Here's a great performance of Bela Bartok's Piano Concerto No. 3 in E. This was Bartok's final composition, and was dedicated to his wife, who he hoped would increase her earnings performing this after he died. To me, this is Bartok's most accessible work, a neoclassic tour de force, and is - finally, after much back and forth - even rancor, a salute to Stravinsky, the foremost of the neoclassic composers. This piece is the culmination of a life spent at the piano, and is fully his Masterwork. Folks, if you haven't listened to it, what are you waiting for? This is one of the finest piano concertos ever.
Definitely a salute to stravinsky's style, but is that passage at 20:39 a direct quote from a stravinsky piece? I certainly recognize it from somewhere...
she plays like she's inventing it, like she's just playing what she hears in hear head - beautiful and I think just what Bartok was after, singing free
Martha played this concerto once again in September 2024. It was amazing to see her re-visit it. She arrived on stage with a score and a page-turner. She changed a few things, and she played beautifully. The second movement, listened to live, was even more amazing than usual. Nobody plays it like Martha.
A Művèsznő, valòban minden idők egyik legjobb zongoristàja. De, a művèszet, mèg "szakmai" alapon is , -szerencsère- meglehetősen szubjektìv . Épp ezèrt , vagy/mert hûlye vagyok a zenéhez, s erintem Kathia Buniatisvili, a legjobb. E mű előadàsàban, FISCHER ANNIE is, fantasztikus volt sokak szerint a legjobb.
Am I dreaming? = A mostly all female orchestra? So young and already so so very good! Bravo! And what an honor to be playing with the one and only, Martha Argerich. Wonderful!!!
This incredible pianist can master even the most unusual concerto that I have only heard for the very 1st time.Such brilliance from ALL the orchestra as well
Mme Argerich makes it look so effortless. I'd feel gifted if I had a hundredth of her talent. This is a stupendous performance from all on stage. Wish I'd been there to hear it live.
Oh, I love this concerto! It is lovely, intriguing and subtly beautiful. To think that Bartok wrote this under pressure (dying from cancer) for his wife's debut with the New York Philharmonic. You would never know this as you listen to this ultra-relaxed, ultra-Hungarian, ultra beautiful and dramatic concerto. Then there is this ultra-beautiful performance by Martha! She lives in the notes and everything evolves naturally because she is such a capable pianist with years of experience. I love you Bela and I love you Martha. This is the perfect confluence of universes of beauty and drama and unbelievable skill. .
I agree! In the second movement you hear the same themes and textures of his 1908 ‘The Night’s Music.’ This was a love song to his wife Dita. She was his student after the 1908 piece was written. This is one of most favorite Bartok pieces of the several hundred he has written. The performance is flawless and beautiful. I am just 3 months younger than this 1945 piece (one of his last several works). Footnote: His friend and pianist Tibor Serly(?) finished scoring much of the last movement from Bartok’s notes after Bartok died in March 1945.
I developed this wonderful peace when I was 15 on a LP interpreted by Geza Anda and Fernc Fricsay. And this voncert here is even more beautiful. I love it deeply, especially mouv. 2 like many of you!
Clara Haskil, Annie Fischer and Clara Schumann played guitar ? Why always use the superlative ? You automatically discredit the others by talking like that.
It is rare for a TH-cam recording to move one to tears but this one does. What conditions of poignancy ! : Bartok dying seventeen bars short of finishing the final flourish's orchestration; the paradoxes that drive Yuri Bashmet to seek the best in art regardless of politics: this five-fold mix of the best of the Southern New World with its passion, the agony of Central Europe transfigured by Bartok - worshipping Debussy who rediscovered and mapped the East as well as Bach (so present!) and Beethoven; the dutiful but definitely emotionally moved Confucian Japanese orchestra; the rigour of Russian artistry where control and expressivity are in a perfect equilibrium! No - this is extraordinary, I think everyone sensed that! M. A has such control, skill, knowledge, experience and praeternatural understanding of emotion in music that her chief preoccupation is to enthuse the entire string section and anyone else she can catch the eye of into understanding and enjoying - at her level - what this music is about!
