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 ...

Ludovic Morlot conducts the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra in three classics from the Romantic era: Berlioz, Chopin and ...

The long, unbroken chain of grand Russian pianists never seems to end. And you can count the Moscow-born Nikolai Lugansky as a significant new link — especially after listening to this recital at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Charles Dutoit has so many assets as a conductor that he doesn’t have to bring them all out for every performance. Sometimes — as in his highly satisfying guest appearance with the San Francisco ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review By Allan Kozinn The Russian pianist Nikolai Lugansky has a formidable technique, and when he puts a bit of muscle behind it, he produces ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nikolai Lugansky is a product of the grand Russian school of piano-playing — perhaps one of the last, given that such things as national “schools” barely exist any more — and it seemed somehow right ...

Some find Lugansky cold. Let’s just say that he favours Apollonian control and poise over Dionysian abandon, though not always. And if Apollo usually means the sun, then in the programme’s first half ...