Vladimir Ashkenazy - Ashkenazy Plays Chopin, Rachmaninov, Liszt, & Prokofiev Fulfilled By AEC After waking from a coma

After waking from a coma in an abandoned hospital

It was first played by RCM students in 1896 (including Holst and Vaughan Williams

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Rufus Washington and Big Red Anderson

Vladimir Ashkenazy - Ashkenazy Plays Chopin, Rachmaninov, Liszt, & Prokofiev Fulfilled By AEC After waking from a comaAshkenazy was in his early 20s when he made these landmark recordings, It's inevitable that this evinces youthful fire but it's accompanied by a tempering rigorousness of mind and of execution what emerges, is precisely that elevated marrying of technical accomplishment and intellectual control, devoid of flashy gestures where poetic richness is required it's channeled through an astute modernity. There is great clarity, no over romanticism, pedaling