Product DescriptionAfter a gap of several years, Nikolai Lugansky has returned to the studio to record for Onyx Classics. Over his career, Lugansky has released twenty-three CD s, many of which received the industry s highest honors. Each of his solo recordings on Warner Classics was awarded a Diapason d Or. His PentaTone Classics SACD of Tchaikovsky s first piano concerto was an Editor s Choice in Gramophone and his Prokofiev for Warner was one of the CDs of the year (2004) featured in The Telegraph. Lugansky s Warner recordings of the complete piano concertos of Rachmaninov received Choc du Monde de la Musique, Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik and the 2005 ECHO Klassik Award. This all-Chopin recital will be one of the most important CDs to be released in 2010 as part of the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the composer s birth.