This is a priceless performance of Leclair’s sonata for two violins by husband and wife Leonid Kogan and Elisaveta Gilels.
He is officially the second-best violinist in the Soviet Union, after Oistrakh. She is the sister of pianist Emil Gilels.
Not a smile of a nod passes between them in this 1963 Paris performance.
Those artists regarded music as a matter of life and death.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra has added Victoria Knudtson (pic) to the horn section and and Samuel Huss to the trumpets. She’s from the St Louis Symphony, he’s principal trumpet of the Richmond Symphony. The post Two […]
Cagney and Lacey This is such an enjoyable duet – the two stars of Cagney and Lacey having fun with a song from the wonderful musical, City of Angels, for charity, at the STAGE gala in 1999. City of […]
From the Korea Times: Renowned soprano Angela Gheorghiu caused a stir during a performance of Puccini’s “Tosca” in Seoul, halting the orchestra and interrupting her co-star’s mid-show encore, much to the dismay of opera enthusiasts […]
