting Morecambe
Ek is in JHB, nie meer in Parow Kaapstad nie! 💓
5:53 this is why Martha is the greatest of all time; look how effortless & relaxed that left hand technique is. Nobody has the performance element nailed like she does.
And that excellent technique of hers is what allows her to perform even today at such an advanced age. Hats off to Argerich.
This is My favorite part out of them all
RESPECT!!!
Come on! More beautiful colorful piano sound than Argerich=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Artur Rubinstein Radu Lupu Vladimir Ashkenazy! More Powerful Louder than Argerich=Mikhail Pletnev! Supernova Explosion Power!( Prokofiev piano concerto no 1 by Pletnev!) The Second Loudest pianist was Lazar Berman! More Genius than Argerich=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Alexei Lubimov Stanislav Igolinsky!
I think only Prokofiev himself sounds more relaxed playing this. th-cam.com/video/oYIpsAZYhxc/w-d-xo.html
She is by all means a superb musician with unique lyricism but also possesses ultimate beauty of athleticism with dynamic and perfect control of her fingers at the highest level of mankind. This video captures both magnificently.
Once you start liking Prokofiev you can´t go back. There is absolutely no way back. Completely genial composing and 100% perfect performance by pianist & conductor. This is insane! It's a ridiculous video!!! No mercy for other youtube videos.
As fine a pianist as she is here, i still prefer Van Cliburn's performance from the 50's.
As a child, Prokofiev loved trains. He collected railroad timetables, and I hear a powerful locomotive in just about everything he wrote. Here's biographer Harlow Robinson: "To celebrate the new century....Prokofiev's parents took him to Moscow for the first time in January, 1900," .... [Prokofiev] was in a state of almost uncontrollable excitement at the prospect of traveling to Moscow by train; he studied train schedules, routes, and equipment with a conductor's passion that lasted his entire life." Yes, and there's that conductor/conductor pun.
Yes his music sounds "mechanical" (in a good way), obviously inspired by the new technology of the period he lived.
I just read this part!!
She is one of the Greatest Pianists in history of Music.
I could watch Martha Argerich's hands on the piano for hours and hours, never tiring of the beauty they bring each time I hear her playing. The Prokofiev 3rd is my favorite Piano concerto, hands down! I love Martha!
Probably the best piano execution of this concert I’ve ever heard.
But Martha is Martha.
One of the most beautiful concertos ever written! The ending with all its modal scales is gorgeous, and Argerich gives one of the greatest performances in all of musical history. She plays the double note arpeggios in the coda so flawlessly and effortlessly, while most pianists just fake it with glissandos!
YESS nobody plays those right the whole point is that they are
Meant to resemble glissandos not actual glisses
I. Andante - Allegro 00:00
II. Tema con variazioni in E minor 9:12
III. Allegro, ma non troppo 18:25
I’m fascinated by her fingers! ❤
I won't comment or analyze anything, just mentioning I've heard and watchd this for I don't really remember how many hundreds of times - and every time I feel like crying at this finale - not because it's sad - becuase of the grandiousenessness witnessed. This video, itself, without mentioning the sound, teaches you about piano playing what a hundred professional paino teachers never could. And a life time on the stage as well. Thx for the uplоad.
imagine the hours and hours of practice that allowed her to play this so perfectly!
I think its the first time I have ever seen fingers dance on the keyboard so skillfully yet naturally happy.
Ms. Argerich is a phenomenon. There is something so physically natural about her playing style. It is so beautiful.
I love Argerich 😘
Martha Argerich Me too, Marta Argerich is my favourite pianist.
I love you!
So do I!
She's my wife dude.
@@bazingacurta2567 hahahahahahahahahahah, lucky you.
Martha Argerich is one of my favourite pianists performing here one of Prokofiev's most amazing compositions.
+Gene Emerson ditto. Well said!
Well, I never! I distinctly remember watching this broadcast (on the BBC). It was the first time I heard Argerich and, of course, I was bowled over and have been a fan of hers ever since. How wonderful to see and hear it again nearly 40 years later. Thanks for posting!
