By Marylene Delbourg-Delphis @mddelphis
If you read French, Martha Argerich : L’enfant et les sortilèges by Olivier Bellamy from Radio Classique is a must-read. Buenos Aires at the end the forties and fifties is a paradise for musicians and music lovers, and the ebullient scene where the seven-year old Martha Argerich makes her debut. It’s the starting point of the phenomenal career of this immensely gifted and free-spirited pianist with her “Nouvelle Vague” looks throughout the decades. The book is wonderfully documented (yet not pompous) and extremely well written. I wrote a more detailed comment on Amazon.fr.
3 responses so far ↓
1 carlos // Jan 8, 2011 at 7:32 pm
no existe una traduccion al español de esta biografia de Martha Argerich ???.
2 Olivier // Jan 9, 2011 at 11:01 pm
The translation in spanish is in process in South America. So in chinese, japonese, in german, but not in english !!!!
3 Recruiting Animal // Nov 30, 2012 at 10:52 am
Funny, I just saw Martha’s photo on an album from 1976 – http://bit.ly/TyijJD – so I started reading about her.
I didn’t know what Nouvelle Vague meant and then I realized it was the New Wave French cinema.
And then I had to figure out exactly what you meant by her Nouvelle Vague look. I have an idea what that means but I still have to figure it out. If you want to help me my twitter address is http://twitter.com/animal
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