Nikita Lukinov – a masterly warrior with canons covered in flowers
The last piano pieces written by Tchaikowsky – An Impromptu showing immediately a sense of style with a rhythmic energy ‘joie de vivre’- Sumptuous sounds in the Berceuse with the same nostalgic yearning that was to be so characteristic later of Rachmaninov. A meditation of ravishing beauty with such sense of weight which gave such solidity and richness of texture before disappearing in a stream of magic trills. A playful zest to the Valse just answered by the technical prowess of the Scherzo.
