Extractions: Name: Vladimir Ashkenazy Birth Date: July 6, 1937 Place of Birth: Gorky, Russia Nationality: Russian Gender: Male Occupations: pianist, conductor, recording artist Vladimir Ashkenazy Main Biography An internationally recognized solo pianist, chamber music performer, and concert conductor, Vladimir Ashkenazy (born 1937) has made music with some of the most prestigious orchestras and soloists. In addition, he has recorded a large storehouse of classical and romantic works. His virtuoso recordings have earned him five Grammy awards plus Iceland's Order of the Falcon. Born to Evstolia Plotnova and David Ashkenazy in Gorky (now Nizhni Novgorod), Russia, on July 6, 1937, Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy showed talent early in his childhood. He attended Moscow's Central Music School and the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied with Anaida Sumbatyan and Lev Oborin. In his late teens, he won second place in an international Chopin piano competition in Warsaw, Poland. In 1956, he won first prize in the Queen Elizabeth International Piano Competition in Brussels, Belgium. At the age of 23, Ashkenazy married Icelandic pianist and fellow student Thorunn Johannsdottir, who became his travel.....
Classical Music - Andante - Vladimir Ashkenazy On Sergei Rachmaninoff in Moscow to his intuitive performances as a conductor and pianist today. vladimir ashkenazy Any time is a good time to revisit Rachmaninoff, http://www.andante.com/article/article.cfm?id=15463&highlight=1&highlightterms=&
Extractions: 17th June 2005 The June Music Festival in St. Petersburg got off to a curious start. All but one of the pieces in the opening concert was in some way or another a transcription of music written for the piano. And even the one piece indubitably written to involve an orchestra, Chopin's First Piano Concerto , sounds happiest when the orchestra is forgotten and we can concentrate on the solo instrument. The conductor himself was a transcription in at least two senses: the Russian, and then Icelandic, pianist, and now conductor, Vladimir Ashkenazy. I am confident that the ambiguous nature of his own position and that of the concert programme were not lost on him. A refugee from Russia after his international career as a virtuoso blossomed in the 1960s and 1970s, (an episode discreetly omitted from the potted biography offered to Russian audiences), and chief conductor of the London Philharmonic between 1987 and 1994, he is justifiably received in his home country as a musical hero.
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Extractions: b. 1937 Gorky, Russia Vladimir Ashkenazy seems to be focusing more on conducting nowadays than the piano. Perhaps it is for the better, since he has done decent work with the orchestra (his Sibelius symphonies, for instance). In an interview with Polish pianist Janina Fialkowska, she named the two pianists with the most infallible fingers: Pollini and Ashkenazy. Everyone else is just human. Recommended listening: BACK
Nocturne For Piano No. 19 In E Minor, Op. 72/1, CT. 126 Godowsky The pianists pianist. Featuring Godowsky, Leopold. Release 1988 Featuring ashkenazy, vladimir. Release 1994. Label London http://www.mmguide.musicmatch.com/album/work_classical.cgi?WORKID=230292
Mazurkas (4) For Piano, Op. 68, CT. 96-99 Featuring ashkenazy, vladimir. Release 1987. Label London as in thepieces of Liszt, but in the expressive quality required by the pianist http://www.mmguide.musicmatch.com/album/work_classical.cgi?WORKID=92260
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Extractions: Skip to main navigation Vladimir Ashkenazy has often been quoted as saying that for him music is indivisible. This conviction is borne out by his passionate engagement with so many different aspects of music-making, whether as conductor, piano recitalist or chamber musician or as the architect of large-scale projects encompassing the full range of musical activities. The first part of his long life as a musician was devoted to the piano. Building on the foundation of his studies at the Central School of Music and Moscow Conservatoire and his success in winning second prize at the Chopin Competition in Warsaw in 1955 and first prizes in the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels in 1956 and the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1962, he spent three decades touring the great musical centres of the world, performing an ever-growing repertoire in recitals and concerts and appearing with chamber music partners such as Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Lynn Harrell, Elisabeth Soederstroem, Barbara Bonney and Matthias Goerne. During this time he built up one of the largest and most comprehensive recording catalogues of our day, encompassing almost all the major works of the piano repertoire. From the 1970s onwards, he became increasingly active as a conductor and held positions over the years with the
Extractions: He studied at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1962 Ashkenazy won the first prize in the Tchaikovsky competition and became internationally famous. Since 1970, Ashkenazy has also been active as a conductor, mainly for works by Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Sibelius. Since 1982 he lives in Meggen, Switzerland.
