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Has it already been so long? Julia Fischer, as we […]
No need to waste much time here. Pletnev’s versions of
In his second crack at Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 Mikhail Pletnev still has not found his way through the work. The first two movements fail
From the opening sentence of the booklet notes we know
Does Pletnev even like Tchaikovsky? It doesn’t seem so. He recorded perhaps the dullest ever complete symphony cycle for DG, and now here he goes
As a high school student I once asked my mother, a teacher, why test scores on the SATs started at 200. Her answer: “They give
Mikhail Pletnev really is a fine ballet conductor, far more successful at characterizing short genre pieces than at sustaining the symphonic drama of large movements
What’s not to like? The music is gorgeously tuneful and atmospheric, the orchestration amazing, the playing excellent, the sonics vibrant. Pletnev’s crisp briskness works quite
Mikhail Pletnev remains a cypher. Remember how rapturously his first major recording as a conductor, Tchaikovsky’s Sixth on Virgin, was greeted? Then he went on
Phew! What a relief to learn that the Russian National Orchestra can, after all, play Russian music when working with a conductor who knows what
