Argerich Strauss Burlesque

[jonyungk]

The look and smile Argerich gives Abbado at 16:25 is just priceless.

[pepitobenegas]

Martha is the best of the world! I don't know why many people can't admit it, I think if she was american she would be the best for all people

[elainebmack]

Great camera work, and from so many angles.

[rlopezmo]

PARECE GENIAL, ES GENIAL MARTHA PLUS SUPERCONDUCTOR ABBADO. TIMBALISTA RAINER SEEGERS EXCELSO. RICHARD GEORG STRAUSS TENÍA 21 AÑOS CUANDO COMPUSO ESTA MARAVILLA MUSICAL

[KhagarBalugrak]

Willfully fragmented and self-referential piece.

[pkrnger]

Rainer Seegers is considered among the top timpanists of our time. Bravo for a performance very well done!

[elgar34]

@kingcap: greatest of all Strauss's works? I'm tempted to agree, as much as I LOVE the operas. Martha's performance is more feline than Serkin's canine, both great players of this wondrous composition. Cheers!

[Pianista061292]

EXCELLENT version of this masterpiece.

[ciayko]

ma caz@o Martha!!! guarda che stai suonando Strauss,non Rachmaninov!!! Ma perché diavolo devi sempre rendere tutto stramaledettamente difficile?!? Vatti a sentì la Burleske suonata dalla Zilberstein che la suona come Dio comanda!!! Datti 'na calmata,va!!!

[darkblueangel1956]

Estremo controllo delle sonorità, raffinata eleganza melodica e nell'impasto timbrico orchestrale per Claudio Abbado. Solito nervosismo sonoro e solita esuberanza tecnica per Martha Argerich, che tratta Richard Strauss come un romantico fuori luogo, pianisticamente e melodicamente. Il timbro e le sonorità della pianista sono eccellenti. Purtroppo il divario si sente e i due interpreti hanno una consapevolezza differente della Burlesque di Strauss.

[CaptainItamar]

6:15 is so martha

[cowheadcow]

I'm a pianist, but I'm totally blown away by that last run. How can she play it so evenly and cleanly at such a high speed? Not sure I'll ever come close to that.

[joeymaarte]

definitive performance.... brava!



[kyleclef]

I love this piece so much, and I love Argerich so much. Perfect.

[TJFNYC212]

Rudolf Serkin championed this work too and played it extremely well. Argerich is superb............. it was made for a pianist with her pyrotechnical skills. I listen to it often.........................­....... She is coming to Los Angeles in March in the Beethoven C major ----- I am not displeased---- but my fantasy was that she would take this off the shelf and play it here............

[mmoynan]

I find both Gould's and Argerich's performances of this equally lovely. Gould moves slower, but as a result, I find the piece breathes more and sounds a little sweeter. Argerich has the ability to make sense of a sh*t ton of notes and make it lyrical and beautiful in a way--I don't think--Gould can. Both completely different pianists! Frankly, I'd like to own both recordings.

[kyleclef]

15:06 when its starts to kick off..WOW. love her.

[vivianbalerina]

shes the best of the world, for now... before she was horowitz RIP

[davidrds]

at 16:21 she really looks like being on another planet... Reminds me the photograph of her first recording for DG back in the 60s.

[szhang10]

Amazing...

[maulee2008]

Magic!  ^^ bravo

[maulee2008]

Magic!  ^^

[martin7663]

The timpanist is Rainer Seegars, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

[kingcap1226]

First off i want to say that is the greatest of all of the Strauss's works.Yes this is a great piano solo but let's not forget that it was strauss that was learning the endless possibilities of the Timpani.Yes Mr Abbado is the greatest conductors out there and yes Argerich is the spotlight, But The timpanist nailed the most difficult piece in our great Repritore of Timpani. I would like to make sure this timpanist is recogonized for all of his hard work at superb playing Proper Intonation.BRAVO

[meneltar]

@kingcap1226 If you know the timpanist's name, let me know. I'll gladly put it in the description.

[ieronim2003]

@meneltar he's name is Rainer Seegers 

[Mark91Gilenson]

@meneltar The timpanist is Rainer Seegers of the Berlin Phil.

[condoravenue]

@meneltar I'm pretty sure its Rainer Seegers.  He's still playing for the Berlin Phil and bio still on the website!

