My father was madly in Love with Martha, once we went to see her in Buenos Aires and he was literally shaking . He once shared this piece of music with us and was the most beautiful gift ever a father can give to their children. I never get tired of this Adagio .
how wonderful! I attended yesterday the dress rehearsal of this concerto in Vienna (with Vienna Phil) and met afterwards by chance people from Gran Canaria who came to Vienna to listen to Martha. I showed them the artists entrance ... you can't believe how happy they have been. music connects ...
The dialogue between the oboe and piano in the adagio is one of the saddest passages I've ever heard. The rest of the concerto is beyond praise as well. What a feast for the spirit.
If Ms. Argerich played the 3rd movement any faster, she would get a speeding ticket. Impressive considering that nothing of the accuracy and intent of the piece is sacrificed in the process. Absolutely masterful.
Late to the party but surely you will agree that 20:29 lack polish and character… it’s sped up very unnecessarily and delivers nothing but a technical marvel
This piece always shocks me when I hear it. Particularly the opening movement. It's so delicious - the impressionism and jazzy qualities all wrapped up in one. It's divine.
Phyllis Petras I’m not sure he would actually, Ravel was one of those composers that claimed that a performer is supposed to be a slave of what’s written in the score (or what does the composer exactly demand)
Phyllis Petras I know I love it...i never heard it till just now. My dad (age 95) told me about it in a Skype conversation this evening and I am listening for the first time. This is what the internet is good for...passing on appreciation of music from one generation to the next in seconds, with a recording of the music.
I’m quite obsessed with first trumpeter at #0:34. I’ve listened to several recordings of this piano concerto but seriously, he’s the one who nailed it.
Judging from construction it's seems like cornet instead of trumpet to me. Cornets have mellower sound compared to trumpet. And of course this cornetist played really well, one of the best renditions.
I went to Teatro Colon 🇦🇷 a couple of days ago and witnessed Marta play this incredible piece from Ravel. During the adagio I could not contain my tears 🥲
There is an even better one in the second movement of Bartòk 2. I heard it for the first time played by Jerry Lowenthal when I was a teenager and have never forgotten it. That was 60 years ago.
15:00 just tell me how much you guys been suffered ? I lost a person who was my friend, my brother, my father and my mentor. Because of pandemic, I couldn't attend his funeral and I miss him so much so much every second.
Stay strong. Time will help - think about their memories and how they shaped the person you are now. Doing so you will make them immortal because they live in your character and actions every single day.
For many many years Ravel's Concerto in G major has remained one of my favorite all time compositions. Few can rival Margaret's performance of this beautiful piece.
I am a classically trained vocalist, did some Ravel, rhythmically challenging. As an old timer I have been working piano consistently over the past decade. I have seen Martha on other videos. Her rendering here seems "out of this world;" hard to believe had we not witnessed it. Yes, virtuosic display, various finger trills, weight and lightness, but here is where it all hangs: Her work is always expressive with clear nuance shadings, her internal vision and plan taking shape in the music. She dispatches the most difficult passages imaginable, superhuman speed with perfect clarity, with seldom a hair out of place, despite huge energy used. She always looks relaxed, quietly confident, contained, movement economy and "strong" and is having fun, like a friendly saunter to the mailbox where you meet a good neighbor. We get an occasional restrained smile, a big peek into her inner complexity and infinite depth. I can't imagine she would be hard to work with, rather a solid foundation to build around. Marvel, marvel! Did I just see her do that? Yeah again and again, never exactly the same way twice. Loved, "impressionism and jazz" in one work comments. As I said: "Out of this world, a unique snowflake who has given us these incomparably fresh gifts. With her, it's always real. I see her as a very humble and proper person, with sophistication galore. You go, girl! What a legacy! David Miller
After hearing Ravel's string quartet(honestly one of the greatest pieces of music ever written) I decided to dive deeper into his music. The man was a genius. Its almost as if every instrument is one I don't know how else to describe it.
Martha Argerich - is a great musician, she has a brilliant technique, virtuosity in the highest sense of the word, an amazing sense of form, the architectonics of a piece of music. But most importantly, the pianist has a rare gift to breathe a lively and direct feeling into the work she performs. . .🙏🙏🙏
High praise words fail us because of she 'breathes a lively and direct feeling into her work, only spiritual uplift." Every ingredient in the right proportion, giving a delicious recipe and final blended product.