From the age of a little boy, my parents just "feeding" me many sweet things from Hayden, Mozart, Beethoven…When I grew up, I have been trying many different tastes from Chopin, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky…and, in mature life of mine I was shocked with extremely bitterer from Schoenberg, that's is really really bitter in modern music. Luckily I do have the new taste of music that I able to enjoy, this creation from Bela Bartok. Many thanks to Martha Argerich, she has been so beauty and playing so well for this much love of the composer who has been working very hard for whole in his life of creating a new language of music. Also thanks to Youth Orchestra of Japan, they has been very talented in this concert. Thank You. TKH.2018
The sound engineers should get credit for such fine work as heard here. They are always anonymous, but as a performer (not of any high level) I can stress their contribution as being really integral to any good performance reproduction. Not that the Argerich is not a treasure, and the Toho Gakuen Orchestra very impressive.
This is a beautiful interpretation of what is one of the most beautiful works of the 20th century. Martha identifies totally with the music which is often playful, yet it was penned by a dying man who knew he would never see his beautiful homeland again. Who is playing who? As i listen i am reduced to tears! It is so lovely!
You have forgotten the Russian violist, Yurij Bashmet in his conductor-role... 🤩 (But none of the pianists have as beautiful and authentic rubatoes as Kocsis Zoli played.)
@@palmaiattila3288 Kocsis and Geza Anda. Wonderful pianists through whose interpretation the luckier ones got to know this beautiful, lyrical concerto. The others fell into Martha's hands first.
@@ivanatodorovic8073 Dear Ivana, thanks! My favourite recording is this amateur one by Raniero Tazzi: th-cam.com/video/vEd11oDGV9g/w-d-xo.html Enjoy! Martha is amazing (and this "ladies" orchestra as well), I was lucky enough to listen to a live concert, performing with her and Gidon Kremer. There is also an András Schiff version of this concerto on the net, well it was infinitely boring for me.
@@palmaiattila3288 What a gift, thank you very much! Zoltan Kocsis remains one of my favorite ( and safe) choices for decades, with Dezso Ranki (after more than 35 years, I still like their interpretation of Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos and E flat major Concerto for Two Pianos the most), but I do my best to avoid Schiff with his haughty philosophical approach that turns the magnificent music of Bach and other greats into pretentious boredom. After hearing Argerich live twice in Belgrade, I can't say that the experience is different from her numerous recordings, it wasn't enough to make me fall under the spell of her charisma. But I will definitely enjoy the recording you were so kind to send me, I just had a chance to take a quick look, " real" listening is just ahead of me. In return, I would like to share with you this amazing intepretation: th-cam.com/video/diJmh5DgQhY/w-d-xo.html He is my hero! Best regards, Ivana
I agree. Before I heard this performance, my favorite was Grimaud's. Somehow both, though by women, come across to me as more "masculine" than the others I've heard, i.e. more dynamic and powerful, hence more comparable to his first two, incomparable concerti.
Like Ravel, this stuff grows on you. When I heard Yuja Wang play it in Toronto, I was less than impressed/convinced, because I think that on a Thursday night, she 'speed dialed' (ie. rarely was 'in the moment'). I deliberately came into Roy Thomson Hall without having listened to the piece in advance. Grimaud 'rescued' me. And Argerich 'blew the doors off' with her rendition of Ravel's 'Piano Concerto in G Major'. (Once again, Wang was technically there, but I felt as though there wasn't much 'soul'.) Martha is like an older, excellent dentist: You don't feel them inside your mouth, yet the result is telling and a marvel of delicacy and interpretation.
Wow, not only is she a totally fantastic pianist, she's also the conductor. The guy holding the baton is just keeping time. Martha is really conducting the orchestra.
Madame Argerich donne bien sûr (comme d'habitude), une interprétation brillante, parfaitement maîtrisée de cette œuvre superbe ; elle donne simultanément l'impression de s'amuser, - et d'assister du regard, le Chef...
Marvelous orchestra, excellent well known pianist. Obviously, Martha Argerisch found the right place and good people to express the beauty of arts ! From a long time ago, musicians from Far East excell in classical music !
It is lovely to see Martha, while playing piano with outstanding musicality as always, care so much for the young orchestra members behind her and they played actually very well! Bravo!
Maybe it's just me, but I've always felt that the closing bars of this concerto perfectly (and perhaps intentionally) reflect Bartok's own demise as he completed this piece. The imposing horns at 24:42 and lower strings at 24:53 representing death closing in fast on an ailing Bartok, the pleading piano at 24:49 begging for more time, finally giving way to one last triumphant flurry at 24:59 as Bartok tries to leave behind a legacy and a final touching gift to his beloved wife.
