You missed the best part - which is the ending. She just immediately stands up as if it was just an ordinary day at the office. The thing is, for her, that is an ordinary day at the office.
To some degree, that's the only way to stay in this industry. I learned that from working as a répétiteur. Outsiders look at this like it's something exceptional, but the only way you do this consistently is if it's normal to you. There's the adrenaline and everything, but by mathematical force, half your performances are worse than your personal median, and you cannot be a regular in the industry unless a moderate off-day is good enough to sell tickets. At that point most of your performances are good enough to sell tickets, so most of your performances will be ordinary relative to you.
@@tabby7189 i never thought about it that way. I remember talking to some performers - some of them gave the best performance of their life and it set a standard to them internally. They couldn’t get over trying to top that performance or scared of not being able to play near as good and it was the demise of them. Some actually stopped performing because they couldn’t get over that hump. Kinda crazy when I think about it. But if they approach their performance like how you described, then that’s one way to address that issue or not even become one to begin with.
She truly is insane, in February I had the pleasure of watching her play Ravel in g twice as well as in rehearsal. Every time it sounded like a completely different piece. She's been doing side-quests for most of her life now😂
That's pretty much one of my favorite piano concertos, it's like being in a witch's house, all crazy stuff happens, including these enchanting, a very unique concerto
Prokofiev's music is like a stream of consciousness where he forgets that he was playing in a specific key for most of the piece and then goes "oh yeah I guess I should wrap this up"
She plays with the naturality of impulse that, normally, can only be found between a composition and its composer. Beyond rehearsed; she owns it as if she were making it up in her mind as she goes…
I love this short. I love it that the camera focused in on the hands darting skilfully across the keys with precision. So uplifting.👏💐Thank you Martha.
It's absolutely top of the top. I respect and admire this pianist as highly as she respects music and us as it is not with many female pianists these days.
Come on Jeff! Not True! More colorful beautiful piano sound than Argerich=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Artur Runinstein Radu Lupu Vladimir Ashkenazy! More powerful louder Mikhail Pletnev! The second loudest was Lazar Berman! More genius than Argerich=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Alexei Lubimov Stanislav Igolinski! Argerich not had the best piano sound! Argerich not the best genius! Argerich not the most powerful!
@@RaineriHakkarainen tossing horowitz into the mix tells me you most likely just googled "best concert pianists". horowitz is massively overrated and everyone knows it
I love Martha. When she was young, the world was a lot different for women which makes her all the more impressive to me. As for Prokofiev, I swear he is like Loki and causes as much trouble and mischief as possible and as often as possible. If he envisions a passage where a classical construct would be expected, he blows it up, convolutes it, encrypts it in both melody and technique using this instead. The music is difficult to read, understand and get one's finger to make new unfamiliar movements
Except that to my knowledge (and if anyone knows otherwise, please correct me), NO ONE plays those passages as written! Rather, they're played as glissandi. The sound is virtually the same, and it's a helluva lot easier than trying to place your fingers on the cracks between notes so each finger can play two notes!
@@cufflink44 Yes, many pianists play the scales as glissandi, but it’s sort of “cheating.” Most of the mega virtuosos try to take the scales head-on like Argerich.
All you have to do is go to the settings icon in the upper right hand corner of the video, select “Playback Speed,” and go as slow as you wanna go! Just remember to turn the volume down, unless you like to hear the distortions.
I actually love the technique she uses on those arpeggios (and these arpeggios mimic glissandos/scales, and not really meant to be played as glissandos/scales). Although those were meant to be played finger by finger (Yes, Prokofiev was known to be a menace for these little intricate things.), I actually find the technique very effective. A really difficult technique tempo-wise, but possible. Although it's up to the player whether their/this technique is feasible.
@michaelowens5394 Yes, you can't almost comprehend what concert pianists do to this part, some unconventional. But Argerich, for me, makes complete sense, and a lot of pianists could've also done this since she quickly swaps every two to four sixteenth notes, and so on. Although I use it myself, but from experience it's a straining technique for hands less than a span of a tenth, such as myself, because you would have to anticipate your left hand immediately a few notes before every time you go to that accented downbeat. This technique would be better for curved fingers (as what she does in the video) because otherwise, you wouldn't understand what the pianist is playing while listening to it, and will most likely sound more like a glissando than an arpeggio of simultaneous continuous notes and intervals of seconds. Another thing I do to this part is rather than swapping back and forth, the left hand starts with the first three sixteenth notes of the arpeggio, then proceeding to the right hand, and the right hand plays everything else, then the downbeat accent with the left hand again, and then vice versa. Literally anything can be done with this part, as long as it's comfortable for the player, even if it looks unconventional.
