Michel Plasson

Michel Plasson ( born October 2, 1933, Paris ) is a French conductor.

Artistic Career

He studied at the Conservatory of his hometown with Lazare Lévy, won a 1962 Conducting Competition in Besancon and drew on the advice of Charles Munch a few years in the United States where he continued formed at Stokowski, Erich Leinsdorf, Pierre Monteux and. In 1965 he became General Music Director in Metz and in 1968 he took over the same location in Toulouse. By 2003 Plasson was chief conductor of the local Orchestre du Capitole, from which it technically and musically formed one of the best French phalanxes. Since the early 1990s, Plasson conducts also the Dresden Philharmonic.

As a conductor Michel Plasson applies as a traditionalist in the best sense: his understanding of music is technically above all, it is not him mind to explore and invent hidden meaning; also he is not a " desk dancer " (Hans Zender ), but efforts to the emotionally and technically most genuine expression.

Michel Plassons son Emmanuel Plasson was also a conductor.

Recordings

Michel Plasson EMI played for Toulouse with his orchestral works by Maurice Ravel, Alberic Magnard, Henri Dutilleux, Giuseppe Verdi, Ernest Chausson, Charles Gounod, Arthur Honegger, César Franck, Gabriel Fauré, Albert Roussel, Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner and four operettas by Jacques Offenbach a. As a summit of his work published in his Berlin Classics recordings of symphonic poems of Franz Liszt ( with the Dresden Philharmonic ) apply.