尼可萊.魯岡斯基 鋼琴
"Nikolai Lugansky dedicated several solo
recordings to Russian composers.
Especially, his Rachmaninov Sonatas
disc released in 2013 got a huge success
in a few months. Yet, this new recording
is Nikolai Lugansky’s first
Tchaikovsky recital on record.
Though less well-known than his operas
or his orchestral compositions,
Tchaikovsky’s piano music nonetheless
contains essential works of his,
such as the cycle The Seasons and
the Grand Sonata. Composed at a period
of crisis in the composer‘s personal
life, they illustrate two quite different
aspects of his style: on the one hand
we have the fashionable worldliness of
The Seasons, pieces that almost belong
to the genre of salon music; on
the other hand, we see him ambitiously
grappling with the classical sonata, in
the tradition of his illustrious predecessors
- Liszt, Schumann, Chopin.
For Nikolai Lugansky, “one of the most
trailblazing performers of our time” as
for Gramophone, this recording is like
“having a new encounter with Tchaikovsky,
almost like falling in love with
someone new…”"