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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Russian piano music is definitely in Nikolai Lugansky’s wheelhouse. His recital Tuesday evening in Harris Hall opened with six charming miniatures by Tchaikovsky and finished with 13 of Rachmaninoff’s ...

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, ...