This woman is an example of what humans can not explain. She is not discipline or practice, she is something more. Notes are notes, but you can tell it is Martha Argerich after listening to her for 5 seconds. I am already sad for when we are going to lose this amazing pianist. 6:03 wow Martha!!!
Bro, I don't think you get the sarcasm. I am a musician, and I understand that 90% of what looks so easy to us is years of sweat and tears. Believe me. But hey, I could sweat and tear and cry and weep and I'll never even know her league.
Vagy az is lehet, hogy Bartók Béla zenéje a nyilvánvaló magyarsága ellenére (vagy mellett) is univerzális. Akárhogy is, nekem ez a kedvenc 3. zongoraverseny-előadásom, Kocsis Zoltán és Anda Géza ellenére is.
@@memattia3198 Nem, mert ahhoz, hogy egy Bartók darabot, "univerzalitása" ellenére, valaki(k) magas művészi fokon és autentikus hangzással is előadhassák a nem magyar zenészek, nagyon sokat kell tanulmányozniuk a darabot hatékony kollegiális magyar segítséggel, vagy úgy, hogy elsajátítják a magyar nyelvet is valamilyen fokon és behatóbban megismerik a magyar kultúrát, a magyarok mentalitását. Elsősorban a magyar beszéd ritmusának megismerése nélkül ez nem műxene, de ez még nem elég - a műveivel kapcsolatban még jó megismerni Bartók nézeteit, nyilvános kijelentéseit, sőt a zeneszerző egész gondolatvilágát, sőt az egyes fejlődési korszakokban azok megváltozásának társadalmi vagy személyi okait is.
A very sensitive version of this concerto written by Bartok for his wife Ditta when je was very sick and about to die inUSA. The very last bars have been completed by his favourite pupil, Tibor Serly.
This was Frank Zappa's favorite song. ... "When Zappa appeared on Castaway’s Choice, the American radio rip-off of the long-running BBC incarnation Desert Island Discs, in 1989, he was asked to pick his favourite song. He went with Bartók’s ‘The first movement from Third Piano Concerto’. Zappa offered up a simple explanation as to why it was his favourite: 'I think it is one of the most beautiful melodies ever written'.” ... Source: Farout Magazine, January 2024.
Szànalmas Hazàm, jò ideje nem ad okot, a büszkesègre. Nagyon jò érzès, hogy Martha Argerich emberi, mûvèszi nagysàga mellett, Bartòk Béla zsenialitása sem maradt, mèltatás nèlkül. Köszönöm! 1940-ben, nem emigrált, de ùgy alakult, hogy sosem jött haza. Szerintem, ma sem tennè
Пожалуй, никогда прежде не ощущал нерв музыки Бартока, как сейчас, слушая Третий ко-рт Бартока. Два изумительных музыканта: Аргерих и Башмет явили миропонимание и образ мира композитора в его контрастах и становлении. Более всего впечатляет переход от графики и схоластики письма к взволнованности высказываний. Барток один из немногих в двадцатом веке стремился к равновесию полярных начал: гармоничности, близкой к моцартовской, и дионисичности, соприкасающейся с гротеском, в котором нет точных адресатов. Малер и Стравинский лишь являют отблеск своего письма. У Бартока утонченность - средство для создания развернутых масштабных замыслов, в которых человек-творец одновременно и сопереживает и созерцает.
Perhaps, I had never before felt the nerve of the music of Bartók, as now, while listening to the Third Co-rt of Bartók. Two amazing musicians: Argerich and Bashmet showed the worldview and the image of the world of the composer in his contrasts and formation. Most impressive is the transition from the graphics and scholasticism of letters to the excitement of expressions. Bartok, one of the few in the twentieth century, sought to balance the polar origins: harmony, close to Mozart, and dionicity, in contact with the grotesque, in which there are no exact recipients. Mahler and Stravinsky only reflect their letter. In Bartok, sophistication is the means for creating detailed ambitious plans in which the man-creator simultaneously empathizes and contemplates. [Your words- wonderful!]
is that the same concerto schiff also played? this is the first interpretation by argerich that i like. this expressionist composing seems to be for her. great also how the male conductor has all those girls under his wings.
