Prokofiev, Precipitato from Piano Sonata No. 7 (Martha Argerich)

[zizou11111]

TOTA PULCHRA ES MARTHA!!!

[AhaBach4Life]

Insane. Simply insane! That's the fastest temp I've ever heard or this movement

[fredericfranc]

With the mentality I have, always sounds like perfect dancing music. Some enterprising choreographer should have it orcestrated, you can't have them dancing to the piano playing like this, it is too cheesy. It is a toccata in 7 time, and they could dance to it, counting 3-4, 3-4... Ravel was present at rehearsals of his Daphnis for the Danse Generale, and made them count 2-3, 2-3. The next prime number is 11. How about it?

[iOnlySignIn]

She kicks way too much ass for such an elegant lady.

[flic71]

LA AMOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

[MorganaWalkyria]

Es fantástica!!! Dios mío, quedé re loca!!!

[ssyreeni]

BTW, I wonder what the dramatic effect must have been live, when Argerich goes from the second movement to such a breakneck rendition of the third. I mean, it has to have been something like starting at a retirement settlement, and being flushed down a volcano. I doubt many in the audience have been able to sleep after such a shock treatment.

[alessandrospinamusic]

Wonderful... I love piano sound.. 5 stars

[tuxdcat]

imo Konrad Skolarski plays this better than anyone.

[ssyreeni]

I simply love the zeal and jest that Martha has. As a techno freak I live the piece overall, but Argerich takes it to a new level in the sense that she breaks the barrier between percussive and tonal. Between timbre and note. That's precisely what makes the best techno so interesting to me, and what *ought* to discern mechanical music from the acoustical.

Yet, in Martha's virtuosic hands, suddenly stuff that could only come from machines comes to life. Simply love it.

[meneltar]

My god, I've been hearing this recording for years and this cods still surprises me.

[win081]

Fast ! Super Fast !

She must be intoxicated when she plays this.

[somedudeplayingpiano]

even prokofiev him self would be stuned by hearing this preformance, no one can play argerich, great !

[ymasmas]

incroyable, j'ai retenu mon souffle jusqu'à la fin.

[neoland9]

this is great..

esta genial

[derefis]

This is scary

[pedrobesteiras]

Yes

[alfon87]

@derefis It's Prokofiev and Argerich... scary is such a bloody nice adjective for the playing...

[pedrobesteiras]

her fastest is some studio recording... many wrong notes in the coda, as usual, but WHO CARES?

[anothermusicfan]

Brilliant, as usual!

And this is not even Martha's fastest rendition of this movement.