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Penn Special Collections-Winigrad 18 Subject ashkenazy, vladimir, 1937 pianist. Place Philadelphia. Date 1983.Collection location Box 1, Item 18. view all thumbnails of vladimir http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/photos/winigrad/018.html
Extractions: Conductor and pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy will serve as artist laureate of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in 2008, when Liverpool will be the European Capital of Culture, the London Guardian reports. The newly created post marks a homecoming of sorts for Ashkenazy, who announced his defection from the Soviet Union in Liverpool in 1967 and made his conducting debut with the RLPO. "Liverpool and the RLPO occupy a very special place in my heart," Ashkenazy said. "After many years, needless to say, I'm looking forward to conducting this superb orchestra again." Ashkenazy is the music director of Tokyo's NHK Symphony and the music director of the European Union Youth Orchestra.
MP3 Files DIMITRIS SGOUROS Classical Pianist London Philharmonia Orchestra vladimir ashkenazy In a live recording fromMunich s Philharmonie, the Greek pianist Dimitris Sgouros performs a number http://www.sgourosmp3.com/
Extractions: CLASSICAL PIANIST Biography of Dimitris Sgouros TOP PICKS - LIVE PERFORMANCES Liszt Rigoletto Paraphrase (encore) 1989 Sydney Opera House Download MP3 (4.8 Mb) Listen Lo Fi Play Hi Fi Play Liszt Mephisto Waltz No 1 1987 Melbourne Concert Hall Download MP3 Offline - use Lo Fi/Hi Li links Listen Lo Fi Play Hi Fi Play Chopin Ballade No 1 in G minor Op 23 1989 Melbourne Concert Hall Download MP3 (8.7 Mb) Listen Lo Fi Play Hi Fi Play Chopin Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor Op 11, 3rd movement 1982 Caracas, Venezuela. Caracas Philharmonic Orchestra. (NB: Sgouros was only age 12 at the time!) III. Rondo Download MP3 (8.2 Mb) Listen Lo Fi Play Hi Fi Play LIVE SOLO PERFORMANCES Beethoven 32 Variations in C minor 1987 Melbourne Concert Hall Download MP3 Offline - use Lo Fi/Hi Li links Listen Lo Fi Play Hi Fi Play Chopin Etude in A-flat major Op 25 No 1 (encore) 1989 Sydney Opera House Download MP3 (2.7 Mb) Listen Lo Fi Play Hi Fi Play Chopin Fantasy in F minor Op 49 1987 Melbourne Concert Hall Download MP3 Offline - use Lo Fi/Hi Li links Listen Lo Fi Play Hi Fi Play Chopin Nocturne in C minor Op 48 No 1 (encore) 1987 Melbourne Concert Hall Download MP3 Offline - use Lo Fi/Hi Li links Listen Lo Fi Play Hi Fi Play Chopin Scherzo No 2 in B-flat minor Op 31 1989 Melbourne Concert Hall Download MP3 (7.6 Mb)
Extractions: @import "misc/drupal.css"; @import url(http://nicklewis.smartcampaigns.com/modules/codefilter/codefilter.css); @import "themes/tcrc/style.css"; @import "themes/tcrc/style.css"; @import "themes/tcrc/nav.css"; @import "themes/tcrc/main.css"; @import "themes/tcrc/headers-text.css"; @import "themes/tcrc/node.css"; @import "themes/tcrc/links.css"; @import "themes/tcrc/sidebar.css"; Sergei Rachmaninoff: Ossia Cadenza from Piano Concerto No. 3 in d-minor Op. 30 Performed by Nick Lewis Listen in MP3 Sergei Rachmaninoff Ossia Cadenza: Performed by Vladimir Ashkenazy http://nicklewis.smartcampaigns.com/trackback/16 December 15, 2004 - 6:42pm printer friendly version Thank you Submitted by Scott Dabney (not verified) on July 20, 2005 - 2:37pm. Nick... Thank you for sharing your clip of Rachmaninoff performing his own cadenza. Amazing... Here's to your continued adventures... Scott reply Ossia Cadenza op.30
Greg Sandow -- Rachmaninoff 3d Comparisons vladimir ashkenazy (53 seconds). With Andre Previn conducting the London With ashkenazy yes, the pianist conducting the Cleveland Orchestra http://www.gregsandow.com/rach3.htm
Extractions: This all started with a "Consumer Guide" I wrote for the Village Voice, New York's big alternative weekly. I listened to 17 recordings of this suddenly popular concerto, and wrote 17 quick paragraphs, with a grade attached to each one. Poor David Helfgott got an F; Vladimir Horowitz got an A, for his version with Fritz Reiner conducting. (Though a later Horowitz release, a live performance with Eugene Ormandy, only got C+.) You can read this adventure, right here on this site. Much later and by a happy coincidence I was asked to write about the concerto once again, this time for the Los Angeles Times. In fact, I was asked to defend it against critical attacks, which I was happy to do. The more I listened to it, for my Voice consumer guide, the more I loved it. And I enlisted two very articulate pianists to help me defend it Alexander Toradze, and Byron Janis. This piece, too, is available here But you want to hear the music my comparisons of six pianists playing the same Rach 3 excerpt. Click the RA icons below to hear the pianist of your choice, and if you have RealAudio 3.0 or higher installed on your computer you'll hear the excerpts "streaming" down the Internet in real time.
