geez what an electrifying and deathdefying performance! The orchestra could hardly keep up, but once they realised what she was trying to do there was no holding ANYone back!
This was an epic contest which is what a concerto is all about. It was obvious that there was something happening between the two artists, the connection that makes just another good performance into that rare GREAT performance. It was obvious that they were both pleased with how it was going given the smiles caught by the great camera work. In the end it was magnificent!
Nice work cameraman (or editor). While she's playing the impossibly tricky double octaves in the left hand you're showing us ...... a bloody snare drum.
Classic Argerich. She always has the last say with the beautiful ending chords in most piano concertos I've heard her play. The slight delay she adds to conquer the orchestral sound is so much better than the actual orchestral sounds, especially in Rachmaninoff's 3rd.
There is only one thing Martha should have done more of is command the music with elasticity in her interpretation. You must move as needed within the beat to keep the intensity drive up and not let the beat (intensity drive) weaken during a climactic episode. Otherwise the chick is on the money!
@RH98 Well, the 'cameraman' only follows the director's orders. In this case I think they preferred to linger on Argerich's gorgeous and emotional facial expressions rather than her finger fireworks. I also LOVE those looks and glances between Martha and Chailly during the entire performance. So beautiful, so inspiring! This woman is a goddess.
Terrific performance! Terrible video. What a shame. Compare this to the video of Howorwitz playing the same and you can see that whoever produced his video understood the most important thing was to show how the pianist played. Well, it was the 70's and she was just a woman, not a legend, so we got more shots of hair than talent.
Eztoez you are absolutely correct. This is such a brilliant/great performance that even Rach would have been stunned. This I am sure of. Take notice that this took place shortly after Horowitz did it with Ormandy and the NY Phil in 1978. I little pro rivalry I guess. She said it all there on the stage. Her musicianship and pianism are great.
Or maybe because the ending is painfully obvious and they're really just scream out of excitement?
Yes, "at every concert", my snobby, paranoid friend. Everytime someone finishes a short or long-lasting virtuoso piece with a carefully built-up climactic "exclamation mark" ending, the audience bursts into applause - it's a predictable crowd reaction.
I prefer my "settling sound" in introverted, quieter pieces (where you DON'T tend to hear immediate bravos), thank you very much.
Yea, now you've changed your accusation from "pretentious, calculating braggart trying to show everyone that they can notice when the music stops" to "shameless exhibitionist who can't restrain themselves from showing their excitement instead of silenencing in modesty", and expected me not to notice?
No, it's not a "cymbal crash", it's the experience and memory of the entire performance, or even the ending section, building up to the "cymbal crash" if there is one.
A performance both intense in its effect as well as impressive in its "chops", being brought to a worthy conclusion that "drives the dagger home", so to speak.
If the ending is subversive and ends on a whimper, there usually will be some laughter before the applause, which wouldn't be there if the entire piece was light and quiet - and why is that?
Because the ending is contrasted with what came before, and the expectations it induced.
"is probably not so much a respecter of musicians or music-making as they are desperate to act out their shameless exhibitionism"
Yes, and inbetween the "respecter" and the "exhibitionist", there is actually the normal type that's entertained and excited by something that is supposed to entertain and excite.
It may not apply to everyone, but rest assured that a huge chunk of virtuoso musicians are actually motivated and boosted by inducing excitement and entertainment in...
... their audience, and derive their gratification from it.
The comedian isn't about to get offended because the audience can't hold its shameless laughter for just a few seconds more so the significance of their brilliant joke gets to hover in the air for the time interval it's so worthy to deserve, and the musician will usually interpret yells and applause and foot stomping bursting in right after they've played the final chord, as a sign that they succeeded with bravura.
man, how is she SO cool after playing 40 minutes of one of the most mega monstrous beast in the piano literature. I'd be totally dead! But our martha, no, she's just like, "whatever, swag." and grabs her sweat cloth.
this is a tantalizing video, knowing that whoever shot this could have taken a look at martha's hands at any point but decided to deprive posterity of the same chance. my favorite recording by my favorite pianist of my favorite concerto -- this should have been my favorite video ever, but it is really a disgrace. who thought it would be more interesting to watch the backs of the musicians' heads?
Look at that sly, but seductive smile she gives Riccardo at 1:11; makes my hairs stand on point. Martha was a conquistadora for sure! It's definitely an expression of the soul. Absolutely Stunning!
