Description
56 CDs in original jackets spanning Ashkenazys 50+ years career on Decca.
Every recording personally selected by the artist
This collection is pooled from a vast recorded repertoire of over 150 solo and chamber recordings and represents a number of long unavailable items.
Includes the first international CD release of Mussorgskys Pictures at an Exhibition in its original coupling with Russian miniatures.
Features collaborations with artists such as Itzhak Perlam, Lynn Harrell and Elisabeth Sderstrm, with whom he enjoyed particularly long and fruitful collaborations, both on record and in the concert hall.
Includes a deluxe presentation hardback book with new essay by critic Jed Distler.
Tracklist:
CD1 CHOPIN:
1. Four Ballades; Trois Nouvelles Etudes
CD2 CHOPIN:
1. Scherzo No.4 in E, Op.54; Nocturne No.17 in B, Op.62 No.1 DEBUSSY: L’Isle joyeuse, L.106 RAVEL: Gaspard de la nuit, M.55
CD3 SCHUMANN:
1. Fantasie in C, Op.17; Etudes Symphoniques, Op.13
CD4 BEETHOVEN:
1. Beethoven: Piano & Wind Quintet, Op.16 MOZART: Piano & Wind Quintet, K.452
2. Jack Brymer, Terence Macdonagh, Alan Civil, William Waterhouse
CD5 SCHUBERT:
1. Piano Sonata in A Major, D.664; Piano Sonata in A Minor, D.784
CD6 CHOPIN:
1. Prlude No.25 in C sharp minor, Op.45; Four Scherzi; Barcarolle in F sharp, Op.60
CD7 PROKOFIEV:
1. Piano Sonata No.7 in B flat major, op.83; 2 Pieces for piano from Romeo and Juliet, op.75 (arr. Prokofiev); Piano Sonata No.8 in B flat major, op.84
CD8 FRANCK:
1. Sonata for violin and piano in A major BRAHMS: Horn Trio in E flat major, op.40
2. Itzhak Perlman, Barry Tuckwell
CD9 RACHMANINOV:
1. Suites for Two Pianos No.1, Op.5 & No.2 Op.17
2. Andr Previn
CD10 SCHUMANN:
1. Kreisleriana, op.16; Humoreske, op.20
CD11 SCRIABIN:
1. Piano Sonatas Nos.3, 4, 5 & 9
CD12 RACHMANINOV:
1. Corelli Variations, Op.42; 9 tudes-tableaux, op.39
CD13 RACHMANINOV:
1. Preludes Op.3, No.2; Op.23 & Op.32
CD14 SCHUBERT:
1. Piano Sonata No.17, D.850; Four Dances, D.366
CD15-19 RACHMANINOV:
1. Songs [Volumes 1-5]
2. Elisabeth Sderstrm
CD20 RACHMANINOV: SYMPHONIC DANCES, OP.45; RUSSIAN RHAPSODY FOR TWO PIANOS
1. Andr Previn
CD21 SCRIABIN:
1. Piano Sonatas Nos. 2, 7 & 10; Quatre Morceaux, Op.56
2. London Symphony Orchestra, Segal
CD22 RACHMANINOV:
1. Piano Sonata No.2; Etudes-Tableaux, Op.33
CD23-24 TCHAIKOVSKY:
1. Songs [Volumes 1-2]
2. Elisabeth Sderstrm
CD25 BRAHMS:
1. Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2
2. Lynn Harrell
CD26 MUSSORGSKY:
1. Pictures at an Exhibition (original piano version) TANEYEV: Prelude and Fugue in G sharp minor, op.29 LIADOV: A Musical Snuffbox, op.32 BORODIN: Scherzo in A flat TCHAIKOVSKY: Dumka, op.59
2. First international CD release of complete programme
CD27 RAVEL:
1. Gaspard de la nuit; Pavane pour une infante dfunte; Valses nobles et sentimentales
CD28 SHOSTAKOVICH:
1. Two Pieces for String Quartet; Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander Blok, Op.127; Piano Quintet. Op.57
2. Fitzwilliam Quartet, Elisabeth Sderstrm
CD29 RACHMANINOV:
1. Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor, Op.19; 2 Pieces, op.2; Melodie On A Theme By Rachmaninov; Lied in F Minor; Vocalise, Op.34, No.14 (Arr. for Cello)
2. Lynn Harrell
CD30 SCRIABIN:
1. Piano Sonatas Nos. 1, 6 & 8; Quatre morceaux, op.51
CD31-32 BEETHOVEN:
1. Cello Sonatas 1-5
2. Lynn Harrell
CD33 SHOSTAKOVICH:
1. Cello Sonata in D minor, op.40; Moderato for cello and piano, op.40a PROKOFIEV: Cello Sonata in C major, op.119
2. Lynn Harrell
CD34 BRAHMS:
1. Horn Trio in E flat major, op.40 SCHUMANN Andante & Variations in B flat major, op.46; Adagio and Allegro in A flat major, op.70
2. Radovan Vlatkovic, Georg Donderer, Mathias Donderer, Vovka Ashkenazy
CD35 BRAHMS:
1. Handel Variations; Piano Sonata No.3
CD36 CHOPIN:
1. 24 Preludes, Op.28; Piano Sonata No.3
CD37 SCHUMANN:
1. Fantasie in C, Op.17; Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op.26
CD38 RAVEL:
1. Trio pour piano, violon et violoncelle DEBUSSY: Sonata in G Minor for Violin & Piano, L. 140; Sonata in D Minor for Cello & Piano, L.135
2. Itzhak Perlman, Lynn Harrell
CD39 PROKOFIEV:
1. 10 Pieces for piano from Romeo and Juliet, op.75 (arr. Prokofiev); Waltz, op.96 no.1; 2 Pieces from The Love of Three Oranges, op.33b; 6 Pieces from “Cinderella, op.102 (arr. Prokofiev)
CD40 PROKOFIEV:
1. Sonatas Nos. 6-8
CD41 MOZART:
1. Fantasia in C minor, K475; Sonatas Nos. 17, 14, & 9 (K570, K457, K311); Adagio in B minor, K540
CD42 ROBERT & CLARA SCHUMANN: LIEDER
1. Barbara Bonney
CD43-44 SCHUBERT:
1. Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2 (Op. 99 & 100)
2. Pinchas Zukerman, Lynn Harrell
CD45-46 SHOSTAKOVICH:
1. 24 Preludes & Fugues
CD47 TCHAIKOVSKY:
1. Mditation, Op.72 No.5; Polka peu dansante, Op.51 No.2; Aveu passion Tendres Reproches, Op.72 No.3; Berceuse, Op.72 No.2; The Seasons, Op.32a
CD48 SHOSTAKOVICH:
1. Piano Sonata No.2; Three Fantastic Dances; Five Preludes; Lyric Waltz; Short Piece; Spanish Dance; Nocturne; Aphorisms
CD49-51 J. S. BACH:
1. 48 Preludes & Fugues
CD52 BEETHOVEN:
1. Diabelli Variations
CD53 RACHMANINOV:
1. Piano Transcriptions
CD54 RACHMANINOV:
1. Piano Trios Nos.1 & 2; Vocalise, op.34 no.14; Dream (Son), op.38 no.5
2. Zsolt-Tihamr Visontay, Mats Lindstrm
CD55 BLAKE:
1. Walking in the air; Dances for 2 pianos, op.217a; Sonata for 2 pianos, op.130
2. Vovka Ashkenazy
CD56 SHOSTAKOVICH:
1. Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2; Viola Sonata
2. Zsolt-Tihamr Visontay, Mats Lidstrm, Ada Meinich
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