Martha Argerich plays Schumann (vaimusic.com)

[piojo1987]

Me la imagino ansiosa por terminar de una vez, aunque no se le nota... Esa pieza es demasiado fácil para ella...

[alexvivacqua]

Bela cadência e estilo próprio. Assim é a grande Marta.

[flubished]

I didn't like this one. Too slow, it put me yo sleep!

[trancosomarcus]

very cute face!!!

[darrynray]

I sell records and whenever I run across a Martha Argerich recording, it sells quickly. Now I know why...

[musiclover1485]

I am wondering who didn't like this.

[CrazyMonkeyQueen1990]

@musiclover1485 Five shits didn't like it u.u

[OriginalBasaliskos]

She really liked that dress.

[maternalheart66]

@OriginalBasaliskos haha so true.

[quimi1974]

Es el vestido perfecto, mientras deleita mi oido con sus manos, deleita mis pupilas con esa semitransparencia rojo-erotica que deja adivinar la tanguita negra que hace despertar las mas oscuras pasiones. postada: no estoy cachondo (*_*)

[jcast18k]

@quimi1974 wtfffffffff jajajajaj q enfermo :P

[djfunked]

She has such a serious beethovenian look. Gorgeous.

[drumier]

soulful

[alors24]

Gorgeous woman, one of the greatest pianists ever!

[brassmonkeyjew]

His concerto's never did anything for me. I never remember them!

[mestreliszt]

lastima el vestido qe no sea muy oportuno para la ocasion

[andreaprodan]

@mestreliszt

hablar de un vestido cuando se escucha Musica

es como comer salame volando en el Concorde, y pensar que estas EN la pelicula que proyectan en vuelo.

señor Mestre,

buona notte.

[autentik0pip0]

lastima que solo tengas ojos para el vestido, y no tengas oídos para su musica, de lo que te has perdido.¡¡,

p.d mira su boquita  haber si de perdis, te despiesrta alguna otra pasión¡¡ jaja

tontito.

[ihstyan]

perfect, extraodinaire

[pianist1230]

Oh my Gooood!!! So So so beautyful!!

[Snafuski]

How can so many people purporting to love music be so "narrow-eared"??? I personally think it is absolute bullshit to say A is great and B-Z are shits. You are just demonstrating that out of some sort of inner fear of difference, you have decided to restrict your listening pleasure to A. Each musician worth his/her salt, or orchestra worth theirs, (and there are many) will let you discover a piece of music differently. Sorry to appear rude...

[andreaprodan]

@Snafuski

not rude

not nude not dude

quite right

quite bright

Good Night.

[gabrielyte220]

Ji viena is geriausiu Roberto Sumano atlikeju...

[eusebium7]

Oscar Peterson was zero, sorry. Thelonious Monk on the other hand, he had technique and a developed musical aesthetic. Ellington too had the latter, if not the former.

I don't think much of right hand pianists, and Peterson was a right hand pianist without much to say musically.

How does this relate to Argerich? Well at least she admires Schumann :)

She is one of my least favourite pianists, too headstrong and too much thumping for my likes. She is least objectionable in chamber/concertos.

[andreaprodan]

@eusebium7

I agree.

She foibles all skill by enhancing the Teutonic aspect of keyboard rendition.

Subtlety grows with subtle grains of sonic smoothness. Argherich has german-argentine bazook. Not fender, not Pearl. It's just IT. She decants her phrasing. It never Pours. It rains.

[slitheringinterstate]

All of you are myopic dimwits unable to comprehend music beyond the classical aesthetic.

Call me when ANY of the pianists you're naming, can play like Oscar Peterson.

He was from another planet of sound.

[swanningaround]

What about Lucy Anderson and maybe Clara Wieck who would have been able to interpret Schumann's music, I would think.

By the way, I much prefer the modern day Martha to the previous one shown here.

[guidohizon]

I prefer the modern day Martha too :)

[swanningaround]

Thanks. :)

[bubbaXzone]

@swanningaround I prefer modern day Martha too :)

[MarieCecile33]

Don't you know Helène Grimaud ? She plays like a Godess !!!

[loveforever997755]

What about ANNIE FISCHER, Mitsuko Uchida, Maria Joao Pires, MAria Judina, and many many others?