Finns det över 10 stjärnor skulle jag sätta det. Den bästa inspelningen någonsin av Rachs tredje. Ungefärs som Usains Bolts 10,58 på hundra. Blir aldrig övertfräffad
@kims0730 I feel so fortunate to have seen her play the Prokofiev concerto #3 with the UBS Youth Orchestra under Dutoit during a trip to NYC in 2007. Weren't even planning on it, we just happened to see the ad in the NYT that day and we bought tickets. Not only was it a highlight of a fantastic trip, it was a highlight of my life! I've admired her for years, but seeing her made me a real fanatic. You gotta see that woman play, she's electric.
My mind is officially BLOWN! She's a true treasure. I love watching all of the the glances and grins she shares with Chailly too. Such incredible chemistry.
Superb as ever Martha Argerich triumphantly plays Rach 3 in a marvellous performance BUT the idiot cameraman cuts away from her in the finalminutes of the concerto - the camera should show her hands playing the final part of this FABULOUS piece of music!
Ricardo Chailly is the star of the show here. This is the most incompetently filmed video I've ever seen, Argerich was evidently too much of a bother. What a disgusting video.
The problem is that Argerich and Chailly didn't agree a time base for this piece and so the orchestra is continuously struggling to follow the pianist missing it sometimes.
By the way, the last octave descending part at the end could have been the right moment to accelerate and so demonstrate her ultimate force and technique, but that is where she decided to follow strictly the time base. Cannot understand her choice.
There is no other human being on this planet who has anything NEAR that kind of musical ability and jaw-dropping technical mastery. The best part is that you see her stand up to greet the conductor and concertmaster before the soundboard on the piano has even finished resonating. When she's talking to them she's probably saying something completely nonchalant, like, "Dinner? Dinner anybody? Anyone hungry? Lemme run to the bathroom and I'll meet you guys outside."
@drnairb LOLLL. I know, right? So Martha. I managed to see her in Italy and she got up *while her foot was still depressing the sustain peddle*. I once heard her theorize on this tendency of hers, saying that it's either her [large] impatience or just a continuation of her childhood habit of bad nerves, which made her run on to stage, play as soon as she sat down, and then get up just as quickly. Regardless, very interesting... :)
Strange. By 0.50 I felt I'd reached the crescendo of the piece too early. I was left feeling tired and spent, instantly lost any romantic attachment to Martha (and Riccardo for that matter) and felt the urgent need to turn the music down and fall into a deep content sleep. It's never happened to me before, honest.
Strange. At 0:50 I felt I'd reached the crescendo of the piece too early. I was left feeling tired and spent, instantly lost any romantic attachment to Martha (and Riccardo for that matter) and felt the urgent need to turn the music down and fall into a deep content sleep. It's never happened to me before, honest.
@alexface211 I agree. Here we have arguably the greatest living pianist performing arguably the most difficult piano concerto like it's child's play and some of the best parts are focusing on the conductor. Even many of the shots of Argerich playing are from a distance. Still, what an awe-inspiring overall performance!
@ueblondon Just to confirm I was not wrong, I watched the video again and I repeat: I love her "wow" at the end. She does not clasp her lips together creating a "b"
@ueblondon Just to confirm I was not wrong, I watched the video again and I repeat: I love her "wow" at the end. No where does she clasp her lips together creating a "b"
Not my favourite interpretation from a pianistic point of view, but there's an underlying passion and lyricism and flow that is unmatched in other recordings I have heard.
An astounding Rach 3 from probably its greatest ever interpreter - and I include Horowitz and the composer himself! Just a pity that the producer didn't realise that the interest does not lie with seeing the conductor or the pianist's face (even one as good looking as this one) but the pianist's hands.
This is the most beautiful and perfectly executed performance of the rach 3 that I've ever seen/ heard. A great conductor and pianist chemistry. And what can I say about Martha...leaves me breathless. She feels every single note and one only needs to look in her eyes to experience the intensity of her performance, no other words to describe it. Thanks for posting!
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This is one of the WORST perfomances of Rachmaninov's masterpiece I've ever heard! It is not enough to be technically skilled (as she really is) to play this concerto. Her only emotion here is dumb "forte" without even a slightest touch of her own musial thoughts. Pick up any other video from the right column to listen to some better interpretations and leave Martha to play Liszt-n-Czerny!
