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About the artist Vladimir Ashkenazy

In the years since Vladimir Ashkenazy first came to prominence on the world stage in the 1955 Chopin Competition in Warsaw he has built an extraordinary career not only as one of the most renowned and revered pianists of our times, but as an artist whose creative life encompasses a vast range of activities and continues to offer inspiration to music-lovers across the world. Conducting has formed the largest part of his activities for the past 20 years and, following on from his period as Chief Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic from 1998 to 2003, Ashkenazy took up the position of Music Director of NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo in September 2004. Alongside his position with the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Ashkenazy continues to have a warm and rewarding relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra as their Conductor Laureate. Ashkenazy also holds the positions of Music Director of the European Union Youth Orchestra, with whom he tours each year, and Conductor Laureate of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. While conducting takes up a significant portion of his time each season, Ashkenazy continues to devote himself to the piano.

CDs and DVDs featuring the artist Vladimir Ashkenazy

CATALOGUE NR: A09CND  (barcode: 0814446010055)
RECORD LABEL: Christopher Nupen Films
FORMAT: DVD Video
PRICE: including VAT £ 23.50
RELEASE DATE: 01-Oct-2008

TITLE: Vladimir Ashkenazy - Master Musician
TRACKS: The Vital Juices are Russian. Ashkenazy the conductor. Ashkenazy on musical gifts. Sergei Rachmaninov's Corelli Variations introduced and played by Vladimir Ashkenazy.
CONDUCTOR: Vladimir Ashkenazy
ARTISTS: Vladimir Ashkenazy      

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Picture Format: NTSC 16:9 and 4:3 / Sound Format: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo & Dual Mono / Region Code: 0 / Duration: 100 minutes / Recorded: directed by Christopher Nupen / Subtitles: German English French Italian - Nov-2008 4 star BBC Music Mag.

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CATALOGUE NR: A08CND  (barcode: 0814446010048)
RECORD LABEL: Christopher Nupen Films
FORMAT: DVD Video
PRICE: including VAT £ 23.50
RELEASE DATE: 03-Mar-2008

TITLE: Itzhak Perlman - Virtuoso Violinist
TRACKS: I Know I Played Every Note. The Trout Remembered. Jacqueline du Pre Remembered. The Bach E major violin partita BWV1006. The Bach D minor violin partita BWV1004 including the great Chaconne.
ORCHESTRA: Philharmonia Orchestra and Aspen Chamber Symphony
CONDUCTOR: Lawrence Foster
ARTISTS: Itzhak Perlman   Vladimir Ashkenazy   Pinchas Zukerman  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Picture Format: NTSC 16:9 & 4:3 / Sound Format: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo and Dual Mono / Region Code: 0 / Duration: 165 minutes / Recorded: directed by Christopher Nupen / Subtitles: French Spanish German Italian - Apr-2008 4 star BBC Music Mag.

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CATALOGUE NR: 4529612  (barcode: 0028945296128)
RECORD LABEL: Double Decca
FORMAT: 2 CD Set  DURATION: 152 minutes
PRICE: including VAT £ 15.95
RELEASE DATE: 01-Jul-1997

COMPOSER: Alexander Scriabin
TRACKS: Piano Sonatas Nos.1-10. Quatre Morceaux opus 51. Quatre Morceaux opus 56. Deux Danses opus 73. Deux Poemes opus 32.
ARTISTS: Vladimir Ashkenazy      

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Ashkenazy is clearly attuned to this repertoire.. ..These are fine performances and are well recorded.' Penguin Guide. - Penguin Guide 3 star 'Ashkenazy is clearly attuned to this repertoire: he is as thoroughly at home in the miniatures as in the sonatas, readily finding their special atmosphere and colour. He is at his very finest in the earlier sonatas - the last three are given with brilliance and vision - and there is no lack of awareness of the demonic side of Scriabin's personality'

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CATALOGUE NR: TOCC0100  (barcode: 5060113441003)
RECORD LABEL: Toccata Classics
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.95
RELEASE DATE: 08-Feb-2010

