I just love the way Martha presses the key with her thumb at 7:14, then looses it, and all of a sudden she just supresses it again without producing any sound!!! I find it quite funny to be honest, and for me it's a sign of spontaneous playing, and of a tremendously highly functioning nervous system as well... Love you Martha!!!
@stevehendrix96258 жыл бұрын
The great Argerich. The moment when her left hand goes from the single notes into the octaves (round about 6:50) is extraordinary.
@durugultepe42183 жыл бұрын
it sounds a little like chopin’s heroic polonaise at that seconds too.
@ronl71312 жыл бұрын
Woooohooooo 🚀🍻
@eyalurimАй бұрын
@@durugultepe4218that is by design!
@OriginalBasaliskos13 жыл бұрын
Such a gorgeous melody.
@colin_rose13 жыл бұрын
those octaves...oh my jesus...
@petrospalaskasmusic11 жыл бұрын
She doesnt stay close to the sheet music (at least my version , Cortot) and it is a bit fast for me...but i cant disagree that her technique is flawless and it is a first-class interpretation..! :)
@manosapo65883 жыл бұрын
Όντως, είναι πολύ πιο αργό απ όσο το παίζει
@sebastian-benedictflore3 жыл бұрын
We all came here to see the octaves
@khiyanurvallikad64313 жыл бұрын
If you rotate your hand side ways you will find that the distance between the thumb and 5th is the same as the thumb and 4th and the thumb and third (So if your span is 9 notes it is easy to play octaves with the the 4th or 3rd!) Most hands are like this! So if you rotate sideways sufficiently you can do the same 9th with fingers 5, 4 , or 3 as well! Therefore that does not mean she has large hands!
@pianistofmusic2903 жыл бұрын
I love the ending.
@ElsaBouet13 жыл бұрын
WHY is there always some people who dare to say that this genius plays badly and should listen to their advices ? People, if you don't like it, if you can't hear it wonders where others hear it, it's just no use to open your mouth. LOVE this piece played this way.
@chairrest3511 жыл бұрын
IT"S NOT A SONG!!!! Please can people stop calling pieces of music songs? It's a song if someone is singing.
@RyanChanOrganist13 жыл бұрын
Argerich is a strong woman......Try the octaves yourselves and you'll result in muscle pain ^^ This is simply cool......
@valeriekuhn37469 жыл бұрын
Please make the sound louder on this. I have my speakers full blast and I can barely hear it. The is my favorite.
@williamwoolf80726 ай бұрын
use noise cancelling headphones
@FranciscoNogueirafranzonwave11 жыл бұрын
I Fucking love Martha, she always touches me so deep as any other in piano...
@RyanMacMcC13 жыл бұрын
If you have a problem with her interpretation, post a video of your own interpretation and show us how it's done.
@duartevader2709Ай бұрын
This is such a dumb take, srsly, this is classical music, it doesnt work like that
@juanchiviris111 жыл бұрын
she's singing with the piano
@akelofgren94683 жыл бұрын
Before composer got the credit, nowadays just pianists
@pqiojsqdklnads38613 жыл бұрын
yep
@theyvanmcgregor7 жыл бұрын
Vibrational Healthy Restoration Much gratitude:)
@NiPaVou13 жыл бұрын
small hands? i dont think so... playing the octaves with 1-3 fingers...
@kemmiller17 жыл бұрын
Where was this recorded? I've seen many of her solo recordings wearing this same red dress and I wonder if it was all the same session and time.
@alanleoneldavid17872 жыл бұрын
It's a 1977 live recording and she plays schumann piano concerto, and some ravel piece and then this piece. It's complete on the max Lima channel. He has a lot of Martha Argerich recordings
@jojesty91518 жыл бұрын
To Valerie, FYI. There are still things called amplifiers. I listen in my noisy woodshop with a Heathkit amp (built myself 40 years ago!) and 30-yo Advent speakers. Old amps and speakers should be really cheap (try Craigslist, EBay?), and *much* better than using PC speakers. Any amp will connect to the 3.5-mm stereo ("headphone") output on any PC, using a cable with a pair of standard RCA ends (Amazon, etc.) Anyway, Argerich is unique, wonderful, and sometimes (appropriately) maniacal!
@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji Жыл бұрын
6:53
@billylee23903 жыл бұрын
I think her technique is brilliant, maybe the best in the history. That's why I don't get easily impressed by anyone's Prokofiev concerto 3 except for hers. Also she has a large reportoire specializing in romantic and Russian music. But I think some composers like Mozart or Brahms somehow don't fit in with her style. There's not any pianist who could play all kinds of composers well. For me, her Schumann is my favorite.
@stefanbernhard27103 жыл бұрын
In her prime, she doesn't hold a candle next to Hamelin or Volodos.
@rigel488 ай бұрын
@@stefanbernhard2710 That remains to be seen!
@MrGar11 Жыл бұрын
6:53😂
@ethansaltmere13 жыл бұрын
@marcohorowitz8 yeah but dont listen to the bit after that! 7:28 is so insensitive!
