Harmonia Mundi
Nikolai Lugansky - Rachmaninov: Etudes-Tableaux - 3 Pieces - Import CD
Nikolai Lugansky - Rachmaninov: Etudes-Tableaux - 3 Pieces - Import CD
CD
Classical Music
Piano
December 28, 2022
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Catalog No.: HMM902297
JAN/ISBN: 3149020946282
Number of Discs: 1
Country/Region of Manufacture: Import
Credits:
Nikolai Lugansky
Description:
Lugansky's moving "Picture of Sound" re-recorded with remarkable inner growth! This is the second Lugansky-Rachmaninoff recording by Harmonia Mundi, following "24 Preludes" (HMM 902339). This time, Lugansky tackles the entire "Sound Pictures," a collection of exercises known as one of the most difficult pieces in Rachmaninoff's oeuvre. Lugansky recorded this work in 1992 when he was 20 years old, and it is still highly acclaimed today, but he re-recorded it at age 50, 30 years later. The recording will be made this September 2022. The recording was made in September of this year, 2022. However, it is not a dull performance, and one can fully enjoy Lugansky's first-rate artistry with clear fingerwork and thunderous, brilliant sounds. Rachmaninoff's "Pictures of Sound" was written at the same time as the Piano Concerto No. 3, and is an extremely difficult piece that brings together the best of his technique as a great pianist. It is also designed to make the piano sound at its most beautiful, making it a challenging piece for confident players.Lugansky said that once one masters Rachmaninoff's piano music, one becomes one with the piano to the extent that one cannot tell whether one's fingers are playing or the piano is singing to oneself. The singing is not at all sweet and gives a feeling of prestige. I am glad to hear Lugansky's performance of the three pieces that are not numbered. All of them were written at the time of the Revolution, when Rachmaninoff was about to leave Russia, and are full of anxious emotions, but Lugansky brings out beautiful music from them as well. King International
Tracklisting:
1.Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 33~1. Allegro non troppo in F minor
2.Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 33~2. Allegro in C major
3.Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 33~3. Grave in C minor
4.Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 33~4. Moderato in D minor
5.Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 33~5. Non allegro - Presto in E-flat major
6.Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 33~6. Allegro con fuoco in E-flat major
7.Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 33~7. Moderato in G minor
8.Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 33~8. Grave in C-sharp minor
9.Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 39~1. Allegro agitato in C minor
10.Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 39~2. Lento assai in A minor
11.Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 39~3. Allegro molto in F-sharp minor
12.Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 39~4. Allegro assai in B minor
13.Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 39~5. Appassionato in E-flat minor
14.Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 39~6. Allegro in A minor
15.Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 39~7. Lento lugubre in C minor
16.Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 39~8. Allegro moderato in D minor
17.Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 39~9. Allegro moderato. Tempo di marcia in D major
18.3 Pieces~1. Fragments
19.3 Pieces~2. Oriental Sketch
20.3 Pieces~3. Prelude in D minor
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