You know, I have not viewed and listened to nearly enough Argerich, I'm sorry to say. That was absolutely magical. I miss something about that era that this video "represents" ... and I'm not even sure what I mean by that, exactly, because even if I were in this life at that point, I certainly wasn't a part of the piano world as we know it (or rather, as we knew it). This is a very strange observation, but her hands look *exactly* like her personality seems, and *exactly* like the sounds that come out of them. I know it seems that you should be able to say that about everybody, but this is different. There is something different about it with her. She and Lisitsa are *so* different, aren't they? Argerich as a person, at least here (and I don't know her playing well enough to know any better), is very internal and her music is very much focused out into the instrument. Lisitsa embodies it all very differently than that, though I venture to guess that she feels very much as though her body reflects *exactly* the music, and in that sense there is nothing extra or unnecessary, I don't think, to her. Argerich probably feels like she does not bodily express anything "extra" or unnecessary, either, but obviously their ideas of that are so entirely different.
But, the sleevy, no frills dress on Argerich, the reserved mannerisms ... so different than today's pianists. Perhaps it's similar to the differences between eras, where one era goes one direction and the following era is some kind of polarization in the other direction. So, at some point people say "enough with the reservedness and not showing a skin ... I'm going to get naked"

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Anyway, if you have any other Argerich favorites, I'll keep my eye out

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*watches thread like a hawk*