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 ...

The Aspen Music Festival and School brings internationally recognized artists to the acoustically pristine, 500-seat Harris Concert Hall for the 2025 Winter Music Series. The Winter Music Recital ...

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 ...

The French record company Naïve comes late to the Liszt bicentenary party, with two contrasting recitals released almost simultaneously. Chamayou, a young pianist little known in the English-speaking ...

Russian pianist Nikolai Lugansky’s début on the Naïve- Ambroisie label is also his first disc to be devoted entirely to music by Liszt. Lugansky is a formidable technician, and, in a straightforward ...

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 ...

When asked why he chose to pair JanáÇcek and Schubert in the first half of yesterday's recital, Nikolai Lugansky replied that he considers both composers to be "naive, in a way" - that their music ...