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 ...

The Russian pianist Nikolai Lugansky kept the audience and, for that matter, the Pacific Symphony, on the edge of their seats Thursday night in Segerstrom Concert Hall, where he performed Rachmaninoff ...

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 ...

IT’S not the first time someone from the old Eastern Bloc has claimed that opportunities were more straightforward, and easier to come by, under the old Communist rule. Did you know with a Digital ...

It will be hard to top the one-two punch this past week of pianist Nikolai Lugansky on Tuesday and violinist Augustin Hadelich on Wednesday. Both were magnificent, and whether it was intentional, the ...

An evening shared between Chopin and Liszt is sure to test anyone’s pianism. On Tuesday in Meany Hall, Nikolai Lugansky showed himself able to realize even the most taxing works on his well-planned ...

NIKOLAI Lugansky is one of the great Rachmaninov pianists of his generation, and his new recording features breathtaking performances of the composer's two Piano Sonatas. The second is by far the ...

Considering Nikolai Lugansky's reputation as one of the finest interpreters of Sergei Rachmaninoff, when listeners arrived at Boston's Symphony Hall to hear him on Oct. 18, they expected a respectable ...

Portland Ovations presents Russian Pianist Nikolai Lugansky on Saturday, March 26th at Merrill Auditorium. The Netherlands' NRC Handelsblad describes Lugansky as "a pianistic phenomenon of exceptional ...

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 ...