I shook her hand once when I ushered at one of her concerts at Saunders Theater in Cambridge. Her hand is “small” and her spirit is not. She played the complete Iberia Suite, and Cantos de Espana of Albeniz. What a night.

Such power in such small hands!

A great performance: the cantabile, the power and stamina, all is there! And a rare poise and depth the younger players often lack today.

Listening to this again...all I keep thinking is "Wow!!"

She plays with more breadth and yet also more drive than most current performers

I can only imagine that a performance like this must have brought the house down...the applause should have been left in rather than edited out.

Alicia é fabulosa!!!!!!

BRAVISIMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DE LAS MAS GRANDES. UNA MARAVILAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.........................................

I got to hear her play the Beethoven C Major twice, with the Des Moines Symphony. the first time in the late 70’s I recorded the concert for Radio Broadcast…. sadly no copy of the tape… My daughter met her at the second one.

Es increíble cómo toca está tía! Magistral el sonido de su cantábile, la claridad, el rubato, es que es precioso y emocionante escucharle.

@luiscar8945

Жыл бұрын

Amé tu comentario. ¡Ahahahaha! Siento que debe enmarcarse en oro macizo y ser colgado en la entrada del Vaticano ;) ¡El cantabileeeeee! Tan poca gente habla de eso o le da tan poca importancia. Mediante esa articulación de las notas, a las que Alicia les dejaba que se tomaran su tiempo para "sonar", uno siente el cantabile, la melodía. Es musicalidad por todos lados. A mí me pones a un virtuoso haciendo pirotecnias y a Alicia, y me quedo mil veces con ella. ¡Abrazo! XD

A brilliant and fantastic performance of this concerto.

SE me pone la piel de gallina, me encanta la colocación de las manos y la claridad, estoy emocionado.

Alicia is a great example that shows that the size of the hand does not matter (she is very small) and yet she managed to play a concert with very large chords and passages for "big hands". Congratulations.

@user-jj8kg5ef2t

3 жыл бұрын

I always wonder how she did it, for Rachmaninoff and Albeniz. They are complex and big cords.

@lisilisin

3 ай бұрын

@@user-jj8kg5ef2t She could reach a tenth 😉

If we look well, we soon notice that her hands are quite big compared to her overall stature! And the technique, like Argerich's, from the old italian school, superb! Crisp and accurate! And capable of producing an enormous sound, when they needed it! Glorious playing. When Martha goes (I hope never), well never here anything like it again!

The "mouse that roared" and masterfully played a concerto "written for elephants" in the words of the composer.

FANTÁSTICA.BRAVO

I love her opening tempo, measured, not overly fast like most performances I've heard...and her way with the 1st mvt cadenza is perfect, not bombastic...

This is so glorious.

the Great Alicia....

So beautifully played .

and she had small hands? wow wow wow... incredible performance

This really is great. Kudos!

@MichaSchlechtriem

4 жыл бұрын

Outstanding for sure.

Como con Argerich, se nota un cariño y sensibilidad especiales en las cadencias, especialmente en la del 2o Movimiento. Espectacular!

@RaulLopez-bu8yk

3 жыл бұрын

Argerich lo toca muy diferente

❤️❤️❤️

Una joya del archivo de KZread o familiar y una preciosidad de interpretación.

Una maravilla! Gracias por compartirla!

There were a few more women playing this in the 1950s, such as Ann Schein and some Soviet pianists like Grinberg (and, I think, Lelchuk and Davidovich). The better question is why wasn't this the "official" recording instead of the 1974 rendition with Previn? That, frankly, is not one of her best studio recordings, although at that time she was giving live performances of this piece that were spectacular. This studio recording is, I think, much more compelling.

@ulfwernernielsen6708

4 жыл бұрын

nyc2cal Don’t forget Lympany and Bachauer . They both recorded it in the fifties.

@magnusjakopsohn7824

2 жыл бұрын

Monique de La Bruchollerie is reported to be the first non soviet woman to perform it in europe and there is a totally amazing recording of it with her from 1951 where she plays the ass of Horowitz in it💪💪 But actually the legendary Swedish pianist Greta Erikson started to perform it in Sweden during the 1940:s. Most likely the first female pianist to perform it outside Russia. Now a days Little known outside Sweden but during her lifetime she was considered to be one of the worlds most celebrated performers of Rach 2 and 3.

She never makes a harsh sound, it's always a lush, beautiful sound. Chords are voiced, and unlike Horowitz she doesn't change the score, totally faithful to Rachmaninoff's music.

How she did it? (Her hand is certainly not big)

@lisilisin

3 жыл бұрын

She could reach a tenth

Was just playing this wonderful performance and this inane advert for Gramily started playing which is so stupid: 'saying what you mean@: language never says what we mean; we do not even know what we 'mean'; hate this capitalist crap aimed at petty-bourgeois creerist who want to 'get ahead' and 'get on'... no one ever communicates clearly; what can be more unclear than language and communication?