How awesome would it be to be the first chair violin and be getting the most ridiculous front row view of all time?! I'd learn violin just to get that seat and not even play the violin... just stare at the beauty.
at 3:05 hes all like omg shes holding my hand! As it progresses hes looking at the orchestra like yea she held my hand and then he goes baffeled of the the stage hahaha
I like the fact that Margaret, In addition to breating in a lot of life into her performance, doesn't contort her face during playing as other pianists do..
I listened to Horowitz (both the 1978 version...he was 75, and the 1941 version, which was better than the 1978 version).
My own opinion. Argerich does more for me. The 1941 recording of Horowitz is not very good quality...but I still enjoy Argerich's dynamics and phrasing better. Of all the top pianists that I have heard do Rach 3...she is by far my favorite...not to insult Horowitz (a great pianist).
Both Martha Argerich and Evgeny Kissin are two of my favorite pianists.
OMFG! Only 15,026 views! This is easily one of the most powerful pieces of music played by Martha the Goddess of Piano. Where the hell are all the people? Watching American Idols replay? F**K!!!
I wish it showed her during that intense part of the piece at the beginning . . . I dont think the percussion section is the main focus of that passage
I've seen this several times and each time thought the same thing you did. Why on earth would they show the percussion when there is so much more going on with Martha and her superhuman hands?!
Yes, she did. I have the score in front of me and the four chords that she plays at that moment are all the same. Her first one sounds different (right hand, actually). at 1:23, she repeats the same phrase but, this time, correctly.
I love seeing her play. Lang Lang looks retarded, Horowitz has his apathy thing going (which is also nice). She looks like she's honestly putting it all out.
True. Jesus definitely did not play piano very well.
(He kept cursing his Steinway because it wasn't producing octave runs, and expected it to just wither away like a fig tree at his command. Steinways don't respond to that nonsense...)
You're right. It's the Berliner Philharmonie. The orchestra is the "Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin" (former West-Berlin). Since 1993 it is called "Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester" to avoid any confusion with the "Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin" (former East-Berlin). Both orchestras cooperate now in the same concert-association.
Riccardo Chailly was the principal conductor of the "Radio-Symphonie-Orchester" 1982-1989.
brava!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
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What a performer and sound of the greatest piano ever ..Steinway & Sons !
TheMrMouth 1 day ago
What a performer and sound of the greatest pianno ever ..Steinway & Sons !
TheMrMouth 1 day ago
geez what an electrifying and deathdefying performance! The orchestra could hardly keep up, but once they realised what she was trying to do there was no holding ANYone back!
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empty seats. what the hell
randomprimate 3 weeks ago
Wow
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This was an epic contest which is what a concerto is all about. It was obvious that there was something happening between the two artists, the connection that makes just another good performance into that rare GREAT performance. It was obvious that they were both pleased with how it was going given the smiles caught by the great camera work. In the end it was magnificent!
vicanator1 1 month ago
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gionadibaidze 1 month ago
Love this, please rate my first song, FNCHY1,thankyou
FNCHY1 1 month ago
I love the violin sliding 1:08 . Its little details like that that make this music so beautiful
korlock3000 1 month ago
Whoa! Superb!
beethoven2351 2 months ago
Whoa...superb!
beethoven2351 2 months ago
Nice work cameraman (or editor). While she's playing the impossibly tricky double octaves in the left hand you're showing us ...... a bloody snare drum.
99hoolio 2 months ago
Perfection. There are no other words to describe this.
sfruttata1979 2 months ago
Classic Argerich. She always has the last say with the beautiful ending chords in most piano concertos I've heard her play. The slight delay she adds to conquer the orchestral sound is so much better than the actual orchestral sounds, especially in Rachmaninoff's 3rd.
Kaggypants 2 months ago
There is only one thing Martha should have done more of is command the music with elasticity in her interpretation. You must move as needed within the beat to keep the intensity drive up and not let the beat (intensity drive) weaken during a climactic episode. Otherwise the chick is on the money!
