Vladimir Wolkoff

Drummer Vladimir Kostadinovic compares his experience during the September 5, 2024 session in New York's Samurai Studios that gestated this tour de force - titled Iris for his daughter, then 8 years old - to the pressure of competing in the Olympic Games.

Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens, first published in 2011 in Hebrew, and in 2014 in English, is justifiably one of the most celebrated books of our time.

Following the release of the Complete Solo Piano Recordings of Vladimir Ashkenazy in one edition for the very first time, Decca Records proudly presents selected offerings from Ashkenazy's storied career!

Vladimir Anatolieyvych Horunzhy is a film producer and composer. In the late 70's led the Pop-Symphony Orchestra of Radio and Television of Ukraine. Moved to the U.S. in 1981. The first project, which he participated as a composer there, was the soap opera “Santa Barbara”. An active jazz musician, Vladimir performed at Soviet jazz festivals in Tallinn, Moscow, Donetsk and throughout the Soviet Union. At age 26 he became principal conductor and staff composer for the Ukrainian National TV and Radio Orchestra, Kiev.

Korean-American violinist Esther Yoo first came to international attention in 2010 when, aged 16, she became the youngest winner of the 10th International Sibelius Violin Competition. Following an acclaimed 2016 recording dedicated to Sibelius and Glazunov, she reunites here with conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Philharmonia Orchestra to spotlight Tchaikovsky's beloved Violin Concerto alongside five shorter works, including Pas de deux and Danse Russe from Swan Lake.

This live album finally bears witness to the electric atmosphere of Vladimir Cosma’s 2016-17 tour and the National Symphony Orchestra of Romania, his birth country. The tour started in the Palais de Congrès in Paris before heading for Geneva, Lyon, Lille and Rouen… The composer was surrounded by a group of sensational solo artists, such as Richard Sanderson and his angelic voice (La Boum), the wonderful cymbalum player Marius Preda, Greg Zlap and his magical harmonicas, a particularly energetic half-traditional half-jazz group, and the classical violinist Amander Favier (for the Concerto de Berlin).