There are many brilliant pianists, also a couple of original, charismatic, enigmatic. But Martha Argerich: there is only one.

On Saturday you will be able to the now 77-Year-old is now again experience, in the of course long sold-out Tonhalle zürich, Maag. Martha Argerich will play works by Prokofiev and Mozart, if you think about it in a different way. She does that a lot, and it doesn’t bother anyone; because of her concert , not because of the program. The main thing is that, you don’t say – but this once considerable danger has become much smaller with the years.

You might say, Martha Argerich has become more reliable (maybe she has come to terms with their stage fright). But predictable: the then not. She is doing what she wants, she did it from the start; on the Podium of the mark. The important dates organized by her mother the gifted daughter of a once-in their hometown of Buenos Aires, and let this expire. And when she was twenty, by started, she withdrew from concert life for several years.

daughter bites Fan

she had three daughters with three men, one of which is the Pianist Stephen Kovacevich and the conductor Charles Dutoit as well as from their musical allies. The youngest daughter, Stéphanie Argerich, overworked seven years ago, a very funny Film about their warm, in every way an unconventional nut to be rotated (and tell you that you’ve bitten as a child, once a Fan, That we had to share this mother is always with the Public, was probably not easy).

Martha Argerich is like a picture without a frame, has said the conductor Daniel Barenboim. A fascinating picture, one must add, one, you just can’t get tired of, respectively, sick and tired of hearing this. Because of Argerich’s art is so absolute, so unsophisticated, too: you Never get the impression that you would play on the effect; the music is poetic, powerfully breaking out of it, surprisingly.

Also you seem to be able to the not quite explain. In the few Interviews she has given, which is their most common answer: “I don’t know.” Where other word-rich and marketing slick, technically, explain their interpretations, twitches with the shoulders. The role as a self seller is not. She plays, that should be enough.

performances with friends

For others, it advertises, however, quite: she Tirelessly introduces your audience to young piano talents in concerts, on CDs, and gives you access to a operating to goes the you self-love at a distance – a nice Paradox. Or maybe just a side effect of your decision not to occur alone. Recitals there for years, no more. It occurs either as a soloist, with orchestra or, better yet, as a chamber musician. Most of all with friends.

According to Zurich, it now comes together with the pianist Sergei Babayan, with the playing together for more than a quarter of a century. And no matter how the evening will run: It will be an event. (Tages-Anzeiger.ch/Newsnet)

Created: 01.03.2019, 15:49 PM