Feb 7, 2022
I’ve known Martha Argerich since 1949. There was a house in Buenos Aires, owned by a former violinist and businessman, where chamber music was played every Friday. All the great musicians who came to Argentina – Adolph Busch, Igor Markevitch, Sergiu Celibidache – could be found there. That’s where I first met Martha. I was seven, she was eight. We played together underneath the piano…. There is hardly anyone I have known for so long.
- Daniel Barenboim on Martha Argerich
Childhood friends, born a year apart in Buenos Aires, they rank as two of the world’s golden musicians as well as incomparable pianists, and over the years they have developed a close artistic partnership.