Mikhail Pletnev
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Put the score to one side and there is so much to think about in these performances. Love them or loathe them, you will surely never have heard anything quite like them. —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2026, Winner - Innovative Listening Experience (for engineer Rainer Maillard)
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Special offer. Scriabin: Symphony No. 1 & The Poem of Ecstasy
Russian National Orchestra & Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory, Mikhail Pletnev
there is a good deal which is captivating in Mikhail Pletnev's excellent performance: in the thistledown Scherzo, the Russian National Orchestra demonstates polished and tight ensemble playing... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2002, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Pletnev dazzles in the Mussorgsky, caressing its sublime poetry with a velvet-gloved sensitivity while throttling its chilling angularities into piano-shattering submission. His Tchaikovsky... —
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Building a Library, January 2010, First Choice
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Sergei Taneyev - Chamber Music
RecommendedVadim Repin, Ilya Gringolts, Lynn Harrell, Nobuko Imai & Mikhail Pletnev
Sergey Taneyev composed his three piano chamber works in the years 1902-11, on either side of his 50th birthday, when his days as director of the Moscow Conservatoire were well behind him but... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2005, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2006, Winner - Chamber Music
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Beethoven - Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3
RecommendedMikhail Pletnev (piano)
Russian National Orchestra, Christian Gansch
…there were times when I genuinely wondered if even five stars wasn't insulting to playing of such glorious playful penetration. …the next minute Pletnev does something that makes you howl... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1 & The Isle of the Dead
RecommendedRussian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Taneyev, S: Cantata No. 2 'At the Reading of a Psalm', Op. 36
St Petersburg Cappella Choir, Boys Choir of the Glinka Choral Academy, Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev
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Pletnev brings Tchaikovsky's music vividly to life —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2005, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2005, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Every so often a major pianist reclaims Scarlatti for the piano with an outstanding recording. As Ralph Kirkpatrick put it, Scarlatti's harpsichord, while supremely itself, is continually menacing... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1996, Winner - Instrumental
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