Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No. 1 - Mov 3 (Martha Argerich, 1973)

[domchimic]

trop fort, j'adore................

[killermcbiagio]

ohh il allegro con fuoco e mi preferiti e magnifico

[haeddus]

meine fresse!!!!!!!!

[SatoTM3]

6:27 - 7:45

STOP THE FECKN CLAPPING ><

[linceed87]

@SatoTM3 why?

[stokleyb]

There are those tears again. A marvelous performance. Marvelous indeed!!!!! Only Tchaikovsky could compose such genious and Ms. Argerich gives it the interpretation composed.

[richclayderman]

my kind of woman!

[almostfreak07]

Kimolerik: Many, many thanks for uploading such an extensive list of videos of Martha. She is incredible! I never get tired of listen to her performances, and the inspiration to practice after watching her is priceless!!

[uffizzi19]

hermoso cantabile ¡¡¡ octavas precisas¡¡¡ un legato mas que perfecto ¡¡¡ martha es unica, ademas de hermosa ¡¡¡

[yooperlooper]

you can see she's having fun, her fingers dancing off the keys like raindrops dancing on pavement on a hot summer day

[rbrtwllc]

Great playing by Martha. Why all the comparisons with Horowitz ?? He made a terrific number of mistakes - by his own admission he thought a show was more important than accuracy. I don't think he was as accurate or as powerful as Argerich.

[24link135]

@rbrtwllc Though I believe that Argerich absolutely idolized Horowitz and after hearing him play, tried to emulate his style and passion in playing, she always claimed him to be the best. I personally think Horowitz was the greatest, but I love Argerich as well; her rendition of Tchaikovsky no.1 is in my opinion superior to that of Horowitz (One has to admit that his performance is really messy at some parts, especially the octaves)

This remains the best interpretation i know

[lynndelano]

The only one I will hold next to Cliburn ....and I believe, other than his amazing presence, she interprets in an even finer manner....

[briancolejennifer]

What is this touched by an angle shit! Its genentic! You are a three dimensional expression of your DNA, yours just isn't quite as good as Martha's, that and perhaps the early experiences, but DNA is first. The same with Einstien, either your brain is wired for math or it isn't, you can't TRY to become a genius, its just wired in or it isn't.

[Neverpiefly]

Perhaps the most technically proficient playing of the runs and fastest playing of the octave passage I've ever seen. Amazing!!!

[zackyko]

yes, Horowitch & Martha..touched by an angel!!!!

[UncagedCardinal]

The clarity and drive in her performance, (especially at 1m 45s to 1m 55s) is absolutely awesome.

Great orchestra too.

Wonderful !

[rachmaninov1873]

5'05 - 5'18..best performanced ever!! bravo!!

[bakes789]

5:05 ...

cue shitting my pants

[MorroccoSurrogate]

Oh, I love this piece. It's just so theatrical.

[richclayderman]

lang lang sucks, marta argerich rocks!

[fanjiatia]

Why does everyone love Argerich? Sure, she is a technical genius, but she doesn't have the understanding of the meaning of the pieces she plays, and doesn't have as much dynamic depth. i mean, how much dynamics can you incorporate when you play teh piece x times too fast? I guess people mistake fastness and technical preciseness as virtuosity.

[hideaway3]

@fanjiatia

Honey,when you get to her level, we begin speaking in terms of direction and placement, not 1st year students' dynamics. And why do we have to read "compositions" from people who appear to know what the hell they're talking about? We don't. It's simple: you don't pay mind to either:.don't listen to her and don't read your bull. Let those of us who have training and taste not bother with fools like you. So now go and learn "MIchael, Row the Boat Ashore" and get on with your life.

[fanjiatia]

Right? I was just getting mad, because people were being racist to Lang Lang. I don't have anything against Martha Argerich. I just wanted to see how many people on youtube like Lang Lang, and how many people like other pianists. Anyways, why do you care so much? You seem to have time to log on to Youtube almost everyday. If you don't like Lang Lang, don't be racist.

[fanjiatia]

Oh, and I already have learned Michael, Row the Boat Ashore, okay? I'm learning pieces of music like sonatas, and concertoes. Don't be so mean. Remember, no matter how good you are, there will always be someone better. By the way, isn't direction just the way the music develops to a certain point,e.g( a melody or cadenza)?

[MrGrigor99]

This is child's play for her. Amazing.

