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	Mikhail Pletnev
		Pletnev's understanding of the compositions is profound and his play is masterful, whereas Ashkenazy, whom I saw perform Rachmaninov live at the end of the 1980s, did not know where he was going and could not convince emotionally.
		Pletnev's CD offers the fugues in a world premiere recording in his instinctive mix of profound understanding and distance, as if he would look at himself performing from the outside.
		Pletnev recorded them on the piano, today's instrument, giving life to the rich musical universe of the composer which includes songs and dances of flamenco, processions, serenades, laments, early folk as well as court and church music.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo12/pletnev.htm (2486 words)

	Sibelius and Rachmaninov: Janine Jansen (violin), Philharmonia Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev (conductor), RFH, 6th ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pletnev not only had a masterly grasp of the metre and structure of the score, but also drew out orchestral detail rarely heard before, notably, intricate writing for timpani, and exquisite woodwind detail.
		Pletnev took this movement at a slightly quicker pace than is customary but it never sound rushed - the conductor was wonderfully relaxed and conducted with balletic ease, often with one hand resting on the podium.
		Pletnev and the Philharmonia received ecstatic applause from a spell-bound audience: indeed, throughout the performance there was total silence – usually the hallmark of a mesmerising musical event.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /SandH/2005/Jan-Jun05/pletnev0602.htm (740 words)

	NPR: Performance Today -- Michael Pletnev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mikhail Pletnev is an artist who defies simple classification, whose technique and genius as pianist, conductor and composer continue to enchant and amaze.
		Attracted by Pletnev's reputation and his vision of a new model for the performing arts in Russia, many of the finest musicians in the country joined him in launching the Russian National Orchestra in 1990.
		Pletnev's recordings and live performances as pianist have proved him to be an outstanding interpreter of an extensive repertoire.
	www.npr.org /programs/pt/features/pletnev.html (856 words)

	Mikhail Pletnev mp3 download (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mikhail Pletnev Mussorgsky: Pictures from an Exhibition and Tchaikovsky: Music from The Sleeping Beauty', Variation 9, Robbie Williams free mp3's Download.
		Mikhail Pletnev Pictures from an Exhibition - The Heroes' Gate at Kiev Variation 12, Pictures from an Exhibition - Bydlo.
		Mikhail Pletnev Pictures from an Exhibition - The Heroes' Gate at Kiev, Variation 13, Orbital.
	mikhail-pletnev.emmsa.net (1470 words)

	classical music - andante - mikhail pletnev says classical music is dying (but he won't quit playing it)
		In his youth Pletnev was famed for his ability to memorise at sight and to turn in immaculate performances with virtually no practice: those faculties still seem in formidable shape, though he now spends half the year at his house in Thailand and his piano there spends most of its time shut.
		Pletnev won't say a word about Putin, and when I seek his view of the rival conductor, he asks "Who is that?" with a provocatively blank stare.
		Pletnev and his band — who won a Grammy last year for their Peter and the Wolf starring Bill Clinton, Sophia Loren and Mikhail Gorbachev — may not bask in governmental approval at home, but in the eyes of the world they're the tops.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=25254 (1236 words)

	Amazon.ca: Sons/Rondos: Music: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach,Mikhail Pletnev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Consider Pletnev's exhilarating CD of Scarlatti sonatas: the fact that he played them anachronistically on the piano was in no way allowed to interfere with their intrinsic spirit.
		Pletnev a réuni ici six sonates, un andante et, forme particulièrement populaire à cette époque, trois rondos expressifs et divertissants.
		In all, Pletnev seems to have approached this project as a reexamination of the composer and the birth of the style that we now call classical.
	www.amazon.ca /Sons-Rondos-Mikhail-Pletnev/dp/B00005RCIU (2000 words)

	ICM - International Creative Management, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mikhail Pletnev is an artist whose genius as pianist, conductor and composer enchants and amazes audiences around the globe.
		Pletnev's Deutsche Grammophon recordings have earned numerous prizes, most recently a 2005 Grammy Award for the CD of his own arrangement, for two pianos, of Prokofiev's Cinderella, recorded with Martha Argerich and Pletnev at the keyboards.
		For Mikhail Pletnev, the artistic persona of pianist-conductor-composer is indivisible.
	www.icmtalent.com /musperf/profiles/60209.html (528 words)

