Grieg & Prokofiev: Piano Concertos

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[Lugansky delivers] the percussive clangour of the [Grieg] Finale's concluding bars with incredible bravado...This takes its place alongside the finest performances...The Grieg is also impressive.... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th Oct 2013
Catalogue No: AM210
Label: Ambroisie
Length: 59 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

January 2014

Editor's Choice

Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16

Work length30:57

$7.00

$9.00

$12.25

Nikolai Lugansky (piano)
Berlin Deutsches Symphony Orchestra
Kent Nagano
Recorded: February 2013
Recording Venue: Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany

I. Allegro molto moderato

Track length13:47

$3.00

$3.85

$5.25

II. Adagio

Track length6:29

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

III. Allegro moderato molto e marcato

Track length10:41

$3.00

$3.85

$5.25

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26

Work length28:19

$6.00

$7.80

$10.50

Nikolai Lugansky (piano)
Berlin Deutsches Symphony Orchestra
Kent Nagano
Recorded: February 2013
Recording Venue: Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany

I. Andante - Allegro

Track length9:34

$2.00

$2.60

$3.50

II. Tema con variazioni

Track length9:12

$2.00

$2.60

$3.50

III. Allegro ma non troppo

Track length9:33

$2.00

$2.60

$3.50

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For his third recording on Naïve / Ambroisie, and following an extremely successful Rachmaninov sonatas recording, Nikolai Lugansky pairs with one of the most refined conductors, Kent Nagano (with whom he already recorded several successful discs) and the excellent DSO-Berlin to perform brilliant, breathtaking performances of the virtuoso Grieg and Prokofiev Piano Concertos.

Nikolai Lugansky records exclusively for the Naïve-Ambroisie label. His most recent recording, featuring Rachmaninov’s two Piano Sonatas, was released in Autumn 2012 and won a number of awards including the Echo Klassik, the Diapason d’Or, ‘Gramophone Choice’, ‘Choc’ de Classica and Scherzo ‘Excepcionales’. This followed his disc of solo Liszt works, which led Le Monde to write that "Nikolai Lugansky has entered the inner circle of great Lisztians".

Reviews

February 2014

[Lugansky delivers] the percussive clangour of the [Grieg] Finale's concluding bars with incredible bravado...This takes its place alongside the finest performances...The Grieg is also impressive. Lugansky gives a consummate account, one particular highlight being his dazzling finger dexterity near the opening of the first movement cadenza.

January 2014

in the Grieg Concerto he is as rhapsodic and affectionate as he is masterly...In the Prokofiev...his performance blazes with conviction, a propulsion and energy finely complemented wth an innate sense of poetry...In a market place where great recordings jostle for attention...Lugansky takes his own special place.

17th October 2013

Lugansky seems much more at home in the Prokofiev than the Grieg and opens the Andante - Allegro with a sense of mystery followed by considerable liveliness...Pleasing support from the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Kent Nagano comes across as colourful and especially sensitive to the soloist.

16th January 2014

In all sorts of little details theirs is a performance that indicates both care and sensitivity to style and scale...Then there is Lugansky’s pianism. And what a marvel that is. He can run the gamut of touch from the most limpid, silken of textures to the towering chords of the finale’s peroration, with a consistently astute ear for perspective in terms of colour, dynamics and pace.

Grieg & Prokofiev: Piano Concertos

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