There are more than 120 commercial recordings of this popular work. Prokofiev himself made the first in June 1932 with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Piero Coppola at Abbey Road Studios in London; it is the only recording that exists of the composer performing one of his concertos. Martha Argerich famously recorded the work in 1967 with Claudio Abbado for Deutsche Grammophon; she recorded it again in 1997 with Charles Dutoit for EMI, this time winning a Grammy Award. This is THE recording which won a Grammy. Martha is in a class by herself. There is no one else who comes close to this piece. She is extraordinary here.
Who are the 65 people who hit thumbs down? You have no idea of greatness. I saw her at Carnegie hall. My wish for 2019 is to hear her play in Buenos Aires, planning a vacation around her. Teatro Colon, please
I think this is one of the best Prokofiev 3 l have ever heard by ANYONE! I came to Argerich later in my life. IMO she is one of the best,if not the best pianists performing. In some pieces she is untouchable. There is some kind of ‘magic’ she is able to achieve I have not heard by any other pianist. Is it her touch. her unique form of peddaling, her phrasing of each measure......I don’t know. Whatever it is she is spellbinding. My only regret is to never have seen her in person. Maybe one day. Thank you Ms. Argerich for bringing your utterly unique talent to this world.
I missed hearing her play this in Boston in the 80's, but then had the opportunity to hear her play in London in the last several years. What a privilege to hear one of my favourite pieces played by the woman who is my favourite interpreter of it. Brilliant.
I had the privilege of hearing her perform this piece live in Carnegie Hall in the 80s. It was one of the most thrilling events of my musical lifetime. People were SCREAMING at the end, the likes of which I don't think any rock concert could match. It was thrilling.
I can believe that!! One could say it was a real RUSH....and cause i am a rock fan, check out Neil Peart any of his drum solo's, there have been lots of applause in the world of music:)
I was in attendance. You don't exaggerate. I still talk about the musical sorcery Argerich conjured-up that evening. Audience members were shredding their programs to extemporize confetti. It was the wildest thrill ride I've ever experienced.
Come on GinoJohn! More beautiful colorful piano sound than Argerich=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Artur Rubinstein Radu Lupu Vladimir Ashkenazy! More Powerful than Argerich=Mikhail Pletnev Supernova Explosion Power!( Prokofiev piano concerto no 1 by Pletnev!) The Second Loudest pianist was Lazar Berman! More Genius than Argerich=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Alexei Lubimov Stanislav Igolinsky!
I cannot even imagine, how can anyone create such complex and multilayered music. The same feeling about performing this from memory. Martha is piano sorceress.
Que Poder,Fuerza y Dinámica de Interpretación se siente, como si se resquebrajara una parte del cielo; y entre momentos El Creador se asomara, en las partes líricas y sentimentales , Grandiosa y Sublime Martha Argerich, gracias por este momento Sublime.
Martha -Happy Birthday! It's been a privilege to see and hear you perform such exciting and inspirational Music during this Covid 19. Your extraordinary gift of music will continued to be enjoyed!
No one knows Prokofiev better than Martha. She could play him slow, IF she wanted to, or fast, because she can, but in no case could anyone do it better. Critics should start taking lessons. Martha knows how to flatter the composer, and in this case, a very gifted and difficult one. Thanks for this version, Martha.
If you go to 27:05 there is a big difference in the way Algerich plays this part vs. Wang. The first time I ever heard the song was in the movie, “The Competition.” Amy Irving did an excellent job with her piano faking lessons. She played the glissando the same way that Wang does. By dragging her fingers up and down the keys. But Algerich always plays all the notes individually, the hard way, even in her earliest videos on UA-cam. I saw a clip somewhere of Prokofiev playing a different piece of his the same way. That’s why I think she ‘gets’ him the best. Wang also sounds fantastic playing the piece. I compared Wang to Algerich using this link. ua-cam.com/video/SefZnhpO5Ag/v-deo.html
This is by far the BEST audio quality and mixing I have ever heard. None of the supporting orchestra is suppressed. And Martha is s00000 great! Chuck Dutoit keeps the beat.
