A scheduled performance by pianist Martha Argerich is best thought of as a sort of lottery. You buy a ticket and cross your fingers, and if you're very lucky, Argerich shows up and plays. No such luck ...

Her daughter calls her, in a recent documentary, a goddess. And the audience at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Thursday night was not about to disagree when Martha Argerich walked on stage to play ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. There are a few things everyone in the music world knows, or thinks they know, about Martha Argerich, the Argentine-born pianist. She's ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Sometimes it seems that Martha Argerich is less a pianist than an elemental force. Tempestuous, emotionally fragile and astoundingly ...

Martha Argerich is cool. That’s not a descriptor that gets used too often alongside a world class musician. Renowned, iconic, legendary. Those are words more commonly associated with an artist of ...

Romantic. The Project Martha Argerich is an annual festival held in summerly Lugano which the giant pianist launched in 2009. Ever since it has spotlighted her alongside promising young and eminent ...

Pianist Martha Argerich initially appears aloof in chats with music-pic maker George Gachot. But she becomes more forthcoming, a deeper humor is revealed. This compliments the wit and fire glimpsed in ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The old idea of a festival was that artists dropped their routine, headed for the sticks and struck sparks off each ...

When Martha Argerich plays Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 3 at the Royal Albert Hall this evening there'll be the usual fight for seats, because nobody plays this work as Argerich does. In the words of ...

The Project Martha Argerich is an annual festival held in summerly Lugano which the giant pianist launched in 2009. Ever since it has spotlighted her alongside promising young and eminent older ...