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I’m surfacing from my summer hiatus with our “Firfth Tuesday” quarterly montage.

For this third montage for July, we conclude a three-part survey of soviet composers and performers with a set of Beethoven piano sonatas performed by Vladimir Ashkenazy, who left the Soviet Uniuon for the West in 1963.

Ashkenazy’s family moved to Iceland in 1968 where, in 1972, he became an Icelandic citizen. In 1978 the couple and their (then) four children (Vladimir Stefan, Nadia Liza,

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1. De Larrocha, Frühbeck de Burgos (cond.), London Philharmonic Orchestra (1984)




2. Haskil, Markevitch (cond.), Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux (1960)




3. Rubinstein, Jordá (cond.), San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (1957)

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1. Hahn, Wolff (cond.), St. Paul Chamber Orchestra (1999)




2. Shaham, Previn (cond.), London Symphony Orchestra (1993)




3. Stern, Bernstein (cond.), New York Philharmonic Orchestra (1964)

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1. Ansermet (cond.), L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (1949)




2. Abbado (cond.), London Symphony Orchestra (1980)




3. Chailly (cond.), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (1995)

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1. Rubinstein (1966)




2. Rubinstein (1939)




3. Kapell (29 various) (1952)




4. Rubinstein (1950)

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