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It shouldn't take listeners long to get over the novelty of hearing Wagner on the piano. After all, piano transcriptions were the primary way opera, in general, and Wagner specifically, were spread around Europe in the 19th century, and the composer's primary champion in this medium was none other than the greatest pianist of the age, Franz Liszt. Liszt's own transcription of the Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde is the pièce de résistance on this release by pianist Nikolai Lugansky; it is not terribly often played, and it has lost none of its imposing scope over the decades. Lugansky leads up to this with transcriptions by Louis Brassin, upon which Lugansky has elaborated, and with a quartet of transcriptions from Götterdämmerung that come from his own hand. These are quite artfully done, incorporating the familiar leitmotifs of the Ring cycle while filling them in with technically fearsome connective tissue. Lugansky has done nothing less than put the listener in the place of an audience that might have heard Liszt play Wagner in the composer's own day, and ideal sound from the small Scuola della Carità reproduces the aristocratic Paris salons where Liszt would often have held forth. A bold, fresh release from Lugansky that made classical best-seller lists in early 2024.
© James Manheim /TiVo
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Richard Wagner, Composer - Nikolai Lugansky, Arranger, Piano, MainArtist - Louis Brassin, Arranger
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Richard Wagner, Composer - Nikolai Lugansky, Piano, MainArtist - Louis Brassin, Arranger
2024 harmonia mundi 2024 harmonia mundi
Richard Wagner, Composer - Nikolai Lugansky, Arranger, Piano, MainArtist
2024 harmonia mundi 2024 harmonia mundi
Richard Wagner, Composer - Nikolai Lugansky, Arranger, Piano, MainArtist
2024 harmonia mundi 2024 harmonia mundi
Richard Wagner, Composer - Nikolai Lugansky, Arranger, Piano, MainArtist
2024 harmonia mundi 2024 harmonia mundi
Richard Wagner, Composer - Nikolai Lugansky, Arranger, Piano, MainArtist
2024 harmonia mundi 2024 harmonia mundi
Richard Wagner, Composer - Nikolai Lugansky, Arranger, Piano, MainArtist - Zoltán Kocsis, Arranger - Felix Mottl, Arranger
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Richard Wagner, Composer - Nikolai Lugansky, Piano, MainArtist - Franz Lizst, Arranger
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Album review
It shouldn't take listeners long to get over the novelty of hearing Wagner on the piano. After all, piano transcriptions were the primary way opera, in general, and Wagner specifically, were spread around Europe in the 19th century, and the composer's primary champion in this medium was none other than the greatest pianist of the age, Franz Liszt. Liszt's own transcription of the Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde is the pièce de résistance on this release by pianist Nikolai Lugansky; it is not terribly often played, and it has lost none of its imposing scope over the decades. Lugansky leads up to this with transcriptions by Louis Brassin, upon which Lugansky has elaborated, and with a quartet of transcriptions from Götterdämmerung that come from his own hand. These are quite artfully done, incorporating the familiar leitmotifs of the Ring cycle while filling them in with technically fearsome connective tissue. Lugansky has done nothing less than put the listener in the place of an audience that might have heard Liszt play Wagner in the composer's own day, and ideal sound from the small Scuola della Carità reproduces the aristocratic Paris salons where Liszt would often have held forth. A bold, fresh release from Lugansky that made classical best-seller lists in early 2024.
© James Manheim /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 8 track(s)
- Total length: 01:00:53
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Nikolai Lugansky
- Composer: Richard Wagner
- Label: harmonia mundi
- Genre: Classical
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