{"product_id":"emanuel-ax-complete-rca-album-collection","title":"Beethoven \/ Ax: Complete RCA Album Collection","description":"\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eComplete RCA Album Collection\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eArtist: \u003c\/b\u003eBeethoven \/ Ax\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eLabel: \u003c\/b\u003eSony Masterworks\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eProduct Type: \u003c\/b\u003eCOMPACT DISCS\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eUPC: \u003c\/b\u003e889854851927\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eGenre: \u003c\/b\u003eClassical Artists\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \n                                         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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.1 Disc 1 \u003cbr\u003e1.2 Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 58 \u003cbr\u003e1.3 Schubert-Liszt: Das Wandern \u003cbr\u003e1.4 Schubert-Liszt: Der Müller Und Der Bach \u003cbr\u003e1.5 Schubert-Liszt: Liebesbotschaft \u003cbr\u003e1.6 Schubert-Liszt: Hark, Hark, the Lark \u003cbr\u003e1.7 Liszt: Gnomenreigen \u003cbr\u003e1.8 Liszt: Etude in a Minor After Paganini \u003cbr\u003e2.1 Disc 2 \u003cbr\u003e2.2 Chopin: Grande Polonaise Brillante Précédée D'un Andante Spianato for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 22 \u003cbr\u003e2.3 Chopin: Nocturne in B Major, Op. 62, No. 1 \u003cbr\u003e2.4 Chopin: Scherzo No. 4 in E Major, Op. 54 (1975 Recording) \u003cbr\u003e2.5 Chopin: Polonaise-Fantaisie in A-Flat Major, Op. 61 \u003cbr\u003e3.1 Disc 3 \u003cbr\u003e3.2 Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53 \"Waldstein\" \u003cbr\u003e3.3 Beethoven: Variations and Fugue for Piano in E-Flat Major, Op. 35 \"Eroica Variations\" \u003cbr\u003e4.1 Disc 4 \u003cbr\u003e4.2 Dvorák: Piano Quintet in a Major, Op. 81 \u003cbr\u003e4.3 Emanuel Ax, Piano \u003cbr\u003e4.4 Cleveland Quartet \u003cbr\u003e5.1 Disc 5 \u003cbr\u003e5.2 Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit, M. 55 \u003cbr\u003e5.3 Ravel: Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales, M. 61 \u003cbr\u003e5.4 Ravel: Ma Mère L'oye (Piano Four Hands) \u003cbr\u003e5.5 Emanuel Ax, Piano · Yoko Nozaki, Piano \u003cbr\u003e6.1 Disc 6 \u003cbr\u003e6.2 Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor \u003cbr\u003e6.3 Emanuel Ax, Piano \u003cbr\u003e6.4 The Philadelphia Orchestra \u003cbr\u003e6.5 Eugene Ormandy Conductor \u003cbr\u003e6.6 Chopin: Trois Nouvelles Études \u003cbr\u003e6.7 Chopin: Scherzo No. 2 in B-Flat minor, Op. 31 \u003cbr\u003e7.1 Disc 7 \u003cbr\u003e7.2 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20, KV 466 \u003cbr\u003e7.3 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-Flat, K.482 \u003cbr\u003e7.4 Emanuel Ax, Piano \u003cbr\u003e7.5 Dallas Symphony Orchestra \u003cbr\u003e7.6 Eduardo Mata, Conductor \u003cbr\u003e8.1 Disc 8 \u003cbr\u003e8.2 Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 \"Appassionata\" \u003cbr\u003e8.3 Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 26 in E-Flat Major, Op. 81A \"Les Adieux\" \u003cbr\u003e8.4 Beethoven: Polonaise in C, Op. 89 \u003cbr\u003e9.1 Disc 9 \u003cbr\u003e9.2 Chopin: Piano Concerto No.1 in E minor \u003cbr\u003e9.3 Emanuel Ax, Piano \u003cbr\u003e9.4 The Philadelphia Orchestra \u003cbr\u003e9.5 Eugene Ormandy, Conductor \u003cbr\u003e10.1 Disc 10 \u003cbr\u003e10.2 Schumann: Humoreske, Op. 20 \u003cbr\u003e10.3 Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 \u003cbr\u003e11.1 Disc 11 \u003cbr\u003e11.2 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 in G, K.543 \u003cbr\u003e11.3 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-Flat, K.456 \u003cbr\u003e11.4 Emanuel Ax Piano \u003cbr\u003e11.5 The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra \u003cbr\u003e11.6 Pinchas Zukerman Conductor \u003cbr\u003e12.1 Disc 12 \u003cbr\u003e12.2 Weber: Grand Duo Concertant for Piano and Clarinet in E-Flat Major, J.204, Op. 48 \u003cbr\u003e12.3 Schubert: Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in a Minor, D. 821 \u003cbr\u003e12.4 Emanuel Ax Piano \u003cbr\u003e12.5 Richard Stoltzman Clarinet \u003cbr\u003e13.1 Disc 13 \u003cbr\u003e13.2 Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 \u003cbr\u003e13.3 Emanuel Ax Piano \u003cbr\u003e13.4 Cleveland Quartet \u003cbr\u003e14.1 Disc 14 \u003cbr\u003e14.2 Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 \u003cbr\u003e14.3 Emanuel Ax Piano \u003cbr\u003e14.4 Chicago Symphony Orchestra \u003cbr\u003e14.5 James Levine Conductor \u003cbr\u003e15.1 Disc 15 \u003cbr\u003e15.2 Schubert: Quintet in a, D.667 \"Trout\" \u003cbr\u003e15.3 Mozart: Serenade in G Major, K. 525 \"Eine Kleine Nachtmusik\" \u003cbr\u003e15.4 Emanuel Ax Piano \u003cbr\u003e15.5 Guarneri Quartet \u003cbr\u003e16.1 Disc 16 \u003cbr\u003e16.2 Schubert: Schwanengesang, D. 957 \u003cbr\u003e16.3 Håkan Hagegård Baritone \u003cbr\u003e16.4 Emanuel Ax Piano \u003cbr\u003e17.1 Disc 17 \u003cbr\u003e17.2 Brahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1, Op. 38 in E minor \u003cbr\u003e17.3 Brahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2, Op. 99 in F \u003cbr\u003e17.4 Emanuel Ax Piano \u003cbr\u003e17.5 Yo-Yo Ma Cello \u003cbr\u003e18.1 Disc 18 \u003cbr\u003e18.2 Chopin: Ballades \u003cbr\u003e18.3 Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 35 \u003cbr\u003e19.1 Disc 19 \u003cbr\u003e19.2 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, Opus 73 \"Emperor\" in E-Flat Major \u003cbr\u003e19.3 Beethoven: Choral Fantasia in C minor, Op. 80 \u003cbr\u003e19.4 Emanuel Ax Piano \u003cbr\u003e19.5 New York Choral Artists \u003cbr\u003e19.6 Joseph Flummerfelt Chorus Master \u003cbr\u003e19.7 New York Philharmonic \u003cbr\u003e19.8 Zubin Mehta Conductor \u003cbr\u003e20.1 Disc 20 \u003cbr\u003e20.2 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 1, Op. 15 in C Major \u003cbr\u003e20.3 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 2, Op. 19 in B Flat Major \u003cbr\u003e20.4 Emanuel 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