The sync at 15:30 speaks about the André Previn careful attention at minimum details, everything sound so balanced and harmonious during all the concert, not easy at all with a genius as Martha Argerich at the piano... Extremelly beautiful rendition!!! Very much appreciated!!!
Argerich performs this concerto so utterly brilliantly!!!
I have rarely seen fingers move with such elegance, it’s like she’s made of fluid. Never putting a single fingertip out of place ❤️
No one can play the piano like her. She's phenomenal beyond words.
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@@RaineriHakkarainen it was a simple compliment you didnt have to write a whole essay about it
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@@RaineriHakkarainen How many times have you repeated these same nonsense? You are truly obsessed with your desire to harm this pianist. Fortunately, true connoisseurs know that Argerich has one of the most beautiful sounds, exceptional virtuosity and that her genius places her among the greatest performers.
This piece tears me apart and then puts me back together by the end.
was there so much life in her music or what? she was the spirit of Prokofiev...had pleasure of seeing her live once in London. There are no words...
What is more amazing is that she is playing this most difficult piece without any sheet music! Probably the best pianist in the world, far none. Wow!!
I never learned a piece without memorizing it. I don't understand why other pianists fail to do so.
☝️🤓
@@ultravenia Once you learn enough pieces you start to forget some
The finger work here is has to be amazingly precise. She handles it beautifully. The entire concerto is excellent.
Martha Argerich is indeed supreme in Prokofiev 3, and this is arguably her best and most balanced performance of it. The late great Andre Previn and the LSO should be acknowledged as well for playing their parts in this fantastic reading of Prokofiev 3. Just as her effortless playing, her facial expressions are so natural and priceless. In places, she seems to lose herself in the music, and at the end she has an expression of enjoyment that seems to convey "wow, now that was a rollercoaster ride".
Здорово сказано!!!
Martha Argerich is one of my favourite pianists, she is so powerful!
Endlessly thrilling and astonishingly precise. The first movement in particular never fails to give me goosebumps.
That is easily the best of her interpretations of this piece. She's the best of the best. I read once that she said Prokofiev comes naturally to her.....!! such talent. Thank you for posting!
I saw an interview of her once. She actually learned this piece while sleeping. At that time she was living with a roommate pianist. Martha was the type of person that stays awake all night and sleeps during the day, so while her roommate was learning this piece during the day, she subconsciously learned how to play it by listening to it in her sleep. This sounds pretty crazy, but with a genius like her and that mad talent, I can believe that.
@@chilepeulla yeah nah, that's impossible. as much a great pianist as she is, muscle memory can only come from practice.
@bill Bloggs Actually, it's called "absolute pitch" sometimes known as "perfect pitch". Look it up.
At least two of my musician friends have it and it's real. I've confirmed with one of the friends by mashing down large random clusters of notes on one piano, without him being able to see the keyboard, and he would immediately mash down the same exact notes on another piano facing mine (I'd then have to see WHICH notes I'd hit, memorize them and run around and check... and he was ALWAYS correct, even for the most dense and dissonant tone clusters!).
It means that you know all the pitches you hear, just from hearing them, without needing a reference pitch on a tuning fork, meter or musical instrument.
So, if you have learned musical notation / the names of the notes, and theory etc. you can hear a musician play and create the score in your head as the piece progresses, if you have visual memory that is good enough. (Some with perfect pitch don't need a 'mental score', but use other non-visual means of retaining the music).
Perfect pitch is especially helpful with highly chromatic pieces like this, where entire passages are off by only a half step or so, and it can be easy to mix them up, or go into the wrong key, making learning a daunting prospect for some. People consider me a good whistler, but I do have a tendency when whistling or singing to 'drift' into another key, at which point the music will be firmly in that key... until it 'drifts' again. People with a better sense of pitch than I (not even perfect pitch, just stronger relative pitch, and better musicians), don't have this problem.
Also, for pieces with this kind of melody which is very particular about the exact notes and is very late-romantic with maybe post-tonal elements(?), a very developed sense of pitch is a must. You can still learn this piece anyway, but I would imagine that perfect pitch makes it much easier.
