Composer: Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer: Nikolai Lugansky
Audio CD
Number of Discs: 1
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Size: 1 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3: No. 2. Prelude in C-Sharp Minor
10 Preludes, Op. 23:
02. No. 1. Largo in F-Sharp Minor
03. No. 2. Maestoso in B-Flat Major
04. No. 3. Tempo di minuetto in D Minor
05. No. 4. Andante cantabile in D Major
06. No. 5. Alla marcia in G Minor
07. No. 6. Andante in E-Flat Major
08. No. 7. Allegro in C Minor
09. No. 8. Allegro vivace in A-Flat Major
10. No. 9. Presto in E-Flat Minor
11. No. 10. Largo in G-Flat Major
13 Preludes, Op. 32:
12. No. 1. Allegro vivace in C Major
13. No. 2. Allegretto in B-Flat Minor
14. No. 3. Allegro vivace in E Major
15. No. 4. Allegro con brio in E Minor
16. No. 5. Moderato in G Major
17. No. 6. Allegro appassionato in F Minor
18. No. 7. Moderato in F Major
19. No. 8. Vivo in A Minor
20. No. 9. Allegro in A Major
21. No. 10. Lento in B Minor
22. No. 11. Allegretto in B Major
23. No. 12. Allegro in G-Sharp Minor
24. No. 13. Grave in D-Flat Major
Rachmaninoff took the genre of the prelude to its highest degree of perfection with his boundless musical invention and fearsome technical demands. In his first recording for harmonia mundi, Nikolai Lugansky brilliantly meets the challenge, offering a programme of the finest gems in his repertory of choice. A summit of pianistic wizardry!
Nikolai Lugansky regularly works with top level conductors such as Osmo Vänskä, Yuri Temirkanov, Mikhail Pletnev, Charles Dutoit, Gianandrea Noseda and Vladimir Jurowski. Concerto highlights for the 2017/18 season include engagements with the London and Baltimore symphony orchestras, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and theYomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra. He will also take part in European tours with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (Sakari Oramo), and the Russian National Orchestra.
A regular recitalist the world over, upcoming performances include London’s Wigmore Hall, Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, New York’s 92nd Street Y, Aix-en-Provence, Lisbon, Tokyo, Rio de Janiero andthe Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire. Lugansky regularly appears at some of the world’s most distinguished festivals, including La Roque d’Anthéron, and the Verbier, Tanglewood and Ravinia festivals. His chamber music collaborators include Vadim Repin, Alexander Kniazev, Mischa Maisky and Leonidas Kavakos.