The Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia comes to Carnegie Hall.
by Paul J. Pelkonen
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| Sorceress: Martha Argerich casts a spell. Photo @ Warmer Brothers Classics. |
Any visit to Carnegie Hall by a major international orchestra is cause for excitement. This week, the visitors are Rome’s own Orchestra of the National Academy of St. Cecilia, under the baton of Sir Antonio Pappano. The guest soloist for Friday night's concert: Martha Argerich. This legendary Argentiniean pianist is more than an audience favorite. Now 76, her skill, reculsivity and flat refusal to give solo recitals in the later part of her career has made her a modern concertizing legend. This was her first visit to the Perelman Stage in nine years.
