Interview with Martha Argerich, Paris 1968

Recorded in Paris on March 9th, 1968 after her first Paris debut (or maybe first Parisian radio debut?)

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[Crodajudile]

1/5] ! I'm French and I will try to translate in English, but I'm sorry, there will have a lot of mistake, I don't speak very well ...

Interviewer: "I think, Martha Argerich, that it's more difficult to introduce yourself to the Parisian public than pass the international competition of Genève"

Martha: "Well, i don't know, it depends"

Interviewer: "you are afraid (nervous) tonight"

Martha: "Yes, because I don't like to talk, it's very difficult for me"

[the following is coming :)]

[mmoynan]

@Crodajudile Ca c'est fantastique! Merci beaucoup. :) Us English-speakers thank you :)

[kyleclef]

Could someone maybe translate this? :)

[mmoynan]

@kyleclef I wish I could! My French is alright on a good day, and I can understand chunks, so one of these days I'll caption the bits that I can comprehend. It would be great if a native/fluent French speaker could chime in, though....

[Crodajudile]

2/5] Interviewer: "But I think it's the first time that you introduce yourself to French public today, you came in Paris like a rocket. Of course, we knew you, with the extraordinary competitions you have passed, a long time ago, in Geneve"

M: "In Geneve, 10 years ago, in 1957, next in Italy (Busoni competition in Bolzano) and after, it was in 1965 in Varsovia."

Interviewer: This is a harvest of realizations and triumph, for a young pianist like Matha Argerich..." (some words are metaphorical)

[mmcrosbie]

@Crodajudile Thanks for doing your best to translate for us.

[Crodajudile]

3/5] Interviewer, "...And suddenly, 2 days ago, and when her first CD where rewarded, you can tell us what it was: "

Martha: "the Prokofiev's 3rd concerto and the concerto in G major of Ravel."

Interview: " you played this wonderfully and everyone found this interpretation extraordinary "

Martha "Thank you"

Interviewer: "so, to us, since you had a concert today in Cologne, we sent you a telegram, and we asked you to come, ..."

[Crodajudile]

4/5] Interviewer: " so it's almost in exclusiveness, for France Music (the radio) tonight, and for the very first time in Paris, that Marta Argerich, introduce herself to us."

*clapping*

Interviewer: "But, as she is very nervous, and she's not familiar with talking in public, and as she appreciated very much the interpretation of Erick friedman of the Brahms 3rd sonata, she tought that she would play too a little bit of German romantic music:"

Martha: "the Sonata in G minor of Schumann"

[Crodajudile]

5/5] The voice: « 3 years before her extraordinary recording of the 2nd Sonata of Schumann (in G minor, op 22), she was arriving in Paris with her restless fulgurances, she expressed a vision Astonishing of this sonata, a running to the abyss, incredible tempis wich found it's climax in the 2 last mouvements. It was the 9 of March 1968, we were in live, on France Music »

I'm sorry if you don't understand, there is a maybe a lot of mistake, I did what I could ^^.