The piano is one of the most popular musical instruments ... A once-in-a-generation talent. Vladimir Ashkenazy is one of the heavyweights of the classical music world. Born in Russia, Ashkenazy was ...

Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy (sometimes transliterated Ashkenazi ... he won second prize in the prestigious International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1955 and shared first ...

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Tchaikovsky dedicated his Piano Trio, his finest work of chamber music, to the “memory of a great artist.” A recording of it with violinist Itzhak Perlman, pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy and ...

Vladimir Ashkenazy is as big a name as it gets in the classical music world. He has performed in front of many of the world's top orchestras as a piano soloist and his recordings could monopolize ...

A brilliant young pianist covers two of the piano repertoire's best-loved works ... the magnificent St. Petersburg Philharmonic under the baton of the legendary Vladimir Ashkenazy. These are works ...

RUSSIAN maestro Vladimir Ashkenazy and the SSO continue their Beethoven cycle with two works that would have startled their original audience. By the time he wrote his fourth piano concerto the ...

The young South Korean pianist Yunchan Lim enters into rivalry with Maurizio Pollini (as an 18-year-old in 1960 for EMI and then 12 years later for DG), the young Vladimir Ashkenazy, Murray Perahia, ...

Eva Gevorgyan’s sprint through the Fourth Scherzo’s outer sections make nearly everyone else’s sound thick by comparison, yet I missed the rhythmic core and architectural concentration that you can ...

Vladimir Ashkenazy opens this hour playing Shostakovich's Prelude and Fugue No. 15. This piece is part of a cycle of 24 Preludes and Fugues by Shostakovich — a cycle which pays homage to Bach's ...

Vladimir Ashkenazy is a Russian-born pianist and conductor. Ashkenazy has recorded a wide range of piano repertoire, both solo works and concerti. In Europe, Ashkenazy was principal conductor of the ...