Nikolai Lugansky In Recital (recorded live at the Verbier Festival on 28th July 2008)

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JANACEK / PROKOFIEV / LISZT / RACHMANINOV / CHOPIN
Nikolai Lugansky In Recital (recorded live at the Verbier Festival on 28th July 2008)
Nikolai Lugansky (piano)

[ Euroarts / Ideale Audience International DVD / DVD ]

Release Date: Wednesday 20 April 2011

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Nikolai Lugansky is one of the most talented pianists of his generation.The announcement of his concerts always fills the most prestigious venues worldwide. Each year he gives more than 100 concerts in Paris, London, Amsterdam, Vienna, Salzburg, Berlin (the Philharmonic), Brussels, Geneva, New York,Tokyo…His pianistic technique is distinguished, elegant, brilliant, and it is this unequal talent which makes the greatest orchestras call upon him. Nikolai Lugansky is also one of the most renowned specialists of the Russian repertoire, and he offers us here some of those gems in his first recordings for 4 years! This DVD should please his many fans.

"The articulation…is breathtaking: such clarity for the turns of Prokofiev's 'Masks', such speed so well caught by the camerawork on fingers and blue-tinged keys in Liszt's 'Feux follets', such strength in the cascades of No. 10 and the glitter of Chopin's Etude Op. 10 No. 9." (BBC Music)

Tracks:

Chopin:
Étude Op. 10 No. 8 in F major

Janacek:
Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 in E flat minor 'From the Street'

Liszt:
Transcendental Study, S139 No. 5 'Feux Follets'
Transcendental Study, S139 No. 10 'Appassionata'
Transcendental Study, S139 No. 11 'Harmonies du soir'
Transcendental Study, S139 No. 12 'Chasse-neige'
Sposalizio (Années de pèlerinage II, S. 161 No. 1)
Sonetto 123 del Petrarca (Années de pèlerinage II, S. 161 No. 6)

Prokofiev:
Ten Pieces from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 75 - excerpts
(Masks, Montagues & Capulets, Friar Laurence, Mercutio, Dance of the girls with lilies & Romeo and Juliet before parting)

Rachmaninov:
Prelude Op. 32 No. 5 in G major
Prelude Op. 23 No. 5 in G minor
Prelude Op. 32 No. 12 in G sharp minor