Argerich play Argerich, not Liszt. She never replied to a long letter I sent to her, for what she has in her mind is only HERSELF. Her concert agent wrote me that my letter was very substantial and that he regretted very much her ignorance. He said she was usually treating people like that, just cashing in compliments without replying to anything. Richter was the same. I believe that a true artist is a virtuous person not an audience prostitute!
@ipublica You do realize that she probably has a lot on her mind, and is very busy, as well as probably receives emails like this often.. Also it is said she her share of life stresses, that might would cause her to not be anxious and excited to reply to a letter personally. give her some slack, and be more understanding.
Playing a piece the way the composer wanted, rather than the way you want, has nothing, absolutely nothing and three times nothing to do with "virtue".
If your letter was as pretentious and poorly written and your comment, I might have an inkling of an idea why she didn't reply.
@ipublica Argerich respects and executes the text carefully and precisely. So this needs a lot of work. thats why she has no time to read all the letters from persons who thinks they are so important.... ... big smile....
@MrSammyConcepcion He/she should stop the concert temporarily, address the audience and say "oops, I farted", and then continue where he/she left off. That is what Glenn Gould used to do.
@yOungmOzart22 I'm inclined to sort of agree with you in part, but perhaps not in total. I think you'd be on safer grounds to say ONE OF the greatest.
well, i just listened to Arrau's version, and although i love Arrau's Beethoven, i have to say this: it doesn't take big balls, it doesn't take ANY ball at all to play this sonata. in my opinion, this is how it should sound like. this is not just Argerich, this is Liszt!
@lepiffou Some music does require a sense of sex to compose or -in the case of singers- perform but in terms of performing somebody elses piece on an instrument I guess sex (or balls) isn't important. When talking about "balls" I think he means in the sense that Nina Simone had "balls" when singing.
Blue angel, I have been trying to translate your comment, Is it in Italian? Aside from the out of tune piano, It is still a great recording...no one can figure out how she plays her octaves so fast..Have you heard her Rach 3...amazing 3rd movement..
this is such a great recording except that the damn piano is so out of tune..hard to believe that Deustche Grammophone or martha would have missed that.
@hugginduff Si, è vero, pianoforte fuori tono. Tu credi sia accaduto dopo innumerevoli prove di registrazione, oppure l'accordatore ha fatto un cattivo lavoro ? Anche Notturni di Chopin eseguiti da Maria Joao Pires, pianoforte fuori tono, oppure mi sbaglio io ?
Martha Argerich strepitosa ma frenetica ! Geniale ma estrosa ed eccentrica ! Tecnica sfavillante ma anche spietata e martellante nei fortissimi !!!!! Mancano le mezze misure nella dinamica del suono. Sonata in si minore di Liszt elaborata da Prokofieff e riveduta da Bartok e Shostakovitch. Questa è Martha Argerich. Ispirata ma discontinua ...........
Good, but not the best. I feel like if Marta couldn't connect profoundly with Liszt... sounds good no doubt, but in Liszt she doesn't convince me, I'm hearing more Marta than Liszt...
The best recording I ever heard of this concerto was Andre Watts debut concert with the New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein conducting. I believe Andre watts was 15 at the time, and he was a last minute replacement for Vladamir Ashkenazy.
It was one of the most incredible performances I've ever heard. I wish I could find the recording somewhere.
@graymagic1 Watts was 16 at the time of his debut and it was with the Liszt Piano Concerto No. (Eflatmajor). The recording here is the Liszt SONATA in bminor...it's not a concerto. Watts, didn't replace anyone the first time (which was at a Young People's Concert), but Bernstein asked Watts to sit in for Glenn Gould not long after the debut performance and he again played the Eflat Liszt concerto, which was a huge success.
yesterday had our music course teacher from hungary his own concert. he played this, and he really played it better than martha - maybe i'm not professional but i'm sure about this. he played with whole his heart . we could all see that when he played Liszt, he felt, like he came home again - it was stunning.
She is really giving a majestic rendering of the piece, very brilliant, but also very romantic ! I made this listen to Techno-guys, they actually loved it, because they thought classical piano is only sweet, soft and boring... ;-)
@loboris1995 - No imotion? How about emotion? Go enjoy your rap.....sorry, injoy. You should at least appreciate classical music before commenting on it. It shows your age. This piece is stunning.
@SingerAR eu,go and listen richter's version,for me there's much more imotion.For for the information,I like classical music and I don't like rap and argerich in this pièce.Of corse,all liszt works are wonderfulls and indeed I'm 14^^
@poymanjoe es muy bueno, gracias. pero ambos tienen conceptos diferentes de la sonata, martha en su fraseo, tiene esa cosa del romanticismo europeo que encuentro en kissin, aunque tenga mas tecnica.