En écoutant l'adagio assai je suis transporté dans le monde lointain de mon enfance. Quelle nostalgie! Le dialogue du cor anglais avec le piano est magnifique. Tant de beauté pour illuminer la grisaille de nos pauvres vies. Maurice Ravel toujours.
I feel I am witnessing something holy here. Listening to Martha play this indescribably beautiful piece of music, which I adore, I am taken to another place, a beautiful place. The Adagio assai, it is such a tender, special, lovely thing. I feel that there is an element to it that expresses something heartbreaking, mysterious, unspoken. God bless you, Maurice Ravel, and Martha Argerich. Immense gratitude for your tremendous and loving gift to us.
Ravel was born in 1875 and, among other tutors, studied composition with Gabriel Fauré. His music is markedly influenced by Claude Debussy (caring more about the mood and the atmosphere than about a rigid structure), but also by Mozart, Liszt and Strauss. His style, however, is deeply impressionistic, coupled with exceptional talent. His best known and most publicized work is Bolero, although the Menuet Antique, ouverture Schéhérazade, Gaspar de la Nuit, Daphnis and Chloé(ballet), Waltzes Nobles et Sentimentables, Concerto en Sol Majeur, etc. are largely appreciated. The concerto musically diverges and converges in a harmonious way.The pianist in her interventions periods is magnificent. The orchestra and direction are superb. The music diverges and converges in a harmonious way. The pianist in his periods of intervention is magnificent not only in the sentiment that transmits but also for her extraordinary technique. The music leads us to antagonistic states of soul, intervening moments of profound calm with others that introduce some deeply inner insecurity. This masterpiece is unique and only an amazing musician could compose it.
I normally make a point of not listening to other performances of a piece when I am preparing for a concert, but Argerich in this is the exception to the rule! Her slow movement is heaven. She makes me feel excited for how much there is still to learn in the next 50 years.
This is a fabulous performance of Ravel's Concerto in G Mag by Martha Argerich. I have heard many other performances of it. I was eight years old when I first heard this piece on a recording performed by Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer. I was in love with it since. I did learn the second movement on my own as a teen and struggled with parts of the first movement and last movement. I never learned it all, but it was fun practicing it.
Ah, the name Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer! Heard her play with the San Francisco Symphony in the 50's (Liszt: Piano Concerto #1) and even had a recording by her. Great artist!!!! Thanks for bring up her name: a blast from the past!
Oh, I love that recording & had it for a while. I played the concerto when I was 18 w orchestra, great fun! I feel in love w it when I was 15. Several years ago it was the chosen concerto for the Juilliard piano concerto auditions.
Argerich ist für mich die empfindsamste Interpretin Ravels Pianowerke, die jedoch die vollkommene Neutralität vermittelt, damit die wahre Botschaft seiner Musik sich entfallten kann und den Herzen der Zuhörer zu erreichen vermag! Herzlichen Dank für diese historische Aufnahme!
Martha once again proves why she is a master. Her connection to the orchestra is unparalleled, her absolute immersion in the music obvious, yet she never forgets there is an audience and that she is giving them this incredible gift.
So interesting to see she has changed so much in her speed. She purposely decides to take this slower than before and it sounds even more beautiful! She is still in a search❤️
Mi abuela falleció, y el Concierto en G menor me hace pensar profundamente en el l cariño que tuvo conmigo dede la infancia. Está versión es perfecta...
Martha is simply extraordinary in everything and brings Ravel to the next level. The second movement gives goosebumps - no matter how many times you listen to it. Immortal music, immortal composer and immortal Martha. Thank God we have recorded in high definition and good sound quality.
I love Martha so much.. I hope I get the hell out of this shelter and a chance to fly out and see her perform - most especially hearing her playing Ravel; I turn to wax
Such an emotionally charged performance of the second movement, contrary to the passionate powerful playing of the first and the third. Every note is ALIVE in her playing!
One of the most stunning piano performances I've seen, especially in the Adagio! Before listening to this performance, I liked the piano concerto - but now it made me really appreciating it!
When I heard this piano concerto for the first time, I didn't find it very special. Then I heard it a second time two years ago, this time with Argerich, and it was all very different. Especially the Adagio, which she played much more gently, more mysteriously, 8 years later than we get to hear here, was like something from another universe. Since then I know what magic Argerich can create.
