Martha Argerich (Great Pianists of the 20th Century)Amazon. com An encounter with the searing artistry of Argentinean pianist Martha Argerich, as her fiercely loyal following attests, can resemble a conversion experience. Like her close friend Nelson Freire, Argerich takes a natural sounding, unstudied virtuosity merely as her starting point, so that the most fearsome technical challenges emerge as thrillingly musical ones, as well. In Argerich's landmark account of the Ravel triptych Gaspard de la