In Reply to: Šostakovic! posted by Ivan303 on February 7, 2013 at 12:29:01:
Vastly underrated..... Ashkenazy won't exactly win style points with a baton, but he's otherwise extraordinarily effective.
The only composer he does *not* do well with (at least to me) is Rachmaninoff...... Kind of Eugene Ormandy in reverse........... But his batting average otherwise is close to Charles Dutoit..............
In the YouTube world, Vlad and NHK teamed up to do Dukas' "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", this too is a fabulous performance.
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