Greg Sandow -- Rach 3 Consumer Guide JeanYves Thibaudet/ Cleveland Orchestra, vladimir ashkenazy (London) Yes, it s ashkenazy, a/k/a the pianist. Since he knows this piece better than any http://www.gregsandow.com/rachguid.htm
Extractions: Village Voice, April 22, 1997 Another classical piece becomes a pop sensation, thanks to Shine and David Helfgott, who makes his second New York appearance on Thursday (April 17). And there couldn't be a better candidate than Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto.''Rach 3,'' as it's come to be known, challenges a heroic soloist to ride the tumult of the orchestra, lingering now and then for interludes of great romantic tenderness. ''Movie music,'' say the snobs, forgetting that Rach 3 is tightly constructed, and that it's bigger than any background score-epic enough, in fact, to be the film itself. To bring it off, you need a pianist with power, poetry, and also brains, so the music can be more than mush. These virtuosi come in two varieties, old school and modern. The old ones tell a more individual and, a severe critic might say, a more indulgent story. The modern ones sound sharper, clearer, and less Romantic, though on their own terms they generate a lot of heat. What follows aren't all the choices. But they'll show you what your options are. The grades run high, and the reason should be clear: This is one of the hardest piano pieces ever written, and except for one obvious unfortunate exception, nobody records it who isn't in complete command.
Extractions: Currently Available on London 455-405-2 (Digital Stereo). I hadn't realized it at the time I bought this disc (actually, it was a cassette, and I later bought the disc while stationed in Germany when the tape wore out), but I was being set-up for an education in "how to properly appreciate Sibelius." I bought these superb recordings at the Camelot Music store at a mall in Lynchburg, Virginia (a seemingly most improbable place) in 1983 while driving from my parents' home in West Virginia to Alabama, to attend my Army technical school, right off Christmas furlough and right out of basic training. Prior to purchasing this cassette, I had only previously been exposed to Sibelius' Second Symphony (A 1950's RCA "Living Stereo" record of Monteux/London Symphony, which I adore to this day) and his Fourth (a symphony which I would not fully appreciate yet for a few years) and the Jenson/Ormandy Violin Concerto . I bought the tape because I admired Sibelius' Second and Violin Concerto so much. At the time, I was only familiar with Ashkenazy as pianist, so it was a curiosity to me to see him on the cover, baton in hand.
Extractions: I have heard the future of Rachmaninoff pianists. His name is Jean-Yves Thibaudet. I've been aware of him being lauded as a great interpreter of Rachmaninoff, but have shied away from even listening to one of his recordings for a few years, because I feared the letdown would be too great, should he not live up to expectations (my breaking point came a couple of years ago, when I started hearing about this "wonderful new pianist, David Helfgott." I bought his CD of Rachmaninoff's Third Psycho That spiel off my chest; now back to Thibaudet: His understanding of Rachmaninoff is totally intuitive Thibaudet's performance of the Fourth Concerto exemplifies this observation. A very difficult piece to perform properly, this is the most satisfying recording I've heard of it, aside from the composer's own. Although the Fourth is generally thought of as a "heavy" concerto (especially as performed by Rachmaninoff and Ormandy), Thibaudet's touch is the very essence of light. He does not play with as heavy a hand as his accompanist, Vladimir Ashkenazy, did in his excellent 1984 recording with Bernard Haitink and the Concertgebouw Orchestra. Even the chordal progressions towards the end of the first movement
Extractions: Pianist and Rachmaninov expert Vladimir Ashkenazy performs less-known solo works (and transcribed vocal pieces) from early in the composers career. RM WM 1 Moments Musicaux (6) for piano, Op. 16: 1. Andantino B flat minor 2 Moments Musicaux (6) for piano, Op. 16: 2. Allegretto E flat minor 3 Moments Musicaux (6) for piano, Op. 16: 3. Andante cantabile B minor 4 Moments Musicaux (6) for piano, Op. 16: 4. Presto E minor 5 Moments Musicaux (6) for piano, Op. 16: 5. Adagio sostenuto D flat major 6 Moments Musicaux (6) for piano, Op. 16: 6. Maestoso C major 7 Morceaux de fantaisie (5), for piano, Op. 3: 1. Élégie E flat minor 8 Morceaux de fantaisie (5), for piano, Op. 3: 2. Prélude C sharp minor
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