Nikolai Lugansky delivers this well-programmed album of Liszt pieces with graceful talent and musicianship. Lugansky has done a good job of choosing a variety of pieces that show many facets of the composer as well as his own strengths. For example, Lugansky's hands contribute equally yet uniquely to the two lines of music in Chasse-neige, with its delicate beginning and fast trill-like notes that move into a slow, well-controlled crescendo. Lugansky is in fact a master of the slow crescendo, as in Isolde's Liebestod and ...
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Nikolai Lugansky delivers this well-programmed album of Liszt pieces with graceful talent and musicianship. Lugansky has done a good job of choosing a variety of pieces that show many facets of the composer as well as his own strengths. For example, Lugansky's hands contribute equally yet uniquely to the two lines of music in Chasse-neige, with its delicate beginning and fast trill-like notes that move into a slow, well-controlled crescendo. Lugansky is in fact a master of the slow crescendo, as in Isolde's Liebestod and Vallée d'Obermann. He executes fast passages with perfect timing and speed, such as in the super-vigorous Étude No. 10 in F minor and the perpetual motion-like Feux-follets, which is as swirly and active as a bumblebee. Lugansky truly understands Liszt and creates the drama necessary to the composer's lines; he knows when to move a phrase forward and when to use subtle rubato to create tension. Étude No. 10 in F minor is another wonderful example of this characteristic of his playing....
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Add this copy of Liszt to cart. $13.76, fair condition, Sold by New England Booksellers rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Greenfield, MA, UNITED STATES, published 2011 by Naïve.