COMPOSER: Antonin Dvorak
TITLE: Songs my Great-Grandfather Taught Me
TRACKS: Gypsy Songs opus 55 : Number 1 My song of love rings through the dusk / Number 2 Hey! Ring out my triangle / Number 3 All around the woods are still / Number 4 Songs my mother taught me / Number 5 Come and join the dancing / Number 6 Wide the sleeves and loose the trousers / Number 7 Give a hawk a fine cage. In Folk Tone opus 73 : Number 1 Goodnight / Number 3 Oh nothing nothing can change for me. Love Songs opus 83 : Number 1 Never will love lead us to that glad goal / Number 2 Death reigns in many a human heart / Number 3 I often wander past that house / Number 4 I know that on my love to you / Number 5 Nature lies peaceful in sleep and dreaming / Number 6 Lonely in the forest I stand / Number 7 When your sweet glances fall on me / Number 8 Oh my only dear one but for you. Four Songs opus 82 : Number 1 Leave Me Alone. Lullaby B194. Biblical Songs opus 99 : Number 1 Clouds and darkness are round about him - Psalm 97 / Number 2 Thou art my hiding place and my shield - Psalm 119 / Number 3 Give ear to my prayer O God - Psalm 55 / Number 4 The Lord is my shepherd - Psalm 23 / Number 5 I will sing a new song unto thee O God - Psalm 144 / Number 6 Hear my cry O God - Psalm 61 / Number 7 By the waters of Babylon - Psalm 137 / Number 8 Turn thee unto me and have mercy upon me - Psalm 25 / Number 9 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills - Psalm 121 / Number 10 O sing unto the Lord a new song - Psalm 96. Moravian Duets opus 32 : Number 11 Captured.
ARTISTS: Vladimir Ashkenazy   Josef Suk    

- May-2010 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Mar-2010 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Keeping it in the family: Suk plays Dvorak's songs on Dvorak's viola'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4732712  (barcode: 0028947327127)
RECORD LABEL: Double Decca
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 8.99
RELEASE DATE: 13-Jan-2003

COMPOSER: Bela Bartok
TRACKS: Piano Concerto Number 1 Sz83. Piano Concerto Number 2 Sz95. Piano Concerto Number 3 Sz119. Violin Concerto Number 1 Sz36. Violin Concerto Number 2 Sz112.
CONDUCTOR: Georg Solti
ARTISTS: Vladimir Ashkenazy   Kyung Wha Chung    

- Penguin Guide 3 star 'key recording'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4783706  (barcode: 0028947837060)
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: 7 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 33.95
RELEASE DATE: 10-Sep-2012

COMPOSER: Bela Bartok  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Bartok
TRACKS: Concerto for Orchestra Sz116. Dance Suite Sz77. Music for Strings Percussion and Celesta Sz106. The Miraculous Mandarin BB 82 Sz73 Opus 19. Divertimento - strings Sz113 : Suite. Hungarian Sketches Sz97. Roumanian Folk Dances for Orchestra Sz68. Cantata Profana BB100 Sz94 - The Nine Splendid Stags. Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Number 1 Sz36. Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Number 2 Sz112. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Number 1 Sz83. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Number 2 Sz95. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Number 3 Sz119. Bluebeard's Castle Sz48 Opus 11 (Bartok). Dances of Galanta. Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song for Orchestra 'The Peacock'. Hary Janos Suite (Kodaly). Serenade for small orchestra Opus 3 (Leo Weiner). Dance Suite Sz77. Music for Strings Percussion and Celesta Sz106 (Bartok). Psalmus Hungaricus Opus 13 - English Translation (Kodaly). Prinz Csongor und die Kobolde - Introduction & Scherzo Opus 10 (Leo Weiner)
ORCHESTRA: Chicago Symphony Orchestra and London Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Georg Solti
ARTISTS: Kyung Wha Chung   Vladimir Ashkenazy    

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CATALOGUE NR: 4756016  (barcode: 0028947560166)
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 9.19
RELEASE DATE: 10-May-2004

