Bartók, Piano Concerto No. 3 - Mov 2 (Martha Argerich)

[hotplate85]

Beautiful! But in this case it's more the song than the singer.

[littlerainworm550]

wow



[marzio54]

Mi sento sospeso..tra il dire e non dire...il pensare e non pensare...tu i sogni li conosci e attraverso il loro apparire,appare il sogno della vita....

è la prima volta,per me,che ascolto questa musica....se dovessi cadere dalla Luna sulla Terra sentirei questa MELODIA......che dire.....ARTE PURISSIMA!

[ruslandimov]

Ha! Finally seeing Yuri conduct an orchestra. I saw him perform this summer and he is still amazing. So is our favorite Martha, of course ;)

[trschaefer]

Yes, after all these years, she is still a marvel to behold at the keyboard!! It think that she just continues getting better. Does anyone know the significance of the thin leather bracelet that she wears on her right hand? I've seen is in almost everyone of her recent video performances.

This movement is so incredible beautiful.

[moodood1]

@trschaefer Coincidentally I saw an interview yesterday that talked about it. She said she got it from a Buddhist monk in Japan, or at least that's what I understood of it. Beyond that, I'm not sure.

[eggsandwine]

i am relatively new to classical music and this concerto by this pianist is one of the best things i ve heard in my life. thank you for posting.

[SKfabs]

this is just breath taking.

[raoultak]

Martha Argerich....the queen of pianists. Nobody better!

[DecimasCaminantes]

5:38

[tecladistaofmetal]

martha es la mejor!!! :)

[LazyBastard69]

i laughed so hard at the oboist. 06:37. looks like her cheeks are about to pop

[MisterTahti]

As much as i love the more aggressive and percussive side of Bartok this movement moves me like very few pieces in his repertoire can. Maybe in the end of his life he really was trying to be more accessible and tuneful, but so much the better. This concerto has all the the characteristics of Bartok's masterworks presented in a gentle almost autumnal shell. What a phenomenal and heartfelt last testament.

[Wandalandowskaya47]

Excelente sonido. Y sus canas me conmueven.

[frogbuster20]

If you want something which anihilates previous musical forms, Ligeti is the best choice I have in mind, the most violent. He is the Schoenberg of the 'second' 20th century, Youll also recognize a bartok like use of percussions. Its quite a ride, maybe a bit to hostile for me.

[TouchingYou]

Does anyone know if there are any classical composers out there who REALLY pushed the envelope, and I don't mean in just some lame 12-tone serialism way or Stravinsky imitation.

Much of Bartok's stuff is aggressive and great.

To me, this is far too generic and fluffy.

I'm seeking out radically-innovative symphonies and the like.

Thanks.

[justpaulwithnohandle]

I create innovative symphonies of the mind that manifest themselves in brilliant music that is eons ahead of its time . . . divesting myself of your puerile collaborations was the best thing I have ever done, besides putting the lie to your "facts"

ref.: " I'm the most insightful and creative and smartest songwriter ever"

The V.I has the goods and doesnt have to go around making sophomoric assertions to a bunch of mindless sheep that wouldnt know any better.

[TouchingYou]

Is this that CHILD MOLESTER HARRY STUCKEY / VOX who has been stalking me b/c he has no friends b/c no one likes him?

[EuphoricDan]

@TouchingYou

There is a Polish pianist/composer "Zygmunt Krauze". He is still alive and composing, saw him perform in honor of Chopin's 200th birthday. Although I don't want you to hear his "spacial" compositions and think he sucks. Those compositions do suck.

His other stuff, really wildly innovative. Good luck finding any of his music, it is retardedly hard. My Favorite is "Stone Music"

You may also try "Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji" You'll be able to find his shit.

[eposz2]

Man, it's a masterpiece. Generic? No. Shakingly deep.

[da86e1]

I can't stop listening to this video ... it's such an amazing work and inspiring playing, both from Martha Argerich and the youth orchestra. I hope I can one day perform this :-)

[bourdour]

Such transcendental music and playing.

[Memale2009]

Martha Argerich- elle est une sorte de fil d'Ariane dans ma vie. Mon fardeau musical. J'aimerais bien la voir une fois dans ma vie . Elle sera à Brunswick en janvier 2010.

[justap19]

Wonderful Martha !

[cubspiano]

I thoroughly enjoyed this dont get me wrong.. But the important part of this piece is that it truly needs to played on a Bosendorfer Imperial 290 with 97 key 8 full octave range, Bartok wrote this and the third concerto for that piano

[3cplantin]

This is the 3rd. Do you mean the 2nd? For this one of the two, the use of the very lowest, extended range is so slight that I doubt Bartok himself would notice if it were not played on a Boesendorfer. Martha does quite well in her lower registers and while a Boesendorfer would be a wonderful treat, true, the piece more than succeeds with its 88 keys. I think it would make more of a difference with the 2nd concerto and with the Piano Sonata. Does Argerich even play Boesendorfers in concert?

[mehandas]

Do many pianists play on Bosendofer, opposed to steinway?

[fionasapple]

I really wish she'd been playing a Bosendorfer too! Not that steinways are bad or anything but i feel that bosendorfers are ...warmer.

[javiertw89]

Thanks for posting!

I hate when people cough...

[BeteaMaia]

Wonderful,

I am absolutely thrilled of this fantastical and sensitive piece of composition.

Thank you for give us here this genial music!!!

[eoghdes18]

1:40 onwards is heavenly music.

[fcarmona215]

Nothing to say . It sounds like . . . music of love, comes from heaven. wonderful interpretation !

[beethomozart]

composed in 1945 and premiered in 1946 by that extraordinary legend Eugene Ormandy in Philadelphia, this Bartok's piano concert, with this easy and nice 2nd movement, was finished by his best student Tybor Sarly

[hongpianist]

didn't like it. except she really can play those double notes. She plays the A too slow. It doesn't match the orchestral tempo. Martha was never my pianist.. even when I heard her live, i was disappointed.

[yourforte]

I've never heard this work before but I find it beautiful and I find Martha's performance beautiful

[KearneyPiano]

its like a rainforst!

[nycanonymous]

I dissent. IMHO, this is for the most part bad. This is not Prokofiev, but the music of a man just a few steps away from his end. Yet there is little sense of wonder, abandon or acceptance in the face of an impending conclusion. Instead, for the most part, we have Martha's typical, emasculating performance. Find Geza Anda's, Annie Fischer's or Andras Schiff's recordings instead. And Lipatti's recording of this movement (sadly not the others) is peerless.

[pichat1]

To an extend I agree, she doesn't exactly capture the idea here. Nevertheless, Martha is a legend and has blessed audiences around the world with flauless performances for a long time now. I played this concerto once with Radu Lupu and enjoyed it very much

[coasterman16]

Martha really has a thing for third piano concertos. (Prokofiev, Bartok, Rachmaninoff)

[pleasantblue]

agree, that's an interesting fact

[3cplantin]

Great point! If only Chopin had lived long enough to write a 3rd piano concerto!

[Yellottwe]

@coasterman16 and Beethoven 3:)

[jzer21]

Isn't 8:00 a little, minor quote from Rach 3 1st movement?

[Tompelicious]

I don't think so, even though it reminds me of Rach 3.

[vansinniger]

8:00 -Am I right? :)

[mcnardo]

that would have to be very picky ..

[Philosophaster]

Beautiful.

[trschaefer]

This movement is so heartbreakingly beautiful... Ethereal and transcendental... I think that when he wrote this, Bartok knew his life was ending, and this movement is a "Hynm" of sorts. Thank you for posting this.