Throughout the week Classic FM’s presenters bring you the best new recordings, including world exclusives and premiere broadcasts of latest releases. This week: ‘Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2; Grieg ...
Her daughter calls her, in a recent documentary, a goddess. And the audience at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Thursday night was not about to disagree when Martha Argerich walked on stage to play ...
Mozart: Piano Concertos in C Major K 503 & D Minor K 466, Martha Argerich (piano), Orchestra Mozart, cond Claudio Abbado, DG 479 1033, £14.99 Back in the Sixties, the first recording that Claudio ...
Pianist Martha Argerich rose to fame with her interpretations of the virtuoso piano literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. Her repertoire ranges from Bach through Beethoven, Schumann, Liszt, ...
When Martha Argerich plays Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 3 at the Royal Albert Hall this evening there'll be the usual fight for seats, because nobody plays this work as Argerich does. In the words of ...
Who's the greatest classical music pianist of all time? Since none of us was alive when legendary virtuosos like Liszt or Chopin were around, let's just stick to the greatest living pianist. There are ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. There are wildly popular pianists (Lang Lang), beloved pianists (Emanuel ...
Sometimes it seems that Martha Argerich is less a pianist than an elemental force. Tempestuous, emotionally fragile and astoundingly good, the Argentine with the Mona Lisa smile is not only one of the ...
There are a few things everyone in the music world knows, or thinks they know, about Martha Argerich, the Argentine-born pianist who is getting a Kennedy Center Honor on Sunday. She’s private, moody ...