[demosj]

Valentina Lisitsa is a must-mention too.

[billyguns2]

People! Alicia de Larrocha, Gina Bachauer, Myra Hess, Clara Haskil, Maria Joao Pires, Rosina Lhevinne, Wanda Landowska, Rosalyn Tureck, Elly Ney, Maria Yudina, Monique Haas, Guiomar Novaes, Jacqueline Bonneau, Annie Fischer, Lili Kraus, Olga Samaroff, Mitsuko Uchida, Helene Grimaud, and I'm only just naming the ones who come immediately to mind? ALL GREAT. Cecile Licad has ALWAYS disapppointed me musically.

[TheAtma]

Alicia de Larrocha.

Lívia Rév .

Valentina Igoshina.

Elley Ney.

Clotilde Kleeberg.

Clara Wieck

Just to name a few.

Need I go on?

[TheAspenTom]

Mitsuko Uchida is an exquisite interpreter of the the old Viennese School, the new Viennese School and all the German Romantic music inbetween. She is steeped in that tradition and is one of the best pianists around of either gender. Ursula Oppens is also spectacular, as she demonstrated with her Beethoven Cycle. The list goes on and on.

[glantz91]

amazing!, no other pianist achieved such contact

with the keyboard, look at her hands!!, they're more than glued to the keyboard!

[wamadeus]

dios como la odio.. no puede tocar tan bien!!!!!!!!!!!

[gabydragona]

le está haciendo un elogio, "deditos para abajo"...

[povepupe]

Il mio Concerto preferito!!!!!!

opera54

[beecombeecom]

She's amazing, but this is not her style of music. so much facial expression.....

I prefer Ｒａｖｅｌ's concerto.

[lokopiano]

Su much facial expression?.

Are you crazy?

Maybe she make a kind of strange unneccesary movemnets with her hands, ( a thing very unusual in her playing....)

What a i agree with you this music doesn´t match exactly with her, but it is my personal opinion, and i can be wrong too.

Anyway she is one of greatest female pianists of all times.

lokopiano.

[Politeama]

I have never liked Miss Argerich, I own some of her CDs that I have bought and the more I play it, the less I like her.

[erickalk]

Idiot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[deemilieu]

she makes it look so 'easy'

[leoelarri]

Que gran orgullo de mi pais... Martha sos una genia!!!

[la6tareligion]

@leoelarri ojala en argentina existiera una preocupacion por el arte, que de estos artistas, pero se tienen que ir tendiendo apenas 10 años para poder desarrollar su talento, de pedo que habla español

[ikshields]

Another reason Argerich deserves her special place in the pantheon:

ENSEMBLE PLAYING!

This pianist plays WITH the orchestra, works WITH the conductor, blends WITH the sonorities. This is a complete musician, not just a pianist all alone out there.

No wonder she has found her comfort zone in later years not in showy solo efforts, but in collaborations with other players.

This is a singular artist, with the musical interests of a well-rounded orchestral player.

[darkangelmommy]

Argerich is one of great pianists of this century!

For the philistines... when you can play as wonderfully as this, then you can comment!

[zhenjiqiaos]

I don't like schumann... but i know this piece and I love martha!!!

[ibclappin]

who are you to come anywhere near judging Schumann's music? you're not capable of enjoying Schumann and i'm sorry for you; we all are. Schumann is way above and beyond our opinions.

[fionasapple]

the guy/girl was just saying he/she didn't like schumann. cool down. i don't find him particularly interesting either, do you want to take this outside?

[somedudeplayingpiano]

that is for the sound, now the orcesta and the piano sound make one sound, and there for mus the lid be removed

[Ollinds]

how come there's no lid on the piano?

[organboi]

what a disgusting conductor, making all those stupid moves.

[ikshields]

Yeah, why doesn't he just laugh and point at people, like I do?

And what's with that pointy little stick in his hand? How's he gonna defend himself with that against all those mean-looking people?

That chick in the red dress is hot, though. Too bad she don't dance on the piano.

(We are so wise, we simple folk...)

