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On 6^th October, 2014, Decca press released a new album, containing Bach's music - I could say that this year has been a Bach year, given the plethora of valuable albums, containing the music of the great Johann Sebastian Bach, which have appeared on the music market. The interpreter of the music on the album is pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy.

The album is part of a series of albums: Ashkenazy recorded the works from the Clavier-Übung Part I, namely the Six Partitas, BWV 825-830, in 2010. This second album, which was released in 2014, contains the Clavier-Übung, Part II, namely theOverture in the French style, BWV 831 and the Italian Concerto, BWV 971,which is a famous Bachian work.

The international music critics have already noticed something that is amazing to everyone - how well Vladimir Ashkenazy plays at, attention!, his 77 years old. Even though, the interpretation of the musical discourse is not perfectly balanced, he puts so much emotion in the way he interprets Bach - especially noticeable in the works of great length and emotion, as is the Keyboard Concerto in D minor BWV 974, by J. S. Bach, which is a transcription after theConcerto for Oboe and Strings in D minor, by Alessandro Marcello.

Vladimir Ashkenazy is one of the greatest musicians of our time - pianist and conductor, with a career spanning over fifty years, which has always unfolded at the highest level. The last thirty years have been dedicated to his conducting activity, yet, there he is, at a respectable age, Ashkenazy returns to the piano, his first love, to record Bach, the composer who remains the first love to most of the greatest musicians of the World.

The album ends with Aria variata alla maniera italiana in A minor BWV 989.

The album can be listened to during the Music Box programme, on Monday, 15^th December, starting at 13:05. The album is alsoincluded in the Vote for the Best Classical Album of 2014 campaign.