Although, this great piano concerto by Vela Bartok in 2007, hope performers of Argerich's level (top soloist) continue to do so as the real music. The classical music is fading against "horrible pop music." Do not misunderstand me me, historically we fund ourselves evolving and nit in a good way. I just miss the era where the classical music was still relevant, and I not as old as you would think.
@@carloshumphrey1 I don't know if it is. It has spread out of Europe around the world, so that could be said for it. Popularity means something, but it isn't everything.
Absolutely great, until the woodwind comes in at 3:38. What a crappy tone. Dry and insipid. No emotions. Worse starting from 4:31. Absolutely incoherent.
Yo soy un amante de la música culta pero estoy harto de barenboim, argerich y todos esos argentinos dominantes. También me sacaron la música clásica. Me están amputando todo
The 2nd movement always makes me cry. So beautiful...
It is indeed a remarkable concerto.
One of the many great things about Argerich is how deeply she connects with the orchestra musicians.
Absolutely correct. The connection between her and the woodwind in the 2nd movement was there for all to see. Great comment.
Actually, l should even think that she somehow 'conducts' this young orchestra too, - as well as Maestro Bashmet...🙂
Here's a great performance of Bela Bartok's Piano Concerto No. 3 in E. This was Bartok's final composition, and was dedicated to his wife, who he hoped would increase her earnings performing this after he died.
To me, this is Bartok's most accessible work, a neoclassic tour de force, and is - finally, after much back and forth - even rancor, a salute to Stravinsky, the foremost of the neoclassic composers.
This piece is the culmination of a life spent at the piano, and is fully his Masterwork.
Folks, if you haven't listened to it, what are you waiting for? This is one of the finest piano concertos ever.
Definitely a salute to stravinsky's style, but is that passage at 20:39 a direct quote from a stravinsky piece? I certainly recognize it from somewhere...
I agree. But the Concerto for Orchestra remains for me his most accessible work. But I thought his last major piece was the Viola Concerto.
@@anthonykveder7061It sounds like a passage from Beethoven’s 9th!
she plays like she's inventing it, like she's just playing what she hears in hear head - beautiful and I think just what Bartok was after, singing free
Argerich can tickle the keys like nobody else. She has rapid fingers and a sensibility in her expression that always strikes me as a phenomenon.
This is one of my favorite piano concertos. Argerich plays it like the true artist that she is.
Martha played this concerto once again in September 2024. It was amazing to see her re-visit it. She arrived on stage with a score and a page-turner. She changed a few things, and she played beautifully. The second movement, listened to live, was even more amazing than usual. Nobody plays it like Martha.
Martha is really in full concentration here and sounding completely inspired. I don't believe anyone could play it better.
Totally agree.she is the best
Another vote for Martha as the best I've ever heard and seen.
Undoubtedly the best concert pianist of our time, if not of all time.
A Művèsznő, valòban minden idők egyik legjobb zongoristàja. De, a művèszet, mèg "szakmai" alapon is , -szerencsère- meglehetősen szubjektìv . Épp ezèrt , vagy/mert hûlye vagyok a zenéhez, s erintem Kathia Buniatisvili, a legjobb. E mű előadàsàban, FISCHER ANNIE is, fantasztikus volt sokak szerint a legjobb.
Mme Argerich absolutely nails this concerto. Intelligent, sensitive!
Wonderful piece and piano player.
Am I dreaming? = A mostly all female orchestra? So young and already so so very good! Bravo! And what an honor to be playing with the one and only, Martha Argerich. Wonderful!!!
They are students at a famous music university (Toho Gakuen) in Japan. So most of them are trained as a soloist of each instrument.
@@pianofranck "honor to be playing with the "one and only Martha Argerich." I'll say wonderful. What a resume piece!
Complètement grotesque. C’est le sexe qui vous intéresse chez un musicien? Moi c’est sa musique.
This incredible pianist can master even the most unusual concerto that I have only heard for the very 1st time.Such brilliance from ALL the orchestra as well
This is by far Bartok's best piano concerto. It's one of the great piano concerti in the repertoire.
I wouldn't say, by far. That said, it is my favorite. And Argerich, along with Andras Schiff are the very best pianists alive today!
This is wonderful and great concerto, but far from Bartok best. First and especially second are on another level.
This masterpiece is addictive!