ANYTJHING that Martha Argerich to uches in the way of a piano concerto she turns into PURE GOLD! I really don't think that there is any major piano playing award that she hasn't won. I have ,never heard one bad note from her.
tiene apenas 92 años recien cumplidos esta maravillosa obra de Ravel. Cada musico ha estudiado años enteros para sacarle sonido a su instrumento. La orquesta a ensayado muchas horas para dar lo mejor de si en el concierto. Hoy cuando la musica que suena esta formada por uno o dos acordes repetitivos, con sonidos sampleados y cantantes (que no cantan sino que son afinados por el autotune) yo me pregunto: esta evolucionando la humanidad? o estamos involucionando!. Dime si crees que se valora el merito hoy en dia? Merito a ensayar con un instrumento horas, dias, semanas, estudiar y perfeccionarse? Tal vez cuando Ravel estreno la obra muchos la hubiesen tratado de demasiado moderna. Hoy seguro muchos diran que no se compara con obras de Mozart o Beethoven... pero yo creo que Ravel con su obra aporta muchisimo a la musica actual y que si nos dejamos llevar. luego escucharemos parte de su influencia en grandes bandas sonoras de las mejores peliculas y otras tantas obras contemporaneas. Siempre se dice que los viejos pensamos en que todo tiempo pasado fue mejor. Perdonen que los haga reflexionar y me diga alguien si al menos en relacion a la musica esto que digo no es asi? Me gustaria volver en el tiempo y decirle a Ravel sencillamente: GRACIAS MAESTRO!
Не слышал никогда ещё настолько невероятных сочетаний! Нечеловеческие звуки! Сколько надежд, радостных и душевных порывов, предположений, разносторонних эмоций вселил Морис Равель в, пожалуй, одно из своих самых гениальных произведений!!!
One of the best Piano Concerto performance, both Ms. Argerich and the Orchestra played so well and flawlessly, and the recording quality is so good too.
Merci madame Martha Argérich...................merci encore d'exister en ce monde qui nous porte encore dans c"est 'La' présense...........................milles mercis
Note how, whenever a woodwind soloist has the chief melody in the slow movement, Ms. Argerich *listens* to the player as intently as if she had never heard the music before. That is pure class. I can think of a certain much-ballyhooed pianist (male) who, in concertos, had only the vaguest discernible awareness of - and no interest in - the fact that an orchestra was even on the stage.
Yes, here you could see her even watching like a hawk. That slow movement seems simple, but like a lot of Ravel, the rhythm and pacing is very complex. Easy to get out of phase… Martha is my favourite player of Ravel piano works.
Really like this piece. How could a piece to be so wild and so delicate at the same time ! I really like the pianist, her playing is so strong, delicate and charming.
You have GOT to be kidding me. I am, actually, OLDER than her and I can barely figure out how to place one foot in front of the other. YET, here is Martha. What a stunning - STUNNING - performance. Wow, wow, AND wow.
WOW! The Presto 3rd movement blew me away. Martha Argerich earned her title as one of the best pianists of all times. Holly smokes. I had to remember to take a breath. FANTASTIC!!!!!
The recording with Arturo Beneditto Michelangelo was my favorit so far. Argerich changed that. Thanks for this wonderful production. Sound brilliant, sometimes piano a little bit too prominent. The blending of solo instruments in the adagio - perfect. The presto - unbelieveble speed with clockwork accuracy, brilliant!
The most beautiful performance, especially by the English Horn musician, and of course, all of them. Just pure Heavenly! Yuri, congrats! No better presentation than this one, period.
I was lucky enough to see her perform this at the BBC Proms in London in 2009. I had high expectations and she exceeded them - sublime, dazzling, near-perfect music making. This (in my opinion anyway) is one of the two greatest piano concertos of the twentieth century, the other being the Ravel concerto for left hand.
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I once called in sick for a week from high school to listen to everything Ravel wrote. Time very well spent.
Lovely story. Thank you for sharing. ❤️
Well done Ferris.
You, were a precocious child!
