Expressive timing: Martha Argerich plays Chopin's Prelude op. 28/4 in E minor
Olivier Senn, Lorenz Kilchenmann, Marc-Antoine Camp · 2009
This paper scrutinizes the temporal organization of Martha Argerich’s interpretation of Chopin’s Prelude op. 28/4 in E minor, recorded in 1975 for Deutsche Grammophon (DG 415 836-2). It proposes a method for extracting the timing of the attacks from the audio signal, it visualizes the data of bars 1-4, and maps Argerich’s timing to Chopin’s composition in a process of “inverse interpretation.”