That was the very same reason Paul Wittgenstein didn't play Prokofiev's 4th Concerto after comissioning it. Prokofiev's music is not one which goes straight to your heart, like Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov or Chopin... but when you embrace it, it's hardly possible to forget... It goes beyond what most people is accostumed, nevertheless has something I can only call magic, that fascinates even if you don't fully understand...
Post-modern. Nuff said. Represents the discordant clang of modern living. At least Argerich makes it listenable but much prefer the 1st that gave him his music degree!
I had to listen to Prokofiev a zillion times.... and then I began to understand the unique genius of his musical language... truly an original. The opening of this concerto is the musical equivalent of crystal meth... pure speed.
Speechless.. this is one of my favorite interpretations. How she plays the double note glissandi at that speed in the coda of last movement is beyond me, or probably any human.
KISSIN and MARTHA ARE THE two best interpreter of Prokofiev piano concerto 2 &3 in todays pianist they can make me excited when listening to their excellent quality of playing this pieces. They can really fire up Prokofiev to the listener.
Try listening to Byron Janis's version recorded back in the 60's before he was plagued by psoriatic arthritis. IMO his is the greatest recorded version of them all, but Martha REALLY knows how to play this difficult piece to perfection!!
Я в восхищении! Даже несмотря на неважное качество записи исполнение Martha Argerich абсолютно выдающееся. Бесконечно счастлива, что есть такие музыканты, которые способны так воспроизводить музыку, как Argerich.
I believe I heard Martha remark in an interview, "...speed was never a problem." Martha is worthy of worship(!) and playing that rascal Prok is a delight if you play - so many performers "light up" when playing his stuff. His sense of humor is everywhere in his music. Martha + Prok = Manna from Heaven - and I mean the fresh stuff, not the stuff they sell at Whole Foods....
When Prokofiev wrote this concerto in 1921, he knew well it was a masterpiece- though so far from the classical genre. This has been confirmed by the pantheon of interpreters and the world of listeners. Argerich's performance is one of the best I've heard.
Dutoit is a wonderful conductor - he always seems to get the best performances out of orchestras and soloists. While I realize that this a matter of taste, and that Haitink (who at age 85 may not be conducting that much longer), and Jansons are still alive and conducting. Sir Charles MacKerras, while now dead (2010) has a great discography as does the deceased Carlos Kleiber.
Incredible performance. The sheer intensity of everything! Live music doesn't get any better than this. Some may find the speed excessive but I love it, it's just breathtaking.
Martha is the greatest pianist now living. Music under her touch sounds sometime like stormy whether, sometimes like a prayer, something like a passion love speech. Wonderful and inimitable.
You are a fool to call anything Martha Argerich plays stupid. She is not my favorite pianist, but this performance is titanic. To catch something like this live is a very rare experience.
It has been so long since I wrote this reply, I have started the video to listen to is once again. This woman is a force of nature! And it's not just banging and fast fingers. She really does a service to the music. Noting the entry from Andy S below, I would love to have heard her play it at Carnegie Hall. She has such fun when she is delivering this piece! Her Rachmaninoff Three, also on UA-cam, played when she was a young Amazon, is also beguiling. Having said all this, I have no favorite pianist who I hold above everybody else, but I think I have a favorite performance of this piece, and that is by William Kapell. He was every bit the technical wizard that Argerich is, plus I find his interpretive force and detail to be, shall we say, deeper. Kapell died young, in a plane crash, and was generally a very good colleague to his peers. He would have liked Argerich.
I concur with all the positive and very sensible comments on this page (and what a sensibility compared to so many other youtube commentaries! Congratulations to all of you of music lovers.) But contrary to what some else said I do like the roughness of the orchestral sound. To me that is also very much part of Prokofiev's musical world. And Dutoit, like Previn, gets out that sweeping, romantic sound when it is called for, like in the third movement from 23.09 onwards. I am under the impression that the quality of the preserved recorded sound, is not so good, leaving the strings a bit blurred. I have an old commercial release of this concert and the sound is definitely better, with a more pronounced, clearly audible orchestra. But Argerich remains the absolute champion in this piece and I especially like her in this performance. But I may be biased because it is the first recording I heard of the piece.
