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 ...

In a final interview before she died in 1993, the renowned pianist and pedagogue Tatiana Nikolayeva pronounced Nikolai Lugansky "The Next One" in a line of great Russian pianists. At 36, Lugansky may ...

The Russian pianist Nikolai Lugansky kept the audience and, for that matter, the Pacific Symphony, on the edge of their seats Thursday night in Segerstrom Concert Hall, where he performed Rachmaninoff ...

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 ...

Nikolai Lugansky: enriching the magnificent tradition of Wagner transcriptions | Tiffany Poon records Schumann: an outstanding album from an engaging young star | The life and pianism of Samuil ...

IT’S not the first time someone from the old Eastern Bloc has claimed that opportunities were more straightforward, and easier to come by, under the old Communist rule. Did you know with a Digital ...

NIKOLAI Lugansky is one of the great Rachmaninov pianists of his generation, and his new recording features breathtaking performances of the composer's two Piano Sonatas. The second is by far the ...

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 ...

Since the meltdown of the world’s financial markets began, classical-music institutions have been dropping like flies, freezing or cutting salaries in the case of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, ...

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 ...

Nikolai Lugansky is a product of the grand Russian school of piano-playing — perhaps one of the last, given that such things as national “schools” barely exist any more — and it seemed somehow right ...