Martha Argerich is 👑
And this second movement. . .
Mme Argerich makes it look so effortless. I'd feel gifted if I had a hundredth of her talent. This is a stupendous performance from all on stage. Wish I'd been there to hear it live.
She always makes even the most technical pyrotechnics seem as just another walk down the hallway backstage. She's working but it appears effortless.
Oh, I love this concerto! It is lovely, intriguing and subtly beautiful.
To think that Bartok wrote this under pressure (dying from cancer) for his wife's debut with the New York Philharmonic.
You would never know this as you listen to this ultra-relaxed, ultra-Hungarian, ultra beautiful and dramatic concerto.
Then there is this ultra-beautiful performance by Martha! She lives in the notes and everything evolves naturally because she is such a capable pianist with years of experience.
I love you Bela and I love you Martha. This is the perfect confluence of universes of beauty and drama and unbelievable skill.
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I agree! In the second movement you hear the same themes and textures of his 1908 ‘The Night’s Music.’ This was a love song to his wife Dita. She was his student after the 1908 piece was written. This is one of most favorite Bartok pieces of the several hundred he has written. The performance is flawless and beautiful. I am just 3 months younger than this 1945 piece (one of his last several works). Footnote: His friend and pianist Tibor Serly(?) finished scoring much of the last movement from Bartok’s notes after Bartok died in March 1945.
@@m.feiler6541 Thank you for your historical input on Bela and the obvious difficulty of his life!
@@leoinsf Thanks for replying. I’ve loved Bartok (and played him on piano since I was 16) Too bad I don’t practice nearly enough!!
I developed this wonderful peace when I was 15 on a LP interpreted by Geza Anda and Fernc Fricsay. And this voncert here is even more beautiful. I love it deeply, especially mouv. 2 like many of you!
..piece, sorry.
Excellent! Love this lady's playing.
Last note was SO IN TUNE! Did you hear that echo? Damn fine playing all around - Martha is queen.
she and her music leave me speechless
Wonderful ! Mme. Argerich has been, is and always be the goddess of piano.
Clara Haskil, Annie Fischer and Clara Schumann played guitar ? Why always use the superlative ? You automatically discredit the others by talking like that.
@@alexrrd5512 Honoring one person does not discredit anyone else.
It is rare for a TH-cam recording to move one to tears but this one does. What conditions of poignancy ! : Bartok dying seventeen bars short of finishing the final flourish's orchestration; the paradoxes that drive Yuri Bashmet to seek the best in art regardless of politics: this five-fold mix of the best of the Southern New World with its passion, the agony of Central Europe transfigured by Bartok - worshipping Debussy who rediscovered and mapped the East as well as Bach (so present!) and Beethoven; the dutiful but definitely emotionally moved Confucian Japanese orchestra; the rigour of Russian artistry where control and expressivity are in a perfect equilibrium! No - this is extraordinary, I think everyone sensed that! M. A has such control, skill, knowledge, experience and praeternatural understanding of emotion in music that her chief preoccupation is to enthuse the entire string section and anyone else she can catch the eye of into understanding and enjoying - at her level - what this music is about!
Wow!
From the age of a little boy, my parents just "feeding" me many sweet things from Hayden, Mozart, Beethoven…When I grew up, I have been trying many different tastes from Chopin, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky…and, in mature life of mine I was shocked with extremely bitterer from Schoenberg, that's is really really bitter in modern music.
Luckily I do have the new taste of music that I able to enjoy, this creation from Bela Bartok. Many thanks to Martha Argerich, she has been so beauty and playing so well for this much love of the composer who has been working very hard for whole in his life of creating a new language of music. Also thanks to Youth Orchestra of Japan, they has been very talented in this concert. Thank You. TKH.2018
Super-natural talent - one of the greatest in recorded history.
The sound engineers should get credit for such fine work as heard here. They are always anonymous, but as a performer (not of any high level) I can stress their contribution as being really integral to any good performance reproduction. Not that the Argerich is not a treasure, and the Toho Gakuen Orchestra very impressive.
This is a beautiful interpretation of what is one of the most beautiful works of the 20th century. Martha identifies totally with the music which is often playful, yet it was penned by a dying man who knew he would never see his beautiful homeland again. Who is playing who? As i listen i am reduced to tears! It is so lovely!