COMPOSER: Camille Saint-Saens  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Cello Adagios
TRACKS: The Swan from Carnival of the Animals (Saint-Saens). Vocalise Opus 34 Number 14. Meditation de Thais (Massenet). Adagio (JS Bach). Apres un reve (Faure trans. Milton Katims). Cello Concerto in E minor Opus 85 - Adagio (Elgar). Ave Maria (Caccini). Cello Concerto in B flat - Adagio (Boccherini). Traumerei (Schumann). String Quartet Number 2 - Nocturne (Borodin). Sicilenne (Paradis arr. Dushkin trans. Harrell). An die Musik D547 (Schubert). Reverie (Debussy). Prayer 'From Jewish Life' Number 1 (Bloch). La Wally (Catalani arr. Vladimir Cosma). Salut d’amour Opus 12 (Elgar). Valse Sentimentale Opus 15 Number 6 (Tchaikovsky arr. Rose). Kol Nidrei Opus 47 (Bruch). Air on a G string from Suite Number 3 in D BWV1068 (JS Bach). Clair de Lune from Suite Bergamasque (Debussy arr. C Palmer). Elegie for Cello and Orchestra Opus 24 (Faure). Andante 3rd movement from Sonata in G minor Opus 19 (Rachmaninov). Romance in D minor Opus 62 (Elgar). Beau soir (Debussy trans. Gretchaninoff). Sicilienne Opus 78 (Faure). Panis angelicus (Franck). Nocturne Number 2 in E flat Opus 9 Number 2 (Chopin). Cantabile (Paganini: arr. H Schiff). Liebesleid (Kreisler arr. Schiff). Adagio ma non troppo from Concerto in B minor Opus 104 (Dvorak). Berceuse - Dolly Suite Opus 56 (Faure). Organ Sontata Number 11 in D minor Opus 148 - Cantilena (Rheinberger). Melodie Opus 20 Number 1 (Glazunov).
ORCHESTRA: Royal Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Yehudi Menuhin and James Judd
ARTISTS: Lynn Harrell   Bruno Canino   Vladimir Ashkenazy   Julian Lloyd Webber

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CATALOGUE NR: 4758246  (barcode: 0028947582465)
RECORD LABEL: Decca The Originals
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 8.45
RELEASE DATE: 19-Mar-2007

COMPOSER: Cesar Franck  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Chamber Music
TRACKS: Sonata for violin and piano in A major (Franck). Trio for violin horn and piano in E flat major opus 40 (Brahms).
ARTISTS: Itzhak Perlman   Vladimir Ashkenazy   Barry Tuckwell  

- May-2007 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Penguin Guide 4 star 'after a magical opening, the first movement catches the listener by the ears'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4781090  (barcode: 0028947810902)
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.77
RELEASE DATE: 03-Aug-2009

COMPOSER: Claude Debussy  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Music For Two Pianos
TRACKS: En blanc et noir - for 2 pianos : Avec emportement / Lent Sombre / Scherzando (Debussy). Jeux (Debussy arr. 2 pianos). Lindara (Debussy arr. 2 pianos). Sites auriculaires : Entre cloches (Ravel). Rapsodie espagnole : Prelude a la nuit / Malaguena / Habanera / Feria (Ravel arr. 2 Pianos by Ravel). La Valse (Ravel).
ARTISTS: Vladimir Ashkenazy   Vovka Ashkenazy    

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CATALOGUE NR: 4660662  (barcode: 0028946606629)
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 19.99
RELEASE DATE: 17-May-1999

COMPOSER: Dmitri Shostakovich
TRACKS: 24 Preludes & Fugues opus 87.
ARTISTS: Vladimir Ashkenazy      

- Jun-1999 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Penguin Guide 2/3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: 4757425  (barcode: 0028947574255)
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: 5 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 26.59
RELEASE DATE: 15-May-2006

COMPOSER: Dmitri Shostakovich
TITLE: Piano & Chamber Music
TRACKS: 24 Preludes & Fugues Opus 87. Piano Sonata Number 2 in B minor Opus 61. 3 Fantastic Dances Opus 5. 5 Preludes. Lyric Waltz - Dances of the Dolls. Short Piece - The Gadfly. Spanish Dance - The Gadfly. Nocturne - The Limpid Stream. Aphorisms Opus 13. Polka - The Golden Age. Piano Sonata Number 1 Opus 12. 24 Preludes Opus 34. Piano Trio Number 2 in E minor Opus 67. Cello Sonata in D minor Opus 40. Moderato for cello & piano. 2 pieces for string quartet : Elegy / Polka. Piano Quintet in G minor Opus 57.
ARTISTS: Vladimir Ashkenazy   Olli Mustonen   Beaux Arts Trio   Fitzwilliam String Quartet

