Leonid Kogan Edition

Leonid Kogan occupies a privileged place of honor at the time of quoting the great soloists of the instrument. His igneous vitality, mercurial energy, indomitable artistic conviction and unrestricted passion with which he "played" with the violin as it were made Kogan (1924-1978) a legend that transcended the barriers of spellbinding virtuosity to become obligatory reference, alpha and omega for many accomplished violinists of the present and future.
This ambitious selection contains only a part of the immense legacy of his recorded output and includes a series of recitals and concerts at the former Soviet Union.
Despite the poor sound typical of existing technology at the time, such is the magnificence of his style and his ineffable musicality that automatically you can easily block these external factors.
Do not miss this golden opportunity. (Hiram Gomez Pardo, Amazon review)


Ernest Chausson: Poème (1980) 1
Henryk Wieniawski: Légende (1952) 2
Samuel Barber: Concerto for Violin (1981) 3
Fritz Kreisler: Rondino on a Theme by Beethoven (1976) 4
Georges Bizet/Franz Waxman: Carmen Fantasia (1981) 4
Jules Massenet: Méditation from Thaïs (1980) 1
Karol Szymanowski: Nocturne & Tarantella (1953) a
Claude Debussy: Il pleure dans mon coeur (1978) b
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Trio élégiaque (1973) c
Tikhon Khrennikov: Concerto for Violin #2 in C Major (1977) 5
César Franck: Sonata for Violin in A Major (1980) 4
Franz Schubert: Fantasie in C Major, D. 934 (1975) d
Robert Schumann: Fantasie in C Major (1953) a
Nicolò Paganini: Caprices #9 & 23 (1953)
Ernest Bloch: Nigun (1947) e
Edison Denisov: Partita for Violin & Chamber Orchestra (1981) 1
Dmitri Shostakovich: Concerto for Violin #1 in A minor (1959) 6
Camille Saint-Saëns: Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso (1951) 2
Wolfgang Mozart:
Concerto for Violin #3 (1959) 7
Adagio in E Major for Violin & Orchestra (1981) 8
Johann Sebastian Bach:
Concerto for Violin in A minor (1962) 9
Sonata for Violin & Keyboard in B minor (1947) e
Ludwig van Beethoven:
Sonata for Piano & Violin #5, "Kreutzer" (1952) f
Sonata for Piano & Violin #10 (1975) d
Concerto for Violin in D Major (1970) 10
Romance #1 (1970) 10
Turkish March (1981) 4
Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky:
Concerto for Violin in D Major (1950) 11
Valse-Scherzo in D Major (1952) 12
Méditation (1960) 13
Henri Vieuxtemps:
Concerto for Violin #5 in A minor (1952) 7
Rondino for Violin & Piano (1947) e
Pablo de Sarasate:
Carmen Fantasy (1950) 14
Malagueña (1949) g
Aram Khachaturian:
Concerto for Violin in D minor (1951) 15
Concerto-Rhapsody (1964) 9
Edvard Grieg:
Sonata for Violin #3 in C minor (1947) f
Sonata for Violin #1 in F Major (1947) f
Isaac Albéniz:
El Puerto (1952) a
Sevilla (1953) a

Leonid Kogan, piano
a Andrei Mytnik, piano
b Nina Kogan, piano
c Evgeny Svetlanov, piano
c Fiodor Luzanov, cello
d Samuel Alumian, piano
e Vladimir Yampolsky, piano
f Grigory Ginzburg, piano
g Abram Marakov, piano
1 USSR State Symphony Orchestra/Pavel Kogan
2 Grand Symphony Orchestra/Alexander Gauk
3 Ukrainian Symphony Orchestra/Pavel Kogan
4 State Academic Symphony Orchestra/Pavel Kogan
5 State Academic Symphony Orchestra/Evgeny Svetlanov
6 Moscow Symphony Orchestra/Kirill Kondrashin
7 State Symphony Orchestra/Kirill Kondrashin
8 Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra/Pavel Kogan
9 Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra/Kirill Kondrashin
10 USSR State Radio & TV Symphony Orchestra/Gennady Rozhdestvensky
11 USSR State Radio Symphony Orchestra/Vassily Nebolsin
12 USSR State Radio & TV Symphony Orchestra/Alexander Gauk
13 USSR State Symphony Orchestra/Kirill Kondrashin
14 Grand Symphony Orchestra/Vassily Nebolsin
15 Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra/Aram Khachaturian