AIBU to ask you to watch this and agree with me that it's phenomenal?

[NoOtherLove]

Or, even if you don't watch the whole thing, just watch from 32 minutes in. Like, slide your finger across to there. I promise you that you will not be disappointed.

I am a long time fan of this amazing woman who even in her 70s which is the last time I saw her (I have seen her four times across three decades) could delight an international audience and sold out the Albert Hall in an hour. Here she is in her thirties undertaking musical feats that could disable her.

Also I have been to the pub and come back and watched Martha Argerich on the YouTube and it's all good. So here it is for you:

Thanks for posting this. Yes, she is phenomenal.

You're welcome. She really is, isn't she? I think she'd already had all three of her kids at this point. And was just lording it amazingly regardless.

I first saw her after her recovery from breast cancer and my God the frenzy trying to get tickets, because she hadn't played in London for years previously. She did Schumann, quite unlike any other performance I'd seen of it. The next year she did Prokofiev III and I swear the roof near came off the Albert Hall. It was just extraordinary.

Genius, what a talent. I've always wanted to learn to play the piano.

@Thedogscollar people give away pianos these days and they don't take up any more space than a bookcase. Do it! You don't have to be an international concert star to enjoy playing piano.

I’m so glad I saw this as going to show our 10 year old who loves the piano and it’ll inspire him even more!

That was amazing. Watching her fingers flying around the keyboard... the speed, wow! Thanks OP.

Ah, that's lovely. Tell him to do his scales and studies!

You don't get to be like Martha without your scales and studies.

Fab. I'm not terribly keen on Tchaikovsky, but that was great.

Thanks for sharing! I'm ashamed to say I've never heard of her. She's sublime, I've got goosebumps

Impressive but not for me - I'm more of a David Fray man myself...

@CorvusPurpureus I'll take that!

Here she is with the Schumann, this is the actual performance I saw. I'd never heard it played like that before, all very dramatic but true to the score. We were up in the gods, literally gripping onto the rail at times.

I mean, that Schumann interpretation was obviously very personal to her, the first London performance after so long with all eyes on her, but even outwith that she had something to say. It was electrifying.

And here's her playing the Prokofiev a year later. Again I was up in the gods and Jesus it was an effort to get even that ticket. But she was incredible.

@Popsicle33 yay another convert!