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CATALOGUE NR: BISCD719  (barcode: 7318590007198)
RECORD LABEL: BIS
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.95

COMPOSER: Dmitry Kabalevsky  (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: Concerto Number 2 for Cello and Orchestra opus 77 (Kabalevsky). Concerto in E minor for Cello and Orchestra (Khachaturian). Vocalise opus 34 Number 14 for cello and piano (Rachmaninov).
ORCHESTRA: Gotesborgs Symfoniker
CONDUCTOR: Vladimir Ashkenazy
ARTISTS: Mats Lidstrom   Vladimir Ashkenazy    

- Penguin Guide 2/3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: ODE6992  (barcode: 0761195069929)
RECORD LABEL: Ondine
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 4.99
RELEASE DATE: 01-Nov-2010

COMPOSER: Einojuhani Rautavaara
TITLE: 2010 Ondine Catalogue and CD
TRACKS: Piano Concerto Number 3 'Gift of Dreams'. Symphony Number 7 'Angel of Light'.
ORCHESTRA: Helsinki Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Vladimir Ashkenazy and Leif Segerstam
ARTISTS: Vladimir Ashkenazy      

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CATALOGUE NR: ODE10812  (barcode: 0761195108123)
RECORD LABEL: Ondine
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 8.45
RELEASE DATE: 26-Sep-2011

COMPOSER: Einojuhani Rautavaara
TITLE: Apotheosis: The Best of Einojuhani Rautavaara
TRACKS: Cantus arcticus. Clarinet Concerto : II Adagio assai . Autumn Gardens : III Giocoso e leggiero. Manhattan Trilogy : I Daydreams. Gift of Dreams - Third Piano Concerto : III Energico. Angel of Light - Seventh Symphony : III Come un sogno. Apotheosis. The original sound recording of Apotheosis from Aki Kaurismaki's recent film Le Havre.
ORCHESTRA: Helsinki Philharmonic and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Leif Segerstam and Mikko Franck
ARTISTS: Richard Stoltzman   Vladimir Ashkenazy    

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CATALOGUE NR: SBT1046  (barcode: 0749677104627)
RECORD LABEL: Testament
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 11.29

COMPOSER: Franz Liszt  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: The Young Ashkenazy volume II
TRACKS: Feux foliets. Mephisto Waltz Number 1 (Liszt). Ballade Number 2: 4 Mazurkas. 2 Valses (Chopin). Variations on a Theme by Corelli Opus 42 (Rachmaninov). Piano Sonata Number 7 in B flat Opus 83 (Prokofiev).
ARTISTS: Vladimir Ashkenazy      

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CATALOGUE NR: MELCD1001911  (barcode: 4600317119110)
RECORD LABEL: Melodiya
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 20.99
RELEASE DATE: 16-Mar-2012

COMPOSER: Franz Liszt
TITLE: Franz Liszt 200th Anniversary
TRACKS: includes Mephisto Waltz Number 1. Tarantella. Hungarian Rhapsody Number 2 in C sharp minor. Hungarian Rhapsody Number 6 in D flat. Piano Concerto Number 1 in E flat major S124. Les Preludes S97. Orpheus S96. Prometheus S99.
CONDUCTOR: Kyrill Kondrashin and Gennady Rozhdestvensky
ARTISTS: Vladimir Ashkenazy   Lazar Berman   Pavel Serebriakov  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded 1959-1989

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CATALOGUE NR: 4556852  (barcode: 0028945568522)
RECORD LABEL: Double Decca
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 10.85
RELEASE DATE: 01-Oct-1997

COMPOSER: Franz Schubert
TITLE: The Piano Trios
TRACKS: Piano Trio in B flat major opus 99. In E flat major opus 100.
ARTISTS: Vladimir Ashkenazy   Pinchas Zukerman   Lynn Harrell  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Both works date from Schubert's maturity and rank among his finest and most expressive music