[telavasapela]

I think Lang Lang is a technically skilled, talented pianist, and holds his own against modern pianists. With that being said, I do admit sometimes he looks too silly and produces bad quality music. Putting Lang Lang in context with this video... well that would strip him of everything, so I think that's why he has a bad reputation here.

[13irdo]

lang lang is awesome, why do you all speak so poorly of him?

[concerto35]

This is one of the most impressive performances that I have ever heard of this work !!

This is Martha Agerich at her height.

[bdjmbl17]

Breathtaking

[eltachimetro]

why comparing with lang lang? good pianist as argerich shouldn't be compared with actors as lang lang, compare her with horowitz :D

[bdjmbl17]

I absolutely agree

[nidoperepil]

@eltachimetro i think both horowitz and martha are good in their own way and shouldnt be compared either

[BenMcCormack91]

@nidoperepil I compare Horowitz and Argerich quite often, but not to the detriment of my opinion of either. I mean, they're generally regarded as two of the top pianists in the history of recorded music, they both have phenomenal technique and interpretive skills, and to ignore either is to ignore a major part of piano music in the twentieth century.

I compare them when they've both recorded the same piece, because it's always interesting to hear two equally-good, different interpretations.

[portoxali]

@BenMcCormack91 I don't think that it is reasonable to compare these two pianists, as Horowtiz is of quite different caliber than Argerich. Indeed Argerich has really great technical skills, though in my opinion she lacks that mysterious quality which truly greatest pianists possess. To me, her playing is almost completely preoccupied with technical and energetic playing approach while other interpretative nuances are given secondary importance

[SergeantMuffins]

@eltachimetro what is it with people and their illogical hard on for bang bang? i mean seriously. every youtube video that has godlike pianists like argerich and horowitz have to have bang bang spam left by his even more idiotic fans.

[chai35]

@eltachimetro Lang Lang?..... who is that? :)

[tufiboy]

@chai35 a very talented actor :)

[robfuturemd]

Much MUCH better the Bang Bang, can't even compare, LOL!

[Ellinidara]

Long life the Queen !!!!!

[avramie45691]

She looks like she's doing this in her sleep!

[yooperlooper]

I dream about playing like Martha......

[Venoks]

Lang Lang isn't a concert pianist, he is an actor !! Argerich is a very good, fantastic concert pianist !

[robshelrobshel]

Lang Lang is not an actor - he is a clown.

[124bjw]

This concerto and polonaise are two of my favorite classical pieces and Martha Argerich is a fantastic pianist in both. I don't know what the commentor below meant by foolish/genius--I apparently don't know mistakes when I hear them. But I hear her play and listening to her seems perfect to me. Yet I'm not a technical expert--I think I'm glad.

[HectorJW2007]

She's super pretty and looks hot.

[chillida09]

Lang Lang is a very gooood pianist, but he sometimes too rhapsodical man. Confusal presentation are not equal genial presentation. This awesome concert, Martha has unique technical perfection - see stretta from 5:50 -with a genius' improvisative vision.

[whiterottenrabbit]

I knwo, that my question may result in many thumbs down, but even at this risk I have to ask: Who is Lang Lang? Could you recommend any youtube video with him?

[ostrorawr]

You could try his Liszt reminiscences de don juan (just search for "lang lang reminiscences").

[robfuturemd]

Search him on youtube. The Clown and the shame of the piano. Just listen to him play "fledermause" by Strauss, that is all you need to hear from him and you can get an impression of his playing.

[fanjiatia]

He is a world reknowned concert pianist. He won many competitions including the Tchaikovsky International Young Musicians' Competition. He sometimes plays bad, but you have to look at many of his songs. I think is the best.

[hideaway3]

@fanjiatia

And one other gripe....they're not songs, Schumann, Brahms and Schubert wrote songs for voice and piano accompaniment; Tsachi., Liszt and Rach. wrote pieces and conceri. Come on, get your terminology straight so you can add one iota of credibility to what you're writing. God, how many people are we going to be forced to educate on this site?

[fanjiatia]

You don't have to. I am surrounded by people who go to Juilliard. Geez, come on! I realized my mistake when I clicked post comment, but I felt lazy to correct it.

[argerichluvr]

@fanjiatia - Hi again, Fanny. And I, too, was surrounded by people from Juilliard, Mannes and The Manhattan School of Music when I was working on a degree from Juilliard. Did you graduate from Juilliard? With whom did you study? I studied with Gyorgy Sandor. When were you there? Perhaps we bitch slapped each other. If not then, perhaps we could begin now, you troll.

