Vladimir Ashkenazy: The First Recordings (FLAC)

Composer: Frédéric François Chopin, Franz Liszt, Sergey Rachmaninov, Sergey Prokofiev, Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy
Number of Discs: 4
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Profil Medien
Catalogue: PH19030
Release: 2019
Size: 962 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes

CD 01
01. Chopin: Ballade No. 2, in F major, Op. 38
02. Chopin: Mazurka No. 21, in C-sharp minor, Op. 30, No. 4
03. Chopin: Mazurka No. 29, in A-flat major, Op. 41, No. 4
04. Chopin: Nocturne in B major, Op. 9, No. 3
05. Chopin: Etude in G-sharp minor, Op. 25, No. 6
06. Chopin: Etude in C major, Op. 10, No. 1
07. Chopin: Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. 45
08. Chopin: Polonaise in A-flat major, Op.
09. Chopin: Etude in F major, Op. 10, No. 8
10. Chopin: Etude in F major, Op. 25, No. 3
11. Chopin: Scherzo in E major, Op. 54, No. 4
12. Chopin: Barcarolle, Op. 60

CD 02
Chopin: Études, Op. 10
01. No.1 in C major
02. No.2 in A minor “Chromatique”
03. No.3 in E major “Tristesse”
04. No.4 in C-sharp minor
05. No.5 in G-flat major “Black Keys”
06. No.6 in E-flat minor
07. No.7 in C major
08. No.8 in F major
09. No.9 in F minor
10. No.10 in A-flat major
11. No.11 in E-flat major
12. No.12 in C minor “Revolutionary”

Chopin: Études, Op. 25
13. No.1 in A-flat major “Harp Study”
14. No.2 in f minor
15. No.3 in F major
16. No.4 in A minor
17. No.5 in E minor
18. No.6 in G-sharp minor
19. No.7 in C-sharp minor
20. No.8 in D-flat major
21. No.9 in G-flat major “Butterfly Wings”
22. No.10 in B minor
23. No.11 in A minor “Winter Wind”
24. No.12 in C minor

CD 03
01. Liszt: Mephisto Waltz, No. 1
02. Liszt: Feux Follets (Transcendental Etude No. 5)
03. Chopin: Mazurka No. 35, in C minor, Op. 56, No. 3
04. Chopin: Mazurka No. 36, in A minor, Op. 59, No. 1
05. Chopin: Waltz No. 2, in A-flat major, Op. 34, No. 1
06. Chopin: Waltz No. 6, in D-flat major, Op. 64, No. 1

Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3, in B minor, Op. 58
07. I. Allegro maestoso
08. II. Scherzo. Molto vivace
09. III. Largo
10. IV. Finale. Presto non tanto

11. Rachmaninov: Variations on a Theme of Corelli

CD 04
Prokofiev: Sonata No. 7, in B-flat major, Op. 83
01. I. Allegro inquieto
02. II. Andante caloroso
03. III. Precipitato

Beethoven: Sonata No. 21, in C major, Op. 53 (Waldstein)
04. I. Allegro con brio
05. II. Introduzione. Adagiio molto
06. III. Rondo. Allegretto moderato

Beethoven: Sonata No. 32, in C minor, Op. 111
07. I. Maestoso – Allegro con brio ed appassionato
08. 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.