Ella es un orgullo argentino ❤
She is truly one of the greatest of all time
J'adore Bartók ! Argerich et l'ensemble également...
Sublime and enrapturing performance by one of my top-five all-time-fave pianists. Thank you for posting this.
Argentin - Hungarian - Japanese ....how unparalelled beauty they create
You have forgotten the Russian violist, Yurij Bashmet in his conductor-role... 🤩
(But none of the pianists have as beautiful and authentic rubatoes as Kocsis Zoli played.)
@@palmaiattila3288 Kocsis and Geza Anda. Wonderful pianists through whose interpretation the luckier ones got to know this beautiful, lyrical concerto. The others fell into Martha's hands first.
@@ivanatodorovic8073 Dear Ivana, thanks! My favourite recording is this amateur one by Raniero Tazzi:
th-cam.com/video/vEd11oDGV9g/w-d-xo.html
Enjoy!
Martha is amazing (and this "ladies" orchestra as well), I was lucky enough to listen to a live concert, performing with her and Gidon Kremer.
There is also an András Schiff version of this concerto on the net, well it was infinitely boring for me.
@@palmaiattila3288 What a gift, thank you very much! Zoltan Kocsis remains one of my favorite ( and safe) choices for decades, with Dezso Ranki (after more than 35 years, I still like their interpretation of Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos and E flat major Concerto for Two Pianos the most), but I do my best to avoid Schiff with his haughty philosophical approach that turns the magnificent music of Bach and other greats into pretentious boredom.
After hearing Argerich live twice in Belgrade, I can't say that the experience is different from her numerous recordings, it wasn't enough to make me fall under the spell of her charisma. But I will definitely enjoy the recording you were so kind to send me, I just had a chance to take a quick look, " real" listening is just ahead of me. In return, I would like to share with you this amazing intepretation:
th-cam.com/video/diJmh5DgQhY/w-d-xo.html
He is my hero!
Best regards, Ivana
Oh, my God, something holy just happened. It brought me to tears.
Stunning, again. How lucky to have Argerich torturing and charming us like this !
Best recorded performance of this concerto I've heard (of many).
Grimaud's is interesting, too. This is a piece that leaves one wondering (or should we?) who is 'right'.
I agree. Before I heard this performance, my favorite was Grimaud's. Somehow both, though by women, come across to me as more "masculine" than the others I've heard, i.e. more dynamic and powerful, hence more comparable to his first two, incomparable concerti.
Like Ravel, this stuff grows on you. When I heard Yuja Wang play it in Toronto, I was less than impressed/convinced, because I think that on a Thursday night, she 'speed dialed' (ie. rarely was 'in the moment'). I deliberately came into Roy Thomson Hall without having listened to the piece in advance. Grimaud 'rescued' me. And Argerich 'blew the doors off' with her rendition of Ravel's 'Piano Concerto in G Major'. (Once again, Wang was technically there, but I felt as though there wasn't much 'soul'.) Martha is like an older, excellent dentist: You don't feel them inside your mouth, yet the result is telling and a marvel of delicacy and interpretation.
Oh please. Geza Anda and Berlin unbelievably great.
@@djmotise Agree, this is too fast
Wow, not only is she a totally fantastic pianist, she's also the conductor. The guy holding the baton is just keeping time. Martha is really conducting the orchestra.
Droll but substantially correct.
Madame Argerich donne bien sûr (comme d'habitude), une interprétation brillante, parfaitement maîtrisée de cette œuvre superbe ; elle donne simultanément l'impression de s'amuser, - et d'assister du regard, le Chef...
Marvelous orchestra, excellent well known pianist. Obviously, Martha Argerisch found the right place and good people to express the beauty of arts ! From a long time ago, musicians from Far East excell in classical music !
It is lovely to see Martha, while playing piano with outstanding musicality as always, care so much for the young orchestra members behind her and they played actually very well! Bravo!
Perfect,as always,great artisThank you forpostit.t,
Absolutely fantastic performance. The timpanist was sublime! Perfect.
I am thrilled by the beauty of a great artist...She is always so nice!
Maybe it's just me, but I've always felt that the closing bars of this concerto perfectly (and perhaps intentionally) reflect Bartok's own demise as he completed this piece. The imposing horns at 24:42 and lower strings at 24:53 representing death closing in fast on an ailing Bartok, the pleading piano at 24:49 begging for more time, finally giving way to one last triumphant flurry at 24:59 as Bartok tries to leave behind a legacy and a final touching gift to his beloved wife.