@dramf888 as we all know dogmatic perspectives are "empty" When Newman says the Sonata has no introduction I am alarmed. Winklhofer thinks he is getting it, (doubt it).So Longyear is the "guru", at least, for understanding the conception. I think we need to recognise Argerich plays each of the 3 themes by "pivoting on the note that completed the previous one"(Kenneth Hamilton) When I listen to Argerich, I am sure i don't hear a tripartite Lento-Allegroengergico-Lento assai entity
I guess i'm not musically inclined. I don't have a biting analytic mind. but when i was reading the cambridge music handbook there was much "angst" in dwelling over three (are they analyticians?)... so Newman, Longyear and Winklhofer are flipping different sides of the coin about Liszt's "unexplained" delaying of tonic confirmation until bar 32. I was thinking, why don't you split the coin in half and... sorry... anyway there are many perspectives to any musical enigma
i just heard a performance of this piece by Sofronitsky, and am once more convinced that no one can play this sonata like Argerich does. this is THE recording!
I don't care what anyone says, this performance is a benchmark of recording of this piece. I am not disputing the qualities that other pianists bring to the work, but love or hate it, her interpretation is constantly mentioned, argued, adored and challenged. That is what makes this performance so historic.
I personally find piano concerto no.1 better than the sonata. But I do not deny that this is a rather mature piece. I think the difference in taste is similar to how some people find Mahler symphony no.1 to be the only musically acceptable symphony by Mahler whereas others might argue that's actually the least significant.
And statistically speaking, it's much much safer to say something isn't THE most impressive, than to say something is THE best. Wouldn't you agree? I am sure there will be a least one out of the thousands of scholars who would agree.
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The best day she ever saw Martha Argerich couldn't come close to the Sviatoslav Richter level. This recording, when compared to his, is nothing. This is definitive only in the sense that it defines the way she loosely interprets the works of the great composers.
Richter was...good.i've twice heard a live recording of him playing this sonata and it really wasn't as impressive. to be honest, it didn't even come close to this. This IS the definitive recording of Liszt's sonata.
Yeah she's really talented. People shouldn't make an issue out of whether a pianist is a guy or a girl. At my church I was like the only guy pianist so it was the other way round.
This performance is the standard.. Andre Watts also performs this piece brilliantly. Liszt sonata is indeed very powerful. For powerful music, try listening to Jazzetti War Concerto, movement 2, part 1.
Sorry, if everyone feel this play not goods, everyone must see ear doctor, I think. This five minutes more than enough to prove this is performance of historical value. II lloovvee MMaarrtthhaa too! I also love Emil. Why noone bother to upload super great performance by Gilels? If my rememberance correct, RCA recording from 60s. I am sure everyone will love it too, so please someone upload! Sorry, wrong English, but my urgent request.
@mdeonx16 Hang on... how the hell did this comment get 15 thumbs up? Five words that don't seem to relate to anything. Or is it an orphaned reply which offers no context? Either way... what the hell?
@RH98 This was back in the day before the modern youtube reply system with comments: I replied to somebody's comment and it was displayed directly underneath it like a comment reply on Reddit. It was a reply to this comment: "was Liszt a human?" by user pifffolino
@mdeonx16 ah... thanks for clearing that up. I thought I was having a bit of a Twilight Zone moment - someone says something that makes no sense to you but is met with approval from everybody else, it's actually quite unnerving. BTW, your comment now sits directly under - "Too me, not only,in her youth, was she a super pianist,she was super SEXY!!!"... How is that for cruel irony?
it seems that all of the notes that are being played have their own existence because of martha's devilish touches!!!!! iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii llllllllllllllllll ooooooooooooooooooo vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv eeeeeeeeeeeeee you martha argerich
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argerich is genius performer,but she cannot win the machine.auto play of electric piano is the best.perfect,accurate rhythm like digital clock,and no mistake.nobody cannot win the machine.classic pianist is anachronism.exellent piano player is needless
But who will want to listen to the machine? It will always play the same... Music is not about perfection, it's not about winning. Music is about touching your soul and moving you, surpirising you and making your horizons broader. There may be many bad pianists, but if there will be at least one like Martha in every 100 years, we will never need the machine!
@javorbracic I think what he may be trying to say is that if you want to hear a "perfect" and technically accurate performance listen to a machine, and that rating top pianists is pointless... maybe.
Wow. Okay, first of all, you're a jerk. It doesn't make you sound smart to explain something everyone in the world already knows. Furthermore, if you were trying to teach me something, you did so poorly as saying "This is my favorite piano piece" is in no way a substitute for my meaning. I would have to have said "This is my favorite musical composition". Rather I used "song" to refer to a musical composition suggestive of a song, which is one of the definitions of "song" in the OED.