I'm not sure she plays the written notes exactly...but it doesn't matter since no one can hear the difference at that speed and with the orchestra accompaniment. However, if you really want to play it perfectly as written, I experimented a while ago and it's doable if you play two arpeggios in thirds at the same time with both hands (so e.g. LH plays D-F-A-C while RH plays E-G-B-D). Using this method I was able to get it quite accurate and fast.
And to think her hero was Horowitz. She said he was incomparable and of course those of us in the know KNOW that Horowitz was (and remains) the greatest pianist to ever breathe air.
I love Martha but I really don’t understand why this recording is deemed “legendary”. I am not able to just ignore the mistake (or mistake by my ear?) at 0:40, and the tempo mismatch at 0:53. If it happens on any other pianist I would’ve said it’s rookie mistake cuz it’s so hard on my ear.
people ignore it because it’s just that - a common, understandable mistake in the extremely difficult coda. the tempo mismatch you speak of is barely noticeable unless you really try to listen out for it, which most people aren’t.
Well, it’s your opinion, so it’s right to you! “Electronic music” covers a lot of territory, so I wouldn’t throw it all out. Anyway, our own preferences shouldn’t deprive others of the music they like to listen to….I can believe that a lot of people on UA-cam wouldn’t think this was utter compositional and performance genius….they would probably say it’s an ugly cacophony. If we want our opinions to be respected, then we have to extend the same courtesy to others.
This movement, particularly this section is practically a false advertisement for the rest of Prokofeiv's piano concertos, which are pretty unremarkable, lol
Not as impressive as it seems. She is being carried by the orchestra for some imperfections. The exaggerated hand movements make for some sloppy play (at the professional level)
That's gotta be one of the best endings for a piano concerto. Not even joking, man.
You missed the best part - which is the ending. She just immediately stands up as if it was just an ordinary day at the office. The thing is, for her, that is an ordinary day at the office.
To some degree, that's the only way to stay in this industry. I learned that from working as a répétiteur. Outsiders look at this like it's something exceptional, but the only way you do this consistently is if it's normal to you. There's the adrenaline and everything, but by mathematical force, half your performances are worse than your personal median, and you cannot be a regular in the industry unless a moderate off-day is good enough to sell tickets. At that point most of your performances are good enough to sell tickets, so most of your performances will be ordinary relative to you.
@@tabby7189 i never thought about it that way. I remember talking to some performers - some of them gave the best performance of their life and it set a standard to them internally. They couldn’t get over trying to top that performance or scared of not being able to play near as good and it was the demise of them. Some actually stopped performing because they couldn’t get over that hump. Kinda crazy when I think about it. But if they approach their performance like how you described, then that’s one way to address that issue or not even become one to begin with.
In the ending she stands up with an expression like she was being impressed what she just performed. Not a normal day at the job ...
She's just amazing.
The older I get, the more I appreciate this woman’s incredible musicianship and command of her instrument.
She truly is insane, in February I had the pleasure of watching her play Ravel in g twice as well as in rehearsal. Every time it sounded like a completely different piece. She's been doing side-quests for most of her life now😂
That's the beauty of her...
She reached her level cap a long time ago!
@@BleedandRise Argerich in the 70s and 80s was unbelievable. She's still very good now, but she was even better when she was younger
you're lucky
I find this an important observation that each ephemeral playing was so individual.
That's pretty much one of my favorite piano concertos, it's like being in a witch's house, all crazy stuff happens, including these enchanting, a very unique concerto
I think of it as a mad circus... and the Merry go Round is doing cray stuff...
I've never been in a witch's house. Can you elaborate?
It’s my favorite piano concerto of all time, if you know or any that sounds remotely as good as this please let me know because I have yet to find one
@@mariamooooooProkofiev 2 is better
@@ulengrau6357You must imagine!
Prokofiev's music is like a stream of consciousness where he forgets that he was playing in a specific key for most of the piece and then goes "oh yeah I guess I should wrap this up"
Haha, not wrong! Bartok does the same thing, only he wraps up even more quickly.