@ethansaltmere13 жыл бұрын
@forgottenbooks no - shes playing with a high wrist to control the sound better - and take the arm out of the note to create a cleaner more lisztian sound. stress on the fingers is only applied when you tense your arm muscles - which i guarantee you argerich isnt doing.
@silviasantos42157 жыл бұрын
Escuchen esta obra interpretada por Arrau y comparen.......
@MartinVanBoven4 жыл бұрын
There's no comparison; Arrau is a master, and outwordly good in this piece. Argerich like so often doesn't have the foggiest what to do, musically, and decides to just tastelessly hammer herself through the piece.
@silviasantos42154 жыл бұрын
Martin ... tienes toda la razón en tu comentario... Saludos Cordiales
@ritabustamante8447 Жыл бұрын
Arrau es excelente no digo que no. Pero para mi Martha es única. Obvio sin restarle meritos a Arrau que también es fantástico.
@monkeycover9205 Жыл бұрын
@@MartinVanBovenenvy
@summerdawn67775 жыл бұрын
🌪️🌪️🌪️🌪️🌪️🌪️🌪️
@pianofan2414 жыл бұрын
is she playing the octave trills from 0:46 to 1:22 with her thumb and 3rd finger? how large are her hands?
@rigel484 жыл бұрын
She can stretch a tenth. Chord LH : C-G-E (Chopin 4th ballade) Chord RH : A#-C#-E-A#-C# (Chopin Prelude N° 7)
@nicolaspachecoarango Жыл бұрын
I don't know for other but my 1-5 span and my 1-3 span are not that different so I don't think it is as huge as you may think
@duartevader2709Ай бұрын
I can reach an 11th with 1-3 and 12th with 1-5, having a flexible hand is enough in my opinion
@petervonberg27114 ай бұрын
Yes, she can play fast.
@roarcer12 жыл бұрын
Solo de escuchar el incio mejor ahí le dejo..¿Por qúé tantas veces Martha Argerich toma tiemmpos TAN RÁPIDOS? ,,,,¿por qué vuelas, nena?
@ulisescenturion74555 жыл бұрын
por que puede volar
@summerdawn67775 жыл бұрын
Fantastic
@a.echave9 жыл бұрын
Dat klaxon at 4:28
@youresomodest13 жыл бұрын
I get all giddy watching her use that LH thumb of hers within the first minute. I don't know why.
@pianofan2414 жыл бұрын
@sebustienus Really? Even for people with small hands? My maximum reach is 9 notes and that is with my hand completely flat ("pancake flat") and I can reach octaves with the 4th finger with extreme difficulty - any thoughts on what I should do?
@Fritz_Maisenbacher11 жыл бұрын
le mort vit encore et le vit du mort est en vie qui n'est pas mort
@JoseAPerez-nq9vu4 жыл бұрын
Great piniast, of the best in the last 60 years. It's a real pity the sound is so poor.
@r.i.p.volodya3 ай бұрын
I find the central 'battle scene' to be too fast for the music, too clipped to no purpose; it's supposed to be a fanfare.
@user-gq5uy7ou1w9 ай бұрын
1:54 ГП 4:00 ПП
@iOnlySignIn14 жыл бұрын
@pianofan24 I'd say her hands are surprisingly small, which makes her technique all the more amazing. Just compare her fingers to the keys. Her hands are much smaller than most pianists, male or female.
@enmago198210 жыл бұрын
No! Martha, questo pezzo nel 1977 non era per te; forse eri ancora troppo giovane. Niente sentimento, partenza troppo veloce per ostentare la tecnica e inesorabili stecche in arrivo. Liszt non perdona.
@Qwerty-hj1ml8 жыл бұрын
In effetti, non fosse per quelle ottave mostruose questa interpretazione sarebbe stata presto dimenticata.
@SuspiriaRosso5 жыл бұрын
Potresti suggerire qualche versione ottimamente interpretata a tuo avviso? Grazie!
@ethansaltmere13 жыл бұрын
@RyanMacMcC Try listening to Zimerman's version of this. Krystan Zimerman. This is how it is done.
@r.i.p.volodya3 ай бұрын
Isn't her opening tempo too fast to be funerial?
@chairrest3510 жыл бұрын
Fine but the piece of music isn't a song. It's a bit like calling a novel a poem.
@OverFjell13 жыл бұрын
Regardless look at the huge muscle mass on the sides of her hands, I've never seen them muscles so pronounced, even on people like Horowitz
@richardvolpe7664Ай бұрын
Why on earth would she choose such an inappropriate opening tempo which does absolutely nothing to "set the mood" for this piece? It should be slower, more ponderous in character - - how could she not feel it?? And the later "octave" section is played, as nearly every 'virtuoso' pianist does, at too fast a speed, robbing the section of deep, dramatic effect. That's the thing about Argerich: despite all the musical felicities she's more than capable of producing, there are just too many instances (in her extensive repertoire) where her interpretations would be enhanced by less frenzied, more judiciously chosen tempos. Yes, I'm well aware of how impressed and excited her fans tend to become when they witness these "feats of super-brilliance" that she delivers so effortlessly, but perhaps if these fans were willing to take an honest, close look at the purely Musical aspects of the works she's playing, their judgment might be "tweaked," at least to some extent.
