Title: Complete RCA Album Collection
Artist: Beethoven / Ax
Label: Sony Masterworks
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 889854851927
Genre: Classical Artists

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). Over the next 12 years he released 23 albums on the label, spanning much of the great piano literature, and the complete set of his RCA recordings is now reissued by Sony Classical for the first time. With a 19th-century focus, the collection contains five CDs of Ax's famed Chopin, five more of Beethoven, several of Brahms, Schubert and Mozart, and many other classic recordings. Playing Chopin, wrote Gramophone, Emanuel Ax shows "all the relaxed fluency and tonal elegance of a master pianist". His performances on that LP, containing the Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise brillante and Fourth Scherzo, were "of a superlative distinction". Remarkably, Ax was only 26 when he recorded this album, in 1975. "Deeply felt and exuberant" (New York Times) performances of the Brahms cello sonatas mark his longstanding association with Yo-Yo Ma, while Ax accompanies baritone Håkan Hagegård in Schubert's Schwanengesang andDie schöne Müllerin. "Emanuel Ax is a diligent and responsive Schubertian," wrote BBC Music Magazine of a "Trout" Quintet recording with the Guarneri Quartet. Ax's "deeply insightful" (New York Times) interpretations of Beethoven's "Appassionata" and "Les Adieux" sonatas are joined here by the "Waldstein" Sonata and "Eroica" Variations, as well as a complete set of concertos with André Previn and the RPO, and a Choral Fantasy with the New York Philharmonic. "Ax is a first-rate Beethoven player," wrote Gramophone of his "Emperor" Concerto Elsewhere, Ax's virtuosity takes centre stage in a Ravel album including Gaspard de la nuit, while his commitment to chamber music is shown in Schumann, Dvorák and Brahms Piano Quintets with the Cleveland String Quartet, and a Weber and Schubert album with clarinettist Richard Stoltzman. Many fine concerto performances include four by Mozart, Brahms's First with the Chicago Symphony, and both of Chopin's concertos with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy Of course, there are more of Ax's legendary Chopin recordings as well, including the Second and Third Sonatas and the four Ballades. The Ballades, Gramophone wrote, are "a reminder of the awe-inspiring calibre of Emanuel Ax's Chopin

Tracks:
1.1 Disc 1
1.2 Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 58
1.3 Schubert-Liszt: Das Wandern
1.4 Schubert-Liszt: Der Müller Und Der Bach
1.5 Schubert-Liszt: Liebesbotschaft
1.6 Schubert-Liszt: Hark, Hark, the Lark
1.7 Liszt: Gnomenreigen
1.8 Liszt: Etude in a Minor After Paganini
2.1 Disc 2
2.2 Chopin: Grande Polonaise Brillante Précédée D'un Andante Spianato for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 22
2.3 Chopin: Nocturne in B Major, Op. 62, No. 1
2.4 Chopin: Scherzo No. 4 in E Major, Op. 54 (1975 Recording)
2.5 Chopin: Polonaise-Fantaisie in A-Flat Major, Op. 61
3.1 Disc 3
3.2 Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53 "Waldstein"
3.3 Beethoven: Variations and Fugue for Piano in E-Flat Major, Op. 35 "Eroica Variations"
4.1 Disc 4
4.2 Dvorák: Piano Quintet in a Major, Op. 81
4.3 Emanuel Ax, Piano
4.4 Cleveland Quartet
5.1 Disc 5
5.2 Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit, M. 55
5.3 Ravel: Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales, M. 61
5.4 Ravel: Ma Mère L'oye (Piano Four Hands)
5.5 Emanuel Ax, Piano · Yoko Nozaki, Piano
6.1 Disc 6
6.2 Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor
6.3 Emanuel Ax, Piano
6.4 The Philadelphia Orchestra
6.5 Eugene Ormandy Conductor
6.6 Chopin: Trois Nouvelles Études
6.7 Chopin: Scherzo No. 2 in B-Flat minor, Op. 31
7.1 Disc 7
7.2 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20, KV 466
7.3 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-Flat, K.482
7.4 Emanuel Ax, Piano
7.5 Dallas Symphony Orchestra
7.6 Eduardo Mata, Conductor
8.1 Disc 8
8.2 Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata"
8.3 Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 26 in E-Flat Major, Op. 81A "Les Adieux"
8.4 Beethoven: Polonaise in C, Op. 89
9.1 Disc 9
9.2 Chopin: Piano Concerto No.1 in E minor
9.3 Emanuel Ax, Piano
9.4 The Philadelphia Orchestra
9.5 Eugene Ormandy, Conductor
10.1 Disc 10
10.2 Schumann: Humoreske, Op. 20
10.3 Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 12
11.1 Disc 11
11.2 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 in G, K.543
11.3 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-Flat, K.456
11.4 Emanuel Ax Piano
11.5 The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
11.6 Pinchas Zukerman Conductor
12.1 Disc 12
12.2 Weber: Grand Duo Concertant for Piano and Clarinet in E-Flat Major, J.204, Op. 48
12.3 Schubert: Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in a Minor, D. 821
12.4 Emanuel Ax Piano
12.5 Richard Stoltzman Clarinet
13.1 Disc 13
13.2 Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
13.3 Emanuel Ax Piano
13.4 Cleveland Quartet
14.1 Disc 14
14.2 Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15
14.3 Emanuel Ax Piano
14.4 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
14.5 James Levine Conductor
15.1 Disc 15
15.2 Schubert: Quintet in a, D.667 "Trout"
15.3 Mozart: Serenade in G Major, K. 525 "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"
15.4 Emanuel Ax Piano
15.5 Guarneri Quartet
16.1 Disc 16
16.2 Schubert: Schwanengesang, D. 957
16.3 Håkan Hagegård Baritone
16.4 Emanuel Ax Piano
17.1 Disc 17
17.2 Brahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1, Op. 38 in E minor
17.3 Brahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2, Op. 99 in F
17.4 Emanuel Ax Piano
17.5 Yo-Yo Ma Cello
18.1 Disc 18
18.2 Chopin: Ballades
18.3 Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 35
19.1 Disc 19
19.2 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, Opus 73 "Emperor" in E-Flat Major
19.3 Beethoven: Choral Fantasia in C minor, Op. 80
19.4 Emanuel Ax Piano
19.5 New York Choral Artists
19.6 Joseph Flummerfelt Chorus Master
19.7 New York Philharmonic
19.8 Zubin Mehta Conductor
20.1 Disc 20
20.2 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 1, Op. 15 in C Major
20.3 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 2, Op. 19 in B Flat Major
20.4 Emanuel Ax Piano
20.5 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
20.6 André Previn Conductor
21.1 Disc 21
21.2 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 3, Op. 37 in C minor
21.3 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op 58
21.4 Emanuel Ax Piano
21.5 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
21.6 André Previn Conductor
22.1 Disc 22
22.2 Schumann: Piano Quartet in E-Flat, Op. 47
22.3 Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-Flat, Op. 44
22.4 Emanuel Ax Piano
22.5 Cleveland Quartet
23.1 Disc 23
23.2 Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795
23.3 Håkan Hagegård Baritone
23.4 Emanuel Ax Piano

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