Cool! I did the same with Bruckner, was done in two days
@@bolanddewsnap5698 LMAO how would anyone believe this boomer story
The first movement feels like you are in a fantasy dream, but the occasional abnormalities keep reminding you that this is a dream
My father was madly in Love with Martha, once we went to see her in Buenos Aires and he was literally shaking . He once shared this piece of music with us and was the most beautiful gift ever a father can give to their children. I never get tired of this Adagio .
how wonderful! I attended yesterday the dress rehearsal of this concerto in Vienna (with Vienna Phil) and met afterwards by chance people from Gran Canaria who came to Vienna to listen to Martha. I showed them the artists entrance ... you can't believe how happy they have been. music connects ...
The dialogue between the oboe and piano in the adagio is one of the saddest passages I've ever heard. The rest of the concerto is beyond praise as well. What a feast for the spirit.
The oboe? Or the English horn? 🤔
Cor Anglais
that second movement.. it's another universe of greatness
If Ms. Argerich played the 3rd movement any faster, she would get a speeding ticket. Impressive considering that nothing of the accuracy and intent of the piece is sacrificed in the process. Absolutely masterful.
It's too fast .. the listener cannot follow the music anymore when so speeded up
character is highly sacrified
Late to the party but surely you will agree that 20:29 lack polish and character… it’s sped up very unnecessarily and delivers nothing but a technical marvel
Yup, that sums it up.🙃
She was a regular Oscar Peterson speed demon in that mvmt.
She is singing a melody with one hand and accompanying herself with the other. That Adagio would make a puddle of even the most cold-hearted among us.
I'm hoping it will convert some people I know into listening to classical music.
Sussy
*Among us?*
@@thatonedude6754AMOGUS
I love how free this Concerto sounds. Each instrument speaks for itself.
Miguel Fontes Meira haha, democracy in real
If you had to get one pianist to play for your life, my choice would be Argerich. This is just exceptional musicianship
I'm afraid I'd go with Sviatoslav Richter. His grace on the keyboard was pure magic.
@vincejamison2401 Ah yes, but he's dead :)
This piece always shocks me when I hear it. Particularly the opening movement. It's so delicious - the impressionism and jazzy qualities all wrapped up in one. It's divine.
Ravel would love it!!!
Phyllis Petras I’m not sure he would actually, Ravel was one of those composers that claimed that a performer is supposed to be a slave of what’s written in the score (or what does the composer exactly demand)
ok no one asked...
and the information is wrong
Phyllis Petras I know I love it...i never heard it till just now. My dad (age 95) told me about it in a Skype conversation this evening and I am listening for the first time. This is what the internet is good for...passing on appreciation of music from one generation to the next in seconds, with a recording of the music.
Argerich + Ravel = love
definitely
Ravel + Argerich = Perfection.
ok boomer
It can't get any better.
Jazzy but beautiful concerto
I’m quite obsessed with first trumpeter at #0:34. I’ve listened to several recordings of this piano concerto but seriously, he’s the one who nailed it.
He is Joakim Agnas
any trumpet player know this excerpt and despises it
@@liamwebb8918 lol I can imagine. It could easily be one of the most challenging ones despite being relatively short.
Judging from construction it's seems like cornet instead of trumpet to me. Cornets have mellower sound compared to trumpet. And of course this cornetist played really well, one of the best renditions.
@@mori-patte I'm sorry in no way is that a cornet I know this cause I'm a clarinetist and that is a C trumpet
What a bandit Ravel was! Hiding the shiv of melancholy between two bawdy pieces. So good.
"The Shiv of Melancholy" I like that.
I went to Teatro Colon 🇦🇷 a couple of days ago and witnessed Marta play this incredible piece from Ravel. During the adagio I could not contain my tears 🥲
Not to detract from her beautiful playing, but her hair is quite stunning XD I love it
I always pull Martha up as a stellar example of how someone can age so beautifully
I can't picture Martha Argarich sitting in a salon getting her hair colored with those little tinfoil things.
@@davidsheriff9274 she wouldn't have the patience
I’ve just got to add that the gorgeous adagio is capped by one of the longest & most exacting keyboard tremolo (trill?) in the musical literature.
There is an even better one in the second movement of Bartòk 2. I heard it for the first time played by Jerry Lowenthal when I was a teenager and have never forgotten it. That was 60 years ago.
Martha is a gem! Nobody can compare with her.👏👏🎹🙏👍
15:00 just tell me how much you guys been suffered ? I lost a person who was my friend, my brother, my father and my mentor. Because of pandemic, I couldn't attend his funeral and I miss him so much so much every second.
Stay strong. Time will help - think about their memories and how they shaped the person you are now. Doing so you will make them immortal because they live in your character and actions every single day.
