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Daniel Barenboim and Martha Argerich: two world stars who have known and appreciated each other since their childhood together in Argentina. However, it is only in the past few years they have performed together with the Berliner Philharmoniker – always impressing listeners with their musical and human connection. This season, Martha Argerich will be the soloist in Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1, a work which exudes a youthful vigour. Daniel Barenboim – honorary conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker – also conducts Johannes Brahms' profound and intense Fourth Symphony.
Artists
Berliner Philharmoniker
Daniel Barenboim conductor
Martha Argerich piano
Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in C major, op. 15
Martha Argerich piano
Interval
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 4 in E minor, op. 98
Main Auditorium
47 to 149 €
Introduction
19:15
Series E: Concerts with the Berliner Philharmoniker
Main Auditorium
47 to 149 €
Introduction
19:15
Series M: Concerts with the Berliner Philharmoniker
Main Auditorium
47 to 149 €
Introduction
18:15
»La Martha«
A portrait of the great pianist
Pianist Martha Argerich has been an artistic companion of the Berliner Philharmoniker for many years – like her childhood friend Daniel Barenboim. She will play Ludwig van Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto under his baton on 24, 25 and 26 October. It makes the perfect occasion to look back on her extraordinary career and shared history with the Philharmoniker.
Biographies
Daniel Barenboim
When eleven-year-old Daniel Barenboim witnessed Edwin Fischer conducting from the piano, he thought: ”That’s exactly what I want to do!“ And so the young pianist, who had already appeared in public at the age of seven in his native Buenos Aires, embarked on a career as a conductor – as the youngest member of Igor Markevitch’s conducting class. Daniel Barenboim made his conducting debut in 1967 and in the following years took on leading positions at the Orchestre de Paris, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and La Scala, Milan before becoming General Music Director of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in 1992, a position he held until the beginning of 2023.
Together with the Palestinian-American philosopher and academic Edward Said, he founded the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, which takes a unique stand for tolerance and international understanding. In 2015, he also founded the Berlin Barenboim-Said Academy, which supports young musicians from the Middle East. Barenboim has enjoyed a decades-long artistic partnership with the Berliner Philharmoniker since his debut as a soloist in 1964 and as a conductor in 1969. The orchestra appointed him to the positions of honorary member in 1992 and honorary conductor in 2019. ”Even when I was a child“, he says, ”the Berliner Philharmoniker was my model of what an orchestra could and should sound like.“
Martha Argerich
Martha Argerich is the grande dame of the piano. Her interpretations are acclaimed for their crystal clarity, boundless energy and deeply emotional character, and she is repeatedly praised for her special understanding of the inner structures of the works she performs. Martha Argerich is recognised as an outstanding interpreter of 19th and 20th century piano literature, and her extensive repertoire includes works by Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Bartók, Messiaen and many others. She was born in Buenos Aires – a year and a half before Daniel Barenboim, with whom she was already friends as a child.
Martha Argerich performed Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto at the age of seven. In 1955, she moved to Europe with her family, where she continued her studies in London, Vienna and Switzerland with Friedrich Gulda, Nikita Magaloff, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and Stefan Askenase, among others. Winning the Warsaw Chopin Competition in 1965 catapulted her to international fame. In addition to her recitals and concerts with the world’s leading orchestras, she is a celebrated chamber musician and regularly performs with Mischa Maisky, Gidon Kremer and Daniel Barenboim. She has won countless prizes, promotes young talent and founded the ”Martha Argerich“ piano competition and festival in Buenos Aires. She has made numerous guest appearances with the Berliner Philharmoniker since 1968, including her first under the direction of Daniel Barenboim in January 2023.
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