I presume you guys saw this news too.
https://www.classicfm.com/artists/vladimir-ashkenazy/russian-pianist-conductor-retires-public-concerts/
https://www.classicfm.com/artists/vladimir-ashkenazy/russian-pianist-conductor-retires-public-concerts/
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I presume you guys saw this news too. https://www.classicfm.com/artists/vladimir-ashkenazy/russian-pianist-conductor-retires-public-concerts/ |
I know this is almost a year old but I recently discovered this sad news and did not see any mention here on Agon. One of my favorite conductors growing up. https://www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/obituaries/andre-previn-de... |
Here's one final Liszt recommendation: Geoffrey Tozer, Liszt Piano Transcriptions [just about everything/everyone other than the set of Schubert transcriptions] on Chandos. Very natural, good piano sound, and some fine pianism. Tozer is mainly a Medtner specialist, but he ventures into a number of quite different composers. |
While we are on a Liszt theme at the moment I have been listening lately to some stunning piano playing from Daniel Barenboim from 1973 to 1983. It is called The Romantic Piano 1 and it is on Idagio at the moment with a complete set of the Chopin Nocturnes , Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words and some stunning Liszt. He plays the Swiss Pilgrimage and also most of the Itallian one and some of the list Wagner transcriptions. There is also a superb account of the B Minor Sonata which I had never heard from him before. He really was some player before he went over to the dark side ( conducting ). |