I had the honour of hearing him last friday, and tomorrow I will fail an exam because I went to that concert and couldn't stop watching and listening to him ever since. But it was most definitely worth it :D
When I was young, I thought Lugansky was a pretencious among many others pianists of this time. I've discovered, (and it's late, sure...) that he is exceptionnal like a Rubinstein, Zimerman, Horowitz, Richter, Ashkenazy, Arrau, Cziffra, etc. We have heroes of music, even today. Thanks, Lugansky.
The messed up thing is how there is such an emphasis on perfection that it's hard to be unique as a classical pianist. I remember getting told that Horowitz plays pieces wrong in college, and to no play like him lol.
@@granddaddy_funk I forgot I wrote this commentary ! Well my opinion is, we shouldn't try as artists to be "as another one". Admiration is a thing when we have idols, but over time I've been thinking that these legends weren't gods, but humans. The humility of Richter in particular made me change quite a bit. I think that, as a musician, I should portray the composers the way "I" see them. So to answer, yes, trying to play like Horowitz is a mistake. There was one Horowitz.
@@Bampaloudu64 yeah but my teacher said if Horowitz was in school now he would be laughed at for his interpretations. I happen to think he is one of the goats, but it just feels like there is no emphasis on art in music school. They want to make piano playing a science.
Yup. I guess that's a habit from playing it so much lol. When I'm typing really fast, sometimes I'll do the thing pianists do, where we suddenly raise our hand away from the piano after a loud part, but in this case I'm suddenly raising my hand away from the computer keyboard after typing a lengthy sentence. That's a weird habit I have due to playing piano. XD
I think that many pianist have things they do when they’re too concentrated on the music. When I’m playing i often don’t think about anything but the music. Then I’ll without realizing it start looking up at the wall above the piano.
I saw him in Costa Rica probing the only two pianos we haved at the National Teather at the time he came to my country to give concert. . Is a usual rutine for pianist ...to taste the pianos available...
My pleasure to have listening Nikolai's "Rach 3" LIVE in Hong Kong on 18 Nov, unparalleled technique, heartfelt musicality. One moment I felt Rachmaninov himself was with him.
omg Rach was such a genius to have written this and this guy is so amazing to play it with the same way Rachmaninoff wrote and played it. so amazing to see and hear. such an inspiration to what is possible when you put the time in to hone a craft
effortless!! technician and lyricist in the same person!! this man is bound for worldwide fame as did Vladimir Horowitz someday!! as a youngster, he's nearly there!!!!
It's great how one can come down in the morning and watch the pianists do this at La Roque D'Antheron. This year (2015) I ended up having tea with Benjamin Grosvenor one afternoon after watching him rehearse.
One of the best pianists ever... though my favorite Rach 3 interpretation belongs to Olga Kern, she's awesome... Anyway I love how Lugansky plays Rachmaninoff in every sense.
Splendid. My favorite concerto by far. I think hearing the piano alone speaks a lot of the complexity of this particular piece for the pianist that might on occasions be overpowered by the orchestra.
Nikolai, could not stop watching this video. You capture so many moments. (Your Etude Tableau #1 is sublime and my favorite. And I yes too, do not need the orchestra - I hear it in my mind and actually prefer to listen to the Rach 2 and 3 WITHOUT! - it just obscures some of the greatest piano music ever written. (Hanon @ 200 sure paid dividends, huh?) Love Nikolia, Love Rach, Love Music, Love Piano
И я тоже с детства люблю Рахманинова ,и с тех пор когда узнала ,что есть Луганский полностью им очарована ,прослушав других пианистов ,играющих Рахманинова ,возвращаюсь к великолепному Луганскому,благодарю судьбу ,что я могу это различие слышать .
Supposedly he learned the notes in three days, and then played it for his teacher, Tatiana Nikolayeva. When he told her he'd only been practicing it for three days, she wouldn't believe him. At least that's what I've heard.
I am sure that he had heard the concerto numerous times before sat down to learn. So he knew the music. Makes it a lot easier. Still very impressive though.
Amazing. This is the first time I've heard of Lugansky and this has to be among my favourite interpretations of Rach 3. Looking forward to listening to more of him
He reapeats them when he makes mistakes, theyre very small but he's memorized every note and accidental in the piece and can tell the slightest mistake.
