LEONID KOGAN • TCHAIKOVSKY • 1960 STEREO BLUE & SILVER LP COLUMBIA SAX 2323
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• CONCERTO IN D MAJOR, OP. 35 •
First Movement : Allegro moderato - Cadenza - Allegro moderato
• CONCERTO IN D MAJOR, OP. 35 •
Second Movement : Canzonetta (andante)
Third Movement : Finale (Allegro vivacissimo)
• MEDITATION IN D MINOR, OP. 42 •
ONE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY’S GREATEST VIOLINISTS, LEONID KOGAN WAS LESS
WIDELY KNOWN THAN HIS SOMEWHAT OLDER
CONTEMPORARY DAVID OISTRAKH, BUT
NO LESS A FIRST-TIER ARTIST. MORE CONCENTRATED IN TONAL FOCUS AND WITH A
QUICKER VIBRATO THAN OISTRAKH AND OTHERS OF THE RUSSIAN SCHOOL, KOGAN WAS
AVOWEDLY A MAN OF HIS TIME
... HIS ESPOUSAL OF THE FOUR-OCTAVE SCALE FOR
EXERCISES ASSURED THE INFALLIBILITY OF HIS TECHNIQUE BY STRENGTHENING HIS
FINGERING HAND IN THE UPPER POSITIONS. ALTHOUGH HIS WERE NOT ESPECIALLY
MUSICAL PARENTS, KOGAN CONCEIVED A FASCINATION FOR THE VIOLIN BY AGE THREE.
AT SIX, HE BEGAN LESSONS WITH PHILIP YAMPOLSKY,
A PUPIL OF LEOPOLD AUER. WHEN
KOGAN’S FAMILY MOVED TO MOSCOW WHEN HE WAS TEN, HE BEGAN STUDIES WITH
ABRAM YAMPOLSKY. KOGAN PROGRESSED THROUGH THE CENTRAL SCHOOL OF MUSIC,
THEN THE MOSCOW CONSERVATORY, WHERE HE TRAINED FROM 1943 TO 1948
--- POST-
GRADUATE STUDIES AT THE CONSERVATORY OCCUPIED HIM FROM 1948 UNTIL 1951.
..AT
AGE 12, KOGAN WAS HEARD BY VIOLINIST JACQUES THIBAUD, WHO PREDICTED A GREAT
CAREER FOR HIM. ALTHOUGH HIS PARENTS RESISTED EXPLOITING THEIR SON AS A PRODIGY,
KOGAN MADE HIS DEBUT AT 17 AND PERFORMED IN MANY SOVIET VENUES WHILE STILL A
STUDENT. WIDER RECOGNITION CAME WHEN KOGAN SHARED FIRST PRIZE AT THE 1947
PRAGUE WORLD YOUTH FESTIVAL. IN 1951, HE WON FIRST PRIZE AT THE QUEEN ELISABETH
COMPETITION IN BRUSSELS. OISTRAKH, WHO WAS A MEMBER OF THE JURY (ALONG WITH
THIBAUD), THEREAFTER CAME TO REGARD KOGAN AS A COLLEAGUE, WHILE KOGAN CLOSELY
OBSERVED HIS ELDER ASSOCIATE DURING THE LATTER’S EVENING CLASSES FOR OTHER
STUDENTS
- - AFTER TEACHING AT THE MOSCOW CONSERVATORY AND PLAYING A BUSY
SCHEDULE OF CONCERTS IN THE SOVIET UNION OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS, KOGAN MADE
HIS FIRST APPEARANCES IN PARIS AND LONDON IN 1955, FOLLOWING THOSE WITH A TOUR
OF SOUTH AMERICA IN 1956 AND ANOTHER OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1957
. . . THIS ALBUM
WAS RECORDED WITH THE PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY CONSTANTIN
SILVESTRI AND RELEASED IN 1960. THIS ORIGINAL STEREO PRESSING IS IN STRONG LOOKING CONDITION WITH NO MARKS OR SCRATCHES...IMPECCABLE LIGHT BLUE AND SILVER LABELS
WITH FULL LUSTER ON THE THE PLAYING FIELD–PLAYS WITH FEINT BACKGROUND NOISE AND
AND A FEW MILD CLICKS MAINLY AUDIBLE ON QUIET PASSAGES ON SIDE ONE. COVER WITH
GLOSSY LAMINATED FRONT SIDE AND FLIPBACKS ON REAR IS FREE OF WRITING. COME WITH
ITS “EMI” INNER BAG. MATRIX NUMBERS IN THE DEAD WAX : YLX-1048-8 / YLX-1049-8.