So, for an already-virtuoso pianist like her, used to what the shape of various passages look and 'feel' like under the hands, I can imagine her slumbering, hearing the notes, and nearly-instantly creating in her head an image of her hands playing those notes.
Of course, having perfect pitch does NOT give you this extremely advanced and effortless piano technique (nor inborn technique on any instrument, including voice), nor does it help you have an artistic musical sensibility. She has those thru other means (like the music emotionally resonating with her / her giving a damn / her practicing hard) and they are what truly make her GREAT- the perfect pitch is a *bonus*.
It merely means you can tell what notes are just by hearing them... its an invaluable shortcut for the relatively few people who have it (it's very rare, especially in countries who DON'T speak tonal languages), but is not necessarily the difference between being a good vs a great musician... since a good sense of RELATIVE pitch and lots of practicing (and a good sense of musicality/aesthetics) can go very far in making a person as good a musician.
bjbeamish c’est vrai..son interprétation est exceptionnelle
@@andrewbarrett1537 Its still impossible to learn a piece like that in your sleep, regardless of how good your aboslute pitch is. You need to actually practice and get it under your fingers
I had planned to take just a 2-minute break from work to listen to this. I couldn't stop until the end. Truly an amazing performance of a breakthrough piece.
If there was one defining factor that describes Martha Argerich better than all others, it would be her versatility. She is in control of everything she plays and I daresay she has never produced a bad recording.
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@@RaineriHakkarainen How many times have you repeated these same nonsense? You are truly obsessed with your desire to harm this pianist. Fortunately, true connoisseurs know that Argerich has one of the most beautiful sounds, exceptional virtuosity and that her genius places her among the greatest performers.
Just amazing. "She is widely considered to be one of the greatest pianists of all time". (Not MY quote, but I agree whole heartedly.)
Wonderful! Delightful! Brilliant!
One of the best performances of this concerto. It is interesting and unpredictable unlike other interpretations. Love it.
The power, the fluidity, the emotion, the perfect control, the technique, the tone! 🏆🔥🔥🔥
I don't think I can come up with any words to express how great I think this performance is. Pure talent! Btw this is by far the greatest camera angle I have ever seen lol
For me Martha Argerich is still - and ever will be - the most interessant, amazing, astonishing, admirable pianist of 20th century! And still working! She is not only technically perfect - she is best musician I can imagine!
Jürgen, old German musician (very modest, please, in this context!).
Plays the warhorses but anything difficult and different you need Marc Andre Hamelin
My complaint is that she plays Rschmaninoff at much too rapid tempos. But
Prokofiev's 3rd piano concerto does not suffer as much from 30% too rapid tempi. But I am already tiring from her over-rapid tempi,, so I will switch to another recording. I do not dispute her superb virtuosity, only her artistic taste.
@@a23oj28 I am glad that Martha Argerich has musical admirers like you. She is a classical pianist with tremendous virtuosic ability and has not only perfect pitch but such a recall of the music she hears that even after several hours she can immediately play the music on tbe piano with all the correct chords. I greatly admire her but find most of her tempos too fast for me.
And she played Prokofiev 3 again at 81,last saturday. End of Argerich Festival at Teatro Colón. Amazing And unique 😘
8:24 Her technique is beyond description.
Yes!!!!!
@Sunrise Serpent Sure! I don't know much English so I hope to explain myself.
One of the ways in which you can work on the technique that she is using at that moment is with the book "hannon", since they are close notes and it is not necessary to open your hand very much, also, if you can see it, her wrist is slightly facing down, it is not aligned with your hand as is often indicated as a general technique when playing the piano.
I hope my explanation has served you!
@@emmaverod1997 She's said in an interview that she only did such exercises for a very short period of time when she was 11 years old. The technique she has comes from practicing the pieces she has played. She says each piece has its own unique technical demands and that it's not because you can ace Hanon that you can apply that technique in actual repertoire. But I'm sure she's a special case. Hanon is still very useful in my opinion. Especially if you're starting piano.
She is amazing
Martha, STUPENDOUS!! what a classical treasure then and now.
Truly beyond words......Martha Argerich, you have magic in your fingers
I appreciate the camera work - what fun to watch her hands & fingerings! This is more intimate than most concerto vids.
