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The Lebrecht review is pretty fair & accurate IMO

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John C. - Aussie

In Reply to: RE: Thanks, John - Yeah, I should order a copy posted by Chris from Lafayette on April 22, 2014 at 12:42:12

Chris, no need to be wary of this doc because of the Lebrecht review as I feel it neatly summarizes the film.
Martha is obviously a very complex, impetuous person and I guess would be impossible to live with. As you say she seems very inarticulate with words but this is compensated by her articulation of music with Chopin her biggest idol. She mentions in the doco about her affinity to Schumann.
John
PS: Discovered the snippets below on You Tube which add to our confused "understanding" of this pianist!!

Enjoying 12,000 mostly classical CDs via Sennheiser HD800 headphones & M2TECH Vaughan DAC -> HeadRoom BlockHead headphone amplifier fed from a Meridian (Sooloos) server system.
The main 7.1 MC electrostatic speaker system is for A/V at night.
You tube snippets on Argerich (Open in New Window)

Edits: 04/22/14

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Just ordered it - Chris from Lafayette 16:59:42 04/22/14 (1)
Doesn't sound like Stephen Bishop (-Kovacevich), Stephanie's father, comes out too well either.

Schumann is my favorite German composer too, and I think Martha's recording of Kreisleriana is great. (However I have a memory of Viktoria Postnikova's performance of this work on a Melodiya/EMI LP that I think I may have liked even more. I do not know of a CD reissue of this performance - maybe in Japan, but I must have missed it.)

Anyway, once the blu-ray of Stephanie's documentary gets here, I can compare notes with you! ;-)
- I looked into ordering "Evening Talks" but gave up - John C. - Aussie 17:14:44 04/22/14 (0)
  If it has been less expensive (freight costs to Australia were high) I might have gone ahead. But your description of this one hour discourse was less than attractive so I decided no.
  
  John
  Enjoying 12,000 mostly classical CDs via Sennheiser HD800 headphones & M2TECH Vaughan DAC -> HeadRoom BlockHead headphone amplifier fed from a Meridian (Sooloos) server system.
  The main 7.1 MC electrostatic speaker system is for A/V at night.

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