Editing Vladimir Ashkenazy (section)

== Career ==
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Ashkenazy has recorded a wide range of piano repertoire, both solo works and concerti. His recordings include:
* [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach]]'s ''[[The Well-Tempered Clavier]]''
* Bach's ''[[French Suites (Bach)|French Suites]]'' 
* [[24 Preludes and Fugues (Shostakovich)|24 Preludes and Fugues]] of [[Dmitri Shostakovich|Shostakovich]]
* complete sonatas by [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]]
* complete sonatas by [[Alexander Scriabin|Scriabin]]
* the complete works for piano by [[Sergei Rachmaninoff|Rachmaninoff]]
* the complete works for solo piano by [[Frédéric Chopin|Chopin]]
* the (almost) complete works for piano by [[Robert Schumann|Schumann]]
His concerto recordings include:
* the complete piano concertos of [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]] (conducting from the keyboard with the [[Philharmonia Orchestra]])
* three cycles of the 5 Beethoven concerti
::(a) with the [[Chicago Symphony Orchestra]] under [[Georg Solti|Sir Georg Solti]]
::(b) with [[Zubin Mehta]] and the [[Vienna Philharmonic]]
::(c) conducting from the piano with the [[Cleveland Orchestra]]
* [[Johannes Brahms|Brahms]] with [[Bernard Haitink]] ([[Piano Concerto No. 1 (Brahms)|No. 1]] with the [[Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra|Concertgebouw Orchestra]]; [[Piano Concerto No. 2 (Brahms)|No. 2]] with the Vienna Philharmonic)
* [[Béla Bartók|Bartók]] (with Georg Solti and the [[London Philharmonic Orchestra]])
* [[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev]] (with [[André Previn]] and the [[London Symphony Orchestra]])
* two cycles of the Rachmaninoff concerti
::(a) with André Previn and the London Symphony Orchestra
::(b) with Bernard Haitink and the Concertgebouw Orchestra

In public piano performances, Ashkenazy was known for rejecting a tie and button shirt in favor of a white turtleneck and for running (not walking) onstage and offstage. He has also performed and recorded chamber music. Moreover, Ashkenazy has had an acclaimed collaborative career, including an acclaimed recording of [[Beethoven]]'s complete [[violin sonatas]] with [[Itzhak Perlman]], as well as the cello sonatas with [[Lynn Harrell]], and the piano trios with Harrell and [[Perlman]].

Midway through his international pianistic career, Ashkenazy branched into conducting. In Europe, Ashkenazy was principal conductor of the [[Royal Philharmonic Orchestra]] from 1987 to 1994, 1989-1999 Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the [[Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin]] (initial name was Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dso-berlin.de/de/orchester/personen/biografien/vladimir-ashkenazy/ |access-date=24 November 2024 |title=Vladimir Ashkenazy - DSO Berlin }}</ref>and of the [[Czech Philharmonic]] from 1998 to 2003. Ashkenazy is also conductor laureate of the [[Philharmonia Orchestra]], conductor laureate of the [[Iceland Symphony Orchestra]], and music director of the [[European Union Youth Orchestra]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.euyo.org.uk/artists/directorEUYO.htm |title=European Union Youth Orchestra |access-date=23 October 2008 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080420171344/http://www.euyo.org.uk/artists/directorEUYO.htm |archive-date=20 April 2008 }}. European Unions Youth Orchestra.</ref> In July 2013 he became director of the ''Accademia Pianistica Internazionale di Imola'', succeeding its founder and director [[Franco Scala]].<ref>{{cite news | url=http://bologna.repubblica.it/cronaca/2013/07/15/news/musica_ashkenazy_nuovo_direttore_dell_accademia_pianistica_imola-63033612/ | title=Musica: Vladimir Ashkenazy nuovo direttore dell'Accademia pianistica di Imola | work=La Repubblica (Bologna) | date=15 July 2013 | access-date=12 January 2014}}</ref> His recordings as a conductor include complete cycles of the symphonies of Sibelius and of Rachmaninoff, as well as orchestral works of Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Scriabin, [[Richard Strauss]], [[Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky]], Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky.

Outside of Europe, Ashkenazy served as music director of the [[NHK Symphony Orchestra]] from 2004 to 2007. He was chief conductor of the [[Sydney Symphony Orchestra]] from 2009 to 2013.<ref>{{cite news | author=Joyce Morgan; Paul Bibby | title=Maestro's star power a masterstroke for orchestra | date=12 April 2007 | url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/arts/maestros-star-power-a-masterstroke-for-orchestra/2007/04/11/1175971183173.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1 | newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] | page=13| access-date=12 April 2007}}</ref>

Ashkenazy has recorded for [[Decca Records|Decca]] since 1963; in 2013, Decca celebrated his 50th anniversary with the label with the box set 'Vladimir Ashkenazy: 50 Years on Decca', including 50 of Ashkenazy's recordings as both pianist and conductor.<ref>{{cite web|title=VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY 50 Years on Decca|url=http://www.deccaclassics.com/en/cat/4785093|website=Decca Classics|access-date=17 October 2016}}</ref> As part of Ashkenazy's 80th birthday celebrations, Decca is releasing the 'Complete Piano Concerto Recordings' and 'Ashkenazy on Vinyl' in July 2017. In other media, Ashkenazy has also appeared in several films on music by [[Christopher Nupen]]. He interpreted the soundtrack of the film Piano Forest: works from the repertoire of Bach, Mozart, Chopin and Beethoven. He has also made his own orchestration of [[Modest Mussorgsky]]'s piano suite ''[[Pictures at an Exhibition]]'' (1982). There has been a CD produced of his works named 'The Art of Ashkenazy', and a biography of Ashkenazy, 'Beyond Frontiers', has been published.

On 17 January 2020 the artist management agency [[Harrison Parrott]] announced Ashkenazy's retirement from public performance.<ref>{{cite web|title=VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY RETIRES|url= https://www.harrisonparrott.com/news/2020-01-17/vladimir-ashkenazy-retires|website=Harrison Parrott|date= 17 January 2020|access-date=18 January 2020}}</ref>