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Mikhail Pletnev is widely known after his victory at the All-Union Pianists
Competition (1977, Leningrad) and the 6th
Tchaikovsky International Competition (1978, Moscow). His concert activities
which started in 1978 were awarded with the Lenin Komsomol Prize (1979) and
the Glinka State Prize (1982).
Pletnev’s triumph at competitions and his first concert season marked
the emergence of an enormously gifted pianist on the musical horizon. Though
barely over twenty, Pletnev had all the makings of a mature performer.
He realizes his concepts with amazing perfection and great conviction,
without any fear of breaking existing standards. His enchanting interpretations
are dictated entirely by his concepts.
As time passes Pletnev’s interpretations again and again puzzle many of his
listeners with their innovative character. Often this novelty results from
his own analysis of the work’s content which reflects the author’s vision
of the world. 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. That is why a great mental work is required to understand these interpretations.
They reflect the outlook and spiritual quests of an intelligent and honest man with a capacity for profound feeling pondering over life’s eternal problems.
This is testified by Pletnev’s artistic discoveries in
music by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms,
Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Rachmaninov, Prokiviev and Schostakovich.
P. Tchaikovsky
Grand Sonata in G major, Op. 37
2. Andante non troppo quasi moderato – 9:18
3. Scherzando. Allegro giocoso – 2:49
4. Final. Allegro vivace – 6:17
5. Child’s Album, Op. 39 – 30:28
Total Time – 62:24
Mikhail Pletnev, piano