Stefan Askenase - Askenase plays Chopin, Liszt & Mendelssohn (2023)

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Title: Askenase plays Chopin, Liszt & Mendelssohn
Year Of Release: 2023
Label: UMG Recordings, Inc.
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 5:15:08
Total Size: 952 MB
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Tracklist:

01. 1. in C major
02. 2. in A minor
03. 3. in G major
04. 4. in E minor
05. 5. in D major
06. 6. in B minor
07. 7. in A major
08. 8. in F sharp minor
09. 9. in E major
10. 10. in C sharp minor
11. 11. in B major
12. 12. in G sharp minor
13. 13. in F sharp major
14. 15. in D flat major ("Raindrop")
15. 16. in B flat minor
16. 17. in A flat major
17. 18. in F minor
18. 19. in E flat major
19. 20. in C minor
20. 21. in B flat major
21. 22. in G minor
22. 23. in F major
23. 24. in D minor
24. Liszt: Liebestraum No. 3 in A flat, S.541 No. 3
25. No. 2 in A minor (Andante espressivo)
26. Liszt: Valse oubliée No. 1 in F sharp, S.215
27. No. 2 Scherzo in E minor
28. No. 1 in E (Andante con moto) "Sweet Remembrance"
29. Chopin: Waltz No. 14 in E Minor, Op. posth.
30. Chopin: Waltz No. 2 in A-Flat Major, Op. 34 No. 1 "Valse brillante"
31. Chopin: Waltz No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 34 No. 2
32. Chopin: Waltz No. 4 in F Major, Op. 34 No. 3
33. Chopin: Waltz No. 5 in A-Flat Major, Op. 42 "Grande valse"
34. Chopin: Waltz No. 6 in D-Flat Major, Op. 64 No. 1 "Minute"
35. Chopin: Waltz No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 64 No. 2
36. Chopin: Waltz No. 8 in A-Flat Major, Op. 64 No. 3
37. Chopin: Waltz No. 9 in A-Flat Major, Op. 69 No. 1 "Farewell"
38. Chopin: Waltz No. 10 in B Minor, Op. 69 No. 2
39. Chopin: Waltz No. 11 in G-Flat Major, Op. 70 No. 1
40. Chopin: Waltz No. 12 in F Minor / A-Flat Major, Op. 70 No. 2
41. Chopin: Waltz No. 13 in D-Flat Major, Op. 70 No. 3
42. Chopin: Waltz No. 1 in E-Flat Major, Op. 18 "Grande valse brillante"
43. Chopin: Berceuse in D flat, Op. 57
44. Impromptu No. 2 in F sharp, Op. 36
45. Impromptu No. 3 in G flat, Op. 51
46. Impromptu No. 4 in C sharp minor, Op. 66 "Fantaisie-Impromptu"
47. Impromptu No. 1 in A flat, Op. 29
48. Chopin: Scherzo No. 3 in C sharp minor, Op. 39
49. 1. Mazurka in C sharp minor: Maestoso
50. 2. Mazurka in E minor: Andantino
51. 3. Mazurka in B Major: Animato
52. 4. Mazurka in A flat Major: Allegretto
53. Chopin: Mazurka No. 32 In C Sharp Minor Op. 50 No. 3
54. 1. Grave - Doppio movimento
55. 2. Scherzo - Più lento - Tempo I
56. 3. Marche funèbre (Lento)
57. 4. Finale (Presto)
58. 1. Allegro maestoso
59. 2. Scherzo (Molto vivace)
60. 3. Largo
61. 4. Finale (Presto non tanto)
62. Polonaise No. 6 in A flat, Op. 53 -"Heroic"
63. Polonaise No. 3 in A, Op. 40 No. 1 - "Military"
64. Polonaise No. 1 in C sharp minor, Op. 26 No. 1
65. Polonaise No. 2 in E flat minor, Op. 26 No. 2
66. Polonaise No. 4 in C minor, Op. 40 No. 2
67. Polonaise No.5 in F sharp minor, Op.44
68. Polonaise No. 7 in A flat, Op. 61 Polonaise-Fantaisie
69. Waltz No. 1 in E flat, Op. 18 -"Grande valse brillante"
70. Waltz No. 2 in A flat, Op. 34 No. 1 - "Valse brillante"
71. Waltz No. 3 in A minor, Op. 34 No. 2
72. Waltz No. 4 in F, Op. 34 No. 3
73. Waltz No. 5 in A flat, Op. 42 - "Grande valse"
74. Waltz No. 6 in D flat, Op. 64 No. 1 -"Minute"
75. Waltz No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2
76. Waltz No. 8 in A flat, Op. 64 No. 3
77. Waltz No. 9 in A flat, Op. 69 No. 1 -"Farewell"
78. Waltz No. 10 in B minor, Op. 69 No. 2
79. Waltz No. 11 in G flat, Op. 70 No. 1
80. Waltz No. 12 in F minor/A flat, Op. 70 No. 2
81. Waltz No. 13 in D flat, Op. 70 No. 3
82. Waltz No. 14 in E minor, Op. posth.

Askenase was born in Lviv, then known as Lemberg, into a Jewish family.

At the age of five he began playing the piano with his mother, a pianist and pupil of Karol Mikuli. He studied with Theodor Pollak, a professor and director of the Ludwik Marek School of Music in Lemberg, then with Emil von Sauer, a pupil of Liszt, at the Vienna Academy of Music.

He recorded extensively the works of Chopin for the Deutsche Grammophon label in the 1950s and 1960s.

In 1965 he founded The Arts and Music Society, whose aim was to preserve the historical Rolandseck railway station upon the river Rhine. After its restoration the building became a venue for artists such as Pierre Fournier, Hans Arp, Oskar Kokoschka, Yehudi Menuhin, Martin Walser, Marcel Marceau, Henryk Szeryng, Salvador Dalí and Askenase himself.

His pupils included Martha Argerich, László Gyimesi, John McKay, André Tchaikowsky, Mitsuko Uchida, Naum Sluzsny and Mordehai Simoni.