Como es su costumbre, embelesa con su super capacidad pianística, todo lo hace fácil algo tan endiabladamente difícil. Martha eres maravillosa. Buena filmación, lamento que no esté mencionado donde fue el concierto. Mi saludo desde Rosario-Argentina.
I love it how she doesn't have time to take care of her (beautiful) long hair, and how nobody can tell her anything because she's Martha Argerich. :) I of course, can't play piano or anything for that matter, so I Must ...
Remarkable talent! She gained more subtle interpretation of this piece, with precision, in later years! This conductor did not do her the justice she deserved.
I can image her saying to the conductor at the end of the first movement "too slow...faster, please!!" She plays this concerto as though she owns it (of course, she does own it)..I don't there has ever been (or will be) another pianist who can give a performance quite like this... Although I understand that AdL used to play this earlier in career...I would have loved to have heard that...
No it is not too fast. Alexis Weisenberg and William Kapell also did this one at a supertempo, still beeing able to do it justice. And if I could play this one at that speed completely perfect, I would too. Nothing is wrong with speed if you do everything right. And this music needs speed, it is a really boring concerto if you play it too slow, then you miss a lot of details that the speed brings out. She is unrivalled as a perfomer of this one. And at that age, what more can you say than wow?! Comparable to Claudio Arrau making THE definitiv recording of Liszts Transcendental Études at the age of 75, and he stills owns those pieces, like she does with this one
This is a thrilling performance, but talk about a war of dueling tempos! The whole thing almost goes off the rails around 1:30, when Argerich and the orchestra get out of sync. Presumably that's why she is yelling at Dutoit after the 1st movement.
I think some people's problem with the speed of this performance is that they find it to be so fast that they don't get a chance to wallow in the majestic opulence of Prokofiev's music. I thought it was a fantastic performance but I can see both sides of this issue...
Excellent comment!! I am on the side of those who prefer the slower pace but, as you wrote, there are two different points of view and neither should be called right or wrong. Playing at this pace would certainly be beyond most pianists.
My personal preference is for a slower tempo as well. My favourite performance of this work is by Vladimir Ashkenazy, but my opinion may be biased as he was the one who introduced me to this amazing piece. I used to listen to his recordings of the 5 Prokofiev piano concertos at least once a day. I guess I've become somewhat conditioned to his pacing (which is a lot slower and weightier)
Not being facetious here, but I wonder if Oscar Peterson could have played this...and vice versa Martha playing some of Oscar's material. I would also love to hear Martha attempt some Art Tatum. Not sure that either could cross genre at extreme difficulty level, but for sure Martha is just spellbinding in her talent.
More beautiful colorful piano sound than Argerich=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Artur Rubinstein Radu Lupu Vladimir Ashkenazy! More Powerful Louder than Argerich=Mikhail Pletnev Supernova Explosion Power!( Prokofiev piano concerto no 1 by Pletnev!) The Second Loudest pianist was Lazar Berman! More Genius than Argerich=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Alexei Lubimov Stanislav Igolinsky!
I don't understand the complaints. Argerich and (young) Kissin are the definitive performers of this piece. Wang is pretty damned good too, if a little faster.
![Prokofiev: Piano Concerto no.3 - Yuja Wang & Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra [HD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/KDfGBmbNbMw/mqdefault.jpg)
There are more than 120 commercial recordings of this popular work. Prokofiev himself made the first in June 1932 with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Piero Coppola at Abbey Road Studios in London; it is the only recording that exists of the composer performing one of his concertos. Martha Argerich famously recorded the work in 1967 with Claudio Abbado for Deutsche Grammophon; she recorded it again in 1997 with Charles Dutoit for EMI, this time winning a Grammy Award. This is THE recording which won a Grammy. Martha is in a class by herself. There is no one else who comes close to this piece. She is extraordinary here.
Who are the 65 people who hit thumbs down? You have no idea of greatness. I saw her at Carnegie hall. My wish for 2019 is to hear her play in Buenos Aires, planning a vacation around her. Teatro Colon, please
I think this is one of the best Prokofiev 3 l have ever heard by ANYONE! I came to Argerich later in my life. IMO she is one of the best,if not the best pianists performing. In some pieces she is untouchable.
