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Severin von Eckardstein - Nikolai Medtner: Piano Music (2007)  Music

Posted by ArlegZ at March 20, 2024
Severin von Eckardstein - Nikolai Medtner: Piano Music (2007)

Severin von Eckardstein - Nikolai Medtner: Piano Music (2007)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 213 Mb | Total time: 73:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: MDG | # MDG 604 1465-2 | Recorded: 2007

The constant movement and passionate stream-of-consciousness of Nikolay Medtner's music suits Severin von Eckardstein wonderfully, and he it. The difference between his performance of these character pieces/tone poems for piano and that of other pianists is his touch. He is light and graceful enough that feverishly ardent passages do not burrow deeply into a good, indulgent brood and drag the listener along for the ride. Instead, he propels himself through the moodiness, but still fully acknowledges the feelings within the music.
Gulbenkian Orchestra, Lawrence Foster, Nikolai Schukoff & Melody Moore - Verdi: Otello (2017)

Lester Lynch, Melody Moore, Helena Zubanovich, Leandro César, Kevin Short, JunHo You, Carlos Cardoso, Luis Rodrigues, Coro Gulbenkian, Santa Cecilia Music Academy Children's Choir, Lisbon, Orquestra Gulbenkian, Lawrence Foster & Nikolaï Schukoff - Verdi: Otello (2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 539 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 330 Mb | Digital booklet | 02:22:52
Classical, Opera | Label: Pentatone

The opera Otello by Giuseppe Verdi and Arrigo Boito not only represents the outstanding result of an intensely fruitful creative collaboration between composer and librettist, but also one of the most important core works in the opera repertoire. With his musical setting of Shakespeare’s play, the composition of which took him several years, Verdi also achieved a new level of quality within the framework of his operatic oeuvre. His path was resolute and consistent, leading him away from structured numbers of arias, recitatives and ensembles, and towards the through-composed, large-scale dramatic form. All this based on the timeless literary foundation of Shakespeare's play.
Nikolai Demidenko, Jerzy Maksymiuk - The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 2: Nikolai Medtner: Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3 (1992)

Nikolai Demidenko, Jerzy Maksymiuk, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 2: Nikolai Medtner: Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3 (1992)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & no Log) ~ 309 Mb | Total time: 74:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA66580 | Recorded: 1991

A younger contemporary of Scriabin and Rachmaninov, Nikolai Medtner, a Russian of distant German descent, studied under Pabst, Sapelnikov and Safonov at the Moscow Conservatoire, graduating in 1900 with the coveted Anton Rubinstein Prize. Admired as a pianist of particularly formidable attainment and inventive imagination, he held important teaching appointments at the Conservatoire (1909/10, 1914/21) before eventually leaving Russia for periods of domicile in Germany, the USA and Paris. In the winter of 1935/36 he settled in England, making his home in the Golders Green area of north London.
Nikolai Lugansky - Johann Sebastian Bach: Chromatic Fantasia; Italian Concerto; Partita in E minor (2018) [Recorded in 1990]

Nikolai Lugansky - J.S. Bach: Chromatic Fantasia; Italian Concerto; Partita in E minor (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 217 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 116 Mb | Covers
Classical | Label: Melodiya | # MEL CD 1002570 | Time: 00:50:08

Recorded at the Rachmaninov Hall of the Moscow Conservatory on March 13, 1990. Nikolai Lugansky is a Russian pianist, widely known for his insightful performances of Romantic music. A native of Moscow, he was born to a couple of research scientists. At the age of 5, he taught himself to play a Beethoven sonata by ear, and this led to taking lessons from his neighbor, composer and pianist Sergei Ipatov. Later, he attended the Moscow Central Music School and the Moscow Conservatory, studying piano with Tatiana Kestner, Tatiana Nikolaeva, and Sergei Dorensky. An active competitor, he won first prize at the All-Union Competition in Tbilisi and the silver medal at the 8th International Bach Competition in Leipzig, both in 1988, and won the second prize at the Rachmaninov Competition in Moscow in 1990. Lugansky was named best pianist in 1992 at the International Summer Academy Mozarteum in Salzburg. After recovering from foot and back injuries in 1993, he won the 1994 Tchaikovsky Piano Competition. As a concerto soloist, Lugansky has performed with Riccardo Chailly, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Valery Gergiev, Kurt Masur, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Edo de Waart, Leonard Slatkin, and many other conductors.
Great Conductors Of The 20th Century, Volume 8: Nikolai Golovanov (2002) 2CDs

Great Conductors Of The 20th Century, Volume 8: Nikolai Golovanov (2002) 2CDs
Alexander Glazunov - Felix Mendelssohn - P.I. Tchaikovsky - Franz Liszt