@@salt9055 yea and because musicians run on muscle memory. sometimes when I miss one note ever so slightly depending on the note, it might mean that I cannot go on without having to restart that part. although I'm sure he's doing it because he was not satisfied with it not coz he couldn't go on
@@pinkegg3179 Oh no, for sure, you could name a note in the piece and he could play the rest of that piece starting from that note, thats the incredible thing about performers as great as Lugansky. They live and breathe their pieces and know them to the highest level.
Thank you for posting this interesting video. I had never heard and seen a trial like this, giving the opportunity to attend the piano alone at such a piece of Rach. I'll go to Lugansky concert at Barcelona on Feb. 22 with this piece, it will be amazing.
Same way you learn the Rach 3 in a day. You don't. =P My guess is he already had the piece in his fingers, but hadn't played it in awhile. This 18-23 hours that someone was talking about was likely how long it took him to refamiliarize himself with it. Finetune a copule of the more difficult secitons.
The 2:40 mark is known to be the most beautiful theme or part of Rachmaninoffs music and maybe all of music ever written. But we wont get to hear it here because he edited or stopped the recording at that very moment in time and space. I wonder if the person who recorded it has a soul. Thank you for posting. I loved it.
Phenomenal! It isn't as stupidly effortless as Lisitsa does it, but there's a bit more clarity in the accents and punctuation between phrases. He slows it down just ever so slightly to allow for a bit more melodic clarity within the framework of such incredible chromatic shifts. Well done!
HOW HOW HOW is it possible for a mere mortal human being to be able to play such a fantastic piece of great great music as this??? After having “DIGESTED” the music score into his mind, only then can the music be played through his fingers, all the while remembering what notes come next, through ALL TEN FINGERS???!!!
omg...the first seconds...that passage is SO ridiculously hard...just like the whole freaking 3rd movement..I don't think I'll ever learn it :( This video is amazing.
That's how it should be. No pomposity. No coats, no ties. No long introductions with brief description of composers life and performers career. Nothing except pure music.
Liszt did a lot of practise, around 10 hours per day when he was young. After he started a travelling virtoso career, he barely practised and very often, he jumped onto stage after descended from a train. After he retired, he didn't practise anymore and didn't encourage his pupils to follow his technical habits. But Liszt was Liszt!
Oh. Yeah I once talked to a guy that said he learned the 3rd movement of the Moonlight Sonata in a week without a piano. For some reason, this kind of bravado is very common among pianists. This guy is amazing. Not denying that. But I'd like to see the polygraph results when someone asks him if it actually took him one full day to learn the Rach 3. ;)
i noticed that too, it's interesting to see that he also "practices" the moments to look at the conductor. love this vid, just to see a pianist of his calibre practicing is extremely interesting.
The transcription of the whole Rach 3 (orchestra and piano on piano) is here. Falzone was a real genius. Argerich's beloved protege. What a great loss! th-cam.com/video/yh0BALM_DZY/w-d-xo.html
Great Rachmaninoff's concert played by Lugansky who was in shorts, sandals, light green shirt. Great musician!
Thanks for describing his clothes. We cant see it
Clarke Bynum please stop commenting.
@Clarke Bynum thanks for expressing your Trollyness. We can’t see it.
If you look hard enough, there’s a piano too!
you forgot to mention a wrist band or watch...
9:08 A wild Pokémon appeared.
lol seriously
Also, the classic Pokémon theme sounds like the part at 6:41. XD
Damn u sir
This is a high tier comment for cultured youtubers
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Absolutely one of greatest pianist of current age.
Piano is a language, he's native fluent advanced speaker.
I can hear the orchestra in my head...
Alan Potter same here haha
Ah ah ah ah
exactly.
Haha same lmao
06:39 is my favorite part from the entire concerto. It’s so nice that you can hear only the piano
I had the honour of hearing him last friday, and tomorrow I will fail an exam because I went to that concert and couldn't stop watching and listening to him ever since. But it was most definitely worth it :D
Did you fail?
Yeah how did it go? We’re all curious
We must know
spill the deeeeets
we know it was worth it
*Me:* Hey Nikolai, what are you up to?
*Nikolai:* Ahh not much, just chillin and playing some rach 3
Definitely not cute.
Ah ah ah ah
I love how he's looking for the conductor even though he's not there :)
so perhaps even when he is there, he doesn't see him anyway?
not a lot of people know this, but hes actually a drug addict, sometimes he hallucinates...
