TRANSFIGURATION

Chords like bells that get louder and louder. The beginning of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor is famous. With this grandiose concerto, marked by a fateful tone, the composer, who was born in 1873, wrote himself out of an almost four-year creative crisis. Nikolai Lugansky has recorded all four concertos and numerous solo works by his Russian compatriot – with his technical mastery and creative power, he is considered the ideal Rachmaninov interpreter. The fate of the damned "Flying Dutchman", restlessly sailing on a ghost ship, turns for the better in the end. Rising harp sounds announce transfiguration. In contrast to his Sixth, Peter Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony, which opens with a fate motif in the clarinets, does not end tragically, but in triumph. Klosters Music ends with trumpet fanfares and timpani rolls!

Richard Wagner
(1813–1883)
Overture to "The Flying Dutchman"
Sergei Rachmaninov
(1873–1943)
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in C minor op. 18
–Pause–
Peter Tchaikovsky
(1840–1893)
Symphony No. 5 in E minor op. 64

Ensemble:
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen

Management:
Jérémie Rhorer

Soloist:
Nikolai Lugansky, piano