Debut Recital / Martha Argerich
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Free Music Review: Pianist!
Hit: 5 Stars
I have listened to many recordings of Liszt Sonata performed by different pianists and I cannot find best one,because a lot of them are very good.That's totally stupid to look for best one . There's no such exist. Some people looking for perfect pianist and when they seem to find perfect one, others say that perfect pianist is not good enough,because this pianist is perfect. In simple words I want to say that you may not like some things in Argerich's playing ,but you have to agree that she is a brilliant pianist!I don't care if she plays some places too fast. How can we possibly measure what is fast and what is very fast. Art is subjective, but Martha Argerich is a great pianist!Free Music Review: Just the Sonata in B minor...
Hit: 4 Stars
Argerich's playing of the other stuff in this disc are not really my cup of tea, but her Sonata in B minor is marvellous. True, many people accuse Argerich of playing too fast and too virtuosic and not musical, which i think is true for the other stuff in this disc, but not the Sonata. This Sonata is a huge, singular-movement work which is split up into many linked sections, and Argerich plays them...well, uniformly fast. However this maintains a whole structure of the music, and makes the whole Sonata sound very unified, unlike people like Pollini, who make this Sonata sound like a bunch of bagatelles strung together. I must say the Sonata sounds great and her playing reveals the whole Grandeur of the music. Most probably you won't regret buying this discFree Music Review: You must have this Liszt sonata
Hit: 5 Stars
This Liszt sonata knocked me flat when I heard it. I was familiar with the sonata before hearing Argerich perform it, but in her hands it is something completely new. Her performance encompasses all the aspects of the music, from the rapid virtuouso flourishes to the serene beginning and ending of the sonata. Because of Argerich, the Liszt sonata is now one of my favorite works for piano. You simply must hear this.The cd is called Debut Recital, and that's what you get on the rest of the cd. Argerich's runs up and down the keyboard are seamless in her Chopin. She makes it seem as if the piano could never ever be a percussive instrument. Of course she throws in Prokofiev's toccata to take full advantage of the keyboard's mechanical capabilities. When I listen to how fast she plays the end of the toccata, I wonder how it's even possible to play that fast. Her fingers play the notes faster than I can think them!
There are of course Argerich's detractors who believe that she is a brainless virtuouso who plays fast just to play fast, or plays violently just to play violently, simply because she can. Horowitz's critic accused him of similar "crimes." To fall into the same musical category as Horowitz is never bad. Yes, when Argerich plays, the music is as much hers as it is the composer's. And that is what makes her a great interpreter. Every time she performs, she brings something new to the music. Musical performance should be anything but homogeneous. If you want something performed specifically the way Chopin wrote it, you can find that elsewhere. Look to Argerich, though, for pure originality. You'll find her innovative genius throughout this wonderful disk.
Free Music Review: A treasure
Hit: 5 Stars
This disc is the testimony of the true genius of Martha Argerich. She uses her more than perfect technique to bring to life whatever she plays. Truly, her playing is of the utmost virtuosity, but never for the sake of the viruosity. Instead she creates colours and atmospheres in such pieces as Ravel's Yeux d'eau or Prokofieff's Toccata which have to be heard to be believed. What an incredible achievement of a girl who wasn't even 20 years old ! Her 1972 recording of the Liszt Sonata completes this marvellous disc. Her fiery temperament, her brilliant fingerwork and her perfectly timed lyrical playing makes this performance take your breath away from the first till the last note. This disc offers a selection of pieces in which Argerich is simply at her best. Buy it !Free Music Review: Virtuosity at its worst
Hit: 2 Stars
Yes, there is brilliance, perfection, precision, impetuosity, in short everything in these performances that any "music lover" keen on floating amidst waves of "luscious, gorgeous romantic music", or any "piano connoisseur" might cherish. What is missing, though, are the distinct, individual voices of each composer. For there is only one and the same voice indeed in all these performances: the wearisome voice of self-complacent virtuosity whose end is in itself rather than in seeking and conveying the individual spirit of each composer. Some reviewer remarked of her Chopin preludes, "This is Argerich, not Chopin". But also, these are not Ravel, Liszt, Brahms or Prokofiev; they are all Argerich. Only hear Moravec, Francois, Arrau, Biret and Richter respectively, playing these composers. You will say, "this is it!" because they are serving their composers rather than their own image as a pianist. The reviewer above said, "Chopin cannot be played like Rachmaninov". But who else can? Her playing of Liszt sonata is considered as the greatest since Horowitz's by some reviewer here. For me, even the playing of such a pianist I'm not exactly crazy about, Alfred Brendel, is much more truthful and profound than hers, bringing forward the more future-looking, original aspects of Liszt that we hear in his late piano pieces. As for Horowitz, well, he is a traveler along the same road as Argerich. A Horowitz disc I had the mischance to purchase bore the title "Horowitz, the poet of the piano", and contained a performance of Kinderszenen which summarized all I try to say here. Only could he/Argerich let Schumann (or others, for that matter) be THE poet!