2024-25 Season

California State University, Fresno • Concert Hall

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Nikolai Lugansky

Friday, February 21, 2025 • 7:30PM

An artist of extraordinary depth and versatility, Russian pianist Nikolai Lugansky has been described as “the most trailblazing and meteoric performer of all” (Gramophone). “A pianist with everything impressively under his command” (The Guardian), he has established a regular presence on the world’s most prominent stages. He possesses “one of the most complete and remarkable keyboard arsenals of our day” (Chicago Classical Review), and his “immense technical fluency and innate musical quality” (Gramophone) have won him the “Diapason d'Or”, the “Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik”, and the “Gramophone Editor's Choice”.

Concert Program

MENDELSSOHN
Six Songs without Words
SCHUMANN
Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op.26
WAGNER
Four Scenes from “Götterdämmerung” (arr. Lugansky)
Isolde’s Liebestod (arr. Liszt)