{"product_id":"emanuel-ax-the-complete-rca-album-collection","title":"Emanuel Ax - The Complete RCA Album Collection (23 CDS)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/about_this_recording_transparent_black_shadow_2_2117ea39-fb9c-4383-b2cf-5101698d9e3f_480x480.png?v=1641839543\" alt=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/about_this_recording_transparent_black_shadow_2_2117ea39-fb9c-4383-b2cf-5101698d9e3f_480x480.png?v=1641839543\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/ABOUT_THIS_RECORDING_W._WORLD_2_f5fbb470-fe3b-4d6d-b298-853aac027cc2_480x480.png?v=1610293241\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmanuel 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith 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 and Die 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElsewhere, 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, Dvo?ák 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOf 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”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/WORKS_WITH_GLOBE_1_d6322ae1-d35e-4bc8-a55c-162eaeae558b_480x480.png?v=1610293259\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/TRACK_LISTING_WITH_WORLD_transparent_blue_background_correct_version_3f509f59-fe4f-4f86-9886-843a741b8836_480x480.png?v=1641838621\" alt=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/TRACK_LISTING_WITH_WORLD_transparent_blue_background_correct_version_3f509f59-fe4f-4f86-9886-843a741b8836_480x480.png?v=1641838621\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDISC 1\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChopin: Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 58\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSchubert-Liszt: Das Wandern   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSchubert-Liszt: Der Müller und der Bach   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSchubert-Liszt: Liebesbotschaft   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSchubert-Liszt: Hark, Hark, the Lark   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLiszt: Gnomenreigen   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLiszt: Etude in A Minor after Paganini   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDISC 2\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChopin: Grande Polonaise brillante précédée d'un Andante spianato for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 22\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChopin: Nocturne in B Major, Op. 62, No. 1   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChopin: Scherzo No. 4 in E Major, Op. 54 (1975 Recording)   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChopin: Polonaise-Fantaisie in A-Flat Major, Op. 61   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDISC 3\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeethoven: Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53 \"Waldstein\"   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeethoven: Variations and Fugue for Piano in E-flat Major, Op. 35 \"Eroica Variations\"   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDISC 4\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDvorák: Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81   Emanuel Ax, piano Cleveland Quartet\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDISC 5\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRavel: Gaspard de la Nuit, M. 55   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRavel: Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRavel: Ma mère l'oye (Piano four hands)   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmanuel Ax, piano · Yoko Nozaki, piano\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDISC 6\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmanuel Ax, piano\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Philadelphia Orchestra\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEugene Ormandy conductor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChopin: Trois Nouvelles Études   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChopin: Scherzo No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 31   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDISC 7\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMozart: Piano Concerto No. 20, KV 466   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMozart: Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-Flat, K.482\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmanuel Ax, piano\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDallas Symphony Orchestra\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEduardo Mata, conductor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDISC 8\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeethoven: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57 \"Appassionata\"   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeethoven: Piano Sonata No. 26 in E-Flat Major, Op. 81a \"Les Adieux\"   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeethoven: Polonaise in C, Op. 89   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDISC 9\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChopin: Piano Concerto No.1 in E Minor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmanuel Ax, piano\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Philadelphia Orchestra\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEugene Ormandy, conductor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDISC 10\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSchumann: Humoreske, Op. 20   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSchumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 12   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDISC 11\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 in G, K.543   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMozart: Piano concerto No. 18 in B-Flat, K.456\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmanuel Ax piano\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePinchas Zukerman conductor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDISC 12\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeber: Grand Duo Concertant for Piano and Clarinet in E-Flat Major, J.204, Op. 48   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSchubert: Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in A Minor, D. 821   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmanuel Ax piano\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRichard Stoltzman clarinet\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDISC 13\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrahms: Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmanuel Ax piano\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCleveland Quartet\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDISC 14\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmanuel Ax piano\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChicago Symphony Orchestra\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJames Levine conductor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDISC 15\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSchubert: Quintet in A, D.667 \"Trout\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMozart: Serenade in G Major, K. 525 \"Eine kleine Nachtmusik\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmanuel Ax piano\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGuarneri Quartet\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDISC 16\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSchubert: Schwanengesang, D. 957   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHåkan Hagegård baritone\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmanuel Ax piano\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDISC 17\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1, Op. 38 in E Minor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2, Op. 99 in F\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmanuel Ax piano\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYo-Yo Ma cello\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDISC 18\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChopin: Ballades   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChopin: Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 35   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDISC 19\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, Opus 73 \"Emperor\" in E-Flat Major\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeethoven: Choral Fantasia in C Minor, Op. 80   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmanuel Ax piano\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew York Choral Artists\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoseph Flummerfelt chorus master\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew York Philharmonic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZubin Mehta conductor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDISC 20\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeethoven: Piano Concerto No 1, Op. 15 in C Major\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeethoven: Piano Concerto No 2, Op. 19 in B Flat Major\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmanuel Ax piano\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoyal Philharmonic Orchestra\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAndré Previn conductor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDISC 21\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeethoven: Piano Concerto No 3, Op. 37 in C Minor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op 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