People who say that Paganini's music is not deep are boring. They didn't understand that Niccolò Paganini has been the prototype of XX° century jazzman. He was like Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix in rock music. I understand criticism about virtuosity, tricks, etc, but there is a great sense of melody and harmony in his music. He has been an innovator on instrument's tecnique, not as composer, but in this sense also W. A. Mozart wasn't.
why are you guys comparing chang and Kogan...these are both great violist..with different style...appriciate them both...can you play better than either one of them if not SHUT UP...and enjoy the FREAKNG video.
@mstitine92 Kogan:Chang = Tolstoy:Stephen King. That's more than a "style difference". So it's actually you who's doing the comparing. Because what the others are trying to point out is that there is no comparison. Period.
@mstitine92 Kogan:Chang = Tolstoy:Stephen King. That's more than a "style difference". So it's actually you who's doing the comparing. Because what the others are trying to point out is that there is no comparison. Period.
I am not a violonist, and will never be ; but I am absolutely amazed by what Kogan can do, this man makes me feel so "small" and imperfect. This piece is taken from a longer documentary on Kogan, where he is most of the time marvelous - but nothing close to what he does here. The part after 10:41 always sounds to me like he is coming from another dimension. Great Kogan, makes me a better man.
There are various brilliant interpreters of Paganini, honsetly I don't think it matters who the best interpreter is becaues it takes real guts and talent to play Paganini!! But Kogan is amazing!! This is really beautiful!
Kogan is awesome as always and plays this monstrous showpiece with absolute mastery in every respect. However, Vasa Prihoda's performances of Nel Cor Piu are no less impressive: effortless virtuosity, similarly exacting intonation, crystal clear double harmonics, and explosive L.H. pizzicatos.
It's funny but when I heard an English speech (translation) I was startled because I was sure that the video is in Russian =)) And Kogan's speach is measured and slow like it was in soviet tv
lol I haven't researched this at all, simply inquiring, but is Kogan the only violinist other than Paganini to play this piece with such competence and nobility? I guess there are lots of people that can or have performed it well, but this is just amazing... & is this in one take, live? its executed perfectly- Insane control! ! !
Words like Bravo, Genius, Virtuoso, Maestro are too small to be said after this performance. I played piano in the music school, but this is definately unrepeatable on any other instrument except violin.
Nicolo Paganini, we are relating to this name the very bet we have in epic violin. This is a genius-violinist and composer. Since my yourth Paganini is my idol. I should say that his compositions are very difficult for violinist. Even for the very best violinists its quite hard to play 'em... (Then translation is more or less fine)
when i saw this a was heart crossed and cried for houers becouse it is so technicaly hard to play and i didnt ever think i would play something in this level. the day after when i was playing violin in my music school i throwed my violin in the wall.
Magnificent.Kogan,undubitable,is a virtuous,and playing Paganini's exercises it's superb.Off course,the value of this violin virtuosismuns,lack absolutelly of deep musical significance.
Kogan, in my opinion, is one of THE GREATEST violinists of the 20th century (if not simply the best). I was a cellist in the Phoenix Symphony in the 60's, and he was the guest artist playing the Brahms. I had never heard of him before, and was totally mesmerized when he played an unaccompanied bach piece. Outstanding technique and intonation!!
Ha! I used to listen to the Repin for years thinking it was the best. Now I see it wasn't even close to as good as this. I wish I'd heard this sooner. You know a lot of violinists omit one of the later sections. It is a real shame. I suppose it depends on what music you have. Anyway thanks a lot. Quite incredible.
I'm wondering, if Kogan shunned publicity, why does he like to play paganini? Im not critisizing, I'm just wondering, Paganini's showpieces are mostly used to look "cool" and stuff like that and shunning publicity could not mean that he likes to show "cool" things to the audience. If he enjoys music, why couldn't he play something like beethoven or mozart sonatas?
Paganini's music is great, his sense of melody and violinistic clarity is unbelievable.A comparison between Paganini and Beethoven or Mozart really does not make any sense. After all, Kogan played all the great composers and gave marvelous interpretations.
I adore Paganini but while he plays admirably well and has a very unique style I'm used to a more somber form for this composition and I like Chang's better. I can say this, he gives you the full gamut of emotions to experience, and it is custom that nags at me.
OMG, he looks like he's just playing Frere Jacques... His face just says "piece of (beautiful) cake"... Played like this I actually start to LIKE Paganini....
I cry tho when i listen to his perform of Kreisler's -"Joy of Life" because he was so happy playing this piece and he is dead now because he was also a human being.
I was a violinist for 12 years - started when i was 5. I know one thing - if i have heard this piece on my end-days career i would have never stopped playing violin...
Leonid Kogan was and will be the best violinist who have ever lived on earth. His precision, technique, and feeling the music is just god-like. I wonder if Paganini himself was a beter performer and artist on the stage...
I think he has tuned his violin a semi-tone higher. I don't think anyone can play a violin like that. Not even Signor Paganini. I wonder what Signor Paganini would have to say about this.
What a powerful player. I heard his Tchaikovsky played with the Philharmonia orchestra and was impressed. The knock on him is technique over warmth! The Tchaikovsky excels in both!! He was one of the best, yet little known!
Och! magnificent! Kogan's playing is technically impeccable - for this reason, it's of the best live accounts of this paganini to be found, if not the very best one.
