Vladimir Ashkenazy is renowned for his performances of Romantic and Russian composers. March 2013 sees Vladimir Ashkenazy’s fiftieth anniversary as an exclusive Decca Classics artist, 50-CD Ashkenazy-Rachmaninov collection will celebrate a unique career that began in March 1963 for his legendary pianist. This release Rachmaninov Rarities  was  marked his seventy-fifth birthday (6 July 2012),  recorded as a final album of the composer’s music featuring the Seven Pieces (Moments Musicaux) Op.10, three Nocturnes, and ten shorter early works, including an unpublished ‘Song without Words’.

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