Brilliant observations. I concur.
I adore this work! The slow movement is to die for.
How extraordinary can a person be to be able to play this is unreal!
Estas recreaciones de Argerich a una edad madura me confirman su extraordinaria inteligencia musical. Creo que se puede decir que será "leyenda"
Ha sido, es y será la diosa del piano.
She is a Legend
She's been a legend for at least 40 years - and she'll be a legend forever!
This is brilliant--both pianist and orchestra.
second movement is extraordinary
I am English but when I hear Bartok played like this I am Hungarian!
I'm Hungarian and when I listen to this performance, I'm even more so :) You probably don't see the puszta at the beginning of movement 1 as I do...
This woman is an example of what humans can not explain. She is not discipline or practice, she is something more. Notes are notes, but you can tell it is Martha Argerich after listening to her for 5 seconds. I am already sad for when we are going to lose this amazing pianist. 6:03 wow Martha!!!
we are not going to lose martha argerich.
素晴らしい演奏です。バルトークのこのコンチェルトはおとぎ話の妖精が踊ってるようなところもあり、曲自体好きです。
Wonderful performance, bravo Argerich！！I love this concerto, it’s like fairies are dancing.
Princesse magicienne merci!!!!
I cant's stop watching.
Восхитительное исполнение прекрасной музыки Бартока! БРАВО!
Superb!
I do not fear any masterclass by any pianist other than Argerich. Cerebral, intense, She will wither with a look.
Simplesmente genial !.
Martha Martha...... Amazing Anazing!!!
merci
Piece of cake. She could have played it while asleep. Astounding how a few people in this world have it so easy when it comes to talent.
She doesn't have it easy she worked all of her life for this and even surviving cancer she still plays at 80 years old.
Bro, I don't think you get the sarcasm. I am a musician, and I understand that 90% of what looks so easy to us is years of sweat and tears. Believe me. But hey, I could sweat and tear and cry and weep and I'll never even know her league.
@@endlessadventure541 sorry I misunderstood.
Bartok et Martha Argerich sont deux génies.
A masterpiece.
bravo!!!
アルゲリッチタッチ、ですなぁ！
かっちょぇ！コンチェルトをここまで魅力的に仕上げる感性、作曲家がまず、天国で驚いているはずです！🎉
the complex pianpconcerts of bartox are themusical equivalent of quantum phisics
Has she ever tried Bartok's 2nd? It's considered one of the most difficult piano pieces ever written.
24:42
Well done, Martha!
just wow
hairstylist’s nightmare.. ears’ heaven
Martha the true wonder woman!!!!
Lindo, maravilhosa, surpreendente!
Yes, bravi, bravi, bravi.
But for the orchestra and Conductor too.
Yes, well said... Magnificent and so delicate ensemble !
UNIQUE MARTHA!!!!❤
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
And from memory nonetheless! Amazing!
Love this section 24:32.
Martha Argerich divina!!!
I believe she’s performing this in Beppu. It’s a spiritual connection.
De élveztem! Marthának, Jurijnak és ezeknek a csodás japánoknak magyar szívük van!
Vagy az is lehet, hogy Bartók Béla zenéje a nyilvánvaló magyarsága ellenére (vagy mellett) is univerzális. Akárhogy is, nekem ez a kedvenc 3. zongoraverseny-előadásom, Kocsis Zoltán és Anda Géza ellenére is.
@@memattia3198 Nem, mert ahhoz, hogy egy Bartók darabot, "univerzalitása" ellenére, valaki(k) magas művészi fokon és autentikus hangzással is előadhassák a nem magyar zenészek, nagyon sokat kell tanulmányozniuk a darabot hatékony kollegiális magyar segítséggel, vagy úgy, hogy elsajátítják a magyar nyelvet is valamilyen fokon és behatóbban megismerik a magyar kultúrát, a magyarok mentalitását. Elsősorban a magyar beszéd ritmusának megismerése nélkül ez nem műxene, de ez még nem elég - a műveivel kapcsolatban még jó megismerni Bartók nézeteit, nyilvános kijelentéseit, sőt a zeneszerző egész gondolatvilágát, sőt az egyes fejlődési korszakokban azok megváltozásának társadalmi vagy személyi okait is.