There is some kind of ‘magic’ she is able to achieve I have not heard by any other pianist. Is it her touch. her unique form of peddaling, her phrasing of each measure......I don’t know. Whatever it is she is spellbinding. My only regret is to never have seen her in person. Maybe one day. Thank you Ms. Argerich for bringing your utterly unique talent to this world.
Martha Argerich is a gift to this world!
I missed hearing her play this in Boston in the 80's, but then had the opportunity to hear her play in London in the last several years. What a privilege to hear one of my favourite pieces played by the woman who is my favourite interpreter of it. Brilliant.
I had the privilege of hearing her perform this piece live in Carnegie Hall in the 80s. It was one of the most thrilling events of my musical lifetime. People were SCREAMING at the end, the likes of which I don't think any rock concert could match. It was thrilling.
I can believe that!! One could say it was a real RUSH....and cause i am a rock fan, check out Neil Peart any of his drum solo's, there have been lots of applause in the world of music:)
I was in attendance. You don't exaggerate. I still talk about the musical sorcery Argerich conjured-up that evening.
Audience members were shredding their programs to extemporize confetti. It was the wildest thrill ride I've ever experienced.
I heard her play it in Boston... the same weekend Bernstein died... they did a tribute in his honor...
No one can top this performance. Mommy Martha is out of this world!!
Come on GinoJohn! More beautiful colorful piano sound than Argerich=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Artur Rubinstein Radu Lupu Vladimir Ashkenazy! More Powerful than Argerich=Mikhail Pletnev Supernova Explosion Power!( Prokofiev piano concerto no 1 by Pletnev!) The Second Loudest pianist was Lazar Berman! More Genius than Argerich=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Alexei Lubimov Stanislav Igolinsky!
More Powerful Louder than Argerich=Mikhail Pletnev Lazar Berman!
@@RaineriHakkarainenwhy do you keep listening to her her? Every comment you have about her is derogatory. Why waste your time?
Martha is on another level.
I cannot even imagine, how can anyone create such complex and multilayered music. The same feeling about performing this from memory. Martha is piano sorceress.
She is simply astonishing.
The best Prokofiev interpreter ever, Marthita!
Que Poder,Fuerza y Dinámica de Interpretación se siente, como si se resquebrajara una parte del cielo; y entre momentos El Creador se asomara, en las partes líricas y sentimentales , Grandiosa y Sublime Martha Argerich, gracias por este momento Sublime.
Martha -Happy Birthday!
It's been a privilege to see and hear you perform such exciting and inspirational
Music during this Covid 19.
Your extraordinary gift of music will continued to be enjoyed!
Too good for words.Keep it up for as long as you can.
No one knows Prokofiev better than Martha. She could play him slow, IF she wanted to, or fast, because she can, but in no case could anyone do it better. Critics should start taking lessons. Martha knows how to flatter the composer, and in this case, a very gifted and difficult one. Thanks for this version, Martha.
She never played his second. I think Wang knows him as perfectly as it's possible to.
If you go to 27:05 there is a big difference in the way Algerich plays this part vs. Wang. The first time I ever heard the song was in the movie, “The Competition.” Amy Irving did an excellent job with her piano faking lessons. She played the glissando the same way that Wang does. By dragging her fingers up and down the keys. But Algerich always plays all the notes individually, the hard way, even in her earliest videos on UA-cam. I saw a clip somewhere of Prokofiev playing a different piece of his the same way. That’s why I think she ‘gets’ him the best.
Wang also sounds fantastic playing the piece. I compared Wang to Algerich using this link. ua-cam.com/video/SefZnhpO5Ag/v-deo.html
thank you Martha for making our earth so beautiful with your playing and spirit
The last three minutes of this performance is spell-binding. I've watched it 3 times and still get goose bumps.
+Henry Lister you are right so great!! fabulos!!!
This is by far the BEST audio quality and mixing I have ever heard. None of the supporting orchestra is suppressed. And Martha is s00000 great! Chuck Dutoit keeps the beat.
yes; yes!
It's not that great to be honest.
I agree it was superb!
Thanks for posting this, Martha Argerich was married to Dutoit in the early 70's. Fabulous.
one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century performs the genial music of one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, fantastically!
