SCHUBERT Scherzi D 593
SCHUBERT Impromtus D 935
MEDTNER Forgotten Melodies Op. 38 No. 2-8
RACHMANINOW Moment Musicaux Op. 16 No. 3-6
Concerto highlights for the 2015/16 season include Lugansky’s debut with Berliner Philharmoniker and return engagements with the Philharmonia, Czech Philharmonic and Budapest Festival orchestras, Münchner Philharmoniker and the San Francisco, Boston and NHK symphony orchestras. Tours this season include Brahms trios with Leonidas Kavakos and Gautier Capuçon, as well as a European tour with St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Yuri Temirkanov to include a BBC Prom. In 2016 he undertakes a cycle of all of Prokofiev’s piano concertos with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra to celebrate the 125th anniversary of both the orchestra and birth of the composer.
Upcoming recital performances include the Alte Oper Frankfurt, London’s Wigmore Hall (with Alexander Kniazev), the Konzerthaus Berlin, Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Wiener Konzerthaus, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire and the Great Hall of the St Petersburg Philharmonia. Lugansky regularly appears at some of the world's most distinguished festivals, including La Roque d’Anthéron, and Verbier, Rheingau and Edinburgh.
An award winning recording artist, Nikolai Lugansky records exclusively for the Naïve-Ambroisie label. His recital CD featuring Rachmaninov's Piano Sonatas won the Diapason d’Or and an ECHO Klassik Award whilst his recording of concertos by Grieg and Prokofiev with Kent Nagano and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin was a Gramophone Editor’s Choice. His earlier recordings also won a number of awards, including a Diapason d'Or, BBC Music Magazine Award and ECHO Klassik prize. Lugansky¹s most recent disc, featuring Chopin’s two Piano Concertos, was released in summer 2014 and a new solo recital disc with Schubert’s Piano Sonata in C minor D. 958 and Impromptus D.935 is scheduled for release later this year.
Nikolai Lugansky was given the honour ‘People’s Artist of Russia’ in April 2013.