Phil Lach what? How did you know ? I've never read about it.
Phil Lach no he's not shut up
Aliaksei Verashchak it's called sarcasm
Love this kind of bare rehersal stuff. Especially with someone of the caliber of Lugansky. He's incredible.
Someone's been practicing.
14 years ago this was posted and I couldn’t even guess how many times I’ve watched this by now. Thanks again to. Whoever filmed this.
When I was young, I thought Lugansky was a pretencious among many others pianists of this time. I've discovered, (and it's late, sure...) that he is exceptionnal like a Rubinstein, Zimerman, Horowitz, Richter, Ashkenazy, Arrau, Cziffra, etc. We have heroes of music, even today. Thanks, Lugansky.
The messed up thing is how there is such an emphasis on perfection that it's hard to be unique as a classical pianist. I remember getting told that Horowitz plays pieces wrong in college, and to no play like him lol.
@@granddaddy_funk I forgot I wrote this commentary !
Well my opinion is, we shouldn't try as artists to be "as another one". Admiration is a thing when we have idols, but over time I've been thinking that these legends weren't gods, but humans.
The humility of Richter in particular made me change quite a bit. I think that, as a musician, I should portray the composers the way "I" see them. So to answer, yes, trying to play like Horowitz is a mistake. There was one Horowitz.
@@Bampaloudu64 yeah but my teacher said if Horowitz was in school now he would be laughed at for his interpretations. I happen to think he is one of the goats, but it just feels like there is no emphasis on art in music school. They want to make piano playing a science.
Is it me or is he turning his head to the left every so often as if hes taking a glance at the conductor?
Yup. I guess that's a habit from playing it so much lol. When I'm typing really fast, sometimes I'll do the thing pianists do, where we suddenly raise our hand away from the piano after a loud part, but in this case I'm suddenly raising my hand away from the computer keyboard after typing a lengthy sentence. That's a weird habit I have due to playing piano. XD
@@christianvennemann9008 same lol
Ah ah ah ah
I think that many pianist have things they do when they’re too concentrated on the music. When I’m playing i often don’t think about anything but the music. Then I’ll without realizing it start looking up at the wall above the piano.
What a fascinating piece of video! Thanks so much for sharing this. It's hard to imagine how much talent and hard work go into such mastery of craft.
I saw him in Costa Rica probing the only two pianos we haved at the National Teather at the time he came to my country to give concert. . Is a usual rutine for pianist ...to taste the pianos available...
Those No-Look playings reminded me of Ronaldinho at his best
i've listened to this concerto so many times, but i'm still impressed by the cadenza...
Go listen to Matsuev's Ossia Cadenza with Gergiev and Mariinsky
@@tchaffman not everyone likes the ossia, son
@@tchaffman I think lugansky plays the ossia too in some other recordings
@@tchaffmanMatsuev better than Lugansky? Nope!
@@mariapap8962 yeah bro what was i thinking lol
Complete with trademark Lugansky Butt-Off-The-Bench at the height of the 1st mvt candenza (9:49)
**watches him play one of the most difficult concertos with such abandon and ease, in his beach shirt and shorts**
ME: I hate him.
😂
My pleasure to have listening Nikolai's "Rach 3" LIVE in Hong Kong on 18 Nov, unparalleled technique, heartfelt musicality. One moment I felt Rachmaninov himself was with him.
omg Rach was such a genius to have written this and this guy is so amazing to play it with the same way Rachmaninoff wrote and played it. so amazing to see and hear. such an inspiration to what is possible when you put the time in to hone a craft
Love your touch!
effortless!! technician and lyricist in the same person!! this man is bound for worldwide fame as did Vladimir Horowitz someday!! as a youngster, he's nearly there!!!!
The best Rachmaninoff prayer ever! Couldn't be any better. Oh, I love you Kolja!
you have witnessed one of the hardest and most demanding pieces written for the piano.
Awesome work 6/5*
I love how he just casually takes off his watch at 3:15 XD
It's great how one can come down in the morning and watch the pianists do this at La Roque D'Antheron. This year (2015) I ended up having tea with Benjamin Grosvenor one afternoon after watching him rehearse.
8:12 proceeds to look around the whole room
Wow what an unbelievable gem! Lugansky is one of my favourite pianists especially for Rachmaninoff and finding this was such a gift! Thank you!