Please good people, do not be arguing so spitefully. Why not simply enjoy this rare flawless playing of one of the best violinists that you'd find performing this paganini.
I dunno why you must defend Kavakos like that, and you seem to support Kavakos blindly... there's always explanation why you think Kavakos is better than Kogan... well.. I guess, to each to their own..
Personally I think that Kogan is the most perfect, technically talking, violinist in the history. I can never find an imperfection. For example his Carmen Waxman interpretation is the best for me and better than the printed version.
im a pianist who picks master Kogan as his favourite music Artist all over. and i dont mean to point at his astonishing technic, not as much as to the sublime emotions he communicates with touch and musical taste. Thanks Adamwas and blessed Youtube for this opportunity to see and listen to such a legend
He speaks in a quiet manner, yet his sound is HUGE!!! I think its a mixture of his perfect bow hold, his wonderful Guarneri del Gesu and his strings, which are made of steel (I think?)
I'm not russian, and I'm ok, but you can't insult a violin legend like Kogan , denigrate him and say that Kavakos plays better just because he's greek, I won't stay quiet in this situation, just it.
Kavakos is 42 years old , not anymore new blood of violin. Now you retract from your comments but you have openly said below that Kavakos is far superior than Kogan using just nationalistic reasons. We can not compare flowers, but don't even try to compare Kavakos to Kogan , is just impossible and if you dare to do so, better use intelligent reasons, not Byzantium "warmth":
I understood everything properly you just wrote : Kavakos is better musician than Kogan because he's greek and he plays with bizantyum warmth. I don't discuss any of your traditions as Constantinople was an important center of culture and arts you can discuss that with real facts, but saying that Kavakos is better musician than Kogan just because he's greek, is quite ridiculous.
Another nationalist, this is just a ridiculous coalition of people not willing to discuss anything because they think they have an unbeatable ancestral right to say and do whatsoever their balls want to just because it was written in a fucking book five thousand years ago or because far more brilliant people did incredible things in ancient times. To claim that someone has "better" musicianship than other guy is just incredible retarded
Obviously you can have different tastes and say, I like it, I don't like it , but to come to the point to say this things without no criteria is brilliant don't you think ? Anyway, just a retarded nationalist would compare musicians in those situations.
You are an idiot.How many great greek violinist existed in all history?As far as i know 1...and how many jews like kogan???maybe you don't know but i'l tell you:oistrakh,milstein,heifetz,szeryng,stern,vengerov,
shaham,mintz,menuhin,hassid,rabin,perlman,zukerman should i go on?? idiot,next time just shut up.
Mitropoulos studied with Ferrucio Bussoni and Maria Callas received education from an Spanish opera singer called Elvira de Hidalgo. Well well we have two greek musicians which received foreign influence from the....WESTERN MUSIC. Or maybe Spain and Italy are countries in PLANET MARS ?
not a thoughtfull and not an intelligent person to discuss with.
By the way, Kogan came to Greece every year to teach in masterclass till the year of his death and they treated him like a god, but once again you don't know that. I can provide important and consistent information, you're just saying that Kavakos is greek. LOL
No it's not you. It's a soviet recording. Remember them?
The communist b*****ds that murdered Leonid Kogan when he was trying to flee their evil regime?
Most of their recordings were vastly inferior to those of the west. So it's not you!! But what playing. Have you heard him play Paganin's Cantabile? Surely one of the most perfect renditions of this beautiful miniature there has ever been. It's on Utube .
Kogan is up there with my other idol - Jascha Heifetz.
No, that would be Paganini himself. Paganini had a finger deformity that allowed his pinky to go at a 90 degree angle from his hand. Very useful for the violin...
Another made his fingers long. Kogan is one of the greats for sure though.
That's the purpose of "comments" . I am compareing all the techniques, the quality of "vibrato", the clearty of the "pizziccato", I admit Kavako has speed, but speed isn't the only thing to make a good music, it's not a speed contast.
This is truly incredible playing. Does anyone know if Paganini himself approved the score for accuracy? Those passages with both hands playing pizzicato were simply dazzling. The work contains an incredible gamut of emotions. In listening to it, I can imagine the young Liszt rushing home from after a Paganini performance in an agony of inspiration to further hone his technique, determined to become a 'Paganini of the piano'. Thanks to pianopera for sending this on to me!
Touch my penish
petetecp 1 week ago
genial Leonid Kogan!!!!!
frankcisyarmi 2 weeks ago
Nope. It's not a violin. It's a viola <3
DarkCinnamon 1 month ago
Kogan was the best performer of Paganini since Paganini. His recordings of Paganini Concerto No.1 are out of this world.
ssw4m 1 month ago in playlist More videos from adamwas
God what a interpretation
MrArdelco1970 1 month ago
Rest of the wankers nervously smokin'
sauliusipsc 2 months ago
People who say that Paganini's music is not deep are boring. They didn't understand that Niccolò Paganini has been the prototype of XX° century jazzman. He was like Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix in rock music. I understand criticism about virtuosity, tricks, etc, but there is a great sense of melody and harmony in his music. He has been an innovator on instrument's tecnique, not as composer, but in this sense also W. A. Mozart wasn't.
Methotrexat3 2 months ago
In Italy we say