The Russian pianist Nicolaï Lugansky gave to the Angers audience the "measure" of his talent

One of the most famous pianists all over the world, the Russian Nicolaï Lugansky, performed in the Grand Théâtre d'Angers on November 20th for an exceptionnal concert organized by the Angers Société des concerts populaires. Janacek, Schubert and Rachmaninoff were on the programme of that Musical Tuesday and gathered numerous public, in which, many young members. The Grand Théâtre is the perfect place for those classical programmes because its old-fashioned charm and the warmth of its style are themselves an invitation to an intellectual pleasure. 

Lugansky is typical of these great Russian pianists : cold, distant and even stiff in his deportment, he only delivers his feelings through a incredible playing, alternately soft and brutal, both full of poesy and technique. During the first part of the concert, the Angers audience listened a work of Janacek, a Czech composer of whom Lugansky played "In the mist". The pianistic master work evokes the Eastern landscapes : their mystery and also the warmth of their atmosphere. In the Schubert Impromptus, Lugansky perfectly expressed both the the melancholy of the composer sometimes punctuated by michievous passages which delighted the audience.

But it's in the repertoire of the Russian composer Sergueï Rachmaninov that Lugansky gives the full extent of his art and of his mastery. The first sonata was the ideal field to deliver to the Angers audience the intensity of the Russian music played by a Russian. Warmly applaused, after that real symphony for piano, Luganski choose, and he was asked, to perform again this composer with two of his preludes. Lugansky, who received several world awards for his interpretation of that composer has given to the Angers music lovers a real travel inside the Russian soul.