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CATALOGUE NR: ICAD5101  (barcode: 5060244551015)
RECORD LABEL: ICA Classics
FORMAT: DVD Video  DURATION: 82 minutes
PRICE: including VAT £ 17.50
RELEASE DATE: 29-Apr-2013

COMPOSER: Franz Schubert  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Vladimir Ashkenazy
TRACKS: Impromptus D946 : Impromptu Number 1 in E flat minor / Number 2 in E flat. Fantasy Wandererfantasie in C D760 (SCHUBERT). Arabeske in C opus 18. Piano Sonata Number 1 in F sharp minor opus 11 (SCHUMANN).
ARTISTS: Vladimir Ashkenazy      

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Picture Format: NTSC 4:3 / Sound Format: Enhanced Mono / Region Code: 0 / Duration: 82 minutes / Recorded: Studio A Glasgow 22-Jun-1987 / Menu Language: English / Booklet Languages: English German French

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CATALOGUE NR: A13CND  (barcode: 0814446010093)
RECORD LABEL: Christopher Nupen Films
FORMAT: DVD Video  DURATION: 182 minutes
PRICE: including VAT £ 23.50
RELEASE DATE: 27-Feb-2012

COMPOSER: Franz Schubert
TITLE: The Trout / The Greatest Love and Greatest Sorrow
ARTISTS: Daniel Barenboim   Itzhak Perlman   Jacqueline Du Pre   Vladimir Ashkenazy

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Picture Format: NTSC 4:3 and 16:9 letterbox / Sound Format: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo / Region Code: 0 / Duration: 182 minutes / Recorded: directed by Christopher Nupen

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CATALOGUE NR: 4609912  (barcode: 0028946099124)
RECORD LABEL: Double Decca
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 8.99
RELEASE DATE: 13-Sep-1999

COMPOSER: Frederic Chopin
TITLE: Piano Works
TRACKS: Waltz Number 1 in E flat opus 18 'Grande valse brillante'. Waltz Number 2 in A flat opus 34 Number 1 'Valse brillante'. Waltz Number 3 in A minor opus 34 Number 2. Waltz Number 4 in F opus 34 Number 3. Waltz Number 5 in A flat opus 42 'Grande valse'. Waltz Number 6 in D flat opus 64 Number 1 'Minute'. Waltz Number 7 in C sharp minor opus 64 Number 2. Waltz Number 8 in A flat opus 64 Number 3. Waltz Number 9 in A flat opus 69 Number 1 'Farewell'. Waltz Number 10 in B minor opus 69 Number 2. Waltz Number 11 in G flat opus 70 Number 1. Waltz Number 12 in F minor / A flat opus 70 Number 2. Waltz Number 13 in D flat opus 70 Number 3. Waltz Number 14 in E minor opus posth. Waltz Number 15 in E opus posth. Waltz Number 19 in A minor opus posth. Waltz Number 16 in A flat opus posth. Waltz Number 18 in E flat opus posth. Waltz Number 17 in E flat opus posth. Scherzo Number 1 in B minor opus 20. Scherzo Number 2 in B flat minor opus 31. Scherzo Number 3 in C sharp minor opus 39. Scherzo Number 4 in E opus 54. 24 Preludes opus 28 : Prelude in C major / Prelude in A minor / Prelude in G major / Prelude in E minor / Prelude in D major / Prelude in B minor / Prelude in A major / Prelude in F sharp minor / Prelude in E major / Prelude in C sharp minor / Prelude in B major / Prelude in G sharp minor / Prelude in F sharp major / Prelude in E flat minor / Prelude in D flat major 'Raindrop' / Prelude in B flat minor / Prelude in A flat major / Prelude in F minor / Prelude in E flat major / Prelude in C minor / Prelude in B flat major / Prelude in G minor / Prelude in F major / Prelude in D minor / Prelude Number 25 in C sharp minor opus 45. Prelude Number 26 in A flat opus posth.
ARTISTS: Vladimir Ashkenazy      

- Penguin Guide 3 star 'Ashkenazy…combines drama and power with finesse and much poetic delicacy when called for'

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