I met the most beautiful, amazing person in the world. I have admired her performances for years. Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist with magic hands and magic interpretation. <\/p>\n
She made the piano live and breathe. <\/p>\n
In Davies Symphony Hall, she performed a piano duo recital of Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Lutoslawski, Schubert, and Ravel with Nelson Freire. Freire and Argerich are natural together and have played together for years. I performed the Brahms in college and I aspire to have melodies emerge as beautifully as they emerged on their stage that night. <\/p>\n
If you haven’t heard these, you need to listen to them:<\/p>\n
Rachmaninoff’s Piano Suite No. 2<\/em> (powerful, passionate, Russian) Milhaud’s La Creation du Monde<\/em> (I performed this in France with fellow pianist and friend Jason a couple of years ago. It was exciting, nerve-racking, and fun) <\/p>\n Ravel’s Jeux d’Eau<\/em> (one of my favorite solo pieces)<\/p>\n Granados’ Goyescas<\/em> (Spanish composer, pieces based on Goya portraits)<\/p>\n Albeniz’s Iberia<\/em> (another Spanish composer, piece in three movements)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I met the most beautiful, amazing person in the world. I have admired her performances for years. Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist with magic hands and magic interpretation. She made the piano live and breathe. In Davies Symphony Hall, she performed a piano duo recital of Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Lutoslawski, Schubert, and Ravel with Nelson Freire. Freire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnes.wordpress.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnes.wordpress.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnes.wordpress.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnes.wordpress.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnes.wordpress.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agnes.wordpress.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnes.wordpress.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnes.wordpress.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnes.wordpress.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRavel’s La Valse<\/em>, two pianos (whirlwind waltz dissolving into chaos)
\nRavel’s orchestral version is also exciting. <\/p>\n