Rachmaninov - Etudes-Tableaux, 3 Pieces | Harmonia Mundi HMM902297

Rachmaninov - Etudes-Tableaux, 3 Pieces

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Label: Harmonia Mundi

Cat No: HMM902297

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 3rd February 2023

Contents

About

This year marks 150 years since the birth of Rachmaninov. Following on from his formidable complete recording of the Preludes, Nikolai Lugansky now immerses us in two more major cycles by the Russian composer, the Études-Tableaux.

Like Chopin and Liszt, Rachmaninov here transcends every technical difficulty to make room for emotion alone.

At once poet and virtuoso, Nikolai Lugansky is unmatched in his ability to do justice to this prodigious musical kaleidoscope, a fitting tribute on the anniversary of such a celebrated artist.

Reviews

Lugansky, who previously recorded the Études-tableaux 20 years ago for Challenge Classics, joins Steven Osborne as the most high-profile single-disc exponent. On balance, Osborne is in places marginally the more crisp, Lugansky marginally the more temperamental and grand-scale. Each is undaunted by anything Rachmaninov can throw at him. Each knows how the voice-leading works, even when the score is teeming with subsidiary voices.  David Fanning
Gramophone March 2023
Gramophone Editor's Choice

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