Saw her playing this piece in Carnegie Hall. She broke a string in a first movement already, Best pianist we have hands down.
She plays with the naturality of impulse that, normally, can only be found between a composition and its composer.
Beyond rehearsed; she owns it as if she were making it up in her mind as she goes…
La mejor definición de Martha como pianista y músico.
Prokofiev fully explores his genius in this work, and Argerich proves it.
This Woman is one of the Greatest Pianists on Earth. I just love how She is playing
Actually, she is the greatest pianist alive.
I’ve heard her play this countless times, and every time I end up with my jaw on the floor trying to spit out a wilted “DAYYUM!”
One of the sickest codas out there
She is ridiculously good
I love this short. I love it that the camera focused in on the hands darting skilfully across the keys with precision. So uplifting.👏💐Thank you Martha.
It's absolutely top of the top. I respect and admire this pianist as highly as she respects music and us as it is not with many female pianists these days.
There’s nobody like her!❤
Come on Jeff! Not True! More colorful beautiful piano sound than Argerich=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Artur Runinstein Radu Lupu Vladimir Ashkenazy! More powerful louder Mikhail Pletnev! The second loudest was Lazar Berman! More genius than Argerich=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Alexei Lubimov Stanislav Igolinski! Argerich not had the best piano sound! Argerich not the best genius! Argerich not the most powerful!
@@RaineriHakkarainen certainly true for me and many others, even if not for you.
@@RaineriHakkarainen Half of these names aren't fit to mix a cocktail for Martha. Get real.
@@RaineriHakkarainen tossing horowitz into the mix tells me you most likely just googled "best concert pianists". horowitz is massively overrated and everyone knows it
@@RaineriHakkarainen Just put a video of other pianist playing Prokofieff like Martha Argerich, and i will believe you all that you say.
She is a GODDESS!
All hail queen Martha 👑✨
オーケストラをリードする演奏、最高ですね！アルゲリッチのコンチェルトって、とにかく作品が輝いてるし、誰もやらないアプローチで作品をもう一つ上のステージに連れてってくれます！
この作品から作品をさらに生み出す感性は、アルゲリッチの凄さですよね！
Martha on her prime is undeniably a jedi!😆👍🏻
She’s still in her prime, just heard her yesterday live in Prague playing Shostakovich 1st concerto, unbelievable!
@@Viktorvelat95 I heard her playing this same piano concerto a month ago in Buenos Aires....unbelievable!!!
She’s always in her prime since she was 8!
I love than glance from Previn, like, come on, Martha, we're in this together. They absolutely caught the esprit that day
Thank you for this great title, 10 points for creativity.
I love Martha. When she was young, the world was a lot different for women which makes her all the more impressive to me. As for Prokofiev, I swear he is like Loki and causes as much trouble and mischief as possible and as often as possible. If he envisions a passage where a classical construct would be expected, he blows it up, convolutes it, encrypts it in both melody and technique using this instead. The music is difficult to read, understand and get one's finger to make new unfamiliar movements
Reminds me of Lang Lang describing this as a computer game, “like two hands fighting.”
K...listen to Lang Lang idiot
Phenomenal technique!
Martha Argerich is a monster ^_^
Indeed
and everyone else who plays it is a piker because they're notlame-o liberals?
Wow amazing performance 💙
F*cking what 😂😂😭😭 that was just superhuman
I love this recording so much!
The Queen of Speed.
Queen of shallow playing. Educate yourself sometimes.
@@Alix777. Does speed strike you as a quality of depth?
Take a course in etiquette.
@@Alix777. So playing fast is being shallow?
I feel like I need a nap after watching this. Utterly phenomenal.
❤ That was Amazing! ❤️
Inhuman. Amazing 🤩
Stunning! 😵💫
Genious music!
Supervirtuoso Plus ++ 🙏🙏👏👏👏
*jaw hits the floor*
That’s 🔥
She also was a very beautiful woman when she was young
She must be an alien! Fantastic!
She’s fast as hell
Dis some voodoo
Reading the notes while listening to her playing is similar to reading subs from people who’s speaking fast. Impossible. 😂😂😂
Collaboration between pianist and piano ❤🎉
I can do that too! (cries in giving up piano many years ago)
Average Martha Argerich dub
Imagine you buy a ticket to watch Martha Argerich and you end up watching a cameraman in front of her blocking the view during the perfomance...
