Tag: Vladimir Ashkenazy
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The Young Malcolm Frager
Malcolm Frager (1935 – 1991), one of the greatest piano virtuosos to emerge from the United States, rapidly came to fame in the late 1950s following a series of victories in international piano competitions. His discography is comparatively small, but the consistently high acclaim among critics and pianophiles for recording he made for Decca, Eterna,…
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Ten Great Pianists of the Twentieth Century
“A rich treasury of pianism styles on display from 10 legendary performers, sampled here for collectors and chosen from the giants of the keyboard”
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Ashkenazy plays Chopin, Rachmaninov, Liszt, & Prokofiev
“Ashkenazy was in his early twenties when he set down these recordings … It’s inevitable that this evinces youthful fire but it’s accompanied by a tempering rigorousness of mind and of execution … what emerges, is precisely that elevated marrying of technical accomplishment and intellectual control, devoid of flashy gestures … where poetic richness is…
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Ashkenazy plays Chopin
Ashkenazy won second prize at the Frédéric Chopin Competition in Warsaw (1955), first prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels (1956) and shared first prize in the Tchaikovsky Competition (1962), after which his career took off worldwide. This collection is devoted to Chopin, whose works have been central to Ashkenazy’s career and for whose…
