She wasn't joining the competition, it looked like she was giving a master-class lesson to the judges and audiences of how a great pianist should perform.
Over 5k comments and all are glowing and positive. That is rare air and praise. Yes she is a Goddess. Clarity and tone and effortless playing w soft caressing of the notes. Zero forearm tension. Just a marvel. I think she is better than Horowitz IMHO.
In addition to her incredible speed and power on those double-octave passages, she has the most beautiful rendition of the cascades in the trio that I've ever heard; effortlessly feather-light and smooth, like a shimmering waterfall.
Again this woman never fails to amaze me...her playing now is as impressive if not more today as it was then......she's a rare gem....please go see her live while you still can.....
The end of this piece especially is such a majestic work of music, one of Chopin’s best, though currently I love his Opus 44 Polonaise, the mazurka part in the middle is just enchanting. Such a genius. If he had lived more than 39 years who knows what he would have brought to this world. Our loss.
since nobody wants to talk about how gorgeous she is here - understandably, as that would sully the conversation about her insane musical ability - I guess i'll have to do it
She's 24 years old here, and this is after at age 3.5 she began playing and taking lessons at age 5! At 8 she gave her first public recital! By the time of this video, 7 years prior, she had already won both the Geneva and Busoni competitions (3 weeks apart), 1st prize in both at the age of 16! (they don't allow pianists to compete at that age now) Then after failing to study with Horowitz, she took a 3-year hiatus from the piano and decided to not pursue a piano career! The wife of her old piano teacher, Askensae persuaded her to prepare and enter this most prestigious competition. In which she won, again, 1st prize. No kidding, here is the pianist of all pianists and she still rules at the top of her profession at age 81! Having survived cancer twice, the second time was nothing short of a miracle. We are in the presence of a goddess!
Martha absolutely overrated, she nothing compared with Alexei Grinuk very overrated, Gerade Linie playing without any emotions. She doesn't deserve to be alongside great pianists. Chopin overrated too
Even then, she was one of the most amazing pianists. Several times over many years, I have heard something on the radio (Chopin Concerto in e, for example) and it had "something extra, something special". Those times it always turned out were her performances.
A real intellectual achievement as well to give such unity, grace and precission to this piece, one Chopin's most complex btw. Only one question is left : what would the composer himself think of this interpretation
Another piece I could never quite grasp. It's enough to just watch her beautiful hands. Still, she has a way of conveying the meaning of a particular piece of music that just pierces the soul.
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It's laughable to think that there were judges sitting there when she could play immeasurably better than each one of them! Does it really get better than this?! Her technique,in particular the octaves,was just perfect then.A great example for young pianists(and not-so-young!)to try and emulate. Zimerman is another one who does everything absolutely correctly.It's a pity there are no visual recordings of Lipatti.😊
Don’t badmouth the jury too much. I mean after all, they did give her the win. What an incredible woman she is, after almost 60 years, STILL being able to perform at this level.
"Does it really get better than this?!" Yes, for starters without making an elementary mistake of not phrasing the sigh motive in mm. 5-6. Then thinking it is an octave piece, rather than a music piece. Etc., etc.
@@RusskyVoyennyKorablIdiNakhui It’s a damned good thing I’m not as musically educated as you are or have as good an ear as you have or I might not be able to enjoy her performance as much as I do.
@@MHB48615 I am glad you did. Being a pro, I notice things regular listeners do not. That being the case, her 3d scherzo is a flawed interpretation (and I am a Martha fan!)
@@MHB48615 If you are into Chopin generally, and into scherzi in particular, I re-posted a stunning performance on my channel. This guy is a youtuber, he posted a massive amount of historical recordings over the years, and, apparently, used to be a genius-level pianist, before he gave up music and started making a living. I gather, the Russian school. He does not like my playing, so he is not perfect. 🙂 But his 3d scherzo is the real thing, beginning with the sigh motive and concluding with the wildest coda. Check it out -- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JaWrAKo0uvE.html
Oh, what a girl and whal a magical talent she is. She broke me many myths as a piano player in my youth. She was always excellent in whatever she played. Maybe the best piano player of all time. Martha, my dear...
