Musical content with timestamps: 0:02:55 --- Prokofiev - piano concerto no.3 (MA+LondonSymphonyOrch) 0:05:52 --- Ravel - Gaspard de la Nuit, I. Ondine (MA) 0:08:16 --- Schumann (orch. Tchaikovsky) - Symphonic Etudes op.13, XII. allegro brillante (SinfoniaVarsovia) 0:09:00 --- Chopin - piano concerto no.1 in E minor, op.11 (MA+SinfoniaVarsovia) 0:17:07 --- Chopin - piano concerto no.1 in E minor, op.11, III. rondo (MA+SinfoniaVarsovia) 0:20:17 --- Chopin - Heroic Polonaise, op.53 (MA) 0:24:20 --- Beethoven - Diabelli Variations, no.24 "fughetta" (SK) 0:25:14 --- Beethoven - piano sonata no.28 in A major, op.101, IV. allegro (SK) 0:30:36 --- Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker, "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" (MA+Economou) 0:31:22 --- Cosma+Gumplowicz - Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob, Danses Hassidiques 0:32:28 --- Jobim+Moraes - The Girl from Ipanema 0:37:04 --- Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker, "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" (MA+Economou) 0:39:15 --- Poulenc - concerto for two pianos, I. allegro ma non troppo (MA+AccademicaTeatroColon) 0:42:50 --- Mozart - piano sonata in C major, K.545, I. allegro (MA) 0:43:05 --- Chopin - waltz in D-flat major, op.64, no.1 "the minute waltz" (MA) 0:49:03 --- Ravel - Gaspard de la Nuit, II. Le Gibet (MA) 0:53:00 --- Mendelssohn - trio no.1 in E minor, op.49 (MA+Capuçon+Capuçon) 0:58:56 --- Beethoven - piano quartet no.3 in C major, WoO.36, I. allegro vivace (MA+Chen+Capuçon+Capuçon) 1:02:53 --- Ravel - Valses Nobles et Sentimentales, II. assez lent (MA) 1:04:41 --- Ravel - Jeux d'Eau, très doux (MA) 1:10:10 --- Ginastera - Danzas Argentinas, op.2, I. danza del viejo boyero (MA) 1:14:40 --- Beethoven - piano concerto no.2 in B-flat major, op.19, III. rondo, molto allegro (SK+Phil.Pays-de-la-Loire) 1:16:40 --- Beethoven - piano sonata no.23 in F major, op.57 "appassionata", I. allegro assai (SK) 1:22:18 --- Ravel - piano concerto in G major, II. adagio assai (MA) 1:29:25 --- Cosma+Gumplowicz - Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob, Danses Hassidiques 1:30:11 --- Beethoven - piano sonata no.29 in B-flat major, op.106 "hammerklavier", I. allegro (SK) 1:32:39 --- anonymous, 19th century - "Mon Âne" 1:33:45 --- Bach - partita no.4, BWV.828, II. allemande (SK) Feel free to report corrections or remarks.
Exactly the same as me! I simply cannot understand how I haven't heard nothing about her in my entire life... and the worst part is that I'm Argentinian 🤦🏽♂️
incredible how her first daughter, with whom she had less contact and a difficult relation, is the most similar to her, in the way she talks and her gestures
12:01 It's just so interesting to see pedestrians just walk by casually. For me I'd be like.... "is that Martha Argerich walking across the street with a cup of coffee???" *star struck*
i can’t believe this film was finally made available on youtube! the last time i could find it here, it was available only for a few weeks, and then was removed
"When I was a child I felt my mother was a supernatural being, in touch with something beyond the reach of mere mortals, and I was the daughter of a Goddess." Hard to live with that knowledge.
I watched this a long time ago, yet couldn’t help but watch it again. What I find most interesting about Martha is that, despite all her documentaries, interviews and even seeing her more than once in person, there’s something mysterious about her that I still can’t unravel. You say something to her expecting an answer, only to be met by a distant gaze. Yet you ask the most mundane question and suddenly she lights up and has so much to say! Overall, she’s unpredictable in whatever she does and I think she’s a fascinating person, not to mention she quite literally changed my life. So it was a pleasure to watch again. Thank you for sharing this great documentary.
@@evamartin8732 Hold on, is this your personal hunch? Or has someone in her circle affirmed that she is on the spectrum?? (A quick search didn't bring up anything connecting Argerish and autism...)
Here after watching Rick Beato's video. Haven't heard of her before and here I am down the rabbit hole, couple of hours later. Fascinating life! Seeing her play is the best!
Rick Beato did a really inspiring video about her. I knew about Martha since 1980 (The Pogorelich incident), but got inspired now to search for more :)
You have tried so beautifully...so sensitively... to catch that mysterious energy that you call your "mother." She is elusive ...impossible to define really. She walks that fine line between the higher realms of creativity and the mundane affairs of our earth walk which she seems to have struggled with. In the end children and friends try unsuccessfully to capture her...to define her according to their needs...without much success. And now as the shadows of this life lengthen she wonders where "home' is. Well, there is a place...but it has no words. Just the breath within the breath perhaps. Thank you so much for this wonderful offering..