Oh my god those sixteenth note arpeggios/scales in seconds 😂😂😂 that’s so horrifically brutal
"Play drunk")))
Except that to my knowledge (and if anyone knows otherwise, please correct me), NO ONE plays those passages as written! Rather, they're played as glissandi. The sound is virtually the same, and it's a helluva lot easier than trying to place your fingers on the cracks between notes so each finger can play two notes!
@@cufflink44 Argerich plays them as scales here, at least from what I could tell at around 0:25
@@cufflink44 Yes, many pianists play the scales as glissandi, but it’s sort of “cheating.” Most of the mega virtuosos try to take the scales head-on like Argerich.
Wow Amazing
People go on about Yuja (who is great) but Argerich is THE GOAT
I wish the Slow Mo Guys could record one of these so we can actually see the fingerings.
All you have to do is go to the settings icon in the upper right hand corner of the video, select “Playback Speed,” and go as slow as you wanna go! Just remember to turn the volume down, unless you like to hear the distortions.
On Fire
That big BANG at 00:40
What a tille for a vídeo. Everything das great.
Nice
prokofiev sheet music looks simple
I actually love the technique she uses on those arpeggios (and these arpeggios mimic glissandos/scales, and not really meant to be played as glissandos/scales). Although those were meant to be played finger by finger (Yes, Prokofiev was known to be a menace for these little intricate things.), I actually find the technique very effective. A really difficult technique tempo-wise, but possible. Although it's up to the player whether their/this technique is feasible.
I really cannot figure out what pianists are actually doing in those two passages.
@michaelowens5394 Yes, you can't almost comprehend what concert pianists do to this part, some unconventional. But Argerich, for me, makes complete sense, and a lot of pianists could've also done this since she quickly swaps every two to four sixteenth notes, and so on.
Although I use it myself, but from experience it's a straining technique for hands less than a span of a tenth, such as myself, because you would have to anticipate your left hand immediately a few notes before every time you go to that accented downbeat. This technique would be better for curved fingers (as what she does in the video) because otherwise, you wouldn't understand what the pianist is playing while listening to it, and will most likely sound more like a glissando than an arpeggio of simultaneous continuous notes and intervals of seconds.
Another thing I do to this part is rather than swapping back and forth, the left hand starts with the first three sixteenth notes of the arpeggio, then proceeding to the right hand, and the right hand plays everything else, then the downbeat accent with the left hand again, and then vice versa. Literally anything can be done with this part, as long as it's comfortable for the player, even if it looks unconventional.
Which arpeggios are you referring to?
@@FederSimthis is super late but the ones at 0:22
The conductor is André Previn.
This woman is a cyborg…..
My arms might just fall off.....
wow that looks even faster than yuja wang
This is amazing! What movement is this masterpiece?
Prokofiev 3rd piano concerto III Mvt
What concerto is this? And Jeeeeeeezzzzz Martha!!!
Prokofiev 3
@@scarbo2229 I should have known. Only he possesses that level of demonic maniacal glee. Lol
And then she stands up and tells the audience she has to go and wash the dishes.
Holy shit Batman!
Can you try and clarify your title? Is Martha the force and the piano is the object?
Martha is the unstoppable force, the piece is the immovable object for how difficult it is
Perhaps this is just a visual interpretation of the music
@@bibanez135 I think by unmovable object he’s referring to the piano
@@francesco7649 nah
The force is Martha yes and I believe a better word would be an “untouchable object” referring to the difficulty of the piece
Piccolo!
I've aways wanted to know how she does this seconds arpegios, but I can't even in 0,5x
I'm not sure she plays the written notes exactly...but it doesn't matter since no one can hear the difference at that speed and with the orchestra accompaniment. However, if you really want to play it perfectly as written, I experimented a while ago and it's doable if you play two arpeggios in thirds at the same time with both hands (so e.g. LH plays D-F-A-C while RH plays E-G-B-D). Using this method I was able to get it quite accurate and fast.
You can look on my channel if you want to know how she plays those scales
@@Magnet12 except that you play it slow and sped it up or simply used a computer program. Nice try 😉
Apparently someone asked her after a concert and she told them this:
(L R L R)
5-32-1 12-34 43-21 12-34-5
I think it sounds great
@@cupy80 shut up😂what are you talking about
Qual è il nome di questa piezza?
