Pletnev plays Tchaikovsky/Pletnev - The Nutcracker Suite (Pieces Nos. 1-6) Audio + Sheet music
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- Опубликовано: 19 ноя 2011
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's old classic Nutcracker Suite, in Mikhail Pletnev's solo piano arrangement. Played by the arranger himself.
1. March 0:05
2. Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy 1:54
3. Tarantella 3:37
4. Intermezzo 4:48
5. Trepak (Russian Dance) 8:38
6. The Tea (Chinese Dance) 9:46 
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holy intermezzo
Pletnev's achievement is amazing. He gives Tchaikovsky a convincing, enjoyable & challenging solo piano concert piece, and something for modern pianists to match up to! I've been lucky enough to hear Pletnev play this in recital, a real Wow!
Could you tell me when you heard him play this? I’m interested in till when he was playing this on stage.
Fun fact : Following the results of the semi-finals of the Tchaikovsky Competition ( most prestigious tournament along Chopin's ) in the early 80s, where young and yet unknown Pletnev walked over with much ease, the audience and jury were astonished by his performance and waited him around the corner for the long awaited final. A few days before the final event, one of the jury fascinated by the character, decided to hand over by his own hands the price of the semi-finals, but suddenly PANIC !! young Mikael was nowhere to be found: his room, the conservatories of Moscow... The city was thrown upside-down a few days preceding the O~howawaited Final. It is finally after hours of seeking that he was found in the least expected place: Casually playing tennis with some of his friends, having a bit too much fun before the probably most important day of his life that will bolster his career, whereas his opponents were working their ass off the piano for straight 21 hours. The legend has it, the jury kept her dislocated jaw until her death, since it dropped when she learned the news.
Edit: oh right and Pletnev won the tournament the day after.
heh, what a madlad
truly one of a kind
He won in 78, so your story sounds kind if bogus considering you didn’t even get the right year
super transcription ---- hard technique very beautiful
i 0:00
ii 1:55
iii 3:38
iv 4:49
v 8:39
vi 9:46
New_piano새로운 피아노 do the time links in the description not work?
New_piano새로운 피아노 It works for me.
Pletnev is a man of vast talent! I love all the small details: such as the care given to the bass clarinet line (2.08).. Incredible legato given all the hand position changes involved in simultaneously effecting the staccato strings. Inspirational arrangement & performance!
It is wonderful how Pletnev employs fantastic Lisztian technique to bring us many more of the orchestral features of the score than in the familiar Stepan Esipoff arrangements, including the "terrific ascending scale" in the Children's March (1:26) that my edition of Esipoff deemed a significant omission but one that would likely be "physically impossible to play." I would love to know if Pletnev ever transcribed the magical Apotheosis and Finale from the ballet. I'll bet he could lift the entire concert hall to the skies with that!
David Callahan I believe he only transcribed the suite. But this video omits the transcription of the pas de deux (andante maestoso), which is maybe the most grandiose transcription of the set.
The Pas De Deux is so amazing that this RUclipsr gave it its own separate upload instead of including it here, probably knowing that people like myself are specifically looking for that to listen to, bookmark, and loop.
SpaghettiToaster That’s right.
@@SpaghettiToaster I don’t think the Pas de Deux is part of the Nutcracker Suite, at least on my recording it is not a movement in the suite. Too bad, it’s definitely one of the most memorable parts of the ballet!
@@lflagr That's possible, however Pletnev did transcribe it and the result is well worth listening to.
These transcriptions are really bloody amazing. Peltnev is a genious, maybe the best pianist alive.
Wonderful!
Thank you, mad❤ba03, for sharing this and also Mikhail Pletnev's piano arrangement.
I couldn't agree more, and would just like to share that I have been staying in the apartment of a Russian lady during the White Nights Festival, as a ballet fan, and a young Chinese student auditioning for the Conservatoire, played this piece in the apartment frequently as part of his practice routine, and it was so magical! I love the ballet and this piece! It is beautiful and amazing! (He got in to the conservatoire, btw!) :-)
This is crazy good, I love it.
Did anyone miss the orchestra? Not I. A marvelous charm of two hands adds intimacy and the great Tchaikovsky shines outside the ballet theater, very bright, as though your living room piano became enchanted.
オーケストラの作品をピアノソロで聞けるなんて.......感激です........なぜか元気になれる自分がいます。
I have played the celesta in the original ballet, and this will never compare to the music of the original, but still, THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing this GENIUS solo-piano arrangement!!! It is truly unbelievable!! Even Hamelin would say "wow, Pletnev is super amazing!!" and he would proceed to make a great recording of it. But still, this is earth-shattering. Thanks for the upload, madlovba03 :)
noch besser als 1978, als er das an der Berliner Musikhochschule "Hanns Eisler" bereits als eigenes Arrangement gespielt hat - Mischa, das werd ich nie vergessen!