:) That's my point. I was clearly saying it was my favorite musical composition.
And obviously you do have time to argue with me since, 1.) you started arguing with NO provocation, and 2.) You responded back to say that you didn't have time.
When I was in second grade I learned that bugs referred specifically to insects of the order Hemiptera and would go around correcting people that called gnats and soforth bugs. When I got to third grade, I grew out of it. According to your bio you're 39.
I am so glad that someone is attempting to educate people on the correct terminology. I thought it was common sense that a 'song' is something that is sung by the human voice. A piano can't "sing."
Let stop being ridiculous. If the music written was meant to be called a song then composers would have labeled all there music as such. For ex: the very piece you names 'Song without words.' Mendelssohn didn't refer to every piece of music he wrote for piano as a 'song.' To refer to all piano music as a 'song' show ignorance.
What shows ignorance is your idotic reading of my comment. The main point I had was the that THE PIANO CAN SING. Think of the piano recital. You can't recite at a piano. Well its been done.
wwow1 that shows your ignornace! i wasn't trying to 'trump" your argument. Because at the end of the day at any real music conservatory calling a piece a song will make you look ignorant. have a good day!
Good speller. You also recognise sarcasm quite well. You'll find that pedantic "musicians" like you focus less on the music and more on stupid things like this. So what if someone calls it a song? Are they going to unleash the apocalypse? No! So build a bridge and get over it.
Her repeated notes are a legend. Pletnev and Rabinovitch write lots of repeated notes in piano duo arrangements they want to play with her because she plays them so beautifully. It's evident in Scarbo too.
EXCELENTE INTERPRETACION!!!! tengo la partitura pero como se me hace imposible tocarla solo me queda por seguirla con la vista mientras Martha toca!!!!! je... Es la mejor pianista del mundo!!!! Martha por siempre la mejor...
Unfortunately you're not going to find a conservative tempo out of Martha. I've known her for years and years and she does what Martha wants to do! I've heard her practice the sonata many times and she and playing slowly DO NOT gel.
@hideaway3 I agree with her general choice of tempo, but not that slow playing and Martha do not gel. In fact, the closing pages of this sonata are among the most supremely beautiful Liszt I've ever heard, and it is VERY slow. Just those last three chords! Genius. The way she shades them, softer, softer....
she brings out the music in a very unique way. could be that she could see something in this piece other people have missed. this is one of the hardest and most complicated pieces written for piano and there's a lot of debate on how it should be played. it's also considered one of the greatest musical pieces of all time.
Argerich play Argerich, not Liszt. She never replied to a long letter I sent to her, for what she has in her mind is only HERSELF. Her concert agent wrote me that my letter was very substantial and that he regretted very much her ignorance. He said she was usually treating people like that, just cashing in compliments without replying to anything. Richter was the same. I believe that a true artist is a virtuous person not an audience prostitute!
ipublica 1 month ago
@ipublica Rockstars are worst bbelieve me.
Siriusblck3 1 month ago
@ipublica You do realize that she probably has a lot on her mind, and is very busy, as well as probably receives emails like this often.. Also it is said she her share of life stresses, that might would cause her to not be anxious and excited to reply to a letter personally. give her some slack, and be more understanding.
davidbaker03 1 month ago
@ipublica
Playing a piece the way the composer wanted, rather than the way you want, has nothing, absolutely nothing and three times nothing to do with "virtue".
If your letter was as pretentious and poorly written and your comment, I might have an inkling of an idea why she didn't reply.
twooffour 1 week ago
@ipublica Argerich respects and executes the text carefully and precisely. So this needs a lot of work. thats why she has no time to read all the letters from persons who thinks they are so important.... ... big smile....
uhartchristian 1 day ago
What does a pianist do if, while playing a long painissimo section, someone in the audience farts loudly?
What if the pianist himself/herself cannot hold it and farts loudly?
MrSammyConcepcion 3 months ago
@MrSammyConcepcion If you feel one coming on, just play fp.
PhillyB702 3 months ago
@MrSammyConcepcion He/she should stop the concert temporarily, address the audience and say "oops, I farted", and then continue where he/she left off. That is what Glenn Gould used to do.
bnrshdydvdrtrk 1 month ago
@bnrshdydvdrtrk Oh, I didn't know that Glenn Gould was always flatulent.
