Wagner: Famous Opera Scenes

 
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Famous Opera Scenes
Nikolai Lugansky (piano)

[ Harmonia Mundi / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 23 August 2024

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Wagner's genius is often associated with his unique feeling for orchestration. Yet the transcriptions and paraphrases for piano solo recorded here lay bare the beauty and boldness of his harmonic language, with an evocative power unrivalled at the time. Nikolai Lugansky, at once narrator and virtuoso, immerses us in a world where the heroes of legend tell us - and with what loftiness of spirit! - of the torments and aspirations of humanity.

"Lugansky deploys his technical magic - in particular, his sense of colour, his phrasing and his ability to illuminate key details within the most cluttered textures - less to wow the audience than to capture the depth and ambiguity of the dramatic moment." Gramophone

Tracks:

1. Das Rheingold, WWV 86A - Einzug der Götter in Walhall (Arr. for Piano by Louis Brassin & Nikolai Lugansky)

2. Die Walküre, WWV 86B - Feuerzauber (Arr. for Piano by Louis Brassin)

3. Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D (Arr. for Piano by Nikolai Lugansky) - Zu neuen Taten, teurer Helde. Liebesduett von Brünnhilde und Siegfried

4. Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D (Arr. for Piano by Nikolai Lugansky) - Siegfrieds Rheinfahrt

5. Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D (Arr. for Piano by Nikolai Lugansky) - Siegfrieds Trauermarsch

6. Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D (Arr. for Piano by Nikolai Lugansky) - Brünnhildes Schlussgesang

7. Parsifal, WWV 111 - Verwandlungsmusik & Schluss-Szene (Arr. for Piano by Felix Mottl, Nikolai Lugansky & Zoltán Kocsis)

8. Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90 - Isoldens Liebestod aus Tristan und Isolde, S. 447 (Arr. for Piano by Franz Liszt)