Jesus what a beast. World-class playing!
Love the chord articulation at the d major cadence
:O AMAZING! His technique is flawless
The cadenza was really good...
A great Pianist !
One of the best pianists ever... though my favorite Rach 3 interpretation belongs to Olga Kern, she's awesome... Anyway I love how Lugansky plays Rachmaninoff in every sense.
Splendid. My favorite concerto by far. I think hearing the piano alone speaks a lot of the complexity of this particular piece for the pianist that might on occasions be overpowered by the orchestra.
When a tourist in Hawaii suddenly plays the piano in the lobby.
He definitely baptized that piano..
Wow he's beatin' the shit out of that Steinway. So much will, determination, self control, discipline, and talent = prodigy = genius = Lugansky!
Jake Zeppelin plus the perfect amount of chaos and “out-of-control-ness”
I WASN'T DONE!!! Totally left me hanging whistling the flutist's part. How rude.
He is simply incredible!...Can't wait for him to come to Philly!!!
My favourite pianist!
Nikolai, could not stop watching this video. You capture so many moments. (Your Etude Tableau #1 is sublime and my favorite. And I yes too, do not need the orchestra - I hear it in my mind and actually prefer to listen to the Rach 2 and 3 WITHOUT! - it just obscures some of the greatest piano music ever written. (Hanon @ 200 sure paid dividends, huh?) Love Nikolia, Love Rach, Love Music, Love Piano
И я тоже с детства люблю Рахманинова ,и с тех пор когда узнала ,что есть Луганский полностью им очарована ,прослушав других пианистов ,играющих Рахманинова ,возвращаюсь к великолепному Луганскому,благодарю судьбу ,что я могу это различие слышать .
really impressed....I like Lugansky! :-) handsome and talented lol
and also agree....the Russian dominate classic music!
Supposedly he learned the notes in three days, and then played it for his teacher, Tatiana Nikolayeva. When he told her he'd only been practicing it for three days, she wouldn't believe him. At least that's what I've heard.
I learned the beginning part in a few minutes. u know....the unison part lol
I am sure that he had heard the concerto numerous times before sat down to learn. So he knew the music. Makes it a lot easier. Still very impressive though.
@@gayanehovakimian8479 im sure it's a fairy tale. rach 3 in 3 days... great joke
If you play through the music you will know three days is not enough time to just figure out the fingering.
@@jayl9127 exactly, just the fingering alone is a long game of chess. With inefficient fingerings the material becomes virtually impossible
A bold statement I know but this guy is one of the greatest pianists of this centuary without any doubt
Восторг и восхищение!!! Радуюсь каждому новому видео о Николае Луганском!!! Спасибо большое!!!
Сколько труда! Потрясающе!
Amazing. This is the first time I've heard of Lugansky and this has to be among my favourite interpretations of Rach 3.
Looking forward to listening to more of him
Increíble....en una simple práctica, tremendo concierto.
I think he repeats some parts to hear the sound quality of the piano.
He reapeats them when he makes mistakes, theyre very small but he's memorized every note and accidental in the piece and can tell the slightest mistake.
@@salt9055 yea and because musicians run on muscle memory. sometimes when I miss one note ever so slightly depending on the note, it might mean that I cannot go on without having to restart that part.
although I'm sure he's doing it because he was not satisfied with it not coz he couldn't go on
@@pinkegg3179 Oh no, for sure, you could name a note in the piece and he could play the rest of that piece starting from that note, thats the incredible thing about performers as great as Lugansky. They live and breathe their pieces and know them to the highest level.
@@salt9055 both of you are right on ur affirmatives!
I love his Rach3 play the best ♥
Basically, if Yuja Wang can perform in high heels and absurd dresses, I don't see why he can't perform in shorts... on stage! 😅
I don't mind if the entire orchestra perform in beach shorts and flower shirts!
"You can film me, but don't get my slippers in the shot."
Thank you for posting this interesting video. I had never heard and seen a trial like this, giving the opportunity to attend the piano alone at such a piece of Rach. I'll go to Lugansky concert at Barcelona on Feb. 22 with this piece, it will be amazing.
époustouflant !!
Look at him, just chilling, playing concertos XD Love it!