So complex and so simple at the same time. She seems to hold all the mysteries of this world within her. You just can't stop watching and listening to her. Impossible not to fall in love. What a rollercoaster you've been riding your whole life, Stephanie! Thank you for letting us watch you both through this wonderful window. Cheers from Argentina, a land of crazy and beautiful people like your mom!
1:47 Gosh, pay attention at her right hand around the baby's little head. It's a really fast and subtle gesture... If we didn't know who she was I think we'd tell right away it's a pianist's hand. LoL
What I found remarkable was that Argerich wasn't very articulate when it came to talking about music. If someone like her who has lived music her whole life finds it difficult to talk about music, you start to wonder whether those people who wax eloquent about music really understand what they are talking about.
Many creative people struggle with expressing themselves verbally because they don’t think in words and instead think in abstract concepts and struggle to translate it into words.
What an utterly fascinating woman. When you see her playing or hear her speaking three different languages fluently, one'd be inclined to think of her as this cultured mighty person (which she is indeed), yet she also seems so humble and down to earth, so approachable. You can really tell she experiences music like few people can. I've been playing for ten years now, and I'm nowhere near understanding Chopin the way she does, not just on a technical but on a spiritual level. I am completely amazed by this exceptional human being who continues to inspire me every day. (I may have grinned like a fangirl when she smiled suddenly at 20:43.) Stéphanie is right -she's truly living life on a different level. Thank you so much for sharing this documentary with us and allowing us to see Martha in a more intimate light.
Fun trivias about Martha: - She learned the Prokofiev 3rd Concerto (02:55) literally in her sleep while her roommate practiced it. She also made the same mistake as her roommate made. She then had to truly sit down on the piano to correct those mistakes. She considers the concerto as "easy". - She has never played Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto. Claiming that it is too important for her. - She sometimes still nervous before a concert. - She rarely practices to keep up her technique. - She plays Schumann's Toccata as a warmup piece. - She avoids playing a solo recital, preferring to play with an orchestra or other musicians. - She prepared Ravel Gaspard de la Nuit in a couple of weeks. She said that she didn't realize that it was supposed to be difficult. Despite her belief, Gaspard de la Nuit is still considered as one of the most difficult pieces for the piano. - She strives to always make a piece interesting. Even though she played it many times, she always tries to find something new in a piece. She compares Michelangeli with Horowitz. Michelangeli always sounds the same and Horowitz always sounds different every time. - She always wears black when performing (apart from very rare moments in her youth).
The daughter is a fine person, who has every right to correct her Parents huge personal mistake they did to her. Here, within this film, the father is completely çold'to his daughters trauma, in his not following up her wishes and her right from him. It is appauling. Whether famous or not, it is simply not right. I feel for the daughter. The parents are not 'rational and have no empathy'. In music, they display magic, but through the most important thing in life, they deny their daughters happiness. I am shocked. John (Australia)
As I was watching this documentary I was engaged in trying to make sense of her character. Fascinating and complex - also enigmatic and self absorbed. Slightly insane by common standards. She hides behind her hair - but if she were to sweep her hair off her face her beautiful face would be revealed - like the sun bursting through the clouds. She is not your average maternal type, but instead is a friend to her children. I felt like she has carried great pain throughout her life and her self absorption is a defence method, but anxiety and fear can catch her unawares. Her music is where she at last touches the divine and feels whole. Those are just my impressions for what they are worth!
A most precious jewel, so Martha Argerich.... I’ve absorbed every single drop of it as a dry sponge, simply delightful and delighted !!!... Thanks a million , you’ve made my quarantine day ! 👏🏼🥰💕
Hope Stephanie's dad made the birth issue right. Time to make it right and not make excuses. He can do that, just stop making excuses. I liked the film, and the whole family, but that part really pissed me off.
I picked up the phone and called my brother & sister for the 1st time in years after watching your beautiful documentary. we talked for hours truth is I missed them everyday. thank you Martha, you and your gifted family are beautiful & an inspiration to me
All Great artists are different from average human. Going through life with major upheavals along the way does tend to bring out deep emotions, which is expressed well through arts, such as music.
Lyda was estranged from Marta since little, only reunited when she was adult. their relationship is not intimate, a bit distant. and yet, Lyda is the most copy of Marta, in every way.
Martha Argerich... What a remarkable personality, and a great pianist, who has just celebrated her ...80 anniversary!!! Many thanks for sharing the documentary!
Oh my....!!!!! I can't believe you post this documentary.....!!!!!! Thank you again and again and so much........!!!!!!!!!! I couldn't watch it until now...! So thank you for giving me and the whole RU-vid world this opportunity..! I admire her so much, she is one of my top favourite and unique pianists...! Thank you Mrs Martha Argerich and Thank you all for posting this...!!!!! Have a nice day!!!
thank you very much for making this film available even to non-europeans who do not live in the first world. in the age of the internet, digital copyright restrictions are a form of discrimination.
