Emanuel Ax named Musical America Awards’ 2026 ‘Artist of the Year’
By admin on December 17, 2025 | Category: News | No Comments
Emanuel Ax, at age 76, combines the pianistic insight of an old master with the freshness and modesty of a newcomer. His half-century career has been based in the classics—Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Haydn—but this season he is barnstorming with a new, bespoke work: John Williams’s jazzy piano concerto.
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4
Brahms: Music For 2 Pianos
Haydn: Piano Sonatas
Liszt: Piano Sonata in B Minor
Mendelssohn: Piano Trios
Strauss: Enoch Arden
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Extract from masterclass given by Emanuel Ax on Beethoven Piano Sonatas and Variations. The student is Nicolas Van Poucke. The full masterclass is available on DVD from www.masterclassfoundation.org