Chopin: The Piano Concertos

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The disc presents the Concertos in the order in which they were written, which means the Piano Concerto No. 2 comes first, bringing out the best in Lugansky here. Understanding the music's shy... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2014, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 5th May 2014
Catalogue No: AM212
Label: Ambroisie
Length: 72 minutes

Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21

Work length32:34

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Nikolai Lugansky, Sinfonia Varsovia, Alexander Vedernikov
Recorded: July 2013
Recording Venue: Witold Lutoslawski Concert Studio of Polish Radio, Warsaw, Poland

I. Maestoso

Track length14:15

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II. Larghetto

Track length10:02

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III. Allegro vivace

Track length8:17

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Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11

Work length39:52

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Nikolai Lugansky, Sinfonia Varsovia, Alexander Vedernikov
Recorded: July 2013
Recording Venue: Witold Lutoslawski Concert Studio of Polish Radio, Warsaw, Poland

I. Allegro maestoso

Track length20:36

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II. Romanze. Larghetto

Track length9:30

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III.Rondeau. Vivace

Track length9:46

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Nikolai Lugansky offers a new refined and brilliant version of Chopin’s piano concertos, with the orchestra that probably has the best connection to the soul and the spirit of French-Polish composer, Sinfonia Varsovia, under Russian conductor Alexander Vedernikov.

As ever, Nikolai Lugansky displays a perfect balance between virtuosity and poetry through a perfect technique and an amazing range of colours. Together with the orchestra, sometimes almost chamber in character, they achieve to enhance both immediacy and sophistication of those works. Capable of great refinement and sensitivity in Mozart and Chopin, and breathtaking virtuosity in Rachmaninov and Prokofiev, Nikolai Lugansky is a pianist of extraordinary depth and versatility. His solo recording, featuring Rachmaninov’s two Piano Sonatas, released in Autumn 2012 won a number of awards including an Echo Klassik, Diapason d’Or, ‘Gramophone Choice’, ‘Choc’ de Classica, and Scherzo ‘Excepcionales’, and was followed by a recording with Kent Nagano and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin of the Grieg Piano Concerto and Prokofiev’s Third.

Nikolai Lugansky records exclusively for the Naive-Ambroisie label.

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July 2014

The disc presents the Concertos in the order in which they were written, which means the Piano Concerto No. 2 comes first, bringing out the best in Lugansky here. Understanding the music's shy qualities, he also supplies considerable dash and lilt in its finale.

September 2014

captured in admirably clear sound.

Chopin: The Piano Concertos

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