[rachmaninov1873]

she is 100 times playing better than Lang Lang

[Seanze329]

@rachmaninov1873 make that 1000000000000000000000000!!!! His faces disgust me...

[antoniopiano]

I (L) MARTHA ARGUERICH

[chillida09]

AND! the extra F7 chord at the 5:18 is a funny but excellent moment :) (The score contains here only one A note through 2 octaves)

[rolipoli]

the wrong chord at 2:02 is sooooooo hilarious

[chillida09]

it's the concert's sex appeal :) but Martha awesome, a foolish-genius pianist...

[shakingguy]

Martha is fabulous...but Dutoit and the orchestra are so dry, iy sounds like circus sometime and it doesn't fit her beautifull playing...thats a pity

[rolipoli]

totally agree... dutoit is an untalented idiot

[mmoynan]

@shakingguy I agree. The orchestra is out of sync with martha at times. And it's just kind of dry...

[rachmaninov1873]

wt a best of tchai no.1 version that i ever seen! noone can do such perfect than her!!

[BlackiePrincess7]

excelente !!

[SoCalTrojan]

lol at 0:58 haha its like shes jibbering to herself =]

[bobrasta123]

No no no no no no no no........tutto questo non può essere vero......

[fasilachanter]

Perfect Argerich...NOTHING TO SAY

[Liebromeistal]

Richter plays this a lot more musically.

[trigon8707]

No.....he didn't

[maidoodesu]

wizard!?...　goddess!?...　Argerich... Argentina

[nojstradamus]

gorgeous! the playing too

[jjg7]

there's another video of hers here in youtube playing.. i think its about 30 years after this 1973 performance and it seems nothing has changed in her playing.

[swanningaround]

jjg. Both versions are great. I personally think that the later versions is far better.

[swanningaround]

jjg. Some has changed in her playing since 1973 - she got better!

[Venoks]

it's incredible

[bw2082]

the clarity and speed of the parallel scale runs around 3:50 are just as impressive as the octaves

[brekfsklub]

makes it looks so easy

[partitasa89]

watch the one she played in Japan uploaded by "kimolerik". That one is MUCH MUCH MUCH more better than this one!! Enjoy it! =D *thanks to kimo too!! =D

[ShotX2]

No !!!!

[somedudeplayingpiano]

omg :| the best she ever played

[71dogface]

Yes !!!!

[SonofDostojevskij]

My favorit version is no doubt Kissins

[almostlasse123]

This is one of the best interpretations I've seen, but not THE best. That honor, i'm afraid, goes to the 1980 CBS live recording of Emil Gilels with the New York Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta.  This, though, is easily second. Incredible Performance!

[71dogface]

How, how could this get any better ???

I did NOT give you a thumbs down.

Argercih's beautiful then and now.--DF

[71dogface]

But I did go back day by day and knock off the "thumbs down" you did not deserve.--DF

[manolotube007]

OMG!!! 5:05 those double octaves are amazing.

[aijirew]

This is the most dynamics and energetic version that I ever heard

[juansmdgp]

la mejor interpretacion con una ovacion timida

[laureanobruno]

THE BEEEEEEEEST INTERPRETATION!!!!!!!!!!!!

Excelente, un honor ser compatriota de esta brillante pianista. Lamento que mi país ser objeto de envidia mundial debido a su calidad de formación musical.

[santiagox2]

Argerich es la mejor.

[lynndelano]

FLAWLESS

[lynndelano]

This one is, by far, the best, in my opinion. I am a diehard Van Clibuurn fan, none the less. This is JUST the most amazing performance ever. Her face, her technique, everything is perfect. See Van Cliburn, Tchaikovsky, Mvt III on YouTube for equally as moving performance.

[Surlentkun]

When I played the piano, the second and this movement were (and still are) my most favourite parts from Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1.

Anyway, now I feel dumb quitting constantly playing the piano after 7 years ... like some of the people may have experienced too, being about 13 or 14, other interests grew up, oh my -.-

I still have a CD and even an original tape from that flying around here, heh. Might pop those things again, heh.

[TimberWolfW]

Awesome. I wish I could play the piano, such a beautiful instrument.

[ZachKooper]

it's never too late to begin :)

[cayman228]

Non voglio sembrare maschilista, ma non ho trovato finora UNA donna che sia una in grado di fare degnamente questo concerto.

