As Director of the Rachmaninoff Festival, Nikolai Lugansky has long established himself as one of the great interpreters of the Russian composer’s piano repertoire. Having left his teacher astounded by memorising the whole of Sergei Rachmaninff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in just three days and having recorded the Études-Tableaux at the age of 19, he has never lost sight of Rachmaninoff as his career took off, and he considers his works to be a constant and refreshing object of passion. Along with Rachmaninoff, Fryderyk Chopin, also in the programme, is one of those composers whose work is best suited to the pianist’s interpretation.

Nikolai Lugansky Piano

Robert Schumann
Kinderszenen, op. 15

Fryderyk Chopin
Barcarole in F-sharp major, op. 60
Ballade No. 4 in F minor, op. 52

Sergei Rachmaninov
Prelude in F-sharp minor, op. 23 No. 1
Prelude in D minor, op. 23 No. 3
Prelude in D major, op. 23 No. 4
Prelude in G minor, op. 23 No. 5
Prelude in B-flat major, op. 23 No. 6
Prelude in C minor, op. 23 No. 7

Prelude in C major, op. 32 No. 1
Prelude in B-flat minor, op. 32 No. 2
Prelude in E major, op. 32 No. 3
Prelude in E minor, op. 32 No. 4
Prelude in A major, op. 32 No. 9
Prelude in G-sharp minor, op. 32 No. 12
Prelude in D-flat major, op. 32 No. 13

Encores

Felix Mendelssohn
Lieder ohne Worte op. 62, No. 2

Nikolai Kapustin
Bagatelle No. 9