She's so focused, you wonder how conscious she is of the effect she has on people. I'm sure the general worship she receives, can be distracting, in life. (Not to mention the desire she inspired, in those days!) But it sure doesn't hinder her at the piano.
Amazing, she's absolutely amazing! Prokofiev, the concerto, London Symphony Orq. & Previn, all here was brilliant! Wooooowww!!!
Thank you Sophie oui oui for bringing light to this performance!!
Was für eine internationale Kombination des Komponisten, des Dirigenten, der Solistin und des Orchesters! Das Ergebnis ist eine erstaunlich brillante Aufführung dieses technisch anspruchsvollen Konzerts mit perfekt artikuliertem Klang des Klaviers und perfekt synchronisierten Töne anderer Instrumente. Der geniale Maestro dirigiert das ausgezeichnete Orchester im relativ schnellen Tempo mit völlig effektiver Dynamik. Einfach atemberaubend!
MARTHA'S PLAYING OF THE PROKOFIEV NO 3 WOULD SURELY HAVE MADE MR. P. PROUD.
SHE IS JUST MYSTIFYING! IT IS THE BEST OF ALL HER PERFORMANCES. LOVE THE PIECE.
Absolutely incredible performance...dramatic and emotionally spellbinding.
You just have to love Martha!
It's amazingly captivating one's spirit the way she plays this transcendental concert!9
Shostakovich and Prokofiev ar in my opinion the bests for Argerich.......brilliant.....pathos and more pathos and a wonderful and powerfull performance
+Carlos Francisco Lijoi Cárcano yes and yes and yes
+Carlos Francisco Lijoi Cárcano yes and yes and yes
+Carlos Francisco Lijoi Cárcano : Totalmente de acuerdo, pero Liszt y Prokofiev también, aunque Schumann, según ella, es uno de sus fetiches. Dijo algo así en un reportaje. "Hay como una especie de enamoramiento tácito con Schumann, algun tipo de conexión extraordinaria"
+Martin Butler Es cierto lo que decís....ella tiene especial predilección por Schumann y yo me permito agregar....y quien no la tendría con semejante compositor......, ahora bien, yo me refería específicamente a sus ejecuciones de Shostakovich y muy cierto es que supera a cualquiera también en Prokofiev, quizá Liszt sea exactamente igual en cuanto a exigencias técnicas, pero me suenan de otra intensidad y características y lo mismo con Schumann que me parece más allá de su predilección por el creador, no alcanza a mi juicio las exisgencias de los otros tres. Tengo para mí que Vladimir Horowitz, Sviatoslav Richter y Argerich son los máximos exponentes de brillantez de ejecución................no por machismo sino por admiración diría que Argerich es la perfecta conjunción de los otros dos, en una palabra, la Waldimir Richter o Sviatoslav Horowitz como prefieras, con faldas!!!!!! Una de las tantas glorias que tenemos los argentinos que no sabemos reconocer...........cordial saludo
+Carlos Francisco Lijoi Cárcano Como podem os argentinos (de um modo geral, entendo) não reconhecerem a genialidade espantosa dessa mulher?!?! E concordo com você quanto a que Martha esteja muito próxima de Shostakovich e da combinação indefectível do pathos eslavo, de uma maneira geral. Acho que, talvez, seja isto que a distingue tão acima de seus pares. Abraço.
They play the concerto as though it were chamber music: beautifully balanced, clear intention, with all solo gestures from the orchestra featured. Pianist, conductor, orchestra, and audio engineer at the top of their game.
WHY IS SHE SO COOL LIKE HOW, WHAT A BADASS!! she played this concerto PERFECTLY (whatever perfect means)
Beautiful combination of lyricism and power!! Wow!
God Bless the Amazing Spirit that Drives Martha to be as and perform as the most amazing interpreter of these classical masterpieces. If Prokofiev were alive what would he say?
Stravinsky’s music has been called “The Sound of The 20th-Century,” but I think that honor was earned more authentically by Prokofiev. His winsome, orphaned moments of lyricism are constantly, but gently, swept into thumping industrial soundscapes.
