Vladimir & Dimitri Ashkenazy – Father & Son (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Vladimir & Dimitri Ashkenazy – Father & Son (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 53:53 minutes | 474 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: highresaudio.com | Artwork: Digital Booklet | © Paladino Media GmbH, Vienna
Recorded: 1–2 Sep 2012, 5 Sep 2013, Franz-Liszt-Zentrum, Raiding

“Father & Son” is the first complete album of Dimitri and Vladimir Ashkenazy as a duo internationally available. Dimitri Ashkenazy selected some of his favorite fantasies and fantasy pieces, and besides all-time hits such as Schumann’s Opus 73, there is music by the Swiss Romantic Johann Carl Eschmann to discover. A must for every music-lover!

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Sibelius, Glazunov – Violin Concertos – Esther Yoo, Philharmonia Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Sibelius, Glazunov – Violin Concertos – Esther Yoo, Philharmonia Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:02 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HighResAudio | © Deutsche Grammophon

Vladimir Ashkenazy collaborates with Esther Yoo in a new recording of Sibelius and Glazunov Violin Concertos with the Philharmonia Orchestra. Yoo first came to international attention in 2010 when, aged 16, she became the youngest prize-winner of the 10th International Sibelius Violin Competition. She made her London debut in 2014, performing Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3 under the late Lorin Maazel at Royal Festival Hall. That same year, she was a soloist on the Philharmonia’s South America tour under Ashkenazy.

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Dmitri Shostakovich – The Execution of Stepan Razin, Zoya Suite & Suite on Finnish Themes – Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Dmitri Shostakovich – The Execution of Stepan Razin, Zoya Suite & Suite on Finnish Themes – Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:05:37 minutes | 598 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: eClassical | © Ondine Oy, Helsinki
Recorded: 2013, Helsinki Music Centre, Finland

Shostakovich’s cantata The Execution of Stepan Razin is a moving and exciting late work audibly related to the Thirteenth Symphony, “Babi Yar”. Both use texts by Yevtushenko, and yet the cantata never has enjoyed the same degree of popularity and critical regard. The reason may be that it’s too long to serve as a coupling with the symphony, and Shostakovich never wrote anything else like it. His previous Socialist Realist choral works, like The Song of the Forests, are too obviously ideological in content, but Razin would make a terrific piece coupled to, say, Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky.

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