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That smile at 1:10 :)
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luciusfleetfoot 3 months ago
i think i just had a tiny orgasm
neoland9 3 months ago
@neoland9 I think I just had a giant orgasm, bigger than ever in the history of music.
briancolejennifer 3 months ago
Just amazing, I have no words. I can never help singing the melody after 1.05 every single time I hear this...
iwnathan 3 months ago
The best of the best
DrTariq780 3 months ago
The only beef I've got is that she plays the final chord at 2:10 too loudly... should've gone back along with orchestra, in my opinion.
2:40 She's a dominant one :D
twooffour 3 months ago
@twooffour Haha, a person criticizing Martha Argerich's piano playing. Too funny. This performance is quite simply incredible.
mobeck 3 months ago
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I criticize whatever I want, if I can justify it or back it up. What an empty response.
twooffour 3 months ago
@mobeck Uh huh
PattiKay63 2 months ago
@mobeck you are right on.
MrHouyhnhnms 1 week ago
In defence of the cameraman: maybe he aimed to capture and document the epic battle that is Martha Argerich vs Martha Argerich's hair.
RH98 4 months ago 13
@RH98 LOL
steinar123 3 months ago
@RH98 the greatest comment ever =))
andreea140794 2 months ago
@RH98 This is really VERY funny!!! And true!
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@RH98 Well, the 'cameraman' only follows the director's orders. In this case I think they preferred to linger on Argerich's gorgeous and emotional facial expressions rather than her finger fireworks. I also LOVE those looks and glances between Martha and Chailly during the entire performance. So beautiful, so inspiring! This woman is a goddess.
nakamichiguy 1 week ago
Terrific performance! Terrible video. What a shame. Compare this to the video of Howorwitz playing the same and you can see that whoever produced his video understood the most important thing was to show how the pianist played. Well, it was the 70's and she was just a woman, not a legend, so we got more shots of hair than talent.
LeCaptiv1 4 months ago
Eztoez you are absolutely correct. This is such a brilliant/great performance that even Rach would have been stunned. This I am sure of. Take notice that this took place shortly after Horowitz did it with Ormandy and the NY Phil in 1978. I little pro rivalry I guess. She said it all there on the stage. Her musicianship and pianism are great.
PattiKay63 4 months ago
Thats got to be one of the finest performances of the Rach 3. Its staggeringly brilliant.
Eztoez 4 months ago
0:45 DIIIIIIIIIIVE!!!!
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SkyGazer1000 4 months ago
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Or maybe because the ending is painfully obvious and they're really just scream out of excitement?
Yes, "at every concert", my snobby, paranoid friend. Everytime someone finishes a short or long-lasting virtuoso piece with a carefully built-up climactic "exclamation mark" ending, the audience bursts into applause - it's a predictable crowd reaction.
I prefer my "settling sound" in introverted, quieter pieces (where you DON'T tend to hear immediate bravos), thank you very much.
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Yea, now you've changed your accusation from "pretentious, calculating braggart trying to show everyone that they can notice when the music stops" to "shameless exhibitionist who can't restrain themselves from showing their excitement instead of silenencing in modesty", and expected me not to notice?
No, it's not a "cymbal crash", it's the experience and memory of the entire performance, or even the ending section, building up to the "cymbal crash" if there is one.
twooffour 4 months ago
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A performance both intense in its effect as well as impressive in its "chops", being brought to a worthy conclusion that "drives the dagger home", so to speak.
If the ending is subversive and ends on a whimper, there usually will be some laughter before the applause, which wouldn't be there if the entire piece was light and quiet - and why is that?
Because the ending is contrasted with what came before, and the expectations it induced.
twooffour 4 months ago
@SkyGazer1000
"is probably not so much a respecter of musicians or music-making as they are desperate to act out their shameless exhibitionism"
Yes, and inbetween the "respecter" and the "exhibitionist", there is actually the normal type that's entertained and excited by something that is supposed to entertain and excite.
It may not apply to everyone, but rest assured that a huge chunk of virtuoso musicians are actually motivated and boosted by inducing excitement and entertainment in...
twooffour 4 months ago
@SkyGazer1000
... their audience, and derive their gratification from it.
The comedian isn't about to get offended because the audience can't hold its shameless laughter for just a few seconds more so the significance of their brilliant joke gets to hover in the air for the time interval it's so worthy to deserve, and the musician will usually interpret yells and applause and foot stomping bursting in right after they've played the final chord, as a sign that they succeeded with bravura.
twooffour 4 months ago
@SkyGazer1000
"Let the soloist on stage be the exhibitionist, they can get away with it because they have the chops to back it up."
