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2024-04-08 14:26:23
Sol Hurok, 2024
[…] read as Who-is-Who in American Music: he worked with the cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, violinists Nathan Milstein and Efrem Zimbalist, and later represented the younger stars, Van Cliburn, Jacqueline du Pré, Itzhak Perlman, and Pinchas Zukerman. For many years Hurok tried to bring Soviet artists to America. It became possible only after Stalin’s death. The pianists Emil Gilels and violinist David Oistrakh came first, in 1955, then, later, such luminaries as Sviatoslav Richter, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Leonid Kogan and Mstislav Rostropovich. Hurok also represented the singers Galina Vishnevskaya and Irina Arkhipova and conductors Kiril Kondrashin and Yevgeny Svetlanov. Some of Hurok’s greatest coups were achieved with the ballet companies: the Bolshoi tour in 1959 was a sensational success, and so was Kirov’s, which Hurok brought in 1961. Sol Hurok died in New York on March 5th of 1974.
2024-02-26 19:53:54
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2021-12-06 00:43:09
Founded by Vadim Gluzman and Angela Yoffe in 2010, the NSCMF aims to provide Chicago’s North Shore with musical experiences of the same caliber as those found in the great halls of the world, but within a close, intimate environment. A student of Leonid Kogan and Viktor Tretiakov, Mr. Kaler is a former first prize winner at […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2021-11-08 15:09:45
[…] they had left in Russia. Once the war was over, the Lhévinnes moved to the US. In 1924 Josef and Rosina joined the staff of the new Juilliard Graduate School. A retiring, and not ambitious person, Josef Lhévinne had a distinguished but rather small performance career; he also left few recordings. Here are two of Chopin’s etudes: op. 10, no 11 and op. 25, no. 6. They were recorded in 1935. Also this week: Leonid Kogan, a wonderful Soviet violinist, was born on November 14th of 1924. Here’s an excerpt from the Grove Dictionary of Music’s article about him: “After David Oistrakh, Kogan was considered the foremost Soviet violinist, and one of the most accomplished instrumentalists of the day. Kogan’s approach, however, was more objective, less emotional than Oistrakh’s. His tone was leaner, his vibrato tighter, his temperament cooler and more controlled. His intonation was pure and his technical mastery […]
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