Debussy; Ravel - Music for Two Pianos (Vladimir & Vovka Ashkenazy)

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Composer: Claude Debussy; Maurice Ravel

• Debussy - En blanc et noir
• Debussy - Jeux (arr. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet)
• Debussy - Lindaraja
• Ravel - Entre cloches (from Sites auriculaires)
• Ravel - Rapsodie espagnole
• Ravel - La Valse

Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano

Vovka Ashkenazy, piano

Date: 2009

Label: Decca

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Igor Stravinsky - Chamber Works & Rarities (Vladimir Ashkenazy; Charles Dutoit)

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Composer: Igor Stravinsky

CD1

• Ragtime for 11 players
• Octet for wind instruments
• Three Pieces for clarinet solo
• The Soldier's Tale - Suite for violin, clarinet and piano
• Pastorale for violin, oboe, cor anglais, clarinet and bassoon
• Concertino for 12 instruments
• Septet
• Epitaphium for flute, clarinet and harp
• Concerto for two pianos

CD2

• Concerto in E flat major "Dumbarton Oaks"
• Danses concertante
• Concerto in D for strings
• Quatre Études
• Four Norwegian Moods
• Suite No. 1
• Suite No. 2

European Soloists Ensemble

Dimitri Ashkenazy, clarinet

Andrei Gavrilov, piano

Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano & director

Sinfonietta de Montréal / Charles Dutoit, conductor

Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal / Charles Dutoit, conductor

Cleveland Orchestra / Riccardo Chailly, conductor

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Ernest Ansermet, conductor

Compilation: 2003

Label: Decca

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Alexander Scriabin; Alexander Nemtin - Preparation for the Final Mystery (Vladimir Ashkenazy)

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Composer: Alexander Scriabin

Realised by Alexander Nemtin

• Nuances, ballet (Scriabin's piano pieces, orch. Nemtin)
• Preparation for the Final Mystery - Part I. Universe
• Preparation for the Final Mystery - Part II. Mankind
• Preparation for the Final Mystery - Part III. Transfiguration

Alexei Lubimov, piano

Alexandre Ghindin, piano

Thomas Trotter, organ

Anne-Kristiina Kaappola, soprano

Ernst Senff Chor

St. Petersburg Chamber Choir

Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor

Date: 1999

Label: Decca

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Alexander Scriabin - Symphonies (Vladimir Ashkenazy)

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Composer: Alexander Scriabin

• Symphony No. 1 in E major, Op. 26
• Prométhée - Le Poème du feu, Op. 60
• Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 29
• Piano Concerto in F minor, Op. 20
• Rêverie, Op. 24
• Symphony No. 3, Op. 43 'Le Divin Poème'
• Le Poème de l'extase, Op. 54

Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor

Date: 1990-1995

Label: Decca

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Sergei Rachmaninov - Moments musicaux; Morceaux de fantasie (Vladimir Ashkenazy)

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Composer: Sergei Rachmaninov

• 6 Moments musicaux, Op. 16
• 5 Morceaux de fantasie, Op. 3
• Fragment (1917)
• Prelude in D minor, Op. posth (1917)
• How beautiful it is here (Zdes' khorosho), Op. 21, No. 7 (transcribed for piano)
• Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14 (transcr. Zoltán Kocsis)

Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano

Date: 2005

Label: Decca

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Sergei Rachmaninov - Piano Transcriptions (Vladimir Ashkenazy)

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Arranger: Sergei Rachmaninov

1. Johann Sebastian Bach - Violin Partita in E major: I. Preludio
2. Johann Sebastian Bach - Violin Partita in E major: III. Gavotte
3. Johann Sebastian Bach - Violin Partita in E major: VI. Gigue
4. Franz Schubert - "Wohin?"
5. Felix Mendelssohn - Scherzo (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
6. Georges Bizet - Minuet (L'Arlésienne Suite No. 1)
7. Modest Mussorgsky - Hopak (Sorochintsy Fair)
8. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Flight of the Bumblebee
9. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Lullaby, Op. 16 No. 1
10. Franz Behr - Polka de W.R. (after Behr's Scherzpolka)
11. Sergei Rachmaninov - Lilacs, Op. 21 No. 5
12. Sergei Rachmaninov - Daisies, Op. 38 No. 3
13. Fritz Kreisler - Liebesleid
14. Fritz Kreisler - Liebesfreud
15. Sergei Rachmaninov - Six Morceaux, Op. 11 (piano, four hands): I. Barcarolle
16. Sergei Rachmaninov - Six Morceaux, Op. 11 (piano, four hands): II. Scherzo
17. Sergei Rachmaninov - Six Morceaux, Op. 11 (piano, four hands): III. Thème russe
18. Sergei Rachmaninov - Six Morceaux, Op. 11 (piano, four hands): IV. Valse
19. Sergei Rachmaninov - Six Morceaux, Op. 11 (piano, four hands): V. Romance
20. Sergei Rachmaninov - Six Morceaux, Op. 11 (piano, four hands): VI. Glory
21. Sergei Rachmaninov - Waltz (piano, six hands)
22. Sergei Rachmaninov - Romance (piano, six hands)
23. Sergei Rachmaninov - Italian Polka (piano, four hands, and trumpet)
24. John Stafford Smith - The Star-Spangled Banner

Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano

Vovka Ashkenazy & Dody Ashkenazy, piano

Alastair Mackie, trumpet

Date: 2002

Label: Decca

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Sergei Rachmaninov - Preludes (Vladimir Ashkenazy)

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Composer: Sergei Rachmaninov

• Prelude in C sharp minor, Op. 3 No. 2
• 10 Preludes, Op. 23
• 13 Preludes, Op. 32

Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano

Date: 1975

Label: Decca

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Sergei Rachmaninov - Symphonies; etc. (Vladimir Ashkenazy)

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Composer: Sergei Rachmaninov

CD1:

• Symphony No. 1 in D minor, Op. 13
• Symphonic Dances, Op. 45

CD2:

• Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27
• The Isle of the Dead, Op. 29

CD3:

• Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44
• The Bells, Op. 35

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor

Date: 1998

Label: Decca

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