So the pianist should jump up and applaud themselves, because they have the chops to back that up? Is that what you're saying?
Well, the closest to that that I've seen would be Lang Lang after this concert, so you may prefer that.
Oh, and be sure to check out Richard Kastle - he doesn't forget to throw an arrogant smirk or two into the audience after finishing.
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SkyGazer1000 4 months ago
"Yes to all your suggestions."
Well thanks for that - most of the time someone makes a moronic point, they don't let it go this easily, so mad hat respect to you!
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@SkyGazer1000
To sum it up, you're a joke.
twooffour 4 months ago
man, how is she SO cool after playing 40 minutes of one of the most mega monstrous beast in the piano literature. I'd be totally dead! But our martha, no, she's just like, "whatever, swag." and grabs her sweat cloth.
solveaproblem 4 months ago
5 parts...I'm exhausted watching this and the poor woman had to play it.
vinnyd91 4 months ago
this is a tantalizing video, knowing that whoever shot this could have taken a look at martha's hands at any point but decided to deprive posterity of the same chance. my favorite recording by my favorite pianist of my favorite concerto -- this should have been my favorite video ever, but it is really a disgrace. who thought it would be more interesting to watch the backs of the musicians' heads?
semicolin 5 months ago
See, this is the problem I have with camera-work.
Why... oh why in the hell didn't they show her left hand on 0:27 ????
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Look at that sly, but seductive smile she gives Riccardo at 1:11; makes my hairs stand on point. Martha was a conquistadora for sure! It's definitely an expression of the soul. Absolutely Stunning!
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This is what Chuck Norris listens
dasteufelhund 5 months ago
This is the music God listens to between a nap and the other...
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Finns det över 10 stjärnor skulle jag sätta det. Den bästa inspelningen någonsin av Rachs tredje. Ungefärs som Usains Bolts 10,58 på hundra. Blir aldrig övertfräffad
SPLINTER581 5 months ago
who would dislike this?!
novlincess 5 months ago
Wow, amazing! I want to see her live...just once....before I die.
kims0730 5 months ago 16
@kims0730 I feel so fortunate to have seen her play the Prokofiev concerto #3 with the UBS Youth Orchestra under Dutoit during a trip to NYC in 2007. Weren't even planning on it, we just happened to see the ad in the NYT that day and we bought tickets. Not only was it a highlight of a fantastic trip, it was a highlight of my life! I've admired her for years, but seeing her made me a real fanatic. You gotta see that woman play, she's electric.
nakamichiguy 5 months ago
My mind is officially BLOWN! She's a true treasure. I love watching all of the the glances and grins she shares with Chailly too. Such incredible chemistry.
nakamichiguy 5 months ago
@kims0730 Me too!!!
EVELINEK 3 months ago
@kims0730 I agree.
PianoDaemon 2 months ago
Nailed it.
KneeJerkish 5 months ago
0:46 man! Epic moment! Love this conductor.
MrFlorestanEusebius 6 months ago
OH my that was wonderful. How old was Argerich when she played this?
Eztoez 6 months ago
What a wonderful pianist and almost perfect rendition of this concert.
Jaimejimmyjim 6 months ago 2
Flawless
smrgeog 6 months ago
Pure music! But can I see Martha´s hands please?
Choltik 6 months ago
I wish the camera would focus on her hands.
Hosker25 6 months ago
LA PIU GRANDE PIANISTA DEL MONDO è LEI!!!!!!!
Plantocrate 6 months ago
Superb as ever Martha Argerich triumphantly plays Rach 3 in a marvellous performance BUT the idiot cameraman cuts away from her in the finalminutes of the concerto - the camera should show her hands playing the final part of this FABULOUS piece of music!
moviefan1955 7 months ago
Three minutes, 41 seconds of electrifying pure magic. This was clearly much more more than a concert. This was a divine act.
javadaghajoon 8 months ago
Ricardo Chailly is the star of the show here. This is the most incompetently filmed video I've ever seen, Argerich was evidently too much of a bother. What a disgusting video.
elgar34 8 months ago
Sí la escucharan los genios Rachm,Tchaik, Bach, etc. estarian Felices con esta GRANDE Y MARAVILLOSA pianista. GENIA!!!!!!
amanteamada1 8 months ago
THE greatest pianist of the 20th/21st centuries; no doubt about it. None.
