Last night, Nikolai Lugansky, the Russian pianist, gave a recital at the 92nd Street Y. His program was an unusual one: Schubert on the first half, Tchaikovsky on the second. Each half had a big ...

Russian pianist Nikolai Lugansky won the silver medal at Moscow's Tchaikovsky Competition in 1994 (when no gold was awarded), and made his Dublin debut as recently as last January. Given his ...

Surprisingly, Nikolai Lugansky hasn’t played much of Tchaikovsky’s solo piano music for the past 20 years. Now he has renewed the acquaintance, let’s hope it continues. Lugansky pairs the massive ...

Pianist Nikolai Lugansky has signed to the Naïve label. The Moscow-born pianist's previous recordings have appeared on a number of labels, including the Rachmaninov piano concertos with the City of ...

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 ...

Yes, this is still an orchestra with a voice, a remarkably svelte one these days as perfectly-intoned and sophisticated brass chords and dark strings outlined at the start of Tchaikovsky’s Francesca ...

Nikolai Lugansky is not a pianist you'd expect to feel challenged by a piece of music. As Royal Scottish National Orchestra aficionados well know from his many solo appearances over the past 20 years, ...