THis is a concerto Why aren't the conductor and orchestra l;sted?
The conductor is Andre Previn. I believe the year is 1977.
@Dana
Because UA-cam would probably take it down?
😍😍😍😍😍
mommy
Its not a joker punchline ?
How
My wife.
What is the immovable object btw?
The piece obviously
Your wife is the immovable object
There are no wrong notes, he said
She isnt even trying
The music is barely listenable to me at this point…it is just noise. Technically it is amazing to watch tho…
who is homey at 0:31 ?
Andre previn
He's André Previn!
Should've just arpeggiated it.
How do you do this? Just mind boggling.
The video is 3 seconds too short
I did not know that Javier Milei ventured as an orchestra conductor before getting into politics, greetings from Argentina
newtons third law
F*** me. Just can't see how someone can do that.
So the effing music was just a vehicle for the performer's ego? What was the damn music for crying out loud!?
Jesus Christ
Uchida would destroy this too!
She’s never recorded it, that I’ve seen.
piratas do caribe
Well, a grand piano can look immovable if you try to push it...
0:30 oh snap! Mr bean is the conductor!?
And to think her hero was Horowitz. She said he was incomparable and of course those of us in the know KNOW that Horowitz was (and remains) the greatest pianist to ever breathe air.
Disagree. I think Martha has him beat. Just,y opinion.
@@drrabner47 Funny that you think she has Horowitz beat when she says he was the greatest pianist in history.
@@GnomicMaster it would most unlike her to declare herself the best. Again, it was my opinion.
@@drrabner47 If that is your stab at humor you have no future in comedy.
@@GnomicMaster Sorry. I stick by what I said. Martha, in my opinion, has him beat.
Poor piano
I love Martha but I really don’t understand why this recording is deemed “legendary”. I am not able to just ignore the mistake (or mistake by my ear?) at 0:40, and the tempo mismatch at 0:53. If it happens on any other pianist I would’ve said it’s rookie mistake cuz it’s so hard on my ear.
people ignore it because it’s just that - a common, understandable mistake in the extremely difficult coda. the tempo mismatch you speak of is barely noticeable unless you really try to listen out for it, which most people aren’t.
A tempo mismatch can sound exciting and spontaneous; another reason why I love live recordings.
Electronic music is about NOTHING. THIS IS A REAL MUSIC. AND LEVEL! OF PERFORMANCE.
AM I RIGHT, - ?
Well, it’s your opinion, so it’s right to you! “Electronic music” covers a lot of territory, so I wouldn’t throw it all out. Anyway, our own preferences shouldn’t deprive others of the music they like to listen to….I can believe that a lot of people on UA-cam wouldn’t think this was utter compositional and performance genius….they would probably say it’s an ugly cacophony. If we want our opinions to be respected, then we have to extend the same courtesy to others.
This movement, particularly this section is practically a false advertisement for the rest of Prokofeiv's piano concertos, which are pretty unremarkable, lol
Lol they are all amazing. Saying the 2nd (or any of the rest) is unremarkable is the most remarkably false assertion I have ever heard.
@@slowloris4346 Nope, lol. Not a single memorable melody to find outside of this movement.
@@Manx123 well you have a poor memory then or at least very pedestrian taste - which fine. But don't assert it with such confidence.
@@slowloris4346 And even despite that, I know those concertos are mediocre trash, no genius or fine taste needed, lol
@@Manx123 having an opinion is fine but stating it as if it’s a fact is just ridiculously stupid
I assume the immovable object is the piano? Actually, moving a piano is super-easy - barely an inconvenience.
this type of music you can have fists full of wrong notes and no one will notice.
I will notice, as will many who know the piece.
And now we have the non-binary fellas....
Please God keep an eye on us....
Horowitz said there were three kinds of pianists: Jewish pianists, homosexual pianists, and bad pianists.
@@bobschaaf2549 Subtle flex by him, given he was gay and Jewish lol
@@bobschaaf2549 Hey I'm offended. Or does Christian count as Jewish?
Not as impressive as it seems. She is being carried by the orchestra for some imperfections. The exaggerated hand movements make for some sloppy play (at the professional level)
incompetent pianist