GojuBob 8 months ago
haha I like 0:22 where Chailly is like "OK guys, dont go crazy". Something about it just amuses me, not sure why.
RH98 8 months ago
She did a great job. Bravo Martha.
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DanielM647 8 months ago 2
i don't like some part of that audicience. Some of them didn't deserve such a wonderful intrepretation.
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salrigatti 9 months ago
with this clip i hear notes that i have never heard by other players, awesome articulation
dommboi69 9 months ago 8
@dommboi69 You are exactly right! The same feeling with me, never before I enjoyed this marvelous piece of music so much.
Thank you DC788 you share this with us!
jirizika1962 9 months ago
The problem is that Argerich and Chailly didn't agree a time base for this piece and so the orchestra is continuously struggling to follow the pianist missing it sometimes.
By the way, the last octave descending part at the end could have been the right moment to accelerate and so demonstrate her ultimate force and technique, but that is where she decided to follow strictly the time base. Cannot understand her choice.
3BoMc 9 months ago
@3BoMc Reading your comment actually made my eyes bleed. :)
xiangyik 9 months ago
There is no other human being on this planet who has anything NEAR that kind of musical ability and jaw-dropping technical mastery. The best part is that you see her stand up to greet the conductor and concertmaster before the soundboard on the piano has even finished resonating. When she's talking to them she's probably saying something completely nonchalant, like, "Dinner? Dinner anybody? Anyone hungry? Lemme run to the bathroom and I'll meet you guys outside."
drnairb 10 months ago
@drnairb LOLLL. I know, right? So Martha. I managed to see her in Italy and she got up *while her foot was still depressing the sustain peddle*. I once heard her theorize on this tendency of hers, saying that it's either her [large] impatience or just a continuation of her childhood habit of bad nerves, which made her run on to stage, play as soon as she sat down, and then get up just as quickly. Regardless, very interesting... :)
mmoynan 8 months ago
1:44 is THE MARTHA MOMENT!!! That picture of her face should be made into a poster!! I would buy it!
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yaye
MrSheogorath 10 months ago
Quel talent; Madame vous êtes merveilleuse!
bleuinuit 10 months ago
I like that Chailly actually allows us to hear the brass at 1:50. so many conductors let that get swallowed up.
We're at the climax of a Russian piano concerto. srsly, gimmee my fucking brass.
DancingPancake 10 months ago 2
Martha Argerich is the best pianist in history. And she's Argentinian!!!!!!
HJKey 10 months ago
Strange. By 0.50 I felt I'd reached the crescendo of the piece too early. I was left feeling tired and spent, instantly lost any romantic attachment to Martha (and Riccardo for that matter) and felt the urgent need to turn the music down and fall into a deep content sleep. It's never happened to me before, honest.
GabriKnight 11 months ago
Strange. At 0:50 I felt I'd reached the crescendo of the piece too early. I was left feeling tired and spent, instantly lost any romantic attachment to Martha (and Riccardo for that matter) and felt the urgent need to turn the music down and fall into a deep content sleep. It's never happened to me before, honest.
GabriKnight 11 months ago
@GabriKnight That's why you felt the need to post this twice in the comments I presume? :)
Kaggypants 2 months ago
Un-Freaking-Believable!!!!!!!!!! Awesome!!!
TheSuitIsNOTBlack 11 months ago
最高だ・・・・・！！
whisper1012 11 months ago
Only thing wrong with this video is the camerawork. There's too much focus on the conductor, not enough on Martha.
alexface211 11 months ago
@alexface211 I agree. Here we have arguably the greatest living pianist performing arguably the most difficult piano concerto like it's child's play and some of the best parts are focusing on the conductor. Even many of the shots of Argerich playing are from a distance. Still, what an awe-inspiring overall performance!
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@ueblondon Just to confirm I was not wrong, I watched the video again and I repeat: I love her "wow" at the end. She does not clasp her lips together creating a "b"
LegendOD20 11 months ago
@ueblondon Just to confirm I was not wrong, I watched the video again and I repeat: I love her "wow" at the end. No where does she clasp her lips together creating a "b"
LegendOD20 11 months ago
@LegendOD20 She does, she says "bravo" to the conducter.
