Released in time for his 70th birthday, Vladimir Ashkenazy: A Personal Collection spans more than 40 years of the pianist-conductor's career. It opens chronologically with his 1963 Rachmaninov Third Concerto made the same year he left the Soviet Union for the West, and moves through some of his classic recordings as well as some of his less-known recordings. Among the classics, there's his thunderous 1970 Appassionata Sonata, his epic 1981 Brahms D minor Concerto, his heroic 1987 Shostakovich Fifth Symphony, his dramatic ...
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Released in time for his 70th birthday, Vladimir Ashkenazy: A Personal Collection spans more than 40 years of the pianist-conductor's career. It opens chronologically with his 1963 Rachmaninov Third Concerto made the same year he left the Soviet Union for the West, and moves through some of his classic recordings as well as some of his less-known recordings. Among the classics, there's his thunderous 1970 Appassionata Sonata, his epic 1981 Brahms D minor Concerto, his heroic 1987 Shostakovich Fifth Symphony, his dramatic Sibelius Second Symphony, and his probing 2005 Bach Prelude and Fugue in B minor from Book I of the Well-Tempered Clavier. Among the less well-known, there's his demonic 1965 Bach D minor Concerto, his mammoth 1974 Prokofiev Second Concerto, his blustery 1984 Beethoven Bagatelle, his evocative live 1998 Tchaikovsky Méditation, and his evanescent 1999 Chopin Barcarolle. Throughout, whether as pianist or conductor, Ashkenazy's unique blend of lyric poetry and epic virtuosity, of...
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