	Mikhail Pletnev
		Mikhail Pletnev was born in Archangel, Russia, in 1957.
		His parents were both musicians, and Pletnev displayed exceptional musical talent from an early age.
		In 1980, while still pursuing his career as an international concert pianist, Mikhail Pletnev made his debut as a conductor in the former Soviet Union and went on to make guest appearances with many of the country's and later also international leading orchestras.
	thunder.prohosting.com /~natstone/pletnev.html (304 words)

	He lets his fingers do the talking \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Conductor-pianist Mikhail Pletnev, who displays his twin talents here this week, is widely admired for his virtuosity and versatility.
		“Maestro Pletnev has decided that he is not in the proper mood for an interview with a journalist,” his Italian manager, Lorenzo Baldrighi, said before a recently scheduled phone interview with the musician, who was then in Milan, one of the cities on his recent European recital tour.
		Pletnev was less thrilled with the double dates, which were negotiated by Beach's predecessor, Mary Lou Aleskie.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20060319/news_1a19pletnev.html (1023 words)

	INKPOT#66 CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS: SCRIABIN Piano Works. Pletnev (Virgin)
		Every major competition that Mikhail Pletnev took part in the Soviet Union he emerged winner - in 1977 he won the All Union Competition and then went on to become winner of the Sixth Moscow Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition.
		Pletnev's understanding of the composer's intentions are clear and the Tenth Sonata takes on, as the notes in the booklet remark, "density, dazzling energy and eroticism".
		Pletnev, as a true Russian national, seems to be so at one with Scriabin that one might believ he had known the composer personally.
	inkpot.com /classical/scriabpfpl.html (1597 words)

	Mikhail Pletnev
		Mikhail Pletnev was born in Archangelsk in 1957.
		Mikhail Pletnev performed with Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra at the 1997 New Year's Eve Concert and the Europa Konzert 2000, both televised and broadcast worldwide from the Philharmonie in Berlin.
		Pletnev's recordings and live performances as pianist have proved him to be an outstanding interpreter of an extensive repertoire.
	www.philharmonia.co.uk /meettheorchestra/players/mikhailpletnev (517 words)

	Mikhail Pletnev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mikhail Vasilievich Pletnev (Михаил Васильевич Плетнев) (born 14 April 1957) is a pianist, conductor, and composer.
		He is currently an exclusive contract pianist for Deutsche Grammophon.
		Martha Argerich and Mikhail Pletnev for Prokofiev (Arr.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mikhail_Pletnev (171 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| \| Martin Kettle meets Russian pianist Mikhail Pletnev
		For the pianist Mikhail Pletnev, there is no greater composer than Sergei Rachmaninov.
		Pletnev has quite a reputation of his own for being able to memorise a score.
		Pletnev may talk eloquently about Rachmaninov, but he puts up shutters of irony when the subject turns to himself.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /fridayreview/story/0,12102,1078946,00.html (1186 words)

	Mikhail Pletnev mp3 latest hits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mikhail Pletnev Variation 13 Variation 1 Pictures from an Exhibition - Il vecchio castello, Pictures from an Exhibition - Catacombae.
		Mikhail Pletnev Variation 13, Aerosmith Mussorgsky: Pictures from an Exhibition and Tchaikovsky: Music from The Sleeping Beauty', Variation 6.
		Mikhail Pletnev Pictures from an Exhibition - Limoges, Variation 8, Pictures from an Exhibition - Il vecchio castello Terna.
	mikhail-pletnev.mazingo.net (1884 words)