I also think Prokofiev got swindled out of credit by Phil Spector, the famed 60s record producer who died yesterday in prison from a covid infection. Spector treasured his auteur reputation as the originator of the “wall of sound” effect, something he obtained by melodic line-doubling, odd instrumental pairings and the sense of congestion these obtain when swirled in a bucket studio with a three-voice group harmonizing louder than New York traffic, under propulsive rhythms and with monaural, rather than stereo, recording technology.
No one seemed to challenge his innovation claim, which was admiringly emulated by Brian Wilson, Bruce Springsteen and ABBA, if not most bands to some power or other. Spector himself compared it to Wagnerian orchestration, but that seemed more like Spector grabbing a fistful of Wagner’s glitter than humbly conceding he didn’t invent anything. I do credit Spector with great judgment in bringing fresh, young sounds out of early Rock, Pop and Motown artists, which left us with energetic, iconically joyful recordings.
But if the “wall of sound” was the creative impulse of any one soul, it was Prokofiev, beginning with his piano concerto #1 in Db Major, composed in 1912. As Glazunov realized by awarding the geeky, bespectacled kid from St. Petersburg the prestigious Rubinstein Prize, this composition embarked into a true ocean of sound-with the 20-year-old Russian surfing a wall of waves, deluging the coy, lissome, micro-beveled salon works of Debussy, Satie, McDowell and Webern. For Modernist bad-boy cred, it even scooped the revolution launched by Stravinsky with Le Sacre du Printemps, in 1913, while vaulting over the cerebral cults of Schoenberg, Ives and Scriabin.
Relishing the uncorkable, steely exuberance of even a fraction of Russian artists and scientists-like Pushkin, Mendeleev, Borodin (also a chemist), Chekov (also a physician), Prokofiev, Tatlin and Eisenstein, we’ll never know how many masters of every endeavor were eliminated as seedlings under the boot of Czarist authoritarianism or Soviet Totalitarianism. But we know why Napoleon, Schlieffen and Hitler were fools to try their boots.
God, this woman is incredible. The way she attacks the keys in such a unique way. The excitement engendered towards the end spine tingling.
I've just watched Benjamin Grosvenor playing this at last year's Proms. Very good though consistently fast but does not compare to this marvel of pianism.
Words nearly fail me but this is phenomenal in every way imaginable. To play this fiendishly difficult work from memory! And then she makes it seem like a walk in the park. Pure genius.
She isn't playing from memory, but by heart. There's difference.
+vova47 Yes, that too. Thank you for pointing it out.
She's such an amazing pianist-musician.
I never liked Prokofiev's music until I heard Martha Argerich play it. Finally! It sounds like MUSIC and MAKES SENSE! It is very mystical, and magical, and tortorous... in a way like an amped-up Debussy(?) but highly expressive and enjoyable. Unfortunately, just about every other version of this and other Prokofiev pieces I've heard just DOESN'T MAKE SENSE... I can't find the music in it or figure it out. I think she must come to this music quite naturally (not without a lot of hard work to make it perfect, as well, don't forget!). But she seems to understand something inherent in it that other people are *somewhat* missing. Bravo!!!
Absolutely stunning & captivating!!
Wao is in order! Her fingers fly on that piano like wings of a butterfly
すごい。。
ラスト弾き終わった時の余裕そうな表情がカッコいい
美人さんだし
An incredible technique is displayed without nerves by Martha Argerich.
MARTHA IS AMAZING
The interaction between Previn and Argerich after the 1st movement may be my favorite musical interplay of all time. > "How did you like them apples!?" 'yeah, that was
pretty good...'
She looks like she's just made a cup of tea and is sitting there darning some socks. Never seen such casual brilliance.
Federer comes to my mind.
@@molybdaenmornell123hopp5 Hmm, even he couldn't play Prokofiev's 3rd Piano Concerto and hit a cross-court winner at the same time. But then, maybe!
26:47 to the end: these few measures are enough to put Prokofiev at the top level among the greatest composers in the whole history of music.
And Martha, the greatest pianist.
У марты корни происхождения русские ! Из России родители . Мать по крайней мере ...
@@user-sg5fh9wn1d Spacibo !
