Prom 43: 17.08.16 - Martha Argerich/Daniel Barenboim /West–Eastern Divan Orchestra

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  • gedsmk
    Full Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 203

    #61
    Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View Post
    Just watched on telly,the encore was the best part of the concert,brought a tear to the eye.
    You must have a heart of stone gedsmk
    Don't be silly!

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    • kernelbogey
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 5749

      #62
      Originally posted by Pianorak View Post
      I just watched the programme and am wondering if the Schubert Rondo is a piece the two of them used to play as children in Argentina. Perhaps a trip down memory lane?
      Makes sense: I was struck by how they held hands continuously while not at the keyboard.

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      • Beef Oven!
        Ex-member
        • Sep 2013
        • 18147

        #63
        Originally posted by gedsmk View Post
        Don't be silly!
        Come on, it was very touching.

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        • BBMmk2
          Late Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 20908

          #64
          Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
          Makes sense: I was struck by how they held hands continuously while not at the keyboard.
          Quite a touching evening seeing two old friends making music together and the Schubert Rondo was such a moving experience. I think this was perhaps going down memory lane for these two legends, and I don't use that word lightly!
          Don’t cry for me
          I go where music was born

          J S Bach 1685-1750

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          • kernelbogey
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 5749

            #65
            Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
            Quite a touching evening seeing two old friends making music together and the Schubert Rondo was such a moving experience. I think this was perhaps going down memory lane for these two legends, and I don't use that word lightly!
            I believe that I shall see that encore in my mind's eye every time I hear this work in the future.

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            • Lancashire Lass
              Full Member
              • Feb 2012
              • 118

              #66
              Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
              I believe that I shall see that encore in my mind's eye every time I hear this work in the future.
              I didn't know the piece at all. The melody flew into my mind this morning, couldn't remember where it was from, now it refuses to go away :-)

              I was lucky enough to be there last week, was in tears by the end of the encore. It could have gone on all night as far as I was concerned, every time they repeated the main theme, it turned the emotional screws that bit more.

              I had never seen (or really heard) Martha Argerich before, I couldn't believe how someone with so much power could have such a delicate touch in the lyrical sections of the Liszt. And she is so good to watch -- we were sitting opposite and could just see the tops of her hands. They glided up and down the keyboard as casually as if she were scrolling down her i-pad, and then she'd finish off each line with a little flourish of her wrist. Loved the way too she kept smoothing back errant wisps of hair in a very girly way -- no sign of that famous "uppity female" attitude dimming then :-)

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              • Richard Tarleton

                #67
                Originally posted by Lancashire Lass View Post
                Loved the way too she kept smoothing back errant wisps of hair in a very girly way
                Being easily amused by lookalikes, the resemblance between Marta and a certain lady classicist sprang unbidden to mind

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                • french frank
                  Administrator/Moderator
                  • Feb 2007
                  • 30302

                  #68
                  Originally posted by Bert Coules View Post
                  Too long for an encore, certainly.
                  Or giving people their money's worth? But when people are out of sympathy with something, nothing can be said …
                  It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                  • richardfinegold
                    Full Member
                    • Sep 2012
                    • 7667

                    #69
                    Originally posted by Lancashire Lass View Post
                    I didn't know the piece at all. The melody flew into my mind this morning, couldn't remember where it was from, now it refuses to go away :-)

                    I was lucky enough to be there last week, was in tears by the end of the encore. It could have gone on all night as far as I was concerned, every time they repeated the main theme, it turned the emotional screws that bit more.

                    I had never seen (or really heard) Martha Argerich before, I couldn't believe how someone with so much power could have such a delicate touch in the lyrical sections of the Liszt. And she is so good to watch -- we were sitting opposite and could just see the tops of her hands. They glided up and down the keyboard as casually as if she were scrolling down her i-pad, and then she'd finish off each line with a little flourish of her wrist. Loved the way too she kept smoothing back errant wisps of hair in a very girly way -- no sign of that famous "uppity female" attitude dimming then :-)
                    The melody figured prominently in a movie starring Ralph Fiennes. I think the title was Winter. It is a multigenerational tale about a Jewish family in Hungary

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                    • BBMmk2
                      Late Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 20908

                      #70
                      This was an encore that just had to be done, though. I am glad it did happen! In a word - sublime.
                      Don’t cry for me
                      I go where music was born

                      J S Bach 1685-1750

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                      • Petrushka
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 12255

                        #71
                        As noted above, Barenboim and Argerich played this same encore in April last year at a Staatskapelle Berlin concert in the RFH. It was wonderful then and, happily I was in the hall for this one too so had the pleasure of seeing them do the Schubert twice.
                        "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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                        • Lancashire Lass
                          Full Member
                          • Feb 2012
                          • 118

                          #72
                          Originally posted by richardfinegold View Post
                          The melody figured prominently in a movie starring Ralph Fiennes. I think the title was Winter. It is a multigenerational tale about a Jewish family in Hungary

                          Thanks Richard, I'll check it out!

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