MrSammyConcepcion 1 month ago
2:35 - 3:02 is over-human
EmanuelaZucchi 4 months ago
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EmanuelaZucchi 4 months ago
greatest composition for piano ever...
yOungmOzart22 5 months ago
@yOungmOzart22 I'm inclined to sort of agree with you in part, but perhaps not in total. I think you'd be on safer grounds to say ONE OF the greatest.
toakreon 4 months ago
well, i just listened to Arrau's version, and although i love Arrau's Beethoven, i have to say this: it doesn't take big balls, it doesn't take ANY ball at all to play this sonata. in my opinion, this is how it should sound like. this is not just Argerich, this is Liszt!
lepiffou 7 months ago
@lepiffou Some music does require a sense of sex to compose or -in the case of singers- perform but in terms of performing somebody elses piece on an instrument I guess sex (or balls) isn't important. When talking about "balls" I think he means in the sense that Nina Simone had "balls" when singing.
Joesoj 6 months ago
Beautiful rendition, but the perfection still has just one name: Claudio Arrau.
Ray0X0 8 months ago
@Ray0X0 Spelled Horowitz wrong :D
lolitaeviston 7 months ago
@Ray0X0 Nop, Claudio Arrau :)
Ray0X0 7 months ago
i love this woman !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jorgeoscar1000 8 months ago
I don't like this recording: is Martha interpreting or just hitting the piano keys with violence?
infozas 8 months ago in playlist Liszt, Franz
@infozas
What a stupid question ! Martha Argerich has one of the most beautiful sound . Her power is huge but never brutal.
Her interpretation of this sonata is winsome from the beginning to the end. Listen more carefully !
rigel48 8 months ago in playlist Litz- Piano
it is somehow more smiling than my favourite Richter Recording
dont know if Liszt composed it that way
nice too
7SeeWind7 8 months ago
Blue angel, I have been trying to translate your comment, Is it in Italian? Aside from the out of tune piano, It is still a great recording...no one can figure out how she plays her octaves so fast..Have you heard her Rach 3...amazing 3rd movement..
hugginduff 9 months ago
Blue angel, I have been trying to translate your comment, Is it in Italian?
hugginduff 9 months ago
this is such a great recording except that the damn piano is so out of tune..hard to believe that Deustche Grammophone or martha would have missed that.
hugginduff 9 months ago
@hugginduff Si, è vero, pianoforte fuori tono. Tu credi sia accaduto dopo innumerevoli prove di registrazione, oppure l'accordatore ha fatto un cattivo lavoro ? Anche Notturni di Chopin eseguiti da Maria Joao Pires, pianoforte fuori tono, oppure mi sbaglio io ?
darkblueangel1956 9 months ago
Martha Argerich strepitosa ma frenetica ! Geniale ma estrosa ed eccentrica ! Tecnica sfavillante ma anche spietata e martellante nei fortissimi !!!!! Mancano le mezze misure nella dinamica del suono. Sonata in si minore di Liszt elaborata da Prokofieff e riveduta da Bartok e Shostakovitch. Questa è Martha Argerich. Ispirata ma discontinua ...........
darkblueangel1956 9 months ago
There is none greater.
elgar34 10 months ago 2
@elgar34 This is how it's done!
OrangeSodaKing 10 months ago
@elgar34 Although, I have to say Ogdon comes pretty darn close!!
OrangeSodaKing 10 months ago
@OrangeSodaKing I haven't heard Ogdon's recording.
elgar34 10 months ago
Perfect........................
loorloop 10 months ago
Good, but not the best. I feel like if Marta couldn't connect profoundly with Liszt... sounds good no doubt, but in Liszt she doesn't convince me, I'm hearing more Marta than Liszt...
Ray0X0 10 months ago
The best recording I ever heard of this concerto was Andre Watts debut concert with the New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein conducting. I believe Andre watts was 15 at the time, and he was a last minute replacement for Vladamir Ashkenazy.
It was one of the most incredible performances I've ever heard. I wish I could find the recording somewhere.
graymagic1 1 year ago
@graymagic1 eh... which concerto? O.o
hellboyreloaded 11 months ago
@graymagic1 Watts was 16 at the time of his debut and it was with the Liszt Piano Concerto No. (Eflatmajor). The recording here is the Liszt SONATA in bminor...it's not a concerto. Watts, didn't replace anyone the first time (which was at a Young People's Concert), but Bernstein asked Watts to sit in for Glenn Gould not long after the debut performance and he again played the Eflat Liszt concerto, which was a huge success.
KennYWooD2 11 months ago
yesterday had our music course teacher from hungary his own concert. he played this, and he really played it better than martha - maybe i'm not professional but i'm sure about this. he played with whole his heart . we could all see that when he played Liszt, he felt, like he came home again - it was stunning.
i love martha argerich though
christinaSLO 1 year ago
I love Liszt!!!! Pop and rock are SHIT !!!!!
frkhar 1 year ago
@frkhar Liszt's music was the pop (popular music) of that time . In his time his music was described by critics as "Beethoven being played reverse "
florafox 1 year ago
@florafox i doubt it they were all dancing hungarian peasant songs etc he just came along and transcribed some,this was only heard by rich elite
afertyus1000 1 year ago
@florafox i doubt it they were all dancing hungarian peasant songs etc he just came along and transcribed some,this was only heard by rich elite
afertyus1000 1 year ago
I love Martha!!!
trschaefer 1 year ago
Incredible !