And Martha nails it at 81
@@user-sg5fh9wn1d Martha is Argentine born and with Catalán ancestors (Argerich is a Catalan surname) and Ukranian jews by her mother...
Outstanding transfer of sound and picture.
TY to Martha for giving herself to us all of these years. Nothing is free and it costed her to be able to do what she has given to us over the decades. Please never forget it takes a lot to be able to have the skills to be able to do this.
In the spirit of Thanksgiving.
Love the performances but also love the dedication and the sacrifices made to be able to give the performances.
Incredible how she powerfully mastered the piano playing. Hats off!
more passion in her younger years, more technical perfection in her older years. What a knuckle breaker of a piece. How someone can learn, memorize, and play all the right notes at the right time is beyond my understanding.
All the right notes, and as Andre Preview might be told by Eric Morecombe, definitely all in the right order thia time ;-) !
@@milesfarrimond2445 You might want to look at your autocorrect ;-)
A piano concerto, finished in the 1920s, performed and recorded in the 70s… and we’re watching it again in the 20s. The internet is wild.
I absolutely love the part at 22:58, especially because of its incredible orchestration. Leave it to Prokofiev to effortlessly and seamlessly meander through different, clashing keys without making things sound tonally unstable
the last five minutes of this are amazing. Her playing and finger work are incredible - I have never heard anyone play the No.3 as well as this especially the incredible finger work at the end of the piece. I used to play not even close to this and my hands are small. I wonder the span of her hands and if small how she navigates the keys so well.
I had her sitting next to me, she is really small (notsure if she reaches 1.60 mts in height) and her hands are slightly bigger considering her body proportions, but still small.
Everything about this is exquisite.
25:12 to the end is my ultimate favorite section! What a rush of technical virtuosity!! She is f**king amazing!
I remember seeing this performance on TV as a child. I was captivated.
Wow the speed & precision. :) amazing martha
Those close up shots on her hands is freakin piano porn. jesus, that final run in the 1st movement's finale is mind-blowing. Nobody plays it like she does.
William Kapell!
Yuga Wang does
Yuja
@@dennyt4520 Indubitably she is very good, but is she in the same league as Kapell or Argerich? At best - not yet!
@@peterskala122 I love Martha, she's been the queen for many years, but Yuja plays this piece at least as well, if not better.
Simply superb, impeccable, unmatched.
Incompressible how she knows all those notes for 27 minutes- and so speedily. Brava, ms. Argerich.
Her eyes at the end : "I did it ... I just did it" So cute !
I also get a sense of "Holy sh**, that was scary."
Maravilloso y sublime, es de mis favoritos, un abrazo a Martha Argerich y al Director André Previn.
The cerebellum, behind the brain is the organ which assures the coordination and precision of the movements.
Could you imagine the perfection of Mrs Argerich's cerebellum?? ... ;-)
Think about the number of working hours to reach such a result...
+Ivan Greindl Oh yes how incredible
+Ivan Greindl She is pretty good looking, too.
+Roger Wilco : Argerich is a genius dear Ivan.
+Ivan Greindl she is great....... I cannot imagine that............only I can hope she lives por two hundred yerars playing piano!!!!! Best regards
+Ivan Greindl Ah yes, it's fascinating, isn't it? I mean, a brain itself is pretty damn fascinating, but a concert pianist's brain must be a step beyond that. Not to mention the nerves and the muscles connecting brain, fingers and feet... incredibe.
Martha Argerich has the right temperament and expression for this piece!
Beautiful. This piano concerto is one of my favorites.
What about carpol tunnel in the finger digits?
It’s beautiful when she was young.
...when she begins the crescendo at 24:30 with the orchestra she welcomes it then goes on to a totally incredible finish. The cross hand ending is so well done which is why she is / was the best at this.
ABSOLUTELY. THRILLING.
Posesión del arte melodioso en toda su expresión, con los caprichos de la vida que dimanan la magia y el encanto de una estupenda pianista. Interprete excepcional de la locura y el amor de Prokofiev. Sin lugar a dudas, Martha Argerich es la mejor pianista del mundo, patrimonio de la humanidad. Muchas gracias por existir, por ser real…