When he's not throwing tantrums and slamming the keyboard, Sergey Prokofiev is a wonderfully lyrical and sometimes even deeply moving composer. Alongside moments and whole movements of egocentric virtuosity and tremendous vulgarity, there are moments and melodies, passages and pages in his Piano Sonata No. 4 and No. 6 as beautiful as anything he ...
This collection of Rachmaninov piano concertos is meant to give you all of his piano concertos in one affordably priced package. Which it does, and actually, these performances are pretty darn good. Pianist Nikolai Lugansky plays these difficult concertos with comfortable ease. The opening of the Concerto No. 3 is an excellent display of the ...
Strongly virtuosic, warmly expressive, and brilliantly colorful, Nikolai Lugansky's performances of Rachmaninov's Four Piano Concertos plus his Paganini Rhapsody and Chopin and Corelli Variations are fine as far as they go. But they go no further than virtuosic, expressive, and colorful. As brilliant as his playing is -- and Lugansky sails through ...
Nikolai Lugansky is a Russian virtuoso in the grand tradition with a huge tone, a terrific technique, and a taste for the biggest possible repertoire. But while there's no denying that Lugansky can perform anything from Chopin to Rachmaninov to Beethoven, there's also no asserting that Lugansky can interpret everything from Chopin to Rachmaninov ...
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