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Decca’s Prokofiev compilation offers all of the composer’s concerted works in one three-disc package. The main attraction, the 1975 Ashkenazy/Previn Piano Concerto cycle, offers Ashkenazy’s
These are Vladimir Ashkenazy’s first recordings of these four works. Save for the Humoreske (previously reissued in Philips’ Great Pianists series), all are new to
This Trio release offers yet another incarnation of Decca’s evergreen Rachmaninov concerto set. The high quality music-making found in the Previn/Ashkenazy combination contributes to these
As with many digital recordings from the early 1980s, this set of Brahms Piano Concertos, both on LP and CD, suffered from a reputation for
It’s good to have Vladimir Ashkenazy’s lone disc of Prokofiev solo works for Decca (recorded in 1967) beautifully refurbished. The 30-year-old pianist took a less
Vladimir Ashkenazy’s 1999 recital devoted to late Chopin works may cover familiar stomping ground for this pianist, yet it’s hardly a case of “same old
For surface beauty and total professionalism you cannot go wrong with these performances, or with any others from Vladimir Ashkenazy’s Mozart Concerto cycle for that
It’s great to hear these performances on CD, freed from the low-level LP transfer that robbed particularly Mehta’s contribution of the necessary impact. Ashkenazy’s piano
Decca Legends squeezes all 80 minutes and 34 seconds of Vladimir Ashkenazy’s 1975 Rachmaninov Preludes onto a single disc, in its cleanest and clearest transfer
Out of these two concertos, the Tchaikovsky gets sonic and interpretive first prize. Its famous opening alone encapsulates everything that’s good here: a razor-sharp orchestra
