Nikolai Lugansky
Nikolai Lugansky is one of Russia's major pianists, especially known for his performances of Romantic music. He has won several of Russia's major national music awards.
Lugansky was born in Moscow on April 26, 1972. His parents were scientists, but when they heard their son play a Beethoven sonata by ear, they signed him up for lessons with their neighbor, composer/pianist Sergei Ipatov. Lugansky went on to the Moscow Central Music School and then the Moscow Conservatory, studying with Tatiana Kestner, Tatiana Nikolaeva, and Sergei Dorensky; the latter became a mentor through Lugansky's postgraduate studies. Major prizes launched Lugansky's performing career successfully; he won the All-Union Competition in Tbilisi, Georgia, and the silver medal at the International Bach Competition in Leipzig, East Germany, in 1988. The breakup of the Soviet Union and the East Bloc proved propitious for Lugansky, who, in 1992, won the Best Pianist Award at the Mozarteum International Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austria. He began to record for the Melodiya label and also for Vanguard. In 1994, he was the top finisher at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, taking a silver medal (no gold was awarded). That year, he made his recording debut with an album of Rachmaninov's Études-Tableaux on the Challenge Classics label.
Lugansky has appeared as a concerto soloist with major orchestras in both Russia and the West, collaborating with such conductors as Valery Gergiev, Christoph Eschenbach, and Riccardo Chailly. An enthusiastic chamber music player, he has accompanied internationally renowned singers and instrumentalists, including Anna Netrebko, Yuri Bashmet, and Joshua Bell. Lugansky's recording catalog is large, encompassing releases on Challenge Classics, Naïve (through much of the 2010s), Harmonia Mundi (with which he signed an exclusive contract in 2018), and many smaller labels. He has focused on core Russian repertory, especially Rachmaninov, as well as on the music of Chopin, but has also recorded works of Mozart, Beethoven, Grieg, and many other 19th century composers, as well as appearing on recordings as an accompanist. In 2020, for Harmonia Mundi, he recorded an album of solo keyboard music by César Franck. He recorded several albums of Beethoven for Harmonia Mundi in the early 2020s, and in 2024, he issued an album of transcriptions of passages from Wagner's operas on that label. Lugansky is on the piano faculty at the Moscow Conservatory. He was named a People's Artist of Russia in 2013 and received the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 2019.
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Rachmaninov : 24 Preludes
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Serge Rachmaninov : Sonatas (Sonates)
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Franck : Préludes, Fugues & Chorals
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Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 14, 17 & 23
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Tchaikovsky: Grand Sonata & The Seasons
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Prokofiev, Grieg: Piano Concertos
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Schubert : Piano Sonata D.958 & Impromptu D.935
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Chopin: Études, Op. 10 & 25
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Rachmaninov : Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 4
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Rachmaninov : 6 moments musicaux Op.16
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Rachmaninov : Preludes Op.23 & Moments musicaux
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Chopin : Preludes, Ballades Nos 3 & 4, Nocturnes
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Liszt: Piano Works
Classical - Lançado por naïve classique em 13 de out. de 2011
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Nikolai Lugansky Plays Chopin
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Janácek, Grieg & Franck : Sonates pour violon et piano
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Prokofiev : Piano Sonatas 4 & 6, Romeo & Juliet selection
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Beethoven: Late Piano Sonatas, Opp. 101,109 & 111
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Debussy: Suite bergamasque
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