An evening shared between Chopin and Liszt is sure to test anyone’s pianism. On Tuesday in Meany Hall, Nikolai Lugansky showed himself able to realize even the most taxing works on his well-planned ...

doesn't shy away from musical confrontations. He challenges listeners, not only drawing them into angst-laden romanticism from eastern Europe, but posturing views of Chopin and Schubert that may not ...

Acclaimed for a level of virtuosity that borders on athleticism, yet consistently praised for his penetrating lucidity as an interpreter of Romantic repertoire, the Russian pianist Nikolai Lugansky ...

Lugansky returns for a not-to-miss recital Tuesday night, Aug. 12, which will include 13 preludes by Rachmaninoff as well as works by Chopin, Franck and Prokofiev. Phillips and bass Eric Owens share a ...

Music by Beethoven, Schumann, Debussy, Wagner in the recital by Russian pianist Nikolai Lugansky, expected in Naples, on Thursday, November 20 (8:30 PM) at Teatro Sannazaro, for the music season ...

Nikolai Lugansky was a typical Soviet prodigy, able at age five to learn a Beethoven sonata by ear, before he could even read music. As one of the last survivors of the golden age of Muscovite pianism ...

Neither the Grieg Concerto nor Prokofiev’s Third is exactly a stranger to the catalogue, but Nikolai Lugansky’s collaboration here with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester refreshes, rejuvenates and, in ...

Pianist Nikolai Lugansky will perform on Saturday, March 21, as part of the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Piano Series. Lugansky will perform works by Schubert and Tchaikovsky. The performance ...

Violinist Vadim Repin and pianist Nikolaï Lugansky turned up at Royce Hall on Saturday night -- and each had some record-company hype to live up to. In 2006, Warner Classics issued a 10-CD anthology ...

A pianist of Nikolai Lugansky's caliber, approaching the height of his technical and expressive powers, is likely more accustomed to playing full houses in Europe than in Alabama, but the 36-year-old ...

In outline, Rachmaninov’s 24 Preludes, the Op. 23 and 32 sets plus the famous C Sharp Minor, follow on from the examples of Bach and Chopin. These, though, are truly virtuoso pieces, a high-point of ...