That's the ironic thing about music like this,it brings up so much sadness and longing in us,yet we are drawn to it.
She's always going to be the very Queen of the piano!...
That slow movement is still heart breaking to listen to......great performance.
For many many years Ravel's Concerto in G major has remained one of my favorite all time compositions. Few can rival Margaret's performance of this beautiful piece.
I am a classically trained vocalist, did some Ravel, rhythmically challenging. As an old timer I have been working piano consistently over the past decade. I have seen Martha on other videos. Her rendering here seems "out of this world;" hard to believe had we not witnessed it. Yes, virtuosic display, various finger trills, weight and lightness, but here is where it all hangs: Her work is always expressive with clear nuance shadings, her internal vision and plan taking shape in the music. She dispatches the most difficult passages imaginable, superhuman speed with perfect clarity, with seldom a hair out of place, despite huge energy used. She always looks relaxed, quietly confident, contained, movement economy and "strong" and is having fun, like a friendly saunter to the mailbox where you meet a good neighbor. We get an occasional restrained smile, a big peek into her inner complexity and infinite depth. I can't imagine she would be hard to work with, rather a solid foundation to build around. Marvel, marvel! Did I just see her do that? Yeah again and again, never exactly the same way twice.
Loved, "impressionism and jazz" in one work comments.
As I said: "Out of this world, a unique snowflake who has given us these incomparably fresh gifts. With her, it's always real. I see her as a very humble and proper person, with sophistication galore.
You go, girl! What a legacy!
David Miller
And so great to see no music in front of Martha's eyes. A true concert pianist.
This is just sheer beauty
I agree! It is definitely one of Ravel's best and most innovative pieces ever ^^
Simply sublime.
i'd say there's also spooookiness and joy 😊
08:40 in these hard times this music can ease the pain...and find a little peace
20:25 is by far the most fun spot of the entire Presto. I swear it makes me smile everytime, you can tell at this point Ravel was just having fun.
To me it kinda sounds like an upside down flight of the bumble bee
how can a humans be capable of expressing so much beauty, its unbelievable. Thanks for sharing this wonderful video.
Practice and talent 😊
8:40 II. Adagio assai
수천번을 들어도 여전히 환상적이다
After hearing Ravel's string quartet(honestly one of the greatest pieces of music ever written) I decided to dive deeper into his music. The man was a genius. Its almost as if every instrument is one I don't know how else to describe it.
Have you tried the trio ?
As great as his reputation is, he's still way underrated.
Martha Argerich - is a great musician, she has a brilliant technique, virtuosity in the highest sense of the word, an amazing sense of form, the architectonics of a piece of music. But most importantly, the pianist has a rare gift to breathe a lively and direct feeling into the work she performs. . .🙏🙏🙏
High praise words fail us because of she 'breathes a lively and direct feeling into her work, only spiritual uplift." Every ingredient in the right proportion, giving a delicious recipe and final blended product.
You are right!
Martha and all the orchestra, great! But the nobel prize is for the CAMERA WORK! Until the last gran cassa strike in the last second. Super!
Yes, you are right ;)
This is greatest modern piano concerto written.
Well, maybe I agree xD
For me Prokofiev 2
Rachmaninoff’s 2nd: O. o
What about the 3rd? The Ra- composers are certainly amazing.
@@eliter7991 yeah Rach #2 is probably better
this part is so groove 7:33, very rhythmic, she's doing it flawlessly and you can really feel the percussion side of the piano
Argerich plays with such oomph and lyricism...second movement brings me to tears...
Me too Feona....it is deeply moving and hauntingly sad...like the memory of a lost love remembered ..
En écoutant l'adagio assai je suis transporté dans le monde lointain de mon enfance. Quelle nostalgie! Le dialogue du cor anglais avec le piano est magnifique. Tant de beauté pour illuminer la grisaille de nos pauvres vies. Maurice Ravel toujours.
This is the greatest piece of music played by the greatest pianist of my lifetime.
I feel I am witnessing something holy here. Listening to Martha play this indescribably beautiful piece of music, which I adore, I am taken to another place, a beautiful place. The Adagio assai, it is such a tender, special, lovely thing. I feel that there is an element to it that expresses something heartbreaking, mysterious, unspoken. God bless you, Maurice Ravel, and Martha Argerich. Immense gratitude for your tremendous and loving gift to us.