[condoravenue]

@meneltar I'm pretty sure its Rainer Seegers. He still plays for the Berlin phil and the bio is still on their website!

[MaxxUS08]

@condoravenue It is indeed Seegers. One of the best out there.

[condoravenue]

@meneltar I'm pretty sure its Rainer Seegers. He still plays for the Berlin phil and the bio is still on their website!

[crotchet66]

@meneltar Rainer Seegers

[wupohan]

@meneltar: his name is Rainer Seegers

[TheAdachir87]

@kingcap1226 yeah but he's not rhythmically accurate is he?

[TheAdachir87]

@kingcap1226 yeah but he's not rhythmically accurate is he?

rhythm is kind of a big deal for timpanist/percussionist. I'm a percussionist myself, so there's not denying this.

[Taimochi]

@TheAdachir87

It's called phrasing. Do you really think the timpanist for the best orchestra in the world would have poor rhythm and not know it? The opening timpani part is a solo, thus allowing for liberties to be taken.

[TheAdachir87]

@Taimochi obviously you didn't grow up the American way. Rhythm is the most fundamental aspect in orchestral playing. If he were to phrase something in a certain way, he does it with the awareness that no fundamentals can be sacrificed (unless the music says to play freely, or that rubato style was specifically asked by the conductor).

[youngergermanpope]

@TheAdachir87 Are you saying that Americans care more about rhythm than Europeans? If you had common sense, you would know that the best timpanist of the orchestra in the world indeed has perfect rhythm. Get a lesson from him. What he does is called phrasing. If Abbado wanted emotionless rhythm which is perfectly in time, (which I assume you idolize) he would've hired a robot to play. But, what a surprise, Abbado didn't.

[TheAdachir87]

@youngergermanpope well if the conductor asks him to play the part certain ways, then he is obligated to do so. If Abbado wanted the passage to be rhythmically loose, then that's perfect. I was just pointing out what I hear. No offense for the timpanist. Mind you, he's probably 14837409285x better than I am, so no disrespect.

[youngergermanpope]

@TheAdachir87 Ok Solid. And notice that he played the opening solo twice the same way.

[Malcolm64]

I'm not a fan of most of Strauss' orchestral music, but the inclusion of such a thrillingly virtuosic piano solo almost makes the music seem worthwhile...and it is when played like this...from the quietest pianissimos to the loudest moments...I doubt another pianist could match this performance...Martha at her most brilliant!! And her grin at the end is priceless!!

And it's beautifully recorded as well...

[whit838]

she doesn't even break a sweat

[AntiProUltra]

Martha = the greatest

[colinmdrum]

Leave it to R. Strauss to start a piano piece with timpani solo.

[ngpiano72]

Look at that amazing smile at 14:02! GO ARGERICH!

[beaver7756]

17:12 to the ending is absolutely amazing! It's the best interpretation I've heard so far!

[pianofan24]

@beaver7756 17:40 -18:06 gives me the chills - first my heart races and then comes to a dead stop in time with Martha - how can anyone have such even octaves?

And no one plays the lyrical passages with as much poetry and beauty as Argerich - bravo to the piano queen!

[davidsilvamonje]

Yes it´s true, this piece is absolutely difficult!! but the performance of Argerich is Completely Amazing!!

[TJFNYC212]

stunning performance  can't listen to it enough wow

[shaerens]

Strauss only knows how to write for orchestra, even on the keyboard.

[richclayderman]

isn't burlesque a fancy word for whorehouse?

[frapepsi]

grandeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[argerich82]

l think argerich's performance showed well what the word 'burleske' means. l hope she plays again this work like 'the night of the spanish garden' (she did 23 years ago at Paris and she did again last year at Lugano)

[Liebromeistal]

Richter wipes this one off the floor

[th3wing3dpaint3r]

Funny you should say that. That's probably the only thing Richter's good at....

Wiping floors

[Liebromeistal]

that's obviously not what I mean't moron

[th3wing3dpaint3r]

@Liebromeistal no wonder you don't understand Argerich!! You can't even understand a simple joke XD

Maybe you should focus on simpler pianists from simpler times....Richter maybe...

[Schamschi]

@th3wing3dpaint3r: Maybe you should focus on wiping floors.

[meneltar]

stop, boys!

[jorgeandresossa]

martha is the best................

[JoFrSc]

I took 1LUPENZO's advice and listened to the Gould recording. I thought it was never going to end! Slow, boring, pedantic, without humour and a very pale shade of this wonderful Argerich/ Abbado recording. (There's no accounting for taste.)

