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Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2; Sonata in B minor Emmanuel Ax (piano) / The Philharmonia Orchestra / Esa-Pekka Salonen [ Sony Classic Library / CD - released 17/Sep/2005 ] Pianist Emmanuel Ax captures the Romantic grandeur of Franz Liszt's two piano concertos and his blockbuster Sonata in B minor. |
JOSEPH HAYDN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Haydn: Piano Sonatas 32, 47, 53 & 59 Emanuel Ax (piano) [ Sony / CD - released 16/Nov/2009 ] "There is no period-instrument rethinking here; instead, big-boned, handsomely played interpretations bring out Haydn's pre-Beethoven side." BBC Music Grammy Awards 37th Awards (1994) Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schumann: Humoreske Op. 20 / Fantasiestucke Op. 12 Emanuel Ax (piano) [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 20/Aug/1982 ] 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... |
BRAHMS
Piano Concertos 1 & 2 / Two Rhapsodies Op 79 / etc Emanuel Ax (piano) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra [James Levine] / Boston Symphony Orchestra [Bernard Haitink] [ Sony / 2 CD - released 25/Jan/2007 ] Born in Lviv (Ukraine) in 1949, Emanuel began to study the piano at the age of six in Warsaw. When the family moved to North America in 1961 he continued his studies at the Juilliard School under Mieczysław Munz, and earned his B.A. at Columbia... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Shostakovich: Trio No. 2 / Sonata for Cello & Piano Emanuel Ax (piano) Isaac Stern (violin) Yo Yo Ma (cello) [ Sony Artist Laureate / CD - released 1/Jul/1995 ] Recorded at Melodia Studio, St. Petersburg, Russia April & December 1994. |
GABRIEL FAURE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Faure: Piano Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 Yo-Yo Ma (cello) Emanuel Ax (piano) Isaac Stern (violin) Jaime Laredo (viola) [ Sony Music Expanded Edition / CD - released 1/Nov/1992 ] "The playing of Emanuel Ax and his distinguished colleagues does the music proud: it has stature and nobility, but also delicacy and reticence where appropriate" - Gramophone |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schwanengesang D.957 Håkan Hagegård (baritone) Emanuel Ax (piano) [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 20/Aug/1986 ] Recorded RCA Studio New York City. 1984 & 1985 |
FAURE / RICHARD STRAUSS
Violin Sonatas Itzhak Perlman (violin) Emanuel Ax (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 15/Dec/2015 ] "He and Emanuel Ax make a splendid partnership, giving commanding, thrilling performances…[their] evident enjoyment in the music is quite irresistible." (Gramophone) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven for Three: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 5 Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Emanuel Ax (piano) [ Sony Classics / CD - released 4/Mar/2022 ] "I wasn't expecting to be absolutely bowled over by Colin Matthews's arrangement of the Fifth Symphony, but I was - and still am...Matthews has done a most impressive job." Gramophone |
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 / Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58 Emanuel Ax (piano) / San Francisco Symphony / Michael Tilson Thomas [ San Francisco Symphony / Hybrid SACD - released 23/Aug/2011 ] "This pairing is a sure-fire winner - two of Beethoven's most venerated works, performed by musicians of acute sensibility and enviable faculties of interpretation...We expect the impossible from fresh recordings of the Fifth Symphony nowadays...but... |
HAYDN / BEETHOVEN / SCHUMANN
Diabelli Variations Emmanuel Ax (piano) [ Sony Classics / CD - released 20/Mar/2013 ] Widely considerd to be one of the best-known concert pianists of our time, Grammy Award winning American pianist Emanuel Ax (b.1949) releases this new CD, featuring Three works he has never recorded before. This release includes significant sets of... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 4 / Piano Trio No. 7 in B-flat major 'Archduke' Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Emanuel Ax (piano) [ Sony Classics / CD - released 6/Apr/2024 ] Like the artists' two previous Beethoven for Three releases, this new recording challenges the traditional distinction between chamber and orchestral repertoire, pairing the unforgettable Archduke trio with one of the composer's most internally... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 6 "Pastorale" / Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Emanuel Ax (piano) [ Sony Classics / CD - released 20/Jan/2023 ] "Kavakos, Ma and Ax play with profound sensitivity throughout, and the symphony's many magical moments lose next to nothing in translation." Gramophone |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Hope Amid Tears - Beethoven: Cello Sonatas Yo-Yo Ma (cello) Emanuel Ax (piano) [ Sony Classics / 3 CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] "Hope Amid Tears", the new album by Yo-Yo Ma together with his friend and pianist Emanuel Ax, presents Beethoven's five sonatas for cello and piano in the order in which they were composed, tracing an important arc in Beethoven's development. |
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You'Ve Been So Bad [ Rise Above / 10in - released 13/Sep/2010 ] |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Emanuel Ax plays Chopin Emanuel Ax (piano) with Pamela Frank (violin), Yo - Yo Ma (cello) Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Sir Charles Mackerras [ Sony & BMG Music / 6 CD Box Set - released 3/Dec/2017 ] Polish by birth and a victor of the Chopin Competition, Six CDs present Emanuel Ax's interpretations of a stimulating range of concertante, solo and chamber works by his compatriot. The two concertos are played with Sir Charles Mackerras conducting... |
LUDWIG vaqn BEETHOVEN / ANTON BRUCKNER
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 / Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 BLU-RAY Emanuel Ax (piano) / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink [ C Major Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 14/Aug/2020 ] Bernard Haitink together with the Wiener Philharmoniker gives a farewell concert at the Großes Festspielhaus at Salzburg Festival, leaving no doubt of being one of the best Bruckner interpreters ever. |
DVORAK / HERBERT / BRITTEN / BRAHMS / SAINT-SAENS / BACH / WALTON / etc
Yo-Yo Ma: The Classical Cello Collection Yo-Yo Ma (cello) / with Emanuel Ax (piano) / New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Kurt Masur, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, David Zinman, etc [ Sony Classical / 15 CD Box Set - released 21/Dec/2016 ] Excellent value, budget-priced x15 CD Box-set. The set features great works from the classical cello repertoire with compositions by 23 classical composers. |
BRAHMS / CHOPIN / DVORAK / BEETHOVEN / SCHUMANN
Yo-Yo Ma & Emanuel Ax: A Celebration - recordings for cello & piano Yo-Yo Ma (cello) / with Emanuel Ax (piano) / with Pamela Frank (violin), Richard Stoltzman (clarinet) Jaime Laredo (viola) [ Sony Classical / 21 CD Box Set - released 24/May/2019 ] A 21 CD box-set released on the 'Sony Classical' label - In celebration of the internationally acclaimed pianist Emanuel Ax's 70th birthday and his long-term musical partnership with revered cellist Yo-Yo Ma |