Versión antológica!
"The one and only, others are good, but none more complete.
This version is so much better than the one by Schiff at the Proms.
A very sensitive version of this concerto written by Bartok for his wife Ditta when je was very sick and about to die inUSA. The very last bars have been completed by his favourite pupil, Tibor Serly.
..nice...
Después de escuchar éste concierto
Nos topamos con las dificultades técnicas que tiene que superar cada intérprete
The best in 60 years but only lack to arrive to the version of Andorra folded in the fifthies
👍👍
#FunWithBartok Llegué aca, por recomendación, digamos... Y quedé 8O
This was Frank Zappa's favorite song.
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"When Zappa appeared on Castaway’s Choice, the American radio rip-off of the long-running BBC incarnation Desert Island Discs, in 1989, he was asked to pick his favourite song. He went with Bartók’s ‘The first movement from Third Piano Concerto’. Zappa offered up a simple explanation as to why it was his favourite: 'I think it is one of the most beautiful melodies ever written'.”
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Source: Farout Magazine, January 2024.
Wow I didn't know Bashment conducts too.
Next time, Gergeiev plays the piano and Argerich conducts!!!!!
9:35 🥰
7:43 tremendo
I love this music . But No.1 is fiece No.2 is impossible !
Isn't this just the nest slow movement ever?
Szànalmas Hazàm, jò ideje nem ad okot, a büszkesègre. Nagyon jò érzès, hogy Martha Argerich emberi, mûvèszi nagysàga mellett, Bartòk Béla zsenialitása sem maradt, mèltatás nèlkül. Köszönöm! 1940-ben, nem emigrált, de ùgy alakult, hogy sosem jött haza. Szerintem, ma sem tennè
The orchestra is also almost all women?!
Пожалуй, никогда прежде не ощущал нерв музыки Бартока, как сейчас, слушая Третий ко-рт Бартока. Два изумительных музыканта: Аргерих и Башмет явили миропонимание и образ мира композитора в его контрастах и становлении. Более всего впечатляет переход от графики и схоластики письма к взволнованности высказываний. Барток один из немногих в двадцатом веке стремился к равновесию полярных начал: гармоничности, близкой к моцартовской, и дионисичности, соприкасающейся с гротеском, в котором нет точных адресатов. Малер и Стравинский лишь являют отблеск своего письма. У Бартока утонченность - средство для создания развернутых масштабных замыслов, в которых человек-творец одновременно и сопереживает и созерцает.
Perhaps, I had never before felt the nerve of the music of Bartók, as now, while listening to the Third Co-rt of Bartók. Two amazing musicians: Argerich and Bashmet showed the worldview and the image of the world of the composer in his contrasts and formation. Most impressive is the transition from the graphics and scholasticism of letters to the excitement of expressions. Bartok, one of the few in the twentieth century, sought to balance the polar origins: harmony, close to Mozart, and dionicity, in contact with the grotesque, in which there are no exact recipients. Mahler and Stravinsky only reflect their letter. In Bartok, sophistication is the means for creating detailed ambitious plans in which the man-creator simultaneously empathizes and contemplates. [Your words- wonderful!]
is that the same concerto schiff also played? this is the first interpretation by argerich that i like. this expressionist composing seems to be for her. great also how the male conductor has all those girls under his wings.
Since when has Bashmet become a conductor ?
He's done a very good job here.
Although, this great piano concerto by Vela Bartok in 2007, hope performers of Argerich's level (top soloist) continue to do so as the real music. The classical music is fading against "horrible pop music." Do not misunderstand me me, historically we fund ourselves evolving and nit in a good way. I just miss the era where the classical music was still relevant, and I not as old as you would think.
Classical music will measure the audiences of today and the future.
@@not2tees So you agree. It is fading.
@@carloshumphrey1 I don't know if it is. It has spread out of Europe around the world, so that could be said for it. Popularity means something, but it isn't everything.
Absolutely great, until the woodwind comes in at 3:38. What a crappy tone. Dry and insipid. No emotions. Worse starting from 4:31. Absolutely incoherent.
That's true, the orchestra is nowhere near at Argerich's level.
Yo soy un amante de la música culta pero estoy harto de barenboim, argerich y todos esos argentinos dominantes. También me sacaron la música clásica. Me están amputando todo