Martha!

Found a 1983 live recording of Beethoven’s 1st piano concerto on “YouTube” (Argerich, Ozawa and Symphoniecrchester des Bayerischen).

It was in Geneva in 1957 that Martha Argerich played Prokofiev for the first time. She lived with a room-mate in a small studio in the city’s red light district. While she was half asleep in the morning, her room-mate Cucucha was learning Prokofiev’s Third. Argerich somehow learned the piece in the state of half-consciousness that precedes awakening. According to Charles Dutoit, who met her at the time, Martha would get up in the early afternoon, drink three or four espressos, smoke five cigarettes, then sit at the piano and play the concerto by ear. “I even learned Cucucha’s sight-reading mistakes”, remembers Argerich. (Julian Haylock)

彼女の生活はまだこのようだろうか？だったらちょっとスゴイ。