Lugansky - Rachmaninoff Piano Sonata No. 1 - Live

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 28 (1907) Nikolai Lugansky, Live, 2011 Savannah Music Festival Savannah Music Festival Website I. [0:00] Intro (Allegro moderato) [0:34] Expos. - Theme 1 (Meno mosso - Allegro - Tempo I) [2:31] Expos. - Theme 2 (Moderato - Più mosso) [4:12] Dev. [8:11] Recap. [12:03] Coda II. [13:10] A (Lento) [15:32] B (— Più mosso. 16:31) [17:33] A’ (Tempo I) [19:57] Coda III. [21:44] Expos. (Allegro molto) - Dies irae fugato theme 23:16 [27:25] Dev. (Più vivo) [28:47] Recap. (Tempo I) [33:48] Coda “[Rachmaninoff] intended the work to be a program sonata based on the main characters of Goethe’s Faust: Faust for the first movement, Gretchen for the slow movement, and Mephistopheles for the finale. In this the sonata reflects Liszt’s Faust Symphony of 1854, the movements of which are also devoted to those three characters. ... ...The first moveme