She is really giving a majestic rendering of the piece, very brilliant, but also very romantic ! I made this listen to Techno-guys, they actually loved it, because they thought classical piano is only sweet, soft and boring... ;-)
PHILBXL 1 year ago
Boring(machin of notes=no imotion=no music)
loboris1995 1 year ago
@loboris1995 - No imotion? How about emotion? Go enjoy your rap.....sorry, injoy. You should at least appreciate classical music before commenting on it. It shows your age. This piece is stunning.
SingerAR 1 year ago
@SingerAR eu,go and listen richter's version,for me there's much more imotion.For for the information,I like classical music and I don't like rap and argerich in this pièce.Of corse,all liszt works are wonderfulls and indeed I'm 14^^
loboris1995 1 year ago
i still prefer Arrau's Liszt, is more profound and personal and his sound is some better in my opinion...
Ray0X0 1 year ago
FANTASTIC!!!!!!
iguarni 1 year ago 2
how old was she?
silviemusik 1 year ago
Martha, la mejor version
TheBasilio 1 year ago 7
@TheBasilio Try Kissin Tokyo 1998
poymanjoe 1 month ago
@poymanjoe es muy bueno, gracias. pero ambos tienen conceptos diferentes de la sonata, martha en su fraseo, tiene esa cosa del romanticismo europeo que encuentro en kissin, aunque tenga mas tecnica.
TheBasilio 1 month ago
Count off Listz himself this one is the best performance of Sonata Bminor ever.
iguarni 1 year ago
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dramf888 1 year ago
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@dramf888 as we all know dogmatic perspectives are "empty" When Newman says the Sonata has no introduction I am alarmed. Winklhofer thinks he is getting it, (doubt it).So Longyear is the "guru", at least, for understanding the conception. I think we need to recognise Argerich plays each of the 3 themes by "pivoting on the note that completed the previous one"(Kenneth Hamilton) When I listen to Argerich, I am sure i don't hear a tripartite Lento-Allegroengergico-Lento assai entity
dramf888 1 year ago
I guess i'm not musically inclined. I don't have a biting analytic mind. but when i was reading the cambridge music handbook there was much "angst" in dwelling over three (are they analyticians?)... so Newman, Longyear and Winklhofer are flipping different sides of the coin about Liszt's "unexplained" delaying of tonic confirmation until bar 32. I was thinking, why don't you split the coin in half and... sorry... anyway there are many perspectives to any musical enigma
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dramf888 1 year ago
Slight heart attack? I just went to the happy hunting grounds.
elgar34 2 years ago
0:35 slight heart attack lmao
chutdigadut 2 years ago
3:01 is my favorite part!
D major was Liszt's key of Jesus. Very interesting. In Les Jeux d'Eau a la Villa d'Este, he had a bible verse marked when it changed to D Major.
OrangeSodaKing 2 years ago 4
@OrangeSodaKing Especially the consolation in D major. True beauty! (No. 3)
ultracoolhomies 2 years ago
what opus is this piece ?
xxxxcensoredxxx 2 years ago
Liszt's music didn't have Opus numbers like many other composers, although there was another way his music was classified. This one is S. 178
OrangeSodaKing 2 years ago 2
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OrangeSodaKing 2 years ago
wonderful
0bambi0deer0 2 years ago
Why does it start around 30 seconds in?
beaverteeth92 2 years ago
turn your volume up :) the first 30 seconds are quiet so you probably have your volume too low to hear it.
slicejl152 2 years ago 7
@beaverteeth92 it doesn't, turn your volume up!
richclayderman 1 year ago
she is simply amazing....!!!
MATTDUNCAN1 2 years ago
I like better Pogorelich's interpretation :D
anjas1903 2 years ago
Isst boo-tifool en shayp and die-namism. Marr-tah playeeng moof mee. Che yoounite the dis-oryentatshun intwo seneeble taughts und eeemiges. Bravfo Marr-tahhh!
PHDROD 2 years ago
This would probably be the last recording I listened to before I died if I had a choice.
crazytrain1889 2 years ago 2
Excellent upload. She knows Liszt - handles the transitions between his moods masterfully. Thank you.
Mpdjd 2 years ago 4
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this song would have made a better concerto than a sonata
jlmojica7 2 years ago
This is not a "song". Besides, this Sonata is arguably one of the greatest 19th century composition written for piano.
vadimrusmov85 2 years ago 16
My favorite version of my favorite sonata.
