"Ashkenazy: 50 Years on Decca is a limited edition box-set comprised of 50 CDs to celebrate the labels remarkable 50-year recording partnership with Vladimir Ashkenazy which includes many key recordings since Ashkenazy’s recording debut for the label in March 1963. Decca Classics new release showcases a rich and varied repertoire, with Ashkenazy’s now-legendary debut recording of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.3 featuring on the first of the 50 CDs ( with the LSO under the baton of Anatole Fistoulari).
The collection includes Ashkenazy collaborating with some of classical music’s greatest conductors, such as Solti, Kondrashin, Maazel, Previn, Barenboim, Haitink and Mehta; accompanying great singers and instrumentalists such as Perlman, Harrell and Soderstrom; as virtuoso pianist in a wide range of solo repertoire; and as an internationally-renowned conductor, particularly of Russian and Nordic repertoire."