Vladimir Ashkenazy’s association with Decca, as both pianist and conductor, spans 45 years, longer than any other living artist! Over the past ten years his Decca recordings have sold over a million copies worldwide every year. Here he returns to the piano to play piano duets with his son, Vovka.

Much of the music on this disc is rarely recorded because of its technical difficulty, including the world-premiere of a new arrangement of Debussy’s Jeux.

Ashkenazy has a special affinity with French music and won a Grammy® Award for his recording of Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit. He brings an innate understanding of and affection for the French repertoire to this new album.

Vovka Ashkenazy is himself a renowned pianist and teacher who has made critically-acclaimed recordings for several labels including Decca and DG. Father and son have recorded together previously on Rachmaninov Piano Transcriptions and Chopin Piano Music (on Decca).

"Father and son join forces here with winning élan. Vladimir Ashkenazy is one of the great pianists of modern times, with a legacy of landmark solo and concerto recordings to challenge anybody’s. His son Vovka has inherited the genes .... The pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, himself a revelatory Debussy interpreter, has made the two-piano arrangement [of Jeux] that the Ashkenazys play on this disc, and it is as perceptive as it is effective.... Bavouzet creates genuine two-piano music, requiring close rapport and spontaneity and also embracing the music’s heady, scintillating atmosphere, to which the Ashkenazys respond tellingly. En blanc et noir and the Spanish-inflected Lindaraja complete the Debussy part of the disc, with the sultry mystique and vigour of Ravel’s Rapsodie espagnole delivered with panache, and La Valse played with romantic subtlety and exciting, dynamic fervour." -- Telegraph.co.uk