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Actors: Martha Argerich
Directors: Georges Gachot
Format: NTSC
Language English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Portuguese
Subtitles: Dutch, English, French, Spanish
Region: All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification: Exempt
Studio: medici arts
DVD Release Date: 28 Jul 2008
Run Time: 63 minutes

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

ASIN: B0019I0X04
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 20,499 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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A documentation about the life and career of acclaimed Argentinian pianist Martha Argerich.

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Gachot's 2002 documentary, now on DVD for the first time, takes the form of an extended conversation with the Argentine pianist, spliced with clips of concerts and rehearsals over a 50-year period. A famously reluctant interviewee, Argerich talks with candour and spontaneity about her formative musical experiences, the loneliness of her early career, the security she feels when making chamber music and the composers she is most comfortable with. The resulting 63-minute film-portrait offers valuable insight into her musical intuition and charisma. The one-time Latin beauty has turned into a sexagenarian of dignity, warmth and wisdom, qualities she now gladly imparts to a younger generation. --Andrew Clark, Financial Times, 16 August 2008

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5.0 out of 5 stars Argerich Talks and Plays, 4 Aug 2008

By	J Scott Morrison (Middlebury VT, USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

Martha Argerich, for many of us, has long been an enigma. She has always been a private person, one who does not seek the spotlight, who even cancels performances because, it is said, of nervousness, shyness. Filmmaker Georges Gachot, after years of entreaties, gets her to agree, to speak with him on camera. She comes across as a soft-spoken, shy, immensely intelligent but often cryptic person, one who has idiosyncratic but attractive ideas about her relationships with composers and various pieces of music. For instance, she will not play the Beethoven Fourth Concerto because she is afraid of 'what might happen', this after talking about the galvanic emotional effect it has had on her ever since she heard Claudio Arrau play it when she was six.

Interleaved with Gachot's and Argerich's low-key but very revealing conversations are many clips of Argerich rehearsing and playing, primarily with orchestra or with other pianists. There are seventeen clips of her playing music ranging from an incandescent Capriccio from Bach's Fifth Partita to a two-piano and percussion arrangement of Piazzolla's Libertango. She is shown, in a long clip, rehearsing the Schumann Concerto with J�rg Faerber and the Wurttemburg Chamber Orchestra. There is a blistering finale of the Ravel G Major Concerto (with Charles Dutoit conducting). There are clips from her 1965 Chopin Competition win and a marvelous performance of Lutoslawski's two-piano Paganini Variations with Mauricio Vallina. And a short bit from the Teatro Col�n with fellow-Argentine Nelson Freire in the piano four-hand 'Laideronette' from the Mother Goose Suite of Ravel. Riches, indeed.

Although most of the music contained in the documentary is excerpted, there is a bonus that includes full performances of the Bach Capriccio, Schumann Concerto, two Piazzolla pieces, a sensational Scarlatti sonata (D Minor, K141) and a Chopin Mazurka (F Minor, Op. 63, No. 2).

Argerich's fabled technique is in plentiful supply throughout, but even more is her highly personal way with all the works she plays. She is clearly one of a kind and it is no wonder she has fanatical admirers the world over. I suspect they are snapping this DVD up. And if you know or want to know Argerich's playing, you will, too.

Highest recommendation.

Total Time: Documentary - 63 mins; Bonus - 38 mins; Sound: PCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1; Format: NTSC 16:9; Spoken languages: French, English, German; Subtitles: French, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese; Region Code: 0 (worldwide)

Scott Morrison

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