I'm playing this currently, and I'm so happy! The second to last piece is my favorite!
Please tell us where you got the sheet music
Pianostreet.com
Pacis Ndahiro check here * Taneyev Tchaikovsky-Op71 Nucracker Ballet Full Piano Transcription.pdf (12259.8 kB - downloaded 805 times.)
Re: Pletnev's transcription of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite
9:03 It sounds like Tchaikovsky quoted some of his Violin Concerto in here.
I love it!!!!
the part starting from 3:04 is so perfect. so gooooood ;) I love it!
The music speaks literally to you. it tells a story and all you have to do is imagine
I especially adore the Intermezzo.
How could anybody not like this?
You are amazing!!
Браво гениально сыграл
Qué belleza ese Intermezzo...
Wow!Great!Toda Raba!
iconic.
all I can say is WOW...
interesting to compare with the transcription by Tanyev of the entire ballet which can be downloaded on the Petrucci website.
supercalifragilisticspialidocius!!!!! thank u dears
Самая лучшая аранжировка для фортепиано! Лучше Плетнева никто не аранжирует!
Very good
4:03 I love this
many leaps in the tea dance.
Maybe I’ll have this down by Christmas time next decade
best pianist of our time !
OMG
My pleasure, OrangeSodaKing - you are always welcome at my channels ;)
These are amazing arrangments. It's just a shame that I associate these pieces with Barbie.
dahalofreeek but hey the barbie nutcracker movie was lit
dahalofreeek LOL
@etru6 me too, even though i'm 22 and an opera singer (AND a baritone! exactly the sort of person who should hear it and think "ah, william tell" not "ah, the lone ranger"), and have never seen an episode of the lone ranger (to the extent that i didn't know it was a tv series until i read this comment). the cultural association is too strong...
Barbie?
Funny
where did you acquire the scores?
Thank you for posting!
6:50 briefly reminds me of Stargate SG-1 theme lol....
wonderful arrangements. Where can someone find its sheet music?
Man I sure would love to know too
There is a link on the piano street forums, if you google it
The Nutcracker was arranged for piano by Sergey Taneyev, but in view of the difficulty of this arrangement, Tchaikovsky made a simplified one of his own. This work was carried out at the end of August 1892 [46].
This Intermezzo really reminds me of Liszts Un Sospiro
GeneralEisenhower SAME lol
Nr .3
@EugenArbrakh It was not transcribed, he arranged 7 pieces in total. This is a CD recording, btw :)
🎉🎉🎉🎉
Magnifique, on dirait qu'il y a 2 pianos... 😋
It's too bad the Russian Dance always reminds me of a 90s Tim Allen Christmas movie, it's really well done.
Positively spellbinding! Genius is heard from Pletnev as a teenager who arranged this!
3:05 is the best part
The interesting--perhaps ironic--thing about this transcription is that at first it seems impossible on its face to play, even if you're playing near concert level.. but oddly, it begins to fit under your hands before you know it, and it just begins to flow. The voicing is perfectionism -- what a joy to play this one.
I'll take your word for it 😅 I've been really wanting to take this amazing transcription on for a while, but I am terrified 😢 Plentev performs with such seemless virtuosity
la pièce No.4 est jolie.
Back to where I started listening on CD’s decades ago! Mischa being the “papa” of all who’ve followed up t9 the present time!
0:04
1:54
8:39
Ah, so that's where the Stargate theme came from
5:00 for anyone wondering
The Chinese Dance is actually by FAR the hardest section
Actually it is probably the easiest if you play close attention. Octave leaps and soft staccato are not nearly as demanding as the other sections.
@@ViceroyoftheDiptera left hand at 10:23 is a nightmare though - I don’t think it’s the hardest one but it’s harder than 2 and 4 at least
2:08 seem difficult to play stacato and left hand legato, with the 1-3 fingers
Jérémie Bazinet but the left hand is all staccato...
It’s not all staccato... look closely, the middle voice in the LH is legato
that's when you use the sostenuto pedal
^ This works if you can do it quickly enough to let go of the bottom E and hold the top E, then press the pedal, then move your hand up for the next chord in time
@@haraldilleditsch3053 It's done with finger legato and changing fingers on the held note. Not the sostenuto pedal.
this fellow is simply amazing. he plays, he conducts. what a treasure Mother Russia has within this man. KUDOS Mikhail Pletnev ! this IS ever so beautiful to my ear.
I like how the tarantella is scored in 6/8 even though the time signature is written 3/8. What?
where can i find this music CD?!?!
