More By Artist: Ax
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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 |
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... |
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. |
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 |
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 |
BRAHMS / MOZART / SAINT-GEORGES / BRUCH / MENDELSSOHN / SARASATE / etc
Jaime Laredo - The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection Jaime Laredo (violin/viola) with Emanuel Ax (piano) Vladimir Sokoloff (piano), Yo Yo Ma (cello), Rudolf Serkin (piano), Isaac Stern (violin), etc [ Sony Classical / 22 CD Box Set - released 11/Jun/2021 ] The complete recordings by Grammy-winning violinist Jaime Laredo in a single 23-CD edition in celebration of his 80th birthday June 7, 2021. |
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 |
BEETHOVEN / SIBELIUS / HAYDN / DEBUSSY / BERNSTEIN
Leonard Bernstein Vol 1 Various orchestras conducted by Leonard Bernstein, with James Taylor, Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Peter Serkin, Emanuel Ax (pianos), Yo-Yo Ma (cello) [ C Major DVD / 6 DVD Box Set - released 20/Sep/2017 ] A box set celebrating Leonard Bernstein's upcoming 100th birthday including concerts with the Wiener Philharmoniker and the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia as well as the prizewinning documentary Leonard Bernstein: Larger than... |
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. |
BEETHOVEN / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / COPLAND / RACHMANNOV / BRITTEN / etc
The Classic Andre Previn Andre Previn (piano / conductor) with Emanuel Ax, Cecile Lucad, Leonard Pennario, Alicia de Larrocha, Julian Bream, etc [ Sony Classical / 55 CD Box Set - released 3/May/2019 ] The Los Angeles Times called him a "candidate for most versatile American musician, past or present". In an unparalleled career extending over seven decades, André Previn has won four Academy Awards and ten Grammy Awards and admirers worldwide as a... |
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Ax
You'Ve Been So Bad [ Rise Above / 10in - released 13/Sep/2010 ] |
BEETHOVEN / SCHUMANN / CHOPIN / SCHUBERT / LISZT / RAVEL
Emanuel Ax - The Complete RCA Album Collection Emanuel Ax (piano) with Isaac Stern, Jaime Laredo, Yo-Yo Ma, Guarneri Quartet, Håkan Hagegård, etc [ Sony Classics / 23 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2018 ] 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... |
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... |
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. |
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... |
LISZT
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. |
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) |
