ALBUMBeethoven: Piano Sonata No. 21, Op. 53 & Variations and Fugue in E-Flat Major, Op. 35Emanuel Ax
ALBUMEmanuel Ax Plays ChopinEmanuel Ax
ALBUMSchubert: Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795Håkan Hagegård & Emanuel Ax
ALBUMSchubert: Piano Quintet in A Major, D.667 - Mozart: Serenade No. 13 in G Major, K. 525 "Eine kleine Nachtmusik"Emanuel Ax
ALBUMBrahms: The Piano TriosYo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax & Leonidas Kavakos
ALBUMPiano Concerto No. 3 & Mass in CShenyang, San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Michael Tilson Thomas, Ragnar Bohlin, Kelley O'Connor, San Francisco Symphony, Emanuel Ax, Joélle Harvey & William Burden
ALBUMMozart: Piano Concerto No. 22, Mass in C MinorNew York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert, Emanuel Ax, Jennifer Zetlan, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Paul Appleby, Joshua Hopkins & New York Choral Artists
ALBUMRelease 8: Debussy: Pagodes from Estampes, for solo piano - Messiaen: Couleurs de la Cité Céleste - Mahler: Symphony No. 5New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert & Emanuel Ax
ALBUMBeethoven: Symphony No. 5 & Piano Concerto No. 4Michael Tilson Thomas, San Francisco Symphony & Emanuel Ax
ALBUMBeethoven: Symphony No. 9 Op. 125 "Choral" & Choral Fantasy ConclusionZubin Mehta, Dame Margaret Price, Emanuel Ax, Jon Vickers, Marilyn Horne, Matti Salminen, New York Choral Artists & New York Philharmonic
ALBUMMendelssohn: Piano Trios, Op. 49 & Op. 66Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma & Itzhak Perlman
ALBUMMendelssohn: Piano Trios Nos. 1 -2 & Songs Without WordsEmanuel Ax & Yo-Yo Ma
ALBUMStrauss: Enoch ArdenEmanuel Ax & Patrick Stewart
ALBUMChopin: Ballades & Mazurkas, Scherzos and Other WorksEmanuel Ax
ALBUMBrahms: Sonata for Two Pianos & Variations On a Theme By HaydnEmanuel Ax & Yefim Bronfman
ALBUMBeethoven, Piano Concertos Nos. 4 & 5Emanuel Ax, André Previn & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
ALBUMDvorák: Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 87 - Sonatina in G, Op. 100 - Romatic Pieces, Op. 75 (Expanded Edition)Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern, Jaime Laredo, Robert McDonald & Yo-Yo Ma
ALBUMAdams: Century Rolls, Lollapalooza, Slonimsky's EarboxChristoph von Dohnányi, Emanuel Ax & The Cleveland Orchestra
ALBUMCorigliano: PhantasmagoriaEmanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma & James Tocco
ALBUMEast West (Music from the Motion Picture)Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra, Emanuel Ax & James Shearman
ALBUMSchubert: Piano Quintet ("Trout"); Mozart: Eine kleine NachtmusikGuarneri Quartet & Emanuel Ax
ALBUMChopin: Piano Concerto No. 1, Grande Valse Brillante & Variations On "La Ci Darem la Mano"Emanuel Ax, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Sir Charles Mackerras
ALBUMBrahms: Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 83 & Sonata in D Major, Op. 78 ((Remastered))Emanuel Ax
ALBUMChopin: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Sir Charles Mackerras & Emanuel Ax
ALBUMChopin: Ballades Nos. 1-4 and Sonata No. 2 In B-Flat Minor, Op. 35 "Funeral March"Emanuel Ax
ALBUMMozart: Piano QuartetsYo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern & Jaime Laredo
ALBUMLos TangüerosPablo Ziegler & Emanuel Ax
ALBUMPiazzolla: Los TangüerosEmanuel Ax & Pablo Ziegler
ALBUMSchubert: Trout Quintet, Arpeggione Sonata & Die ForelleEmanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma & Barbara Bonney
ALBUMBrahms: Fantasies, Op. 116, Piano Pieces, Op. 119 & Piano Sonata No. 2Emanuel Ax
ALBUMBrahms: Handel Variations, Six Piano Pieces, Op. 118 & Rhapsodies, Op. 79Emanuel Ax
ALBUMBrahms: The Piano Quartets Op. 25, 26 & 60 (Remastered)Yo-Yo Ma, Isaac Stern, Jaime Laredo & Emanuel Ax