Amen, so to speak.
so well said
Ravel was born in 1875 and, among other tutors, studied composition with Gabriel Fauré. His music is markedly influenced by Claude Debussy (caring more about the mood and the atmosphere than about a rigid structure), but also by Mozart, Liszt and Strauss. His style, however, is deeply impressionistic, coupled with exceptional talent. His best known and most publicized work is Bolero, although the Menuet Antique, ouverture Schéhérazade, Gaspar de la Nuit, Daphnis and Chloé(ballet), Waltzes Nobles et Sentimentables, Concerto en Sol Majeur, etc. are largely appreciated. The concerto musically diverges and converges in a harmonious way.The pianist in her interventions periods is magnificent. The orchestra and direction are superb. The music diverges and converges in a harmonious way. The pianist in his periods of intervention is magnificent not only in the sentiment that transmits but also for her extraordinary technique. The music leads us to antagonistic states of soul, intervening moments of profound calm with others that introduce some deeply inner insecurity. This masterpiece is unique and only an amazing musician could compose it.
Ravel called Bolero '"Orchestration without music". It's funny how often composers are best known for minor works.
Heavily influenced by Gershwin
@@larrypierce2511 Or the other way around? I wondered about that listening to the first part of this concerto...what their relationship was.
@@larrypierce2511 the opposite, Gerschwin was influenced from him...
Touch of Gershwin aswell
I normally make a point of not listening to other performances of a piece when I am preparing for a concert, but Argerich in this is the exception to the rule! Her slow movement is heaven. She makes me feel excited for how much there is still to learn in the next 50 years.
No one ever played it better than Martha !
❤❤❤❤ i agree
This is one of the most beautifully-directed classical music videos I've seen. The dreamy direction fits the music perfectly. And the music is divine.
I agree! That "fade to black" (4:47) using the side of the Steinway and then to the harp solo was inspired.
There is some really cool jazz harmony in this concerto.
*There is some really cool Ravel harmony in Jazz.
This is not true! @@somebody9033
@@somebody9033 Bill Evans and Miles Davis loved Ravel.
@@davidsheriff9274 yes I'm not sure why you're correcting me, because we agree...
@@somebody9033 I was not correcting you at all, I read your comment and I just put some examples of what you were saying, I was adding to it.
Marta is number one in pianist world
This is a fabulous performance of Ravel's Concerto in G Mag by Martha Argerich. I have heard many other performances of it.
I was eight years old when I first heard this piece on a recording performed by Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer. I was in love with it since. I did learn the second movement on my own as a teen and struggled with parts of the first movement and last movement. I never learned it all, but it was fun practicing it.
so did I :)
Ah, the name Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer! Heard her play with the San Francisco Symphony in the 50's (Liszt: Piano Concerto #1) and even had a recording by her. Great artist!!!!
Thanks for bring up her name: a blast from the past!
Oh, I love that recording & had it for a while. I played the concerto when I was 18 w orchestra, great fun! I feel in love w it when I was 15. Several years ago it was the chosen concerto for the Juilliard piano concerto auditions.
Argerich ist für mich die empfindsamste Interpretin Ravels Pianowerke, die jedoch die vollkommene Neutralität vermittelt, damit die wahre Botschaft seiner Musik sich entfallten kann und den Herzen der Zuhörer zu erreichen vermag!
Herzlichen Dank für diese historische Aufnahme!
"1:30" From Gershwin to Stravinsky in a few seconds
HA rhapsody in G
Lol ikr😆
No it's the other way around: From Ravel to Stravinsky... 😀
So much tenderness in the Adagio! Dearest Martha, what a great pleasure and joy you bring to us! Thank you!
The Pianist for the first two movements: *Totally calm*
Her for the third movement: "Hold my beer"
Honestly this lady is incredible
lolololololol
Dont know anymore how many times I’ve watched this. So beautiful
Martha once again proves why she is a master. Her connection to the orchestra is unparalleled, her absolute immersion in the music obvious, yet she never forgets there is an audience and that she is giving them this incredible gift.
The harp harmonics at 4:51 & 5:20 are masterful and gorgeous.
Ravel loves harp It seems
@@StarvinskyyWe harpists owe him a great deal. His contribution to the instrument can’t be underestimated.
