('A force to be reckoned with', opined the reviewer in 'Music & Musicians'.) He studied at the Royal College of Music under Richard Popplewell, John Barstow and William Lloyd Webber, and at Cambridge (where he was organ scholar of St John's College) under George Guest and Gillian Weir.
The first recordings on the newly rebuilt instrument were by Dame Gillian Weir.
Gillian Anderson | Peter Weir | Bob Weir | Gillian Weir | Gillian Armstrong | weir | Gillian Jacobs | Gillian Clarke | John Weir | J. Alden Weir | Gillian Lynne | Gillian Chung | Doddie Weir | Alison Weir | Gillian Lucky | Gillian Apps | Christina Weir | Stuart Weir | Nick Weir | Mark Weir | John Weir Troy | John Weir (loyalist) | Johnny Weir | Harvey Weir Cook | Gillian Wearing | Gillian Guess | Gillian Gill | Gillian Condy | Fishing weir | Bridge of Weir |
This has grown into the St Albans International Organ Festival, a world-renowned festival of organ music with competitions whose past winners include many of the great names in modern organ music including Dame Gillian Weir, David Sanger, Thomas Trotter and Kevin Bowyer.
As an organ expert, Planyavsky was instrumental in organ-building projects, notably the construction of the new Rieger organ in the Great Hall of the Wiener Musikverein, which he planned in collaboration with Ludger Lohmann, Martin Haselböck, Gillian Weir, and Olivier Latry.
The 94th Psalm sonata is in the repertoire of most concert organists, and has been recorded by many well-known players such as Simon Preston, Alan Morrison, Virgil Fox, Christopher Herrick, Gillian Weir, Jeremy Filsell, Daniel Roth, Kevin Bowyer, and Jean Guillou.