Performances in N.Y.C. At 83, the Argentine-Swiss pianist is at the peak of her powers. But she doesn’t want to talk about it. “I want to hide.” Argerich in Basel, Switzerland.Credit...Mischa Christen ...

Pianist and longtime classical music star Martha Argerich first played in the world’s great concert halls in the 1960s. She’s often described as a musical genius, but she’s also been a recluse for ...

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 ...

The exciting pianist Martha Argerich seems most comfortable on stage these days when she is egging on extravagantly gifted young players, such as the French brothers Renaud and Gautier Capucon. Last ...

There are a few things everyone in the music world knows, or thinks they know, about Martha Argerich, the Argentine-born pianist. She's private, moody and unpredictable. She's wildly beautiful, with a ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. “It’s hard to film and share,” complains Martha Argerich to her daughter Stéphanie in this stealthily ...

Who's the greatest classical music pianist of all time? Since none of us was alive when legendary virtuosos like Liszt or Chopin were around, let's just stick to the greatest living pianist. There are ...

Pianist Martha Argerich rose to fame with her interpretations of the virtuoso piano literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. Her repertoire ranges from Bach through Beethoven, Schumann, Liszt, ...

For Argerich's 75th birthday, both Deutsche Grammophon and Sony released disks of her complete recordings for each label — DG's running to 48 disks, Sony's to five. As for individual disks, her ...