Lugansky - Rachmaninoff Piano Sonata No. 1 - 2011 Live

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 28 (1907) Nikolai Lugansky, Live, 2011 Savannah Music Festival [0:00] I. Allegro moderato [13:08] II. Lento - Più mosso [21:44] III. Allegro molto “[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. ...