ShredST 2 years ago 7
big technique argerich n.1
alexlliszt 2 years ago 3
her octave facility is to die for when i watch her on chopin etc her octave playing is out of this world
afertyus1000 2 years ago 4
i just heard a performance of this piece by Sofronitsky, and am once more convinced that no one can play this sonata like Argerich does. this is THE recording!
lepiffou 2 years ago 2
I don't care what anyone says, this performance is a benchmark of recording of this piece. I am not disputing the qualities that other pianists bring to the work, but love or hate it, her interpretation is constantly mentioned, argued, adored and challenged. That is what makes this performance so historic.
abmephise 2 years ago 6
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I much prefer Richter's. He has a much better understanding of the piece and the overall structure. (He's not just a piano banger)
Liebromeistal 2 years ago
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she really gave life to this not-the-most-impressive-work of Liszt.
nileinafrica 2 years ago
There are thousands of scholars that disagree with you. The Sonata is probably the BEST thing Liszt ever composed.
Haeronthegreat 2 years ago 4
I personally find piano concerto no.1 better than the sonata. But I do not deny that this is a rather mature piece. I think the difference in taste is similar to how some people find Mahler symphony no.1 to be the only musically acceptable symphony by Mahler whereas others might argue that's actually the least significant.
nileinafrica 2 years ago
And statistically speaking, it's much much safer to say something isn't THE most impressive, than to say something is THE best. Wouldn't you agree? I am sure there will be a least one out of the thousands of scholars who would agree.
nileinafrica 2 years ago
She is one of the top pianists in the world though. She has a Rach 3 recording on Youtube as well it's really good you should listen to it.
Haydenbrooks83 2 years ago
@Haydenbrooks83 -It just happens to be the best version ever recorded.
paulostroff99 7 months ago
THE BEST INTERPRETATION
laureanobruno 2 years ago
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The best day she ever saw Martha Argerich couldn't come close to the Sviatoslav Richter level. This recording, when compared to his, is nothing. This is definitive only in the sense that it defines the way she loosely interprets the works of the great composers.
gerryrains 2 years ago
Richter was...good.i've twice heard a live recording of him playing this sonata and it really wasn't as impressive. to be honest, it didn't even come close to this. This IS the definitive recording of Liszt's sonata.
fionasapple 2 years ago 3
Richter Carnegie Hall 1965 is his best I think. But when it comes to the Liszt Sonata really, the word "definitive" flies out the window
RabidCh 2 years ago
Check out Andre Watts' performance of the Liszt Sonatas. Then decide.
mojazka 2 years ago
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Wow! A woman with a might of a man!
darnmat 2 years ago
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I don't know why, and I cannot tell why, but Martha is ever wrong in some way. She never hits the spot. Super Hi quality, but ever wrong.
bachopinberg 2 years ago
You are wrong. She is always right. In some genres she is better than others. But she is always right.
ecko1o1 2 years ago 2
Please find the words. I really have no idea how to judge what you're saying.
thejerk00 2 years ago
Is this sexism? She is pretty awesome.
nileinafrica 2 years ago
Yeah she's really talented. People shouldn't make an issue out of whether a pianist is a guy or a girl. At my church I was like the only guy pianist so it was the other way round.
Haydenbrooks83 2 years ago
This performance is the standard.. Andre Watts also performs this piece brilliantly. Liszt sonata is indeed very powerful. For powerful music, try listening to Jazzetti War Concerto, movement 2, part 1.
mojazka 3 years ago
Sorry, if everyone feel this play not goods, everyone must see ear doctor, I think. This five minutes more than enough to prove this is performance of historical value. II lloovvee MMaarrtthhaa too! I also love Emil. Why noone bother to upload super great performance by Gilels? If my rememberance correct, RCA recording from 60s. I am sure everyone will love it too, so please someone upload! Sorry, wrong English, but my urgent request.
himitsunosallychan 3 years ago 4
was Liszt a human?
pifffolino 3 years ago 14
I don't think so...:)
Ellinidara 3 years ago 4
Too me, not only,in her youth, was she a super pianist,she was super SEXY!!!
476892 3 years ago 5
I'm afraid Argerich wasn't either.
mdeonx16 3 years ago 15
@mdeonx16 """I'm afraid Argerich wasn't either"""
--- wasn't?
lsbrother 6 months ago
@mdeonx16 Hang on... how the hell did this comment get 15 thumbs up? Five words that don't seem to relate to anything. Or is it an orphaned reply which offers no context? Either way... what the hell?
