A concert with the famous Argentinian pianist Marta Argerich will be held in Riga

This is a rare opportunity, because the last time the artist visited Latvia was ten years ago, in October 2014, when she, the violinist Gidon Krämer and the orchestra Kremerata Baltica we went to Cēsis for the concert. Together with G. Kremer, she also performed on our opera stage in 2006. This time, M. Argerich’s stage partner will be the Japanese pianist Akane Sakai. In the program: arrangements of Sergei Prokofiev’s First Classical Symphony (op. 25) and Sergei Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances (op. 45) for piano duet. Akane Sakai will start the concert with Ludwig van Beethoven A monthly sonata replay.

Marta Argerich (83) avoids interviews, but she has been at the center of media and public attention for 67 years – since she won the Geneva International Music Competition and the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in Bolzano in 1957. The artist’s biography is worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster. The hot blood of Ukrainian Jews and Spanish Catalans flows in her veins, but her destiny was shaped by the socialist efforts of her parents and by the Argentine President Peron, who personally sent the Argerich family to Vienna so that the child could have a high offspring. – quality music education. After the first victory came a youth crisis, after which Argerich’s personal playing style crystallized – bold, bright, without excess and sensitivity. The piano’s path has been shaped by the great success of the Frederic Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1965, serious illness, recovery, husbands, daughters, her own extraordinary beauty, and her a very sharp character.

Marta Argerich has been playing the piano since she was three years old. On the stage – from eight years old. To become a great musician, you have to work alone for many years. Now the artist admits: “During my 17 years, I lived the life of a forty-year-old woman … And I recognized it as sadness: I traveled the world, but I was alone. I was shy and I still am; I think this quality does not leave us.

Of the 54 (!) concerts she played between January and October this year, from Tokyo to Barcelona, ​​​​53 were performed in a duet, ensemble or with an orchestra, but only one of them was a solo concert. a person The pianist’s stage partners are famous Latvian musicians, violinist Gidons Krēmers and cellist Miša Maiskis. She has been collaborating with the Japanese pianist Akani Sakai for ten years and together they work on the annual Martha Argerich Festival in Hamburg.