Is this correct : Argentine pianist Martha Argerich has never recorded with conductor Herbert von Karajan?
Does this extend to having never performed together ?
Grazie
@Alberich: hey buddy hmmm well I'm a huge admirer of Argerich and sorting through my albums of her the other day I just thought how it would seem almost expected that two huge personalities would've got together at least once.
However I couldn't find any evidence and initially I got to speculating as to possible reasons, maybe antipathy from one or the other.
Subsequently though I'm thinking it's not that surprising because compare her recorded discography to many other pianists and it's actually quite modest.
There's no complete concerto cycles from any composer that I am aware of, that I find surprising.
I think she's worked with Claudio Abbado the most, I would be interested though to know what Karajan thought of her though and vice versa or if indeed they ever met.
Of course Sviatoslav Richter recorded with Karajan at least twice and I think they mutually loathed each other or at least Slava gives that impression but that's the thing Richter recorded tonnes of concerti with many d
..ifferent composers ( :
@Raymond : wherefore art thy answer vanished to ?