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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: Exempt Binding: DVD EAN: 8991320006570 Format: NTSC Label: medici arts Manufacturer: medici arts Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: medici arts Release Date: July 28, 2008 Running Time: 63 minutes Studio: medici arts Theatrical Release Date: 2003 Sales Rank: 12243 MPN: 3073428
Rating: - Argerich Talks and Plays
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 ... Read More: