Oct 06 2008
Martha Argerich plays Schumann
A little huge fireball, long before Olga Kern who won the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition .. that’s when I first saw Olga, who played Rachmaninoff piano concerto #3, or the Rock 3 - she wore a red dress and played like an animal - which was very refreshing .. beating out all the boys. Martha is an old lady now who resembles Gabriel Sabatini in her younger days is a far more elegant pianist. Olga also lacks a pair of sexy and elegant hands. One of my favored CDs is EMI, Schumann’s cello/piano concertos, by Jacqueline du Pré and Daniel Barenboim. I also looooove Tchaikovsky’s piano and violin concertos.