	CD Baby: MIKHAIL PLETNEV, PIANO: Edward Grieg. Pieces for piano.
		Mikhail Pletnev is widely known after his victory at the All-Union Pianists Competition (1977, Leningrad) and the 6th Tchaikovsky International Competition (1978, Moscow).
		Pletnev's triumph at competitions and his first concert season marked the emergence of an enormously gifted pianist on the musical horizon.
		It allows Pletnev to free the work from the weight of standards and create his own interpretations which become increasingly laconic and ascetic with years, each detail bearing a great structural and content change.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/evgeni6?cdbaby=55a4ba6a5190fef8d729bce30112397a (324 words)

	Music \| Mikhail Pletnev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		But Mikhail Pletnev is probably the ideal artist to rescue C.P.E. Bach’s music from oblivion.
		As in his Scarlatti recordings, Pletnev uses the modern piano’s full expressive and dynamic range to draw out the music’s invention and sheer grandeur.
		Yet for all the imagination Pletnev brings to the music, you never sense that he’s trying to impose his whim on it or make more of it than it is. The simpler works are played naturally and without affect.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/music/otr/documents/02251238.htm (268 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Scarlatti - Piano Sonatas: Music: Domenico Scarlatti,Mikhail Pletnev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It seems to be the combination of the composer and the technical skill of Pletnev, I am in awe of how he manages to play music which seems to require the use of at least three hands.
		Pletnev is the only one who gives us a reasonable number of the sonatas.
		Pletnev's selection, among more than 500, of sonatas does provide a wide range (historically and stylistically) of the keyboard work of Scarlatti - the two disc set includes, for example, both K1 and K520.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Scarlatti-Piano-Sonatas-Mikhail-Pletnev/dp/B00005IA25 (575 words)

	Classical Net Review - Russian Overtures
		Mikhail Pletnev and the Russian National Orchestra need to slow down and relax a little.
		The technical aspects of the playing are very high, and the interpretations are calculated (are they ever!) to yield the maximum in kinetic excitement.
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	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/d/dgg39891a.html (272 words)

	MDT - 4775788, Deutsche Grammophon CD
		The three earlier sonatas are now thought to have been written later than previously assumed, in Salzburg in 1783, as Mozart was preparing to leave for Vienna, while the C minor belongs to his “miraculous” decade: a fully fledged masterpiece, looking forward to Beethoven and beyond.
		Pletnev’s Mozart may not have the effortless fluency of Brendel’s, Uchida’s or Schiff’s, but he adopts a personal approach, now unfashionable in this music, with a playful, improvisatory approach to rhythm and tempo.
		Some Mozartians may find his rubati mannered, but there are rewards in the deeply felt, singing adagios of the F major and C minor sonatas, and in the diamantine brilliance he brings to his passage work throughout in allegros.
	www.mdt.co.uk /MDTSite/product/4775788.htm (378 words)

	MIKHAIL PLETNEV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Vladimir Horowitz’s recording from the 1960s still stands as the pre-eminent modern set, but Mikhail Pletnev’s collection of 31 sonatas, recorded in 1994, is almost as good.
		Pletnev’s playing, though, is more romantic, more exible than Horowitz’s: tempos and dynamics seem to vary almost from measure to measure.
		Horowitz’s may be the most consistent set, but Pletnev’s collection is almost double the size of the older master’s, and there are few duplications between them.
	www.portlandphoenix.com /ARCHIVE/music/01/11/23/otr/MIKHAIL_PLETNEV.html (229 words)

	Mikhail Pletnev mp3 archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mikhail Pletnev Pictures from an Exhibition - Ballade of the Unhatched Chicks Pictures from an Exhibition - The Hut on Hen's Legs Variation 5.
		Mikhail Pletnev Variation 14, Variation 6, Robbie Williams Mussorgsky: Pictures from an Exhibition and Tchaikovsky: Music from The Sleeping Beauty'.
		Mikhail Pletnev Mussorgsky: Pictures from an Exhibition and Tchaikovsky: Music from The Sleeping Beauty', Variation 15, Variation 19, Gorillaz.
	www.eventblogging.com /mikhail-pletnev.html (1690 words)

