More Pletnev live

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As usual, sui generis , but Pletnev makes the case for each set being played complete. Amazing, even if he were younger than 65 . Essential pianophile listening. Encore I believe was the Chopin Op.45 Prelude.

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From Medici TV :

https://www.medici.tv/en/concerts/mikha ... ev-chopin/

"Watch Mikhail Pletnev live from the Dubai Opera, May 19,2022, part of the 2022 InClassica Festival! The virtuoso pianist opens the festivities with his own arrangement of a piano sonata written by the festival’s composer-in-residence Alexey Shor, which first premiered in December 2021, before moving on to two related sets of Preludes. First, Scriabin's Op. 11, sparkling gems of the composer's early oeuvre—and then the beloved Op. 28 Preludes by Chopin that inspired the Scriabin set decades later. Both sets devote one prelude to each of the 24 major and minor tonalities, moving through the ascending circle of fifths from the carefree C Major all the way to the stormy D Minor—miniature masterpieces all, each set forming a whole even greater than the sum of its considerable parts."