This movie's awesome...I remember it was 1983 or 84 when I've heard Martha playing for the first time in the illegal on that time radio station called Free Europe". I was seven on that time and I didn't understand yet much about music but Ravel's Ondine playing by Martha that night has changed my life...Big time thank you for sharing your talent to the world Martha. Such an artist and beautiful soul.
I just cannot understand how anyone can be such a crazy mixed up person - yet a genius with her piano. I don’t think she has ever loved anyone - her ‘husbands’ nor her children. Not even herself. And who the heck is the American, Stephanie’s father!??? If it was at the beginning I missed it. Annie is Charles Dutoit’s, Lyda is Chen’s. What a crazy mixed up family…then Lyda goes and has a child with no father around. And so the disfunction carries on into the next generation/s. It’s not a film to ‘enjoy’. It’s quite disturbing. It’s certainly changed my thoughts on Martha who I knew nothing about except she is a brilliant pianist - but I didn’t know it was since she was 3 !
And that is why you are in your life and she is in hers. Who the heck are you to judge her and whether she has loved against your pedestrian views. The beautiful scene sitting on a blanket with her adult daughters and grandchild- they all love and and accept each other for who they are, ‘faults’ and all.
I bet Martha would be a great piano teacher. An amazing pianist, who makes difficult pieces look like child’s play. What a life she has had and still wowing audiences in her 80s. Apparently she had a 3 year break from playing. 😮
What can I say!! I just watched an extremely emotional, touching and gorgeous video, about my adorable Mrs. Argerich. 💝🌺 Many thanks to her daughter Stephanie and to the editor too. I am sure Mrs. Argerich is very proud of her daughter Stephanie, as she is a gifted and great girl. Additionally, I admire the way she narrates. 💝 (PS: I was one of the lucky persons watching her performance in Greece, in 2012. Precious moments I will never forget).
I am a great fan of her as a pianist, but I feel deeply sorry for the children. They don’t have a place around their grander-than-life mother. They seem to accomodate her while she’s distant in her art and busy in her head with herself. It must have been really inspiring to grow up with enigmatic people around, but they would have needed a constant carer who would have provided emotional stability to counterbalance the constant emotional and physical distance from/lack of their mother. As their fathers were also exceptional and somewhat distant, it must have been tough. The price of a genious.
Martha Argerich has a very high quality personal expressive pianosound and a voice in the sound behind which she stands upright and i respect her singing pianotone very much. This is the ideal of an artist: one should be there personally and be a human being and sing. You have to have heart to play Chopin well. I remember Dmitri Bashkirov giving me this advice when i was 15 years old attending his mastercourse: "Listen a lot to Martha Argerich". Bashkirov himself had a remarkably wonderful pianosound and touch.
Gracias a Martha me adentré en la música clásica ya tarde, a mis 38 años. Antes escuchaba puro rock, new wave, electropop, punk, garage... Por ahí eran mis gustos musicales, y una tarde escuché una interpretación al concierto para piano no. 3 de Prokofiev que me cautivó y de a ahí a Stravinsky, a Chopin, a Debussy todo en las manos prodigiosas de esta dama, esta musa que cambia la vida de quien la escucha, que conmueve, que enamora. Ojalá y algún día pueda verla en vivo. Saludos desde México 🇲🇽
Que hermoso como a través de la historia de una madre (detrás de otra y otra) la hija de Marta se define ella misma y a toda una familia. Hermosa historia y cuántos matices
What a classic of the piano-film genre - so beautiful and moving. I started crying about 6 minutes in 😂 It’s very comforting with regards to how exhausting I find it to keep that crucial emotional and psychological boundary around my playing and my practice, while also remaining a loving, engaged mother and wife. It feels like I’m on a constant see-saw! So much love and gratitude for this film.
que bueno es ser parte de la momentos cotianos, en un ida y vuelta con sus facetas de profesional y de mujer, madre, abuela. Esas simplezas de la vida son muy buenos de observar, temperamentos, dialogos, silencios, pausas, etc. Saludos desde Argentina. muy buen Film.
Quel son, quel toucher, quels accents! Lyda beaucoup souffert de cette absence de sa mère et son père qui a pensé punir Martha pour le supposé enlèvement, a surtout manigancé pour blesser sa fille, profondément, et la mère. Ce M.Chen est à honnir. Mais maintenant je comprends pourquoi Martha jouait vite comme ça, pour moins ressentir la douleur et éviter toute sensiblerie.
Une femme incroyable presque hors du commun, sa personnalité et ses performances semblent uniques ; incroyable de revoir ses concerts de 1965 à 1998. Extraordinaire
Stéphanie et ses soeurs ont réussi dans leurs vies, malgré tout. Je trouve le père de Stéphanie épouvantable - il a réfusé de la reconnaître malgré toutes ses supplications. Et voyez ses manières atroces à table (1.15) il se sert du fromage sans d'abord l'offrir à M.A. Egoïste at parent absent. Stéphanie est très admirable et ne lui doit rien.