	Mikhail Pletnev mp3 music download
		Mikhail Pletnev Mussorgsky: Pictures from an Exhibition and Tchaikovsky: Music from The Sleeping Beauty', Pictures from an Exhibition - The Hut on Hen's Legs Pictures from an Exhibition - Promenade, Variation 6.
		Mikhail Pletnev Variation 6 Mussorgsky: Pictures from an Exhibition and Tchaikovsky: Music from The Sleeping Beauty', Faith Hill.
		Mikhail Pletnev Sean Paul Pictures from an Exhibition - Il vecchio castello Variation 14.
	mikhail-pletnev.odysseytek.com (1854 words)

	Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 1-6 - Mikhail Pletnev - The Right Gift For Him (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		These dull, lackluster performances demonstrate conclusively that, however interesting Mikhail Pletnev may be as a pianist, he simply does not yet know how to conduct an orchestra.
		They may lack the intensity of the 4th or 6th, and the poignancy of the 5th, and the form is noticeably sophomoric, but they do contain some fairly ingenious musical ideas and thematic elements.
		Mikhail Pletnev burst onto the conducting scene nearly a decade ago with an electrifying account of Tchaikovsky's 6th with this same orchestra on Virgin classics.
	www.therightgiftforhim.com /store/asinsearch_B000001GSB (587 words)

	Amazon.com: Chopin - Pletnev: Music: Fryderyk Chopin,Mikhail Pletnev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Although Pletnev's interpretive approach was castigated in some corners, his playing is admirable and extraordinarily manly, with a decidedly Slavic cast and yet with all kinds of elegance.
		One is struck repeatedly by Pletnev's crystalline arpeggiations, the velocity of his passage work, his singing tone, his rhythmic suppleness, and, above all, the grandeur of his sound.
		Michail Pletnev is one of those performers who brings a little extra something to the music he plays.
	www.amazon.com /Chopin-Pletnev-Fryderyk/dp/B000001GYT (1373 words)

	CD Baby: MIKHAIL PLETNEV, PIANO: Edward Grieg. Pieces for piano.
		Mikhail Pletnev is widely known after his victory at the All-Union Pianists Competition (1977, Leningrad) and the 6th Tchaikovsky International Competition (1978, Moscow).
		Pletnev's triumph at competitions and his first concert season marked the emergence of an enormously gifted pianist on the musical horizon.
		It allows Pletnev to free the work from the weight of standards and create his own interpretations which become increasingly laconic and ascetic with years, each detail bearing a great structural and content change.
	cdbaby.com /cd/evgeni6 (417 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		This well-packed reissue showcases Mikhail Pletnev's podium and keyboard prowess in works of Tchaikovsky, a composer for whom Pletnev has lavished much attention on disc.
		But Pletnev's Marche Slav is admirably paced and wears its tonal heft like a badge of honor.
		The perverse voicings and overphrasing that has crept into many of Pletnev's recent piano discs are nowhere to be found in these cogent, beautifully proportioned readings.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=1539 (280 words)

	Mikhail Pletnev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		But Mikhail Pletnev is probably the ideal artist to rescue C.P.E. Bach’s music from oblivion.
		As in his Scarlatti recordings, Pletnev uses the modern piano’s full expressive and dynamic range to draw out the music’s invention and sheer grandeur.
		Yet for all the imagination Pletnev brings to the music, you never sense that he’s trying to impose his whim on it or make more of it than it is. The simpler works are played naturally and without affect.
	www.portlandphoenix.com /archive/music/02/05/03/otr/MIKHAIL_PLETNEV.html (269 words)

	Riaskoff Concert Management presenteert: serie Meesterpianisten
		Mikhail Pletnev behoort al jarenlang tot de wereldtop en heeft al vele malen met groot succes opgetreden in het Concertgebouw.
		Aardig detail is dat Pletnev ook al bij zijn debuut in de serie Meesterpianisten op 16 mei 1993 als vervanger van Murray Perahia optrad, die toen vanwege dezelfde blessure verstek moest laten gaan.
		Het laatste recital van Mikhail Pletnev in de serie Meesterpianisten op 9 mei jl.
	www.meesterpianisten.nl /recitals.php?RecitalID=182 (226 words)

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