Besides his ballet recordings, Fistoulari served as recording accompanist to many legendary singers including Jan Peerce, Inge Borkh, Victoria de los Ángeles, and Boris Christoff, pianists like Edwin Fischer, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Clifford Curzon, Wilhelm Kempff, Earl Wild and Shura Cherkassky as well as violinists like Yehudi Menuhin and Nathan Milstein.
Using newly developed silent 16mm film cameras he created a new, intimate style of biographical film beginning with Double Concerto in 1966, featuring the collaboration of Vladimir Ashkenazy and Daniel Barenboim.
The most recent music director of the orchestra was Vladimir Ashkenazy, from 2004 to 2007.
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Vladimir Ashkenazy (September 2004–August 2007 Music Director)
Although many eminent conductors, from Vladimir Ashkenazy and Daniel Barenboim to William Christie and Franz Welser-Möst, maintain cordial relations with Lebrecht and appear in his radio shows, an anonymous informant identified as "one of the world's leading conductors" told The Independent that Lebrecht had for years been getting away with "pompous, preposterous judgment" and "inept research".
They also returned to the Wigmore Hall to perform Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro with the Southbank Sinfonia, a performance repeated at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Canterbury Cathedral with Vladimir Ashkenazy.
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The Sacconi Quartet has been mentored by eminent musicians, including Gabor Takács-Nagy, Christopher Rowland and Levon Chilingirian, and has been joined on stage by Ian Brown, Raphael Wallfisch, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Martin Roscoe, David Campbell, Lawrence Power, Robert Cohen, Guy Johnston, Alasdair Beatson, Tom Poster, Matthew Rose and actor Timothy West.
Timothy Hutchins has appeared as guest principal with the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Seiji Ozawa, Vladimir Ashkenazy, and with Leonard Bernstein at the latter’s last appearance, recording Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony at Tanglewood.
Beethoven, Complete Piano Concertos (this cycle was recorded with Vladimir Ashkenazy, Alfred Brendel, Maurizio Pollini and Krystian Zimerman.
In other media, Ashkenazy has also appeared in several films on music by Christopher Nupen.
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He has worked with world-renowned conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Kurt Masur, Sakari Oramo and André Previn.
He has worked with prominent conductors including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Frans Bruggen, Pierre Boulez, Charles Dutoit, Carlo Maria Giulini, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, André Previn, Sir Simon Rattle, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, and Evgeny Svetlanov.
Jinsang Lee has performed concerts with renowned conductors, such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Christopher Warren-Green, Peter Gülke, Heinz Holliger, Eivind Gullberg-Jensen, Michail Jurowski, Roman Kofman, Ola Rudner and Muhai Tang.
During her career she cooperated with a number of artists, including conductors Vladimir Ashkenazy, Jiří Bělohlávek, Gerd Albrecht, violinist Josef Suk, clarinetist Sharon Kam among others.
In his performing and recording career, Maisky has worked in long-standing partnerships with artists such as the pianists Martha Argerich, Radu Lupu, and Sergio Tiempo, the violinists Gidon Kremer and Janine Jansen, and the conductors Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Mehta, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim, and Giuseppe Sinopoli.
Success in the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition as a top prize-winner followed, and in 1963, when she shared the much-coveted Piano Prize in the Harriet Cohen International Music Award with Vladimir Ashkenazy, her international reputation was sealed.
The Orchestra has performed with a remarkable roster of distinguished artists, including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Nicola Benedetti, Valery Gergiev, Hélène Grimaud, Nigel Kennedy, Lang Lang, Menahem Pressler and András Schiff.
In 2005, the Festival began a contemporary music series and presentations by youth orchestras such as the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, directed by Franz Welser-Möst, followed by the European Union Youth Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy in 2006.