@@maouAOUT I love Introduction et Allegro of him, that indeed must be a pleasure to play as an Harpist
15:01 is by far my favorite moment. So sincere.
totally agree it's pure magic
The piano part is taken from Schumann's Op.56 No.1
Second movement .. take my soul and dance slowly with her in darkness and forgotten emotions.
So interesting to see she has changed so much in her speed. She purposely decides to take this slower than before and it sounds even more beautiful! She is still in a search❤️
Perfection... 2 movement made me cry...
Not me. Lacking in melody.
Dumbass.@@josephmiller1224
Mi abuela falleció, y el Concierto en G menor me hace pensar profundamente en el l cariño que tuvo conmigo dede la infancia.
Está versión es perfecta...
Martha is simply extraordinary in everything and brings Ravel to the next level. The second movement gives goosebumps - no matter how many times you listen to it. Immortal music, immortal composer and immortal Martha. Thank God we have recorded in high definition and good sound quality.
Literally brushes her hair back at 3:21 in the middle of playing. Brilliant, artistic, wise, stunning. Thank you so much!
She meant to do that! It made the performance even better!
I noticed that too... What confidence. If I had enough hair left I might try it to0.
Ce deuxième mouvement... Juste absolument merveilleux
洋阿相
何と美しくも深遠な世界を描く第2楽章なのでしょうか。不思議な三拍子（ピアノパートは８分の６拍子のよう）絶妙なルバートと硬質な音質でアルカイックな旋律を、時にはフルートやコールアングレの旋律に絡んで戯れるように寄り添い。アルゲリッチのすべてを見通しているかのような演奏ぶりには本当に感心させられます。
テルミカーノフの指揮も変幻自在に弾き進めるアルゲリッチに調和し素晴らしい音楽世界を構築していきます。映像も第２楽章の終結部分細かなトリルと左手の終止音に連なる手の動きをクローズアップするなど映像美としても感心させられました。
I love Martha so much.. I hope I get the hell out of this shelter and a chance to fly out and see her perform - most especially hearing her playing Ravel; I turn to wax
0:09 I. Allegramente
8:40 II. Adagio assai
18:44 III. Presto
Should be at the top!
Thank you
一番好きな曲をこんな綺麗な人に弾いて頂けるなんて。
幸せです。
She is perfect, she is divine... and of course the genius of Ravel...
If wish Argerich would tour in the US. She is unbelievable.
Such an emotionally charged performance of the second movement, contrary to the passionate powerful playing of the first and the third. Every note is ALIVE in her playing!
One of the most stunning piano performances I've seen, especially in the Adagio! Before listening to this performance, I liked the piano concerto - but now it made me really appreciating it!
When I heard this piano concerto for the first time, I didn't find it very special. Then I heard it a second time two years ago, this time with Argerich, and it was all very different. Especially the Adagio, which she played much more gently, more mysteriously, 8 years later than we get to hear here, was like something from another universe. Since then I know what magic Argerich can create.
ANYTJHING that Martha Argerich to uches in the way of a piano concerto she turns into PURE GOLD! I really don't think that there is any major piano playing award that she hasn't won. I have ,never heard one bad note from her.
One of the greatest playing one of the greatest concertos ever written. The second movement (Adagio assai) melts me every time.
and praise to the photography which followed every featured passage. Second movement--OMG
tiene apenas 92 años recien cumplidos esta maravillosa obra de Ravel. Cada musico ha estudiado años enteros para sacarle sonido a su instrumento. La orquesta a ensayado muchas horas para dar lo mejor de si en el concierto. Hoy cuando la musica que suena esta formada por uno o dos acordes repetitivos, con sonidos sampleados y cantantes (que no cantan sino que son afinados por el autotune) yo me pregunto: esta evolucionando la humanidad? o estamos involucionando!. Dime si crees que se valora el merito hoy en dia? Merito a ensayar con un instrumento horas, dias, semanas, estudiar y perfeccionarse? Tal vez cuando Ravel estreno la obra muchos la hubiesen tratado de demasiado moderna. Hoy seguro muchos diran que no se compara con obras de Mozart o Beethoven... pero yo creo que Ravel con su obra aporta muchisimo a la musica actual y que si nos dejamos llevar. luego escucharemos parte de su influencia en grandes bandas sonoras de las mejores peliculas y otras tantas obras contemporaneas. Siempre se dice que los viejos pensamos en que todo tiempo pasado fue mejor. Perdonen que los haga reflexionar y me diga alguien si al menos en relacion a la musica esto que digo no es asi? Me gustaria volver en el tiempo y decirle a Ravel sencillamente: GRACIAS MAESTRO!
