CD choice: Meet the first lady of technique PROKOFIEV, PIANO CONCERTOS NOS.1 AND 3 BARTOK, PIANO CONCERTO NO.3 MARTHA ARGERICH (PIANO), MONTREAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA/ CHARLES DUTOIT RECORDED 1997 EMI CDC5 56654 2

The Independent - London | October 12, 1998| | Copyright

LISTENING TO Martha Argerich's versicoloured new recording of Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto suggested a musical parallel that has never occurred to me before - between Serge Prokofiev and that most urbane of French masters, Camille Saint-Saens. Both were fabulous pianists; both favoured a colourful variety of musical neo- classicism; both composed five piano concertos, and - here's the spooky bit - Saint-Saens died on the very day that Prokofiev premiered his Third Concerto in Chicago (16 December, 1921). Furthermore, the Third is easily the wittiest, most tuneful and most "Gallic" of ...

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