[organboi]

yeah, so wise we simple folk...i have a master's degree from Juilliard and teach at Vassar College and have played piano as my profession for over 30 years. Google my name, D. Motise to check. I was making a point as to how unnecessary it is for conductors to move so much. They are an arrogant breed in general, often stealing all the attention away from the orchestra. This is why Orpheus was formed, to prove that orchestras can get along fine without conductors.

[ikshields]

I will accept your qualifications, sight unseen. So now, I am puzzled:

Even granting that conductors can be vain, it is obviously silly to assume that big conducting motions are a just a ploy to "steal attention". You, as a trained player, should know better. (Or DOES a soloist know that?)

Me, I'm an orchestral player, and I could follow this conductor just fine. Big motions, small ones, or none -- whatever works! That's his job up there.

Perhaps you need more experience with conductors.

[ikshields]

PS: Orpheus was not formed out of a marquee-hogging spite against conductors; it was formed because a conductorless ensemble has a different dynamic than one with a conductor, and its founders wanted to explore it.

In other words, they are a living illustration of how much difference a conductor makes.

Take it away, and you have an orchestra that is a wonderful exhibit of ensemble listening on the one hand, with a very truncated repertoire and compromised musical vision on the other.

[mrmonkeybuns]

(Was Hot)

[catharticartist1]

She has been one of my GREAT loves and will forever be.

[charlieb140]

marta argerich is the most under-rated pianist of the last century and the start of this one. She isincredibly power, has a mastery of each work that she plays and her dominance of the piano is much like Emil Gilels. yes she is a magnificent woman in every sense of the that adjective, but that is irrelevant to her artistry, which is a wonderful gift to those privileged to hear her. Would that I had seen her live, at least once. My great loss.

[figensco]

I love this woman...I dream to see her in concert...maybe one day! her play will remain younger forever!

[ramrambatti]

Ohhhh......how beautiful her fingers move.....I am in love! (She just cancelled concert in Lincoln Center, NY. I am not discouraged. There is other chance in October. I will fly to see her. I have been in love for almost 40 years. I am still in love with her.

[Laroling]

Out of tune or not, it sounds well. Actually I think it's not out of tune; it's a videotape recording from the 80's/beginning 90's or something: sound slowly 'deforms' with the colors.

[Laroling]

correction: it's videotape recording from 1977. So end 70's; videotape. It has the kind of sound 'deformation' all my old disney videotapes and 'Amadeus' tape has too. It's definately the videotape that makes it sound like this.

[z666z666z]

This theme of tuning is very strange.

Just to be sure a week ago i was testing ppiano pitch, and the A was exactly in 440.

And teh Orchestra a little sharp something between 442 and 444. This according to my stroboscope. Well, i was not convinced totally, becuase my personal impression was differnet. 4 days ago i just made it again and the piano was exactly with A in 443 ¡¡¡¡¡ and the Orchestra in 440.

I never was aware of this thing in any recording vbia internet, ------------->

[z666z666z]

---------> Somebody told me some time ago: I donñt know what is the relation with alteration of pitch sometimes in internet reproduction of some recordings.......SO....i went to a technician to check my stroboscope, and it´s working completely fine. Somebody has an explanation for this?

I have not ides how with a electornic decive which is perfect you can get different lectures of the same recording???? Crazy thing.

666

[z666z666z]

And to complete the idea.....specially at the end of the movement is more than obvious the piano is very flat if you compare with the orchestra. ¿?¿?

666

[pianonine]

How could have been given a piano that is out of tune to play the Schumann? She could refuse. Her usual beautiful phrasing with gymnastic finger work...Bravo Marta

[digaohh123]

It is maybe just a little flat, maybe some 15 or 20 cents down

[ImaBadAssDruid]

Hey sorry im sorta sick right now and i have a headache. but is that piano out of tune? it sounds a bit flat...? any opinions?

[aldebussy]

Gorgeous

[eppurs1muove]

yes she ... i mean, it is.

[gc65531941]

Argerich will always be beautiful..

[predoje]

@gc65531941 but her music wont?

[gc65531941]

@predoje Of course not. Her music will always be beautiful too, but obviously the quality of the recordings could vary...

[iamnotpod]

bu dinlenirmi mına kım!

[afertyus1000]

smouldering sultry looks,i'm in love/lust

[uwebassu]

great

[DannyBoy1406]

wat happend to the full version on youtube, if you have it can you please upload it.