Olivier Solanet wrote:

>4.  next, i strongly feel that mr.  pletnev is upholding a russian
>tradition of musicianship.  the pianist, conductor, composer.  it's the
>musician as a multi faceted whole.  ...

But such a non-Russian sound!  Compare the Leningrad PO under Mravinsky
in, say, Tchaik 6 to Pletnev's.  Too polite by 99%

And as for composer/conductor/pianists, how about Liszt?  And, in any
case, Wasn't a good deal of the Russian piano tradition derived, ultimately,
from John Field's time teaching in Russia?

deryk barker ([log in to unmask])

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