NIKOLAI LUGANSKY
CÉSAR FRANCK
Prélude, Fugue et Variation op. 18
(arrangement for piano by Harold Bauer)
FRANZ SCHUBERT
4 Impromptus D 935 op. 142
PIOTR ILJITSCH TSCHAIKOWSKY
The Seasons op. 37to: June, August, September, October, November, December
SERGEY RAKHMANINOV
4 Moments Musicaux op. 16: no. 3 in B minor, no. 4 E minor, No. 5 D flat major, No. 6 C major
He fell in love, Nikolai Lugansky confessed years ago: with Rachmaninoff! And every time he hears him or plays him, this love only deepens. As in a long marriage, the first falling in love has long since turned into an infinite familiarity, and Nikolai Lugansky is one of the most important Rachmaninoff interpreters of our time. With his roots in the great tradition of the Russian piano school, his playing is also predestined for the highly romantic, yet by no means slick and disinterested works of the Russian. Lugansky feels as much a kinship with his intellectual and modest manner as with his pianistic mastery. But the pianist does not want to be pinned down at all. And so he shapes his programme in the Alte Oper in an unexpected and varied way: he confronts the passionate soul paintings of Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky with typically Schubertian intimate lyricism and César Franck's Bach-trained counterpoint, which, however, never misses the romantic gesture.
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