I'd like to learn the 2nd one
Watch Pletnev play this at the Marinky Theatre and you’ll get the trash out of your head !
was going to ask "where's the andante?", but then found a zillion recordings on youtube - but none, I think, by pletnev
lsbrother ruclips.net/video/hEc3jhG7Qow/видео.html
The Overture was not recorded in this concert or it wasn't trascribed by Pletnev?
1:55
8:39
Where can I buy the music sheets?
Did you find it? It's amazing.
Where is the sheet music? :/
Wow is he good! Chills from the very beginning. He took an already very tough transcription and made it harder. Still, my favorite performance of the "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" is by the one and only Percy Grainger. If you've never heard his performance, prepare to be blown away!
Where are the Arabian dance and the waltz that are part of this suite?
The miniature overture and the dance of the reed flutes are also missing. Instead, the tarantella, the intermezzo(scene: a pine forest in winter), and the andante maestoso(pas de deux) are included. The pieces selected for Pletnev's transcriptions are different from the well known nutcracker suite op. 71a.
Mario sports mix flashbacks
Where can I find this edition ?
You might find it on IMSLP.
It s not on IMSLP :/
I would like to know as well
2:18
My old self has spawned
goodbye I am going to learn the intermezzo
what do you mean?
What is the name of the fourth song
+Aimann De Castro -- I can't read the cyrillic, but this adagio is generally referred to in English as the "Grand Pas de Deux" and it comes near the end of the second act of the ballet.
+emma lo -- Is that what the title says in Russian?
Oh guys i think its andante
+emma lo--You are right! It is titled "Intermezzo" and the tempo is marked andante. (I was confusing it with the pas de deux that is Pletnev's #7.) The intermezzo begins the second scene in Act I and is sometimes called "Journey through the Snow." The prima ballerina did not dance it in Petipa's original choreography, which meant that she didn't dance until the Grand Pas de Deux near the end of the ballet. Revisions by other choreographers remedied that by treating the Intermezzo or Entr'acte as another pas de deux featuring Clara and the Nutcracker/ Prince, and that is the way I have always seen it performed, which is why I never think of it as anything but a duet. Thanks to you and Aimann for the helping me to sort it out.
Sorry i thought its andante im so stupid
Are you positive this is Pletnev?
1:55 what you're looking for.
To be fair to the critics here, keep in mind that Pletnev arranged this as a teenager and recorded it at 20.
Kha :v
Nadie te dio like por papulince lo siento
Waltz of the Flowers??? No???? Aw man...
+ThePumpkin506 ---If you haven't heard it already, give a listen to the Argerich/Zilberstein rendention of "Waltz of the Flowers" for two pianos, four hands. It's nice. Still, it would be interesting to see what Pletnev might have done with one keyboard and one pair of hands. He already manages to do the work of one and a half pianists in the above excerpts.
+David Callaha
The Russian Dance is too busy...I like the original arrangement / version better.
I agree. This arrangement is very good but I love the traditional piece much more.
Kaka carrot cake the super sand lesbian...? .____.
What
@@GUILLOM I definitely do not remember commenting this and can't imagine the context in which this makes any sense.
Maybe I can blame this one on the younger sister.
Valentina Lisitsa
The End.
No
Volodin did a better job to be very honest. Still impressive.
I love listening to and playing Pletnev's transcriptions. If only he wasn't such a horrible person...
Care to elaborate?
I knew several Russian pianists who knew him at the conservatory and nobody had a bad word to say about him. (Except Richter, "why does Pletnev look so sad, doesn't he like playing the piano?")
Don't like it. Tchaikovsky needn't sound like Listz. This is virtuosity gone astray.
In my opinion I find Plentev's way of playing immature and slightly disrespectful to the original score. In general any classical music that is modernized irritates me greatly. The music that was written to be phenomenal should not be modernized, but respected and played in the emotional aspect that is appropriate according to the original score.
Jacob Preece If you consider that the "original" piano score by tschaikovsky is lacking a great amount of detail that exists only in the orchestral score then you might change your mind - This version is much closer to a pianistic "restoration" than "modernization". Also... consider why modernization irritates you - I myself don't find any use in letting music make me feel strong negative emotions - life is short and it's better to see the positive sides of it when we can.
When I examine your statement that modernisation of music annoys you it makes me wonder how consistent you are with this feeling - Does any recording on nonhistorical instruments and tuning bother you? Will you enjoy listening only to existing recordings of Rachmaninoff, or only to recording by a Russian pianist?
Perhaps you should ask yourself whether it is something in the subjective "how you think music should be performed" based on personal experience, and not the objective historical issues that can be rationally examined.