Vladimir Ashkenazy
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Rachmaninov's Second Symphony has become one of his most popular works; here Vladimir Ashkenazy leads the Concertgebouw Orchestra in gripping performances of all three, including the notorious... —
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Building a Library, October 2005, First Choice
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Building a Library, December 2008, First Choice
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Building a Library, January 2010, First Choice
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Building a Library, March 2016, First Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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The Essential Borodin
RecommendedNicolai Ghiaurov (bass), Zlatina Ghiaurov (piano), Borodin Quartet
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Georg Solti, Edward Downes, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Jean Martinon, Ernest Ansermet
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Building a Library, November 2006, Highly Recommended
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James Ehnes plays Mendelssohn
RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Seattle Chamber Music Octet, Vladimir Ashkenazy
The Octet has rarely sounded more symphonic as Ehnes and his Seattle friends demonstrate all the energy and wit of chamber playing at its most dazzling. Ehnes gives an elegant, refined account... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2011, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, October 2021, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Rautavaara: Piano Concerto No. 3 & Autumn Gardens
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Autumn Gardens extends the Rautavaarian experience at least one step beyond the Seventh Symphony. You sense it especially in the animated finale, which begins giocoso e leggiero before a Baroque-style,... —
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Relaxing Piano
Leif Ove Andsnes, Fazil Say, Anne Queffélec, Shani Diluka, Alexandre Tharaud, Aldo Ciccolini, Dalal, Maxence Cyrin, Helen Jane Long, Carlos Cipa (piano)
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Ashkenazy makes the climax of the Adagio [in the Scottish] dramatically urgent rather than sombrely massive, and conducts perhaps the most ferocious finale on disc, steely trumpets to the fore.... —
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Building a Library, September 2008, First Choice
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Building a Library, June 2009, First Choice
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Prokofiev: Cinderella & Glazunov: The Seasons
Cleveland Orchestra and Royal Philharmonic, Vladimir Ashkenazy
The RPO playing is dainty and elegant, refined and sumptuous, yet the strings respond vigorously to the thrusting vitality of the Autumn Bacchanale. The Decca engineers...provide digital sound... —
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Stravinsky: Works for Piano & Orchestra
Olli Mustonen (piano), Dimitri Ashkenazy (clarinet)
Deutsches Sinfonie-Orchester, Berlin, Vladimir Ashkenazy
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Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Christopher Warren-Green (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy
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Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64
(complete ballet)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy
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