[1LUPENZO]

maestro abbado un po' piu' veloce forza!ma cribbio come rovinare un'opera DISASTROSO!!!!!

[JoFrSc]

1LUPENZO, your comment looks interesting, but I don't understand Italian. Could you - or somebody - translate it, please? I'm trying to work out what could possibly be "disastroso" about this recording.

[1LUPENZO]

yes for me abbado mistake for tempo of esecution too too fast not possible! every 2 minutes to listen the opera close the service audio youtube not udible terrible sorry for english ciao

[JoFrSc]

Thanks, I see. I wonder how much of the tempo was dictated by the phenomenal Ms Argerich, though. Her interpretation is certainly thrilling and she more than adequately copes with the break-neck speed.

[1LUPENZO]

without once more' slow richard strauss and its works become here honestly terrible abbado she has exaggerated the martha it owed denied to play otherwise even though good it doesn't understand richard strauss it finds on youtube the version golscmann gould and' very beautiful and and' to my notice the more one' interpreted better

[LetTheMusicFlow1]

wow I recognize that timpanist from another YT video: Prokofiev's Death of Tybalt!

[JoFrSc]

Martha Makes Magic! Again!

[prodesica]

Che bravi!!!

[elgar34]

No one could ever play this difficult piece as well as Argerich. She is supreme.

[gahero31]

What a beautiful ending, and her smile ..I LOVE YOU MARTHA!!!

Also spectacular directing by Claudio Abbado.Two big ones combine together Amazing!! Incredible chemistry! between the two!

[xper2xper]

Superb!!!

[stomentendo]

Thank you for the video. Do you know what orchestra is that?

[jmt768]

Berlin Philharmonic

[michelezordan]

A remarkable performance of Claudio Abbado.

[MrStaves]

This is shredding.

[rubenblijdorp]

This is amazing, and I don't even generally like Strauss!

[elgar34]

Everytime I watch this, I am that much more in awe. Reportedly Martha considered this very difficult, but show me any mistakes she makes. None.

What an astounding testament to a very great pianist.

[meneltar]

Wow, how interesting! Does she say this(she finds the Burleske difficult) somewhere or she told you?

Regards!

[elgar34]

It was posted on the Argerich DB, presumably by someone 'in the know'. I've read through the Burleske on the piano- it has some very awkward moments.

[meneltar]

Agreed, I have some friends that learned this piece, absolute hell. but I didn't know that even Marthita find that difficult!

[elgar34]

@meneltar Hard to believe, eh? Nah, she is awesomely super-human. Imagine what it must be like to have talent like that?

[meneltar]

@elgar34 I can't even imagine! =)

[pianofan24]

@meneltar Thanks so much for uploading this - my life would've been different without Argerich and her generous fans who share the concerts I never had a chance to go to.

[levin312]

awesome timpani piece but the piano is annoying a little bit...

[amundarainjavier]

Esta obra se aprecia plenamente gracias a la interpretación llena de vida, energía, introspección y lirismo de Martha Argerich. Muchas gracias por este video.

[musicpiano14]

gould much more better.

[JoFrSc]

Gould is boring, ponderous, laboured, pedantic, never-ending and certainly not burlesque.

[elgar34]

A remarkable piece of music from the young Strauss, and an outstanding performance from the great Argerich. Cheers to all!

[478493]

this is just so wonderful! I didn't know this work except by name....it's like Brahms on drugs! The orchestra shares equal importance with the piano and the composers mastery of symphonic sweep is so apparent but wow...those lyrical parts Martha plays so well... her thunder and passion too...I loved this and thank you so much for it!

[giandoroma]

just sensational! and, please, don't forget Claudio Abbado!

[jspark9]

Just great. thank you so much for this upload!

[orannisthedestroyer]

The Maestra!!!! Great performance...thanks for posting!!!

[meneltar]

Her technique is so beautiful here.

[PetrichorAllegory]

Awesome.

[cocoturk]

This piece was written for her. Il n'y a que quelqu'un des gemeaux pour interpreter un autre gemeau.

[pedroprokofiev]

Haha, moi, je suis gémeaux aussi. Je ne savais pas que Strauss a eté un des gémeaux.

[troppofiato]

Phenomenal performance - Marta at her absolute best.