RH98 6 months ago 2
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@RH98 This was back in the day before the modern youtube reply system with comments: I replied to somebody's comment and it was displayed directly underneath it like a comment reply on Reddit. It was a reply to this comment: "was Liszt a human?" by user pifffolino
mdeonx16 6 months ago
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@mdeonx16 ah... thanks for clearing that up. I thought I was having a bit of a Twilight Zone moment - someone says something that makes no sense to you but is met with approval from everybody else, it's actually quite unnerving. BTW, your comment now sits directly under - "Too me, not only,in her youth, was she a super pianist,she was super SEXY!!!"... How is that for cruel irony?
RH98 5 months ago
Best recording of the Liszt I've heard.
crankycaz 3 years ago 2
it seems that all of the notes that are being played have their own existence because of martha's devilish touches!!!!! iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii llllllllllllllllll ooooooooooooooooooo vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv eeeeeeeeeeeeee you martha argerich
marrieter08 3 years ago 5
She is Great!!
veseli601 3 years ago 2
This particular piece by Argerich made me fall in love with piano music a long time ago.
This music still touches me beyond words..
quintos34 3 years ago 3
Indeed, this is a piece that you listen to in those periods where you lose interest and the spark in classical music. :)
Xcalibur1725 3 years ago
This sonata is fu**ing awesome! Who needs rock or pop when there exist recordings like this!
ManWithManyShurikens 3 years ago 56
GENIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
richteristhebest 3 years ago 2
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argerich is genius performer,but she cannot win the machine.auto play of electric piano is the best.perfect,accurate rhythm like digital clock,and no mistake.nobody cannot win the machine.classic pianist is anachronism.exellent piano player is needless
sushiyakiniku 3 years ago
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I made a mistake about my sentense,
nobody can win the machine.
sushiyakiniku 3 years ago
But who will want to listen to the machine? It will always play the same... Music is not about perfection, it's not about winning. Music is about touching your soul and moving you, surpirising you and making your horizons broader. There may be many bad pianists, but if there will be at least one like Martha in every 100 years, we will never need the machine!
javorbracic 3 years ago 26
yea...music is not machine, and not all about perfection. Music is art. And on top of that, perfection doesn't even exist.
kiwibd 3 years ago
@javorbracic I think what he may be trying to say is that if you want to hear a "perfect" and technically accurate performance listen to a machine, and that rating top pianists is pointless... maybe.
RH98 6 months ago
sushiyakiniku, you're an idiot. Go fall down a hole.
blargen456 3 years ago
EXCUSE ME??!?!? so you mean to say that the efforts of all the great pianists are worthless? a POX on you!
beckerpwnsyou 3 years ago
I've heard MIDI's that are not rhythm perfect. So there, perfection doesn't exist.
mickyj300x 3 years ago
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retarted japanese robot guy
JureGorucan 3 years ago
I love Zimmerman interpretation but argerich realy awesome too ...what do yu thinking ?
Just want heard her and maybe read interested comments ....
maalga2008 3 years ago 2
I like zimmermans perhaps slightly more... It has more voicing.
beryllium2 3 years ago
I haven't heard zimmerman's. Maybe i am gonna check it out one day, thanks :)
kiwibd 3 years ago
OHMIGOSH! My favorite song played better than I've ever before heard it!
archcorenth 3 years ago
It's not a "song"; it's a "piece" -- a "piano piece" to be exact. A song is something that is sung by a human voice.
KevinFromSD 3 years ago
Wow. Okay, first of all, you're a jerk. It doesn't make you sound smart to explain something everyone in the world already knows. Furthermore, if you were trying to teach me something, you did so poorly as saying "This is my favorite piano piece" is in no way a substitute for my meaning. I would have to have said "This is my favorite musical composition". Rather I used "song" to refer to a musical composition suggestive of a song, which is one of the definitions of "song" in the OED.
archcorenth 3 years ago
Every music is a musical compisition, stupid.
You're a moron and I don't have time to argue with idiots like you.
KevinFromSD 3 years ago
:) That's my point. I was clearly saying it was my favorite musical composition.
And obviously you do have time to argue with me since, 1.) you started arguing with NO provocation, and 2.) You responded back to say that you didn't have time.
When I was in second grade I learned that bugs referred specifically to insects of the order Hemiptera and would go around correcting people that called gnats and soforth bugs. When I got to third grade, I grew out of it. According to your bio you're 39.
archcorenth 3 years ago
Referring to a classical composition as a 'song' is demeaning to the particular piece and to classical music in general.
cwldoc 3 years ago
So calling the "Kunstlieder" by Schubert "songs" is demeaning to those "Lieder" and classical music in general?
Fucking idiot. It's not demeaning in any way, if anything it's somewhat "inaccurate" if you take the word "song" in its most literal sense.
Pedantic assholes.
twooffour 3 years ago 3
lol. youre funny.good point though.
bassodivo 3 years ago
I am so glad that someone is attempting to educate people on the correct terminology. I thought it was common sense that a 'song' is something that is sung by the human voice. A piano can't "sing."