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 533 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 337 Mb | Scans ~ 19 Mb
Classical | Label: EMI | # 7243 5 75112 2 3 | Time: 02:27:55

It goes without saying that recording has transformed music from an evanescent art to one which can be readily preserved for the study and enjoyment of future generations. the EMI Great Conductors Edition - Nikolai Golovanov Among its services is the perpetuation of the art of musicians who were barely known in their time outside their own immediate spheres of influence. Golovanov surely was among these. Although he was the dominant force in Russian opera for nearly thirty years, he was summarily purged in 1952 (literally refused admission to his opera house one morning), died the following year and was conveniently forgotten as a political imperative of Soviet rewriting of Russian cultural history. Only recently have his records resurfaced to reveal an extraordinary outsized personality, a visionary galaxies apart from the polished discipline of Mravinsky and others who better towed the party line, both politically and aesthetically, and whose art has been touted as representing the Soviet ideal. Over half this set is devoted to five Liszt tone poems from Golovanov's pioneering set.

Nikolai Lugansky - Nikolai Lugansky Plays Chopin (2022)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at May 27, 2022
Nikolai Lugansky - Nikolai Lugansky Plays Chopin (2022)

Nikolai Lugansky - Nikolai Lugansky Plays Chopin (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 2:53:07 | 533 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Warner Classics

During his rich collaboration with Erato and Warner Classics, the gifted Russian pianist Nikolai Lugansky recorded some of the most praised Chopin records of his times. The complete sets of preludes and études are still regarded as great modern references. This collection also includes ballades, nocturnes, and the cello sonata featuring Alexander Kniazev.
Nikolai Lugansky, Sakari Oramo, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra - Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3 (2003)

Nikolai Lugansky, Sakari Oramo, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra - Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3 (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 255 Mb | Total time: 68:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Warner Classics | 0927 47941-2 | Recorded: 2002, 2003

One of the aspects that appeals to this listener about Nikolai Lugansky's approach to the perennial favorite piano concerti of Sergei Rachmaninov is the commitment to the organic feeling of each work. So often these concerti are served up as early career, flamboyant exercises to introduce the young pianist du jour to already accepting audiences. And at times the imprint on the works imposed by the various pianists is what remains in the hall after the performance, not Rachmaninov.
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, David Zinman - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Great Orchestral Works (1994) 2CDs

Rimsky-Korsakov: Great Orchestral Works (1994) 2CDs
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by David Zinman

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 583 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 300 Mb | Scans ~ 101 Mb
Classical | Label: Philips | # 442 605-2 | Time: 02:21:21

Rimsky-Korsakov is universally acknowledged as a great master of the orchestra. He even wrote a textbook on the subject consisting entirely of examples from his own music! He needed some sort of pictorial or literary stimulus to really get his imagination going, however. His "abstract pieces," like Symphonies No. 1 and 3, are comparative failures specifically because he believed that symphonic thought was incompatible with orchestral brilliance (he wasn't the only Romantic composer to succumb to that fallacy). So all of his best music is either obviously illustrative, or taken from one of his colorful "fairy tale" operas. This two-disc set gives you an excellent selection of works of both types at a great price.

Nikolai Lugansky - Richard Wagner: Famous Opera Scenes (2024)  Music

Posted by delpotro at March 7, 2024
Nikolai Lugansky - Richard Wagner: Famous Opera Scenes (2024)

Nikolai Lugansky - Richard Wagner: Famous Opera Scenes (2024)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 01:00:57 | 140 Mb
Classical | Label: harmonia mundi

Wagner’s genius is often associated with his unique feeling for orchestration. Yet the transcriptions and paraphrases for piano solo recorded here lay bare the beauty and boldness of his harmonic language, with an evocative power unrivalled at the time. Nikolai Lugansky, at once narrator and virtuoso, immerses us in a world where the heroes of legend tell us – and with what loftiness of spirit! – of the torments and aspirations of humanity.
Nikolai Lugansky - César Franck: Préludes, Fugues & Chorals (2020)

Nikolai Lugansky - César Franck: Préludes, Fugues & Chorals (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 210 Mb | Total time: 66:35 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMM 902642 | Recorded: 2019

Given the paucity of César Franck's piano music on disc, Nikolai Lugansky's focus on this composer is to be commended. On his third release for harmonia mundi, the Russian pianist reveals an organ master strongly attached to the musical forms inherited from J.S. Bach: the prelude, the fugue, and the chorale. Translated to the piano keyboard, Franck's music, with its expansively conceived structures, requires a completely fresh approach that puts the greatest performers to the test: here, Lugansky took on an additional challenge by preparing his own transcription (a brilliant one, at that!) of Franck's celebrated Choral pour grand orgue No.2.