MrElicottero 8 months ago
@ueblondon Thank you for the unnecessary clarification. For the record, I read lips--literally.
LegendOD20 1 year ago
Also, the look at 0:08 SCARES me!! Lol.
mmoynan 1 year ago
Not my favourite interpretation from a pianistic point of view, but there's an underlying passion and lyricism and flow that is unmatched in other recordings I have heard.
mmoynan 1 year ago
An astounding Rach 3 from probably its greatest ever interpreter - and I include Horowitz and the composer himself! Just a pity that the producer didn't realise that the interest does not lie with seeing the conductor or the pianist's face (even one as good looking as this one) but the pianist's hands.
kenedwards5 1 year ago
This is the most beautiful and perfectly executed performance of the rach 3 that I've ever seen/ heard. A great conductor and pianist chemistry. And what can I say about Martha...leaves me breathless. She feels every single note and one only needs to look in her eyes to experience the intensity of her performance, no other words to describe it. Thanks for posting!
rsigler74 1 year ago 2
I like how he goes kinda nuts at around 0:49.
iczerman 1 year ago
Does anyone knows when it was? The year?
BrasilioGonzalez 1 year ago
@BrasilioGonzalez It was around 1985.
MrFortepianist 1 year ago
@BrasilioGonzalez If it's the same as the CD (which I think it is) then 1982
kenedwards5 11 months ago
I think Argerich "feels" the music like no one else. Amazing!!!
QMPhilosophe 1 year ago
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fagelsinnet 1 year ago
this is an unbelievable performance!!!! One of the best! I love her "wow" at the end!
LegendOD20 1 year ago
@LegendOD20 she says 'bravi' not 'wow'
ueblondon 1 year ago
Smile at 2:03. =)
Kaggypants 1 year ago
Such things justify existence. Both the composer and the performer have given me a great deal of pleasure over the years.
Josedono 1 year ago
i could call this performance the most beautiful way to die by music!!!
jasonkrick 1 year ago
Encore !
JEatsbabies 1 year ago
In my opinion the all time greatest recording of this piece of music. Totally sublime.!!!
YERAULDA 1 year ago 2
this is extremely fabulous
ueblondon 1 year ago
Martha is actually 12 years older than the conductor. But does she look it? No way!
LordCalvinHastings 1 year ago 2
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This is one of the WORST perfomances of Rachmaninov's masterpiece I've ever heard! It is not enough to be technically skilled (as she really is) to play this concerto. Her only emotion here is dumb "forte" without even a slightest touch of her own musial thoughts. Pick up any other video from the right column to listen to some better interpretations and leave Martha to play Liszt-n-Czerny!
MONSTROISE 1 year ago
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MONSTROISE 1 year ago
All I have to say is this: Martha, Rach on!
LordCalvinHastings 1 year ago 5
How awesome would it be to be the first chair violin and be getting the most ridiculous front row view of all time?! I'd learn violin just to get that seat and not even play the violin... just stare at the beauty.
avalanche183 1 year ago 4
at 3:05 hes all like omg shes holding my hand! As it progresses hes looking at the orchestra like yea she held my hand and then he goes baffeled of the the stage hahaha
033muil 1 year ago
I don't think it gets any better.
mmoynan 1 year ago
I like the fact that Margaret, In addition to breating in a lot of life into her performance, doesn't contort her face during playing as other pianists do..
freeqwerqwer 1 year ago
2:38 "promise me you'll start a diet from now on ok? o'right?"
richclayderman 1 year ago 10
1:11 to the end is the definition of romanticism, I think. Stunning...absolutely stunning.
thecomposerpianist 1 year ago 3
I listened to Horowitz (both the 1978 version...he was 75, and the 1941 version, which was better than the 1978 version).
My own opinion. Argerich does more for me. The 1941 recording of Horowitz is not very good quality...but I still enjoy Argerich's dynamics and phrasing better. Of all the top pianists that I have heard do Rach 3...she is by far my favorite...not to insult Horowitz (a great pianist).