Hervinbalfour 3 years ago 2
Oh yes? Mendelssohn's Songs without Words. Liszt's Schubert Transcriptions. A piano can sing, just not with its mouth.
lscully3 2 years ago 2
Let stop being ridiculous. If the music written was meant to be called a song then composers would have labeled all there music as such. For ex: the very piece you names 'Song without words.' Mendelssohn didn't refer to every piece of music he wrote for piano as a 'song.' To refer to all piano music as a 'song' show ignorance.
Hervinbalfour 2 years ago
What shows ignorance is your idotic reading of my comment. The main point I had was the that THE PIANO CAN SING. Think of the piano recital. You can't recite at a piano. Well its been done.
lscully3 2 years ago
Oh stfu!
Hervinbalfour 2 years ago
Wow. That really trumps my argument.
lscully3 2 years ago
wwow1 that shows your ignornace! i wasn't trying to 'trump" your argument. Because at the end of the day at any real music conservatory calling a piece a song will make you look ignorant. have a good day!
Hervinbalfour 2 years ago
Good speller. You also recognise sarcasm quite well. You'll find that pedantic "musicians" like you focus less on the music and more on stupid things like this. So what if someone calls it a song? Are they going to unleash the apocalypse? No! So build a bridge and get over it.
lscully3 2 years ago
Ah, MARTHA! I LOVE her!!! My favorite recording of this piece.
goldenthroat86 3 years ago
Wonderful....
agt200 3 years ago
Her repeated notes are a legend. Pletnev and Rabinovitch write lots of repeated notes in piano duo arrangements they want to play with her because she plays them so beautifully. It's evident in Scarbo too.
LOVE YOU MARTHA!
aldebussy 3 years ago 2
Evident in her Scarlatti k141 as well.
jero13595 3 years ago 2
I like her performance.
I like alexei grynyuk version,too.
ayumikumi 3 years ago
EXCELENTE INTERPRETACION!!!! tengo la partitura pero como se me hace imposible tocarla solo me queda por seguirla con la vista mientras Martha toca!!!!! je... Es la mejor pianista del mundo!!!! Martha por siempre la mejor...
Gonzalo18GEO 3 years ago 2
this is a great version but also listen to Nicolas Economou his version is also on youtube
ieronim2003 3 years ago
LOVE YOU MARTHA!!!!!!!!!!!
laqin007 3 years ago
she has two of the greatest hands in piano history...
chris27489 4 years ago 10
her tits were nice as well
davidweiner23 3 years ago 6
Incomparable.
jabberwock01 4 years ago
yay MARTHA ARGERICH FOREVER!!!
HeartbreakerMax 4 years ago
i've been wanting someone to post this record for months!!!! This is the best recording i've heard of the piece. Martha is a legend!
compianister 4 years ago 3
Good performance, I prefer a little more conservative tempo, but Martha truly hits the mark with this performance!
GregS1225 4 years ago 2
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Unfortunately you're not going to find a conservative tempo out of Martha. I've known her for years and years and she does what Martha wants to do! I've heard her practice the sonata many times and she and playing slowly DO NOT gel.
hideaway3 1 year ago
@hideaway3 I agree with her general choice of tempo, but not that slow playing and Martha do not gel. In fact, the closing pages of this sonata are among the most supremely beautiful Liszt I've ever heard, and it is VERY slow. Just those last three chords! Genius. The way she shades them, softer, softer....
Grazpop 1 year ago
This is the performance that all others will be judged against!Can there be better?
paulostroff99 4 years ago 2
I cannot say it is better, but I was very impressed by Zimerman's interpretation of this Liszt Sonata. He played slowly though.
civilbb 4 years ago
I shall listen to it for sure. For many years my favourite version was by Clifford Curzon-A British pianist with the tile of sir -to his name!
paulostroff99 4 years ago
That's because he doesn't have the technique to do the piece justice. It is Liszt, afterall.
Frozentoes1 3 years ago
Horowitz recording made in 30's is unbelievable if you can bear the sound quality!
CoolWJL 3 years ago
she brings out the music in a very unique way. could be that she could see something in this piece other people have missed. this is one of the hardest and most complicated pieces written for piano and there's a lot of debate on how it should be played. it's also considered one of the greatest musical pieces of all time.
ibclappin 4 years ago 4
There's nothing quite like listening to Martha play Liszt. Thank you for this post.
homoe87 4 years ago
you're welcome! that's really my pleasure to post her videos!!!! I love her so much~
kiwibd 4 years ago
is this really martha argerich? she is like a contestant of a beauty contest, she is just beautiful!!!!
marrieter08 4 years ago