Credits:

Vladimir Ashkenazy,London Symphony Orchestra,Andre Previn,Sergei Sergeevich Prokofiev

Description:

[Deutsche Grammophon, the world's oldest classical label with a history of over 120 years, and Decca, which will celebrate its 90th anniversary in 2019 and is home to conductor Seiji Ozawa, pianist Mitsuko Uchida, and other greats, will present an encore project of the "Classical Department Store" series, featuring evergreen masterpieces of the highest popularity and quality from both labels (including the former Phillips). The "Classical Department Store" series is an encore project of the "Classical Department Store" series, which collects the best evergreen masterpieces in terms of popularity and quality from both labels. The 50 titles will be released, 10 for each genre and 10 for each of the 100 titles in the "Classical Department Store" series that were ranked as runners-up in popularity in their respective genres. As with the previous 100 titles in the "Classical Department Store" series, the CD booklet includes a contribution by a popular novelist, "Me and Classics. The novelists introduce how they enjoy classical music. All of the CDs feature new, concise and easy-to-understand music commentary manuscripts. The best masters are used, and high quality sound SHM-CD & green color label coating are adopted to bring out the best potential of the masters. Three selected masterpieces from the complete Prokofiev piano concertos recorded by Ashkenazy, one of the greatest pianists of the second half of the 20th century, in his youth.The romantic and powerful performance with superb technique, coupled with Previn's sympathetic backing, has earned it a reputation as a definitive recording. If you want to hear a concerto by this composer, this is the first one you should listen to! [Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn conductor