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Pletnev’s return to the piano after six years of conducting.
Photo D. Grishkin / Vedomosti

Pletnev’s return to the piano after six years of conducting.

Photo D. Grishkin / Vedomosti

posted 1 month ago and tagged as piano classical music Mikhail Pletnev Russia

P. I. Tchaikovsky

18 Pieces Op. 72: Tendres reproches

Mikhail Pletnev, piano

Happy birthday Russian pianist, conductor, and composer Mikhail Pletnev! (1957-present)

Here are some of my drawings of him since 2009.

© ИТАР-ТАСС

© ИТАР-ТАСС

posted 1 month ago and tagged as Mikhail Pletnev photography piano classical music

emmadelosnardos:

Music: Allemande from the English Suite No. 1
Composer: JS Bach
Performer: Sviatoslav Richter (piano)

Apparently he (Pletnev) said to one of my collegues when being handed of the flowers: ‘Save them for your funeral.’

— Youtube comment

posted 1 month ago and tagged as Mikhail Pletnev piano quotes

Brahms - Piano Concertos 1 & 2

Krystian Zimerman, piano

Leonard Bernstein, conductor

Wiener Philharmoniker 

(Source: youtube.com)

blyve:

Glenn Gould, photographed by Gordon Parks for LIFE magazine, 1955-1956.

(Source: poetryprosepeopleandplaces)

posted 2 months ago via araliaspinosa and tagged as Glenn Gould piano

arpeggia:

Nikolai Medtner - Forgotten Melodies: Sonata reminiscenza in A minor, Op. 38 No. 1 
performed by Emil Gilels (piano)

posted 2 months ago via arpeggia and tagged as Emil Gilles piano classical music Medtner audio

Sergei Prokofiev, Piano Concerto no. 2 mov. 1 (+ world war II film)

Horacio Gutiérrez, piano

Neeme Jarvi - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra  (thanks to bucciflash)

posted 2 months ago and tagged as Prokofiev piano classical music history WW2 world war