Chopin, Liszt: Piano Concertos / Martha Argerich, London Symphony Orchestra
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Composer: Frederic ChopinComposer: Franz Liszt
Conductor: Claudio Abbado
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Performer: Martha Argerich
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-09-17
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Product features:
- ARGERICH / ABBADO / LONDON S. O. CHOPIN / LISZT: PIANO CONCERTOS
- Concerto #1 in E minor: Allegro Maestoso
- Concerto #1 in E minor: Romance, Larghetto
- Concerto #1 in E minor: Rondo, Vivace
- Concerto #1 in E flat:Allegro maestoso
- Concerto #1 in E flat:Quasi Adagio
- Concerto #1 in E flat:Allego marziate animato
Music reviews of Chopin, Liszt: Piano Concertos / Martha Argerich, London Symphony Orchestra
Music Review: Martha Argerich, A Woman Born To Play The Piano!
Rating: 5 Stars
Argerich went to Europe when she was fourteen and worked with the great Freiedrich Gulda, Nikita Magaloff and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. Her playing can be undisciplined but is always creative and musically interesting. Let us now turn to the Chopin Piano Concerto written just before his twentieth birthday. Argerich's approach is definite and is performed with an unmistakable distillation of style. The playing displays an element of refreshing confidence, an emerging individuality unique to Argerich in which musical content and virtuosic technique are matched. As the performance moves on Argerich defines the harmonic outline, hardened and struck home meaningfully at every modulation; here melody was emboldened and enriched with the perfect fusion of line and embellishment which only Mozart before Chopin could equal. During the appearance of the first-subject material in C major, Argerich magically and beautifully expresses one of most brilliant events in the whole of the work. In the slow movement entitled Romance, Argerich maintains less dramatic contrasts but conveys the greater unity. Her continuous outpouring of melodically shaped phrases are as spontaneous and convincing as Chopin could have ever intended them to be. Argerich, in the rondo, convincingly establishes the themes subtle character with ambiguous accents whose rhythm is not always easy to identify with its shifts of emphasis. In the coda Argerich's use of poetic nuance allows this wonderful piece of piano writing to unfold, wholly consistent with the simultaneous creative work on the Studies, Op.10 and 25.
All Liszt's piano-concerto works are continuous, effectively one-movement structures. Argerich demonstrates his fascination with formal variety within the sonata and variation principles throughout her performance of his first. Due to the innate virtuosic temperament Argerich performs with, she is able to convey the important features both concertos have in common: both contain much thematic cross-reference between their sections; Argerich magnificently highlights the long stretches of delicate, chamber-like orchestration. She expansively incorporates the traditional layout of four symphonic movements in a brief span. In the succeeding development Argerich provides the necessary drama and bravura in the descending string figures of the opening Allegro maestoso. She then rapidly creates the nocturnal Quasi Adagio of Bellini-like ravishment and an Allegro vivace with a 'capriccioso scherzando' character. The finale contains no new themes, but much reflection of earlier ideas. This concerto has frequently been attacked due to an unfortunate tendency of playing it much too fast, however Argerich's performance is a model of dignity and delicate beauty.
Author: Raymond Vacchino M.Mus.(MT) A.Mus. L.R.S.M. Licentiate(honorary)
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