Vladimir Ashkenazy

And when I walked in, it seemed like there was a CD that jumped off the shelf into my hands.

And it was Vladimir Ashkenazi, a famous Russian pianist, playing his favorite Chopin.

And I listened intently to the music and just listened to it all day long.

I made my coworkers listen to it.

25 by Frédéric Chopin.

Vladimir Ashkenazi is at the piano.

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Vladimir Ashkenazi performed etudes 1 and 2 from opus 25 by Chopin.

Symphony in F major by Carl Friedrich Abel.

And then it's then that's a various violin concerto, Tchaikovsky violin concerto.

And then the people who are walking in and out are Vladimir Ashkenazi.

Being in that environment really gives you a measure of who you are and where you are.

So that was important for me.

It's very nice and calming to go to bed with, so I've got it all sorted.

I very much particularly love this, and I love Vladimir Ashkenazi.

It's the Nocturne No. 1 in Bb minor, so let's hear Vladimir Ashkenazi playing it.

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I love Ashkenazi.

Sadly, yeah.

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We heard the Nocturne No. 1 in B-flat minor by Schroeper, performed by Vladimir Ashkenazi.

And thus, in 1968, my mum, hang on, 1972, I was actually about 11 at the time, my mum took me to a concert in the Royal Festival Hall.

Vladimir Ashkenazi playing Chopin.

We went to the bookshop afterwards where I bought the biography of Chopin and Chopin's musical style, his life and times in pictures.

And these three books are really massively cherished and read and took to school with me.

Adjusted for five minutes, it's the longest of the twelve, but my particular favourite, because its simplicity is so immediately evocative of autumn, falling leaves and the passing of time.

It really is the most charming miniature, played here by Vladimir Ashkenazi.

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so so So, Thank you.