ALBUMBrahms: Sextets, Opp. 18 & 36Yo-Yo Ma, Cho-Liang Lin, Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern, Jaime Laredo, Michael Tree & Sharon Robinson
ALBUMBrahms: Sonatas for Cello & Piano, Opp. 38, 99 and 108Yo-Yo Ma & Emanuel Ax
ALBUMBrahms: Piano MusicEmanuel Ax
ALBUMHaydn: Sonatas Nos. 33, 38, 58, 60Emanuel Ax
ALBUMStrauss and Britten Cello SonatasYo-Yo Ma & Emanuel Ax
ALBUMChopin: Scherzos & MazurkasEmanuel Ax
ALBUMBrahms: Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra in A Minor, Op. 102 & Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 60 (Expanded Edition)Isaac Stern, Jaime Laredo, Yo-Yo Ma, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado & Emanuel Ax
ALBUMDvořák: Piano TriosYo-Yo Ma, Young Uck Kim & Emanuel Ax
ALBUMSchumann: Cello Concerto, Adagio & Allegro, FantasiestückeYo-Yo Ma, Sir Colin Davis, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Emanuel Ax
ALBUMShostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 & Cello SonataYo-Yo Ma, Isaac Stern & Emanuel Ax
ALBUMBeethoven: Complete Cello SonatasYo-Yo Ma & Emanuel Ax
ALBUMBeethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 4Emanuel Ax, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & André Previn
ALBUMLudwig van Beethoven: The Sonatas for Piano and CelloYo-Yo Ma & Emanuel Ax
ALBUMBeethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2Emanuel Ax, André Previn & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
ALBUMSchumann: Humoreske and FantasiestuckeEmanuel Ax
ALBUMBeethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 23 & 26Emanuel Ax
ALBUMMozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 22Emanuel Ax, Eduardo Mata & Dallas Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMChopin: Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 21 & 3 Novuelles Études & Scherzo No. 2, Op. 31Emanuel Ax
ALBUMRavel: Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55 & Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61 & Ma mère l'Oye, M. 60Emanuel Ax
ALBUMDvorák: Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81Emanuel Ax & Cleveland Quartet
ALBUMChopin: Sonata No. 3 and Works By LisztEmanuel Ax
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American pianist Emanuel Ax is an engagingly warm-hearted musician: an inspiring teacher, generous colleague, and enthusiastic music lover. A musicians’ musician, perhaps, but also a stimulating communicator and a great pianist with a rich legacy, not least in chamber music. He was born in 1949 in Lviv, Ukraine (in what was then the Soviet Union), to Polish Jewish Holocaust survivors, before the family moved, eventually settling in New York City in 1961. Ax studied at the Juilliard School, where he now teaches, and became an American citizen in 1970. Since 1973, he has been the main duo partner of cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and they have recorded much of the cello/piano repertoire. Shared music-making—chamber and concerto collaborations—has always been a central part of Ax’s working life and recordings. Although he is a passionate advocate of new music, and has given the first performances of works written for him by John Adams, Christopher Rouse, and Krzysztof Penderecki, the bulk of his recordings consist of core repertoire, including Haydn, Beethoven, Chopin, and Brahms. His playing leaves daredevil showmanship to others—he is closer in spirit to Rubinstein than to Horowitz—yet his Chopin captures the music’s aristocratic nobility with an all-encompassing rhetorical sweep; his Haydn radiates elegance, drama, and wit; while his Brahms is sumptuous and affectionate.
Hometown
Lviv, Ukraine
Genre
Classical
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