Martha Argerich

Martha Argerich is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Unusually, her genius reveals itself mostly in collaborations with orchestras and conductors in concertos, and with chamber musicians. Stretching well back into the LP era, her recording catalog is vast. Its growth has slowed only slightly in her senior years, and in 2025, she released an album of works by Ravel on the Warner Classics label. Of Catalan and Russian Jewish background, Argerich was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on June 5, 1941. She started piano lesson...