Lugansky - Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 1

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Piano Concerto No. 1 in F# minor, Op. 1 (1891, 1917) Nikolai Lugansky, soloist Stanislav Kochanovsky conducting Orchestre de Paris, 2019 I. [0:00] Intro (Vivace) [0:46] Exposition - Theme 1 (Moderato - Vivace) [2:58] Exposition - Theme 2 (Poco meno mosso) [3:49] Dev. (Vivace - Moderato) [7:09] Recap. - Theme 1 (Moderato - Vivace) [8:51] Recap. - Theme 2 (Allegro) [9:41] Cadenza [12:17] Coda (Vivace) II. [12:45] Andante [13:58] Solo [15:20] Orchestra in [17:06] a tempo (non allegro) III. [18:55] A (Allegro Vivace) [20:06] B (Allegro) [21:00] C (Andante ma non troppo) [23:38] A’ (Tempo I) [24:57] B’ (Allegro ma non tanto) [25:53] Coda (Allegro Vivace) “Youthful freshness is not an unexpected quality considering that the first movement of the Concerto was written by a student musician of 17, and the second and third movements when he was all of 18. What is remarkable