Per carità le note ci sono e ci sono tutte... ma manca di anima, di interpretazione, manca una vera dinamica, un fraseggio... è come sentire un midi. E non è una bella sensazione.

Tanto di cappello per la tecnica superba, ma Tchaikovsky non è Beethoven, e non si può suonare come se lo fosse...

Chiedo scusa a chi non fosse d'accordo...

[pincheruso]

Completamente deaccuerdo con cayman!

[alecs1976]

maybe it's only your lack of "anima" to hear and see what a great performance that is in every way!

[foodmore]

i've got a recording of dubravka tomsic's playing. absolutely perfect

[roderickellem]

A truely incredible performance. You can see why they thought it unplayable when it was first written. Watching her hands move is an amazing experience.

[ppaolo2000]

unica musicale...splendida e qualcuna paragona questa qui con lang lang.... passi horowitz ..rubinstein...  ma lang lang...

[Fantasiex3]

Amazing! :)

[Kidneymitzvah]

Awesome! Does anyone know where this concert took place? Breathtaking hall.

[potskybo]

victoria hall, geneva switserland!

[cpdavidzas]

stunning as always

[sundior]

太厉害了。

[chopinasi]

Watch the performance of Cecile Licad in Tchaikowsy - Piano Concerto No.1- 4/4 because that's what I call PERFECT .

[chopinasi]

Lei e' una bravissima pianista ... pero gli altri persone di questo concerto forse no, Quasi perfetto!!!

[napoleoneterzo]

Eccellente,miticamente Marta.Che MERAVIGLIA

[karljeff14]

Unbelieveable technique. However,musically it sucked rather grandly.Van Cliburn,so much better. Hell, Cliburn is Tchaikovsky's numero uno concerto.

[rigel48]

Cliburn is famous in this concerto, but Horowitz and Argerich are far more exciting (and as much musical !).

Just a matter of taste as usual.

[Yellottwe]

You must have not even listened to it. You just think oh, its fast so it must not be musical. Argerich is more than capable of playing fast and still maintaining a musical phrase.

[thepianomaniac]

SO AMAZING! :)

[clairannette]

Finally!!!!!! A video production supervisor who realizes what we wanna see in the cadenza!!!! Those octaves were AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!

[happymimi16]

I wanna be part of something like this! Classical music is amazing...it seems to tell a story as you listen.

[budzillab]

look at 0:58 to 1:10 , she looks like shes having so much fun there!

[penguinshin]

WOW OMG I LOVE THAT 5:05 PART OCTAVE RUN, its just perfect for that section.... wow

[penguinshin]

one thing i noticed about tchaikovsky is that he really likes to tie together the orchestra and the piano with simple, yet intervweaving parts- martha ager does a great job.

[marrieter08]

she looks like as if she is just playing

[Desmonddd2002]

I think this is not a vgood orchestra I can hear lots of mistakes in Wood winds and sometime the violin sounds a bit strange... Maybe the recording but the piano is gorgeous...

[Andrescastejim]

Der blanke Wahnsinn.

[kinghikonghi]

le sue ottave del finale sono già patrimonio dell'umanità.....al mondo mai nessuno secondo me può eguagliare le sue ottave...ha una facilità incredibile....solo al vederla suonare mi viene quasi da piangere....ke genio

[fabio0077]

sono d'accordissmo...e non solo le ottave...

[ClassicSteinwayJonas]

can anyone give me the sheet for this song mov 3 with the band? pleaseee I really want to play this song now.

[ClassicSteinwayJonas]

also can I play in about 3.33 the octaves? because my hand is a little small I mean I am 11 years old.

[ClassicSteinwayJonas]

sorry I am wrong its not at 3:33 its at 5:05 to 5:19

[ClassicSteinwayJonas]

never mind for the music

[laqin007]

i love her smile

[ajehfsdjfid]

0.33-0.35 - Damn...these woodwinds should more practice!

[AllUserNamesTaken111]

holy shit

[gregkeys88]

The orchestra is Swiss, but the woodwinds sure as hell are rushin' at about 3:35, and the look on Martha's face is priceless as things get a touch out of sync for a moment. Yes, it's a great performance, and Argerich is spectacular, but I live for these little anomolies!

[voolare]

2:28 is unbelievable!

[Ooppssie]

her octaves.. wow..

[mistralmaster]

AHAHAHAHHAHAHAH 5:05 minchia! ihih