If you've ever played Prokofiev you know it's a bloody miracle to be able to perform it at any speed. lol
Agree. Bloody true xD
agreed...but it sounds like senseless banging to me and i couldnt imagine learning something that meaningless.
That was the very same reason Paul Wittgenstein didn't play Prokofiev's 4th Concerto after comissioning it.
Prokofiev's music is not one which goes straight to your heart, like Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov or Chopin... but when you embrace it, it's hardly possible to forget...
It goes beyond what most people is accostumed, nevertheless has something I can only call magic, that fascinates even if you don't fully understand...
Post-modern. Nuff said. Represents the discordant clang of modern living. At least Argerich makes it listenable but much prefer the 1st that gave him his music degree!
I had to listen to Prokofiev a zillion times.... and then I began to understand the unique genius of his musical language... truly an original. The opening of this concerto is the musical equivalent of crystal meth... pure speed.
I've never seen Martha having to concentrate so hard like she does at the beginning of the piece! I simply love this interpretation.
She is magnificent. This is one of my favorite pieces--Argerich and Dutoit are perfectly matched here. Dutoit never moves off the accelerator.
Speechless.. this is one of my favorite interpretations. How she plays the double note glissandi at that speed in the coda of last movement is beyond me, or probably any human.
Martha Argerich has got talent, experience and technique .I am sure, her performances are unique and superb.
Absolutely dazzling- I love the fast tempo.
Martha is fierce, this was perfection, I love to watch her she is classical joy. Brava
Martha, usted me hace sentir en el paraíso, usted me hacer ver el rostro de Dios. Muchas gracias.
I was incredibly impressed. Such pianistic virtuosity with a magnificent genius of a composer.
"Diva" - improperly applied to various pop singers, correctly applied to Ms. Argerich, her playing is otherworldly.
I sobbed at this....she plays it as if she wrote it. god.
This performance really moves me. Martha Argerich has that touch from God .....
La pianista y talentosa Martha Argerich!!!😊
KISSIN and MARTHA ARE THE two best interpreter of Prokofiev piano concerto 2 &3 in todays pianist they can make me excited when listening to their excellent quality of playing this pieces. They can really fire up Prokofiev to the listener.
Try listening to Byron Janis's version recorded back in the 60's before he was plagued by psoriatic arthritis. IMO his is the greatest recorded version of them all, but Martha REALLY knows how to play this difficult piece to perfection!!
Argerich does not play the Prokofiev 2nd. Yuja plays the Prokofiev 1,2,3,4 and Kissin plays the 2,3.
Я в восхищении! Даже несмотря на неважное качество записи исполнение Martha Argerich абсолютно выдающееся. Бесконечно счастлива, что есть такие музыканты, которые способны так воспроизводить музыку, как Argerich.
I believe I heard Martha remark in an interview, "...speed was never a problem." Martha is worthy of worship(!) and playing that rascal Prok is a delight if you play - so many performers "light up" when playing his stuff. His sense of humor is everywhere in his music.
Martha + Prok = Manna from Heaven - and I mean the fresh stuff, not the stuff they sell at Whole Foods....
Que gran personalidad la de Martha; ya lo dijeron más abajo y lo comparto, es titánica. Muchas gracias señora Argerich por todo su talento.
Go Martha... awesome as always.
The Grand madame... IF ever there was one!
Prokofiev was a genius. All of his work is excellent.
Powerful...Beautiful hands
Great to see more Argerich videos up on youtube . . . not that I was gettin' tired of seeing the same things over and over and over and over again!
A jaw-dropping performance. Just stunning.
I don't think it's too fast. Her performance is wonderful as usual.
Shuzo Muto I
When Prokofiev wrote this concerto in 1921, he knew well it was a masterpiece- though so far from the classical genre. This has been confirmed by the pantheon of interpreters and the world of listeners. Argerich's performance is one of the best I've heard.
perfectly fluent ! fluently perfection ! i really did enjoy it !
Dutoit is a wonderful conductor - he always seems to get the best performances out of orchestras and soloists. While I realize that this a matter of taste, and that Haitink (who at age 85 may not be conducting that much longer), and Jansons are still alive and conducting. Sir Charles MacKerras, while now dead (2010) has a great discography as does the deceased Carlos Kleiber.
