Argerich, Capuçon and friends close the Aix Easter Festival

By Mark Valencia, 11 April 2018

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“pianistic flourishes that she tossed casually into the mix as though dressing a salad”

Reviewed at Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix-en-Provence on 8 April 2018

Debussy, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (for two pianos)

Debussy, Cello Sonata in D minor

Debussy, Violin Sonata in G minor

Schumann, Six studies in the form of canons, Op.56 (Arr. Debussy)

Mendelssohn, Piano Trio no. 1 in D minor, Op.49

Debussy, Nocturnes: Fêtes

Renaud Capuçon, Violin

Kian Soltani, Cello

Martha Argerich, Piano

Nicholas Angelich, Piano

Argerich, Maisky and the elixir of youth

Mark Pullinger, 6th February

Martha Argerich and Mischa Maisky's duo recital at Wigmore Hall turns into a trio... and offers the London audience a rare opportunity to hear the Argentinian pianist play solo.

****1

Sinning on a Sunday: Argerich, Mehta and the Vienna Philharmonic

Chanda VanderHart, 17th March

In the sacred golden temple that is the Musikverein, Martha Argerich plays Ravel's saucy Piano Concerto in G major, before the Philharmoniker and Zubin Mehta play Bruckner's Seventh Symphony.

****1

Stars, slapstick and soul: Martha Argerich joins the Rotterdam Phil

Eleanor Knight, 28th September

Soaring choral music precedes the arrival of Martha Argerich for a daredevil account of Shostakovich's First Piano Concerto with RPhO Principal Trumpet, Alex Elia.

*****

Argerich and Dutoit demonstrate that vitality is ageless

Edward Sava-Segal, 18th September

Martha Argerich returns to the Enescu Festival for one of the pillars of her repertory, Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto, in a buoyant performance.

***11

Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and Martha Argerich in Évian

David Karlin, 2nd July

Argerich shows her full artistry, while Europe's young musicians show impressive coordination and dynamics, if short of emotion in Beethoven 7.

****1

Clumsy Liszt, listless Berlioz from Barenboim and the Staatskapelle

Mark Pullinger, 7th March

Some conductors get better with age, ripening like fine wines, but age wearies others. Daniel Barenboim’s decline is difficult to bear.

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Mark Valencia

Mark has worked in arts journalism for four decades, both as a writer and as a French-English translator. Nowadays he focuses his energies on reviewing opera and music. Mark also writes for Opera magazine and for Musical America as a correspondent for Europe and the UK.

Argerich, Capuçon and friends close the Aix Easter Festival in grand style