Piano Duos at the Teatro Colón – Martha Argerich & Daniel Barenboim

Synopsis

“Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim wow their hometown of Buenos Aires” proclaimed the FAZ newspaper. This is the first time the two musicians have performed together in the city of their birth. So this concert, which formed part of the Festival de Música y Reflexión was a sort of “home game” for them, and one for which Argentinians had waited long. “The opera house has not been so packed for a long time as for the concerts featuring these two great artists.” (FAZ) “The Colón seemed to burst at the seams”. (Buenos Aires Herald) Martha Argerich delights the audience as “the untamed lioness of the keyboard” no less than Daniel Barenboim, who radiates “an unusually exuberant sparkling sound” (FAZ). Works by Mozart, Schubert and Stravinsky were followed by frenetic demands from the audience for encores and so, accompanied by three musicians from the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Argerich and Barenboim gave Schumann’s Variations for two pianos, Rachmaninoff’s Suite No. 2 and pieces by Guastavino and Milhaud. The Buenos Aires Herald summed up: a “grand tour de force”.

Additional Info

• No: A835500050000
• Composer: Mozart, Schubert, Stravinsky, Schumann, Rachmaninoff
• Artists: Martha Argerich, Daniel Barenboim
• Production year: 2014
• Run time: 02:00:00
• Director: Tilo Krause
• Producers: UNITEL in cooperation with Teatro Colón and West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
• Format: HDTV 16:9