Alexander Scriabin, Sergei Rachmaninov and Sergei Prokofiev. No matter how close the worlds of these three compatriots and contemporaries, their music was so different.

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Although Vladimir Nabokov once wrote that the fans of the first two could not stand each other, we still make an attempt to reconcile the image-rich late romanticism of Isle of the Dead with the shadowy mysticism of Le Poème de l’extase.

Nikolay Lugansky builds a musical bridge with the jazzy swinging but equally harrowing modernist sounds of the Third Piano Concerto.