MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schumann: Humoreske Op. 20 / Fantasiestucke Op. 12

Emanuel Ax has been classed among the master pianists ever since his victory at the inaugural Arthur Rubinstein Competition in 1974. His long association with RCA began the very next year, with a spellbinding disc of Chopin and Liszt transcriptions ("virtuosity of the Michelangeli or Pollini class here", wrote Gramophone).

Recorded October 1981