Mikhail Pletnev showed me what music is all about
OrchestrasThe Ossetian-Russian pianist Zlata Chochieva was one of two Moscow pupils of the extremely elusive Mikhail Pletnev.
‘It was the luckiest, happiest three years of my life,’ she tells Zsolt Bognar in the latest episode of Living the Classical Life. ‘We had very long lessons, very deep conversations between people on the same eye level. He was one of my favourite pianists but from the very first minute I understood that he was not going to judge me. He was there to help.’
Chochieva, 37, is now based in Berlin. Pletnev is self-exiled in Switzerland.
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