When she plays Fast it is beyond belief . Amazing
Martha... undiminished in all her glory. The greatest pianist after Sergei Rachmaninov.
Incredible performance. The sheer intensity of everything! Live music doesn't get any better than this. Some may find the speed excessive but I love it, it's just breathtaking.
Martha is the greatest pianist now living. Music under her touch sounds sometime like stormy whether, sometimes like a prayer, something like a passion love speech. Wonderful and inimitable.
The 3rd variation omg , and the climax at 10:36 a jewel
bella , come sempre, solo ce un maestro nell mondo come lei...
Her play has story. Danamic and fantastic. It is not matter she plays fast or slow. I love this passion.
She was in her absolute prime during those years. What a master.
You are a fool to call anything Martha Argerich plays stupid. She is not my favorite pianist, but this performance is titanic. To catch something like this live is a very rare experience.
Agreed as to the latter! Who is your favorite pianist?
It has been so long since I wrote this reply, I have started the video to listen to is once again. This woman is a force of nature! And it's not just banging and fast fingers. She really does a service to the music. Noting the entry from Andy S below, I would love to have heard her play it at Carnegie Hall. She has such fun when she is delivering this piece! Her Rachmaninoff Three, also on UA-cam, played when she was a young Amazon, is also beguiling. Having said all this, I have no favorite pianist who I hold above everybody else, but I think I have a favorite performance of this piece, and that is by William Kapell. He was every bit the technical wizard that Argerich is, plus I find his interpretive force and detail to be, shall we say, deeper. Kapell died young, in a plane crash, and was generally a very good colleague to his peers. He would have liked Argerich.
I saw her play this piece live in london back in 2017
wow, this is brilliant!!! but this performance is beyond words.
I don't know how she does it. It's just incredible!
I concur with all the positive and very sensible comments on this page (and what a sensibility compared to so many other youtube commentaries! Congratulations to all of you of music lovers.) But contrary to what some else said I do like the roughness of the orchestral sound. To me that is also very much part of Prokofiev's musical world. And Dutoit, like Previn, gets out that sweeping, romantic sound when it is called for, like in the third movement from 23.09 onwards. I am under the impression that the quality of the preserved recorded sound, is not so good, leaving the strings a bit blurred. I have an old commercial release of this concert and the sound is definitely better, with a more pronounced, clearly audible orchestra. But Argerich remains the absolute champion in this piece and I especially like her in this performance. But I may be biased because it is the first recording I heard of the piece.
Maravillosa interpretación. Muchas gracias por compartir.
best version ever
[00:00] -- Andante - Allegro
[09:12] -- Tema con variazioni
[18:42] -- Allegro, ma non troppo
Como es su costumbre, embelesa con su super capacidad pianística, todo lo hace fácil algo tan endiabladamente difícil. Martha eres maravillosa. Buena filmación, lamento que no esté mencionado donde fue el concierto. Mi saludo desde Rosario-Argentina.
Stunning is correct!
her depth !
This is by far her best interpretation
Фантастика!!!
Many women may feel uncomfortable about working with an ex husband, but in this case the result was magnificent!!
I love it how she doesn't have time to take care of her (beautiful) long hair, and how nobody can tell her anything because she's Martha Argerich. :)
I of course, can't play piano or anything for that matter, so I Must ...
For those who think this is too fast, I have a recording of a 1930’s era performance with Prokofiev at the piano. This is about how fast he played it.
I think a lot of those recordings are sped up.
Soooo schnell😱mehr schneller als sie vorher gespielt hat.Aber wunder schön,Leidenschaft,Feuer,Flamme❤️Hoffentlicht schaf ich das auch so großartig!
What a world! We barely need to be told the names of the soloist and conductor but not a word about the other 65 musicians slogging their guts out!
nothing short of amazing.
wow, the 1st mvmt of this perf is blisteringly fast~ even compared to Martha standards. still incredible and very very exciting
divercidade de sons e tecnicas milaborantes prokofiev foi um compositor adimiravel. e a martha argerich impecavel no piano.
Enjoying the fun of this performance. I think Sergei would enjoy it.
BRAVOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
I note that the accompaniment was provided by the NHK Symphony Orchestra, based in Tokyo.
Her Highness MARTHA!! 👏👏👏👏👏❤️
Remarkable talent! She gained more subtle interpretation of this piece, with precision, in later years! This conductor did not do her the justice she deserved.
8:27 : "Fast scales for the right hand? Like I care! Ima arrange my hair lol."
Stunning
Prom 49, Royal Albert Hall, London - 27 August 2001. NHK Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Dutoit
HOLY FUCK. SHE MAKES THEM WORK.
Astounding.
元夫婦の共演とは素晴らしい！ 離婚しても、二人は同じアーティスト。
しかし、アルゲリッチのピアノは格別です。
I can image her saying to the conductor at the end of the first movement "too slow...faster, please!!" She plays this concerto as though she owns it (of course, she does own it)..I don't there has ever been (or will be) another pianist who can give a performance quite like this...
Although I understand that AdL used to play this earlier in career...I would have loved to have heard that...
No it is not too fast. Alexis Weisenberg and William Kapell also did this one at a supertempo, still beeing able to do it justice.
And if I could play this one at that speed completely perfect, I would too. Nothing is wrong with speed if you do everything right. And this music needs speed, it is a really boring concerto if you play it too slow, then you miss a lot of details that the speed brings out. She is unrivalled as a perfomer of this one. And at that age, what more can you say than wow?! Comparable to Claudio Arrau making THE definitiv recording of Liszts Transcendental Études at the age of 75, and he stills owns those pieces, like she does with this one
+Magnus Jakopsohn 100 percent right on, Magnus. This cto is not for wimpy limp wrists. Martha is SUPERB!
You're sure right!
Magnus Jakopsohn
You betcha. And she is cute. She can take me out for dinner, drinks and dancing.
Sergei himself didn't play it as fast as she does.
Genius.
People constantly complaining about the excessive speed of performances might need faster ears.
hah, I'm really wondering why there aren't people complaining about the recording quality. That sticks out as a lot worse than the performance.
C'est une très belle version par une pianiste et un chef de renoms
This is a thrilling performance, but talk about a war of dueling tempos! The whole thing almost goes off the rails around 1:30, when Argerich and the orchestra get out of sync. Presumably that's why she is yelling at Dutoit after the 1st movement.
Perfekt!!!!!
I think some people's problem with the speed of this performance is that they find it to be so fast that they don't get a chance to wallow in the majestic opulence of Prokofiev's music. I thought it was a fantastic performance but I can see both sides of this issue...
Excellent comment!! I am on the side of those who prefer the slower pace but, as you wrote, there are two different points of view and neither should be called right or wrong. Playing at this pace would certainly be beyond most pianists.
My personal preference is for a slower tempo as well. My favourite performance of this work is by Vladimir Ashkenazy, but my opinion may be biased as he was the one who introduced me to this amazing piece. I used to listen to his recordings of the 5 Prokofiev piano concertos at least once a day. I guess I've become somewhat conditioned to his pacing (which is a lot slower and weightier)
You might like Graffman's version a lot or maybe not. It is considered masterpiece.
Thanks I'll definitely seek it out!
Gerry Rains You Tube erased the path that I sent you, hence the incomprehensible first sentence.
Not being facetious here, but I wonder if Oscar Peterson could have played this...and vice versa Martha playing some of Oscar's material. I would also love to hear Martha attempt some Art Tatum. Not sure that either could cross genre at extreme difficulty level, but for sure Martha is just spellbinding in her talent.
More beautiful colorful piano sound than Argerich=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Artur Rubinstein Radu Lupu Vladimir Ashkenazy! More Powerful Louder than Argerich=Mikhail Pletnev Supernova Explosion Power!( Prokofiev piano concerto no 1 by Pletnev!) The Second Loudest pianist was Lazar Berman! More Genius than Argerich=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Alexei Lubimov Stanislav Igolinsky!
Genis!!!!
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With this concerto, Argerich only competes with herself in her various recordings.
23:07 a lovesong to life itself..
super, super, danke
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I don't understand the complaints. Argerich and (young) Kissin are the definitive performers of this piece. Wang is pretty damned good too, if a little faster.