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Aside from being one of the very greatest pianists of our time, she us very intelligent and has led an interesting life. Fortunately, there are a few extended interviews with her on Yourtube.
NOT TRUE! More beautiful colorful piano Sound than Argerich=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Artur Rubinstein Radu Lupu Vladimir Ashkenazy! MORE POWERFUL Louder than Argerich=Mikhail Pletnev The Supernova Explosion power!( Prokofiev piano concerto no 1 by Pletnev!) The Second Loudest was Lazar Berman! More Genius than Argerich=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Alexei Lubimov Stanislav Igolinsky!
This video is playing in D Minor, not C# Minor. She’s known for playing fast, but this appears to have been sped up (perhaps for copyright issues?). Keep that in mind if you’re puzzled by the tempo. 😎🎹
Will never understand why she didn't record the Chopin Etudes, both sets. Or the remaining five J.S. Bach Partitas or the remaining five English Suites. Or the French Suites. Etc.
She was asked once why she didn't record all of Chopin and she gave the most logical answer you can think of - she said she doesn't like everything he wrote and she doesn't want to play the pieces she doesn't like. :-)
Péter Kiss I remember leopold auer having said something like “you have too keep practicing and working with the composition until it becomes beautiful“ to his students in russia. And he did have some marvelous students. That said, going with what you like makes sense.
NOT TRUE! More beautiful colorful piano Sound than Argerich=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Artur Rubinstein Radu Lupu Vladimir Ashkenazy! MORE POWERFUL Louder than Argerich=Mikhail Pletnev the Supernova Explosion power!( Prokofiev piano concerto no 1 by Pletnev!) The Second Loudest was Lazar Berman! More Genius than Argerich=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Alexei Lubimov Stanislav Igolinsky!
Prior to this, Martha Argerich had not played piano for three years and had only returned to the piano for 6 months. Also, a year prior to this, she got pregnant by her friend Robert Chen; married him and shortly divorced him; then returned to her domineering mother in Geneva, where she gave birth to her first daughter. And yet, she still found the time to win the Chopin competition at age 24… again, all within one year. If that’s not talent, I don’t know what is. She truly is the queen of the piano!
I feel ya. One time I played Liszt's Un Sospiro on a piano in the Australian outback (yes, you read correctly... there was one out there), and all the keys were tuned half a step down. It threw me off that D-flat Major sounded like C Major. 😂
@@pbwbrian53, I don't see how a piece played correctly in tune can be wrong because it's played in a different key than what you know originally. I think people with perfect pitch should really stop trying for find ways to let people know they have perfect pitch.
Presley Joe Black I don’t have perfect pitch, but have excellent relative pitch. Since a single note just off pitch grates my ears, I can only imagine what a whole piece done out of tune would do to one with perfect pitch.
it is impressive how Argerich can bypass details and chords tension, like nothing was meant, nothing really happened. the whole architecture of the piece is destroyed because "she's not afraid of speed".
A virtual masterclass in proper hand position, a wonderful artistic statement and ... I'll take the Mad Men era polka dot dress and modest heels over the miniskirt and stilletos any day.
I notice nobody asks in the comments who won? I feel sorry for the other contestants who listened to this and knew the best they could hope for was second place.
I don't think this is the competition performance. This scherzo and several other pieces have been well documented and this sounds nothing like the recording that is known as the one that she delievered during competition. This sounds like it was afterwards.
Her technique is frictionless. And in an irony, she misses the penultimate note which is probably the easiest technical bit in the whole piece. And her honest reaction of shaking her head (and no doubt giving her classic eyeroll and grimace) makes us realize that she is in fact human.
The pitch is not correct, seems to be a 25/24 frame problem. Since everything is a semitone higher, I assume that the piece was filmed in a different frame rate than it’s played now. In reality she played it a little bit slower (which doesn’t affect the fact, that she is incomparable and a miracle!)
Im Grunde kann man dazu nichts mehr sagen....absolute künstlerische Reife im Ausdruck.....aber der Komponist bleibt eben doch der wahre Künstler, weil er Schöpfer ist....ohne ihn hätten all die begabten Klimperer nichts zu tun. Es ist wie es ist.
