Martha Argerich, Chopin Mazurka Op.24 No.2 (live @ Nobel Prize Concert 2009)

Argerich Plays Chopin's Mazurka at the 2009 Nobel Prize Concert.

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• Chopin
• piano
• mazurka
• Martha
• Argerich
• classical
• classic
• music
• nobel
• prize
• concert

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

nobel prize concerto? uh?

for obama?

[th3wing3dpaint3r]

@newFranzFerencLiszt Well, there's more than one Nobel prize per year. Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, I think he didn't attend the concert though.

[callenishss]

whoever said shes corny is just an idiot. her rubato is just a step faster than other pianists, and her technique is very proper

[th3wing3dpaint3r]

Of course we all know that :D

He's entitled to his own opinion though.

You should check his version of this piece. It's...well i wouldn't want to influence your opinion of it.

Let's just say i think it's a tad less brilliant ;)

[hornwu]

Anyone knows what she said after the encore 2:17?

[th3wing3dpaint3r]

@hornwu I can only make out "Chopin...". I think she was discussing what to play with the violinist sitting behind her.

Then she reports about how Chopin (The piece) went.

[BachFong11]

SHE should have won the Noble Peace Prize!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Like this comment if you think so.

[RantingTrent]

Thanks for posting this!

I think Martha is the finest pianist alive and one of the greatest to ever live.

Does anybody know where I can watch the entire Nobel Prize concert?

[flowerable83]

@hornwu "

chopin mazurka"

[HJKey]

@hornwu She said "Chopin Mazurka"

[judderwocky]

@MrBlueOnyx Rafał Blechacz

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

@th3wing3dpaint3r lol yes... 

[tedly10027]

and BRAVO to you because you really caught that Chopin genius moment...to give the piece its "folk" feel...in reality -- when you felt it was "unusual" -- from OUR modern ears used to mainly major and minor scales -- you really felt chopin's message: to remember the "old modes" ..and that's what chopin was doing for us. he was a GENIUS in harmony and scales like that. your ear and feeling is actually very sharp. :-)

[tedly10027]

Chopin used , in this case , a mazurka in C "major" chopin introduces passages where even if your ear is expecting C MAJOR SCALE because his harmonies had been strongly supporting C major which has a scale that does not have sharps or flats -- he SHARPENS the 4th tone of "c scale" - the tone is now F# instead of the "normal" natural F..

c-d-c- F# -g-a-b-a - even if a piece is written "in c major". the Mode REALLY did start with that C and had that F# ..that's why it sounds "not chopin"...

[tedly10027]

@tedsta485 actually -- Chopin was using an "old" scale mode -- it's one of the "classical modes" - that were common in the pre-bach era that were cultivated very much in the church music - which itself was also had historical connections with even older scales from greece..every "tone" of a scale (say, starting with c at the piano) has its own "mode" ...C "major" being originally the "dorian" mode in church classical modes.

[tedsta485]

Does anyone feel like this Mazurka doesn't belong to Chopin? The melody is very incongruent with what i'd usually expect from Chopin. Satie always pops into my head when I hear this.. never Chopin..