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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It takes a marvelous pianist to find something fresh in Rachmaninoff's most famous melody, and Nikolai Lugansky did it. The melody, of course, is the lushly romantic variation that comes about ...

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 ...

It will be hard to top the one-two punch this past week of pianist Nikolai Lugansky on Tuesday and violinist Augustin Hadelich on Wednesday. Both were magnificent, and whether it was intentional, the ...

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, ...

, who at only 40 is considered one of the great interpreters of Chopin and Rachmaninoff of our time. In series organizer account of Tchaikovsky's Concerto No.1 producing enough tone for two pianists." ...

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 ...

Comparisons between Nikolai Lugansky's accounts of the two Chopin concertos here and Ingrid Fliter's fine pairing of them that appeared on Linn a few months ago are inevitable, and not all to the ...

Nicolai Lugansky has become one of those few whose Aspen Music Festival performances are all but guaranteed to be memorable. Sunday’s magical, thrilling rendition of Rachmaninoff’s evergreen Rhapsody ...

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 ...