Better solo ....

A clever program that this meeting of three variations to works by Rachmaninov. A good opportunity to take the measure of a compositional technique that master composer skillfully, because it is always very comfortable in works constrained by principle ...

Lugansky is showing off a great day in the Corelli and Chopin. He dares to highlight the developments, turns and detours of the musical discourse, never appeal to mannerism. In contrast a Horowitz, remains sober reading of any tic, but remains always intelligent. There is a very clever and Lugansky tempo change management draws a journey of a variation of the other who "hold water".

It will be more disappointed by Paganini. A version more to catalog, first, not "special" enough to stand out. This is extremely wise and Lugansky seems to lack imagination. It is even too simple. The passages in scherzo lack bounce of "fantastic". The Andante cantabile is strapped, will not pours and refuses any pathos: this is only the false intelligence. Oramo goes well, but does not raise anything.

A good disc for variations Corelli and Chopin ...