Same way you learn the Rach 3 in a day. You don't. =P
My guess is he already had the piece in his fingers, but hadn't played it in awhile. This 18-23 hours that someone was talking about was likely how long it took him to refamiliarize himself with it. Finetune a copule of the more difficult secitons.
Incredible fluidity to his playing.
The 2:40 mark is known to be the most beautiful theme or part of Rachmaninoffs music and maybe all of music ever written. But we wont get to hear it here because he edited or stopped the recording at that very moment in time and space. I wonder if the person who recorded it has a soul. Thank you for posting. I loved it.
He makes it look so easy...
Darn, didn't get to whistle my favorite flute obbligato at the end....... 😡
GREAT pianist !
8:10 Lugansky is so funny looking around the room in correspondence of the piece
Phenomenal! It isn't as stupidly effortless as Lisitsa does it, but there's a bit more clarity in the accents and punctuation between phrases. He slows it down just ever so slightly to allow for a bit more melodic clarity within the framework of such incredible chromatic shifts. Well done!
You mean he Thrills !! Oh its just wonderful...I envy him his gift.
Wow! Rare shot..
He wears a glass? He's cute.
I love his Rach interpretation the best!
from dave not cathy- this is hideously mechanical- why offer this tripe?!?!? a glenn gould approach? nada feeling- ridiculous!!
I don't want to be a billionaire, Spiderman or James Bond if only I can play like that. Sigh. What lovely hands (and legs). Sigh again :)
Wonderful! I hope I get the chance to hear him live some day.
They found a tourist who plays Rach 3 XD FUN~
I would like to see him play the complete Rach 3 with orchestra....... in this outfit :-)
HOW HOW HOW is it possible for a mere mortal human being to be able to play such a fantastic piece of great great music as this??? After having “DIGESTED” the music score into his mind, only then can the music be played through his fingers, all the while remembering what notes come next, through ALL TEN FINGERS???!!!
I was warming up just like this today! NOT
The 10 people who dislike this must be Lang Lang fans.
Typically Lang Lang fans are more open-minded than any other listeners
omg...the first seconds...that passage is SO ridiculously hard...just like the whole freaking 3rd movement..I don't think I'll ever learn it :(
This video is amazing.
woof! molto fantastico..bloody hell...speachless, sprachlos...
he looks like a confused tourist, and then he sits at the piano
Blows everybody off the grid
That's how it should be. No pomposity. No coats, no ties. No long introductions with brief description of composers life and performers career. Nothing except pure music.
vs me who played the first 20 bars of rach 2 and needs 2 weeks physical wellness recovery
shoot! I'm back in the "How to feel bad about yourself" youtube part!
can u imagine if we had video footage of 30 year old horowitz doing the same.
Liszt did a lot of practise, around 10 hours per day when he was young. After he started a travelling virtoso career, he barely practised and very often, he jumped onto stage after descended from a train. After he retired, he didn't practise anymore and didn't encourage his pupils to follow his technical habits. But Liszt was Liszt!
This footage Is gold
This is shockingly good. I can understand why you almost dropped your phone.
Красивые у него пальцы.
А ноги-то! Ногиии.. тоже красивые )))
Impressive! Curious as to why the glissando passages were absent though around the 1 minute mark however.
Maravilloso!!!!!!!!👏👏👏👏👏
this guy is a beast! holy smokes
Amazing. Unfortunately I haven't seen him live on stage so far...
He's such a wonderful artist.
Yeah he's not having a seizure at the piano
Oh. Yeah I once talked to a guy that said he learned the 3rd movement of the Moonlight Sonata in a week without a piano. For some reason, this kind of bravado is very common among pianists.
This guy is amazing. Not denying that. But I'd like to see the polygraph results when someone asks him if it actually took him one full day to learn the Rach 3. ;)
Emil Gilels
i noticed that too, it's interesting to see that he also "practices" the moments to look at the conductor. love this vid, just to see a pianist of his calibre practicing is extremely interesting.
The cameraman saved it at the last moment when the camera could not stand this speed and committed suicide.
The transcription of the whole Rach 3 (orchestra and piano on piano) is here. Falzone was a real genius. Argerich's beloved protege. What a great loss! th-cam.com/video/yh0BALM_DZY/w-d-xo.html
Jes W I discovered the great genius of Falzone thanks to your comment !
I think....
He is so gorgeous that it made it sound like Rachmaninov..