Post by julesd68 on Oct 8, 2014 11:20:10 GMT
Martha Argerich is one of my all time favourite pianists and I *still* haven't seen her play live, despite having bought tickets for two of her concerts over the past couple of years.
It's a bit of a lottery whether she turns up at all but I still hold out hope. If you would also like to keep an eye on up and coming concerts than I recommend the following blog, which details her forthcoming schedule -
marthargerich.blogspot.co.uk/
Don't forget there is also the very handy concert finder on bachtrack.com where you can filter performances according to a number of different parameters. She has one concert booked in next year at the Festival Hall -
uk.bachtrack.com/find-concerts/performer=1208;country=1
I'm not desperate to hear the Beethoven so will hold out for something more to my taste ... The holy grail would be a performance of Ravel's 'Gaspard de la nuit', my favourite piano work of all time. I have Martha's recording on DG 2530 540 and it is quite sublime ... Here's a taster of this work - not the best sound quality but very atmospheric ...
It's a bit of a lottery whether she turns up at all but I still hold out hope. If you would also like to keep an eye on up and coming concerts than I recommend the following blog, which details her forthcoming schedule -
marthargerich.blogspot.co.uk/
Don't forget there is also the very handy concert finder on bachtrack.com where you can filter performances according to a number of different parameters. She has one concert booked in next year at the Festival Hall -
uk.bachtrack.com/find-concerts/performer=1208;country=1
I'm not desperate to hear the Beethoven so will hold out for something more to my taste ... The holy grail would be a performance of Ravel's 'Gaspard de la nuit', my favourite piano work of all time. I have Martha's recording on DG 2530 540 and it is quite sublime ... Here's a taster of this work - not the best sound quality but very atmospheric ...
