Rachmaninov: 24 Preludes – Nikolai Lugansky

Nikolai Lugansky enregistre l’un des plus beaux joyaux de son répertoire de prédilection. Un sommet de l’art pianistique!

Nikolai Lugansky maakte een opname van één van de mooiste juwelen uit zijn favoriete repertoire. Een hoogtepunt van pianokunst!

   in Piano International (May, 2018)
Rachmaninov composed 27 Preludes for the piano, the earliest, in E-flat minor (1887) and F major (1891) in isolation, the last likewise in D minor thirty years later. The remaining twenty-four were composed in an 18-year period, 1892-1910, one in each of the major and minor keys, split between three opus numbers. This cycle is the basis for Lugansky’s programme here, starting with what Isabelle Rouard’s booklet note terms that ‘hugely famous piece’, the Prelude in C-sharp minor Op 3/2, progressing through the 10 pieces of Opus 23 (1903) – with its not-quite-so famous but still popular Alla marcia in G minor Op 23/5 – and finishing with the Opus 32 …