Vladimir Ashkenazy - Chopin, Beethoven & Others: Piano Works '2019

Tracks list

Tracklist
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01. Ballade No. 2 in F Major, Op. 38
02. Mazurka in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 30 No. 4
03. Mazurka in A-Flat Major, Op. 41 No. 4
04. Nocturne in B Major, Op. 9 No. 3
05. Etude in G-Sharp Minor Thirds, Op. 25 No. 6
06. Etude in C Major Waterfall, Op. 10 No. 1
07. Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 45
08. Polonaise in A-Flat Major, Op. 53
09. Etude in F Major Sunshine, Op. 10 No. 8
10. Etude in F Major The Horseman, Op. 25 No. 3
11. Scherzo No. 4 in E Major, Op. 54
12. Barcarole in F-Sharp Major, Op. 60
13. No. 1 in C Major Waterfall
14. No. 2 in A Minor Chromatique
15. No. 3 in E Major Tristesse
16. No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor Torrent
17. No. 5 in G-Flat Major Black Keys
18. No. 6 in E-Flat Minor Lament
19. No. 7 in C Major Toccata
20. No. 8 in F Major Sunshine
21. No. 9 in F Minor
22. No. 10 in A-Flat Major
23. No. 11 in E-Flat Major Arpeggio
24. No. 12 in C Minor Revolutionary
25. No. 1 in A-Flat Major Aeolian Harp
26. No. 2 in F Minor The Bees
27. No. 3 in F Major The Horseman
28. No. 4 in A Minor Paganini
29. No. 5 in E Minor Wrong Note
30. No. 6 in G-Sharp Minor Thirds
31. No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor Cello
32. No. 8 in D-Flat Major Sixths
33. No. 9 in G-Flat Major Butterfly
34. No. 10 in B Minor Octave
35. No. 11 in A Minor Winter Wind
36. No. 12 in C Minor Ocean
37. S. 514
38. Etudes dexecution transcendante, S. 139 No. 5, Feux follets
39. Mazurka in C Minor, Op. 56 No. 3
40. Mazurka in A Minor, Op. 59 No. 1
41. Waltz in A-Flat Major, Op. 34 No. 1
42. Waltz in D-Flat Major, Op. 64 No. 1
43. I. Allegro maestoso
44. II. Scherzo. Molto vivace
45. III. Largo
46. IV. Finale. Presto non tanto
47. Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42
48. Piano Sonata No. 7 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83 I. Allegro inquieto
49. Piano Sonata No. 7 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83 II. Andante caloroso
50. Piano Sonata No. 7 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83 III. Precipitato
51. I. Allegro con brio
52. II. Introduzione. Adagiio molto
53. III. Rondo. Allegretto moderato
54. Maestoso - Allegro con brio ed appassionato
55. II. Arietta. Adagio molto semplice e cantabile


Vladimir Ashkenazy was born in 1937 in Gorky, then in the Soviet Union (now
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia). T hree years later his family moved to Moscow. When,
in 1955, he was the youngest of five Soviet pianists to be allowed to travel to
Warsaw to take part in the International Chopin Piano Competition, Ashkenazy was
by no means regarded as a child prodigy at the Moscow Conservatory where he was
by then studying piano. Nonetheless, his performance secured him second place
and subsequently the particular attention of Soviet cultural circles. That
attention proved justified when, a year later, Ashkenazy won the Queen Elisabeth
Music Competition in Brussels, as a result of which he was able to gain his
first experience of extended international tours. His reputation was finally
cemented in 1962 when he won the world-renowned International Tchaikovsky
Competition. In 1963 the Soviet authorities allowed him and his family to spend
six months in London, at the end of which they settled permanently there.
Vladimir Ashkenazy is regarded as the most exceptional pianist of his
generation.

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