Ashley Wass
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Not only does this gifted young pianist possess a rock-solid technique and striking keyboard finesse, his penetrating accounts of both these large-scale, single-movement sonatas make you sit... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2004, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Around the World in 80 Minutes
Coco Tomita (violin), Yume Tomita, Rebecca You, Jana Jakovljevic, Mariam Obolashvili, Vadym Perig, Robin Wilson, Ashley Wass (piano), Levi Andreassen, Nathan Perry, Mischa Carr, Alasdair Howell, Zeynep Özden, Richard Zhang, Henry Lin, Simon Nivy, Kotone Ozaki, Jason Zheng, Jude Usborne, Clara Wernig,...
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Jackson and Wass are well acclimatised to Bax's elusive idioms, and Jackson's sensitivity and sustained singing tone in places such as the Legend and the slow movement of the Second Sonata are... —
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everything is superbly developed and orchestrated, and there's no mistaking the cumulative power of a major statement...Ashley Wass brings impressive clarity and firepower to all three works;... —
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The Erlkönig Caprice and 'The Last Rose of Summer Variations' (last of the Polyphonic Studies) stretch violin technique to its very limits. Ilya Gringolts surmounts each hurdle with the brilliance... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2008, Editor's Choice
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This beautifully recorded collection of eleven short works is played with exquisite refinement by Wass. —
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Special offer. Bridge - Piano Trios
Jack Liebeck (violin), Alexander Chaushian (cello) & Ashley Wass (piano)
Frank Bridge's two piano trios make a natural coupling. The 1907 Phantasie Trio is a prime example of the ruggedly mellifluous chamber style of his early years… The much larger Trio No. 2... —
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Wass and the Tippett Quartet rise magnificently to [the Bax's] challenges, striking the perfect balance between sheer OTT grandiloquence and intense and genuine feeling...this is a thrilling... —
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Special offer. ConNotations
Mei Yi Foo (piano), Ashley Wass (piano), Bartosz Woroch (violin) & Philipp Hutter (trumpet)
Britten Sinfonia, Clement Power
The trio of concertos – each of which features piano plus another solo instrument – forms a surprisingly satisfying programme, with lighter, exuberant Shostakovich and Saint-Saens framing Berg’s... —
