A PIANO EVENING WITH MARTHA ARGERICH

Works by Sergei Prokofiev, Robert Schumann, Ludwig van Beethoven

MARTHA ARGERICH piano

RENAUD CAPUÇON violin

GAUTIER CAPUÇON violoncello

Flanders Symphony Orchestra / Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky

Live Recording from The La Roque D’anthéron Piano Festival, 2005

For a significant number of people, she is simply the greatest pianist of our time. No matter what repertoire she plays, she sounds, as they say, “in her element”. Indeed, her playing is entirely lacking in vanity, yet never remotely anonymous. Nor can one even speak of “Argerich’s Beethoven” - or “Argerich’s anything else”, for that matter, since her playing of every work - of every theme or section within a work is conceived so intensely from within that it doggedly resists categorization. Interestingly, though not perhaps surprisingly, the same variety of approach is evident in the way she plays the piano. To speak of “Argerich’s technique” is again to oversimplify. She has this technique and that technique and any number in between. What they all have in common is their naturalness, their visible “fitness for function”. Her interpretations are united by the effortlessness and pure joy of her music making and her individual approach to each work, each situation and each audience.

Sound Format: PCM Stereo,

DD 5.1, DTS 5.1

Picture Format: 16:9

DVD Format: DVD 9, NTSC

Running Time: 87 mins

FSK: 0

Region Code: 0

Worldwide available excluding Japan

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