Lugansky - Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 (1900-1901) Nikolai Lugansky, soloist Antoni Wit conducting Sinfonia Varsovia Festival de la Roque d’Anthéron, 2011 [0:00] I. Moderato - Più vivo 5:41 - Maestoso 7:05 - Moderato 8:49 [11:33] II. Adagio sostenuto - Più animato 17:27 - Tempo I 19:38 [22:34] III. Allegro scherzando - Moto primo 26:33 - Moto primo 31:11 - Presto 32:31 - Maestoso 32:52 “He had always wanted to write music, and he could give no other identity to the thing he sought. If you want to know what it is, he told himself, listen to the first phrases of Tchaikovsky’s First Concerto--or the last movement of Rachmaninoff’s Second. Men have not found the words for it, nor the deed nor the thought, but they have found the music. Let me see that in one single act of man on earth. Let me see it made real. Let me see the answer to the promise of that music. Not servants nor those served; not altars and immolations; but th