Both Martha Argerich and Evgeny Kissin are two of my favorite pianists.
robertslistening 1 year ago 2
OMFG! Only 15,026 views! This is easily one of the most powerful pieces of music played by Martha the Goddess of Piano. Where the hell are all the people? Watching American Idols replay? F**K!!!
specialist28s 2 years ago 87
@specialist28s LOL
tianobrothers 1 year ago
@specialist28s, we're not all Yanks. We watch BGT, not AGT.
freeqwerqwer 1 year ago
@specialist28s Sorry, but you cannot force everybody to hear Rachmaninov!!!
kottorra 4 months ago
Still sexy after all these years (apologies to Paul Simon)
jabberwock01 2 years ago
This concerto was taped in 1982 but she's still beautiful and has lost none of her gifts.
Grisostomo06 2 years ago 3
So true!
jamandindy 2 years ago
Am I the only one who hears Chailly yelling over the orchestra at 00:49? (he's like TA TA TATATATA!)
noukraine 2 years ago
great orchestra bravo chailly!
gouldschonberg 2 years ago
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MISTERMORNE 2 years ago
Ever wondered what 'rapture' meant? This has to be the answer... She is incomarable, and that music... Oh Lord...
oldeworlde 2 years ago
HAPY BIRTHDAY DARLING!
you are the wildest angel on earth
with love from Buenos Aires J
javierf67 2 years ago
I wish it showed her during that intense part of the piece at the beginning . . . I dont think the percussion section is the main focus of that passage
shanehodd 2 years ago
I've seen this several times and each time thought the same thing you did. Why on earth would they show the percussion when there is so much more going on with Martha and her superhuman hands?!
3cplantin 2 years ago 3
God expresses himself beautifully through Rachmaninov and Martha Argerich. What a delight!
Asgoodasgod 2 years ago
the only woman i always wanted to marry!!!!!!!!!!!!
liszt78 2 years ago
Talented, Beautiful and freeminded
pierrot79 2 years ago
Bravo Martha, Bravisimo!!!!!!!!! te amamos.
alexcamara82 2 years ago
Go Martha!!!!!!!!!!
laqin007 3 years ago
Does she mess up at 1:03? She didn't look to happy....
noukraine 3 years ago
No she didn't goof. She plays perfectly,and she's one of greatest pianist of all time,and that's a fact!!!!
476892 3 years ago
Yes, she did. I have the score in front of me and the four chords that she plays at that moment are all the same. Her first one sounds different (right hand, actually). at 1:23, she repeats the same phrase but, this time, correctly.
noukraine 3 years ago
@476892 Oh yes she did. lol I love Martha Argerich, but that chord was not right.
matt92091 1 year ago
I love seeing her play. Lang Lang looks retarded, Horowitz has his apathy thing going (which is also nice). She looks like she's honestly putting it all out.
TonisAndreasHallaste 3 years ago
God... It's so easy for her... :-)
darnmat 3 years ago
You're right: She is a Goddess!!! I don't think that Jesus could play that well!!!
476892 3 years ago
True. Jesus definitely did not play piano very well.
(He kept cursing his Steinway because it wasn't producing octave runs, and expected it to just wither away like a fig tree at his command. Steinways don't respond to that nonsense...)
ikshields 3 years ago
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MISTERMORNE 2 years ago
Fantastic!
Thanks for posting!
What year was this? Early 80's?
BrentAudi 3 years ago
Berlin, 1982/12
mafans80 3 years ago
What orcheatra is this? I think the hall looks like the Berlin Philharmonie....
MarkoKassenaar 3 years ago
You're right. It's the Berliner Philharmonie. The orchestra is the "Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin" (former West-Berlin). Since 1993 it is called "Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester" to avoid any confusion with the "Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin" (former East-Berlin). Both orchestras cooperate now in the same concert-association.
Riccardo Chailly was the principal conductor of the "Radio-Symphonie-Orchester" 1982-1989.
Kossenblatt 3 years ago
Thank you! I know Chailly worked there before coming to Amsterdam, but never saw recordings from that period before. Very nice!
MarkoKassenaar 3 years ago
Do not forget the pulsating and energetic accompinament, provided by maestro Chally!
MarkoKassenaar 3 years ago
They were a great combo, Argerich and Chailly.
I always kinda had a sneaking suspicion that he was one of her "conquests" at some point too...
hee hee... fun to speculate!
ikshields 3 years ago 26
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@ikshields Must have depended only on her. :P But he seemed so close and happy in the end greeting her...
olivleonardo 5 months ago
This is my favourite part of the whole concerto, and Martha is really a genius... every time I listen to her performance I would be so moved...
seleniumchai 3 years ago