Martha and Daniel are almost twins ... Daniel Barenboim is roughly two years younger than Martha Argerich, but playing tonight shoulder to shoulder on the same keyboard on the rather dark scene of 'le Grand théâtre de Provence 'without a live audience but for thousands of on line followers, looked so intimate and casual: almost like two very gifted talented always young musicians having a date with the three composers of their evening, Mozart, Debussy and Bizet, with their magical hands and a unique piano keyboard to share and create a unique sound with their combined hearts and souls.
If I have one moment to remember, it is the second one with Claude Debussy and his "Epigraphes antiques ' six 'poems' without words but music, except for the titles all beginning with 'Pour' for ... a purpose, each of them opening on a vast imaginary world.
It was fascinating to see both players creating these delicate musical poems : it reminded me of a comment I readt : Marcel Proust who said once that if language had not been invented music would have been our way of expression. I really felt each piece was a poem with its own atmosphere created by these wonderful musicians. They were looking so passionate in their special world together ! their weary hands seemed so alert and so young as if age did not count ... had no weight on their agility...it looked so easy...and yet for the two of them how many hours and hours of practice to create this unique sound with four hands on the piano with the same intensity and volume, not that easy on a piano?
What my memory selected was the 6th poem ' Pour remercier la pluie du matin' It was so delicate and so Asian to my ears ... my only wish was to find it on youtube to keep it even more in mind ... and I found it...it was loaded some years ago by the couple of artists who played it and there is the picture of the CD cover with a very interesting selection of composers they recorded together.
(Today while trying to listen to the 6 pieces from Debussy with scores, I found the scores of my favourite 'Pour remercier la pluie au matin' beautifully performed, and it is worth thanking the uploader who is also the performer Ruben Yessayan)
The Bizet part was not so surprising and captivating for me. As for the Mozart sonata K521 which was opening the concert, it was not a discovery and a real pleasure to follow tonight with two tremendous musicians who respect, know and appreciate each other so much and for such a long life time . (In an interview on Radio Classique before the concert Daniel Barenboim explained he has known Martha since 1949 when they were both children in Argentina, and practicing the piano almost with the same teacher) He said Martha was his oldest friend and his 'love' in the music world ... not in life! he made a point in explaining that so simply. I was moved by this confession ! In fact I could feel when watching them tonight that they had a huge musical intimacy while playing together.
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