Не слышал никогда ещё настолько невероятных сочетаний! Нечеловеческие звуки! Сколько надежд, радостных и душевных порывов, предположений, разносторонних эмоций вселил Морис Равель в, пожалуй, одно из своих самых гениальных произведений!!!
And the Goddess has spoken!
One of the best Piano Concerto performance, both Ms. Argerich and the Orchestra played so well and flawlessly, and the recording quality is so good too.
In my opinion the best version of Ravels Adagio. So much passion, respect and serenity. And she plays it all without partition
Other pianists look like they're working hard. Martha Argerich could be floating in the pool. Effortless.
Merci madame Martha Argérich...................merci encore d'exister en ce monde qui nous porte encore dans c"est 'La' présense...........................milles mercis
I am glad with this, I am still alive.
Note how, whenever a woodwind soloist has the chief melody in the slow movement, Ms. Argerich *listens* to the player as intently as if she had never heard the music before. That is pure class. I can think of a certain much-ballyhooed pianist (male) who, in concertos, had only the vaguest discernible awareness of - and no interest in - the fact that an orchestra was even on the stage.
Yes, here you could see her even watching like a hawk. That slow movement seems simple, but like a lot of Ravel, the rhythm and pacing is very complex. Easy to get out of phase…
Martha is my favourite player of Ravel piano works.
One need not act out one’s listening. One can be all ears and be perfectly still.
何十年も前から超有名な天才アルゲリッチ様の演奏を見られてうれしい。
難解な曲の指遣いと共にうまいこと管楽器も映っていてカメラワークも良い。
She completely nullifies the saying "i am too old for that.". She deserves a concert hall named after her.
That look on her face at 18:33. Superb
Is there anything that Martha can't play? What an incredible talent I hear Rach as well
Ravel is the best. This one and the Left Hand Concerto are supreme masterpieces.
Y aquí llego, 4 años después, a decir: Caray, gracias a Ravel, a Martha... Esto es mejor que genial... Esto no tiene parangón.
When i first listened to this i didnt know it was ravel's concerto but I could recognize it was a ravel work because he was so original in his style
The 2nd movement...just beautiful. You just don't want it to end. Thank you for posting this extraordinary performance.
This piece makes me so happy, playing it is the most fun I have ever had
Really like this piece. How could a piece to be so wild and so delicate at the same time !
I really like the pianist, her playing is so strong, delicate and charming.
You have GOT to be kidding me. I am, actually, OLDER than her and I can barely figure out how to place one foot in front of the other. YET, here is Martha. What a stunning - STUNNING - performance. Wow, wow, AND wow.
How well said! And how beautifully rewarding for Martha! Thankyou,
She is the greatest.
I'm just practicing this with Cor Anglais right now. Probably the most beautiful solo ever for that instrument.
Sometimes jazzy, sometimes lyrical, just awesome performance!! Just love it!!!!
アルゲリッチに合わせるかのように、金管、木管キレッキレ。
にしても、アルゲリッチの演奏はやはり他の新進ピアニストには遥か及ばない魅力がある。
WOW! The Presto 3rd movement blew me away. Martha Argerich earned her title as one of the best pianists of all times. Holly smokes. I had to remember to take a breath. FANTASTIC!!!!!
The recording with Arturo Beneditto Michelangelo was my favorit so far. Argerich changed that. Thanks for this wonderful production. Sound brilliant, sometimes piano a little bit too prominent. The blending of solo instruments in the adagio - perfect. The presto - unbelieveble speed with clockwork accuracy, brilliant!
The most beautiful performance, especially by the English Horn musician, and of course, all of them. Just pure Heavenly! Yuri, congrats! No better presentation than this one, period.
I was lucky enough to see her perform this at the BBC Proms in London in 2009. I had high expectations and she exceeded them - sublime, dazzling, near-perfect music making.
This (in my opinion anyway) is one of the two greatest piano concertos of the twentieth century, the other being the Ravel concerto for left hand.
(Ad interruption after 2nd movement)
1st movement
0:10 begins
2nd movement
8:43 begins
3rd movementm
18:45 begins