@VivaRenata14 жыл бұрын
@Christian170978 Right on target. Fine technical proficiency but no sense of rubato and thereby no understanding of the drama of this composition. Unfortunately, I haven't found a recording of Arrau playing Funerailles here.
@ElsaBouet13 жыл бұрын
@wagneristhebest "Many people" don't have the truth. And I do know a lot of recordings. You hear technique, I hear much more. Argument is useless.
@Chicken_for_Aesculapius3 жыл бұрын
5:40
@norbertherterich47509 жыл бұрын
Rhythmus? Töne? Hallo? Gibts mal EINE/N, der das Stück ungefähr so spielt wies dasteht. Und besonders bei dem Orgelpunkt-Teil n bisschen weniger Pedal nimmt...?
@brandon48513 жыл бұрын
@afertyus1000 yeah! xDD, but I think it's middle/ring finger?? o.O
@ramybounou20054 жыл бұрын
both
@OverFjell13 жыл бұрын
@wnxg4nd4lf I can play octaves with 1-3 but can't even reach a tenth 1-5..
@jojowisa12702 жыл бұрын
Does she want it to end this desperately that she speeds through every slow section like a firetruck ablaze
@nicolaspachecoarango2 жыл бұрын
It's possible Martha doesn't really like live performing (that's why most of the time she plays concertos or piano trios...).
@douglassmith775010 жыл бұрын
Dedicated to Frédéric Chopin...many similarities to the Aflat Polonaise
@mazeppa123110 жыл бұрын
This was not dedicated to Chopin -_- It was dedicated to three people who died in the hungarian revolution
@douglassmith77509 жыл бұрын
mazeppa1231 says on my manuscript
@mazeppa12319 жыл бұрын
Douglas Smith Really? But I have a CD recording of Arcadi Volodos performing this piece and on the description, it says Liszt dedicated this piece to the people who died in the hungarian revolution.. o.O
@douglassmith77509 жыл бұрын
mazeppa1231 I dont doubt you and I am not a musicologist...will read up...I am aware of the wars during that time ..thanks
@mariselaiii8 жыл бұрын
+Douglas Smith I study music in college and we were talking about this piece in the music history class and I found out it's about the Hungarian Revolution. Yes there's similarities with the Chopin Polonaise and maybe Liszt was thinking of Chopin when he compose this piece but as far as I know Funérailles was not really dedicated to Chopin.
@azraelpapagalovic724911 жыл бұрын
I agree with those critical of this performance - right from the beginning I thought "Oh my, this is just bad." And there are great Argerich performances other than this one. I guess technique means absolutely nothing if you don't try to breathe life into music.
@hectordanielcarvalho28092 ай бұрын
Yo admiro a Argerich pero esta grabacion no me seduce. Prefiero la version de Arrau
@Viflo6 жыл бұрын
Sorry Martha, maybe the recording was sped up, maybe the volume was a bit off at certain moments but the interpretation itself was beyond horrible. I mean, if you compare the lacrimoso section to Volodos or Kissin, it's like comparing Bentley to Lada. I mean if you listen closely to 5:35 , you can actually hear the piano crying "WTF are you doing to me"
@vvlcliszt11 жыл бұрын
pas assez funéraire...
@aryanpianist13 жыл бұрын
not my pianist !
@dido9312 жыл бұрын
Argerich is always great and she's a unique Genius, but after hearing Bolet's rendition and depht.....it's difficult to like "other funerailles"....!!
@cantkeepitin6 жыл бұрын
dido93 Go for Zimerman, he is beyond everything.
@beecolor12 жыл бұрын
It's a very bad version of Funerailles !
@ethansaltmere13 жыл бұрын
@Sylbao It's not to many peoples taste, obviously. Maybe you should try listening to other recordings, and typing english that's legible, before making a comment like that. This is a really poor performance of a great liszt work - Argerich could never do the really deep stuff. It's got nice things, but nowhere near the intellectual depth and emotion that it should have. Great technique, but not much else, is what I say about Argerich.
@MartinVanBoven6 жыл бұрын
"All get on the Funérailles Express!!!" What a shockingly uneven and empty rendering of this grand piece. It seems no music is safe in the hands of this woman.
@owengette80892 жыл бұрын
yeah no music is safe because she erases all the terrible pianists who defile composers’ graves in her successful effort to perform the best recordings imaginable
@posthocergopropterhoc92022 жыл бұрын
There's a moment in one's life when one is peacefully scrolling through the comments of one's favourite rendition of an excellent piece when one stumbles across something rather odd: a 4 year old comment. Now this comment may be old, but its contents are just something extraordinary. Of course one would be surprised; one would have just found an atrocity: hate against the one and only Martha Argerich -- the horror! There seems to be only one reply adequate enough for that which one has just found: Fuck off.
@ngaiofleming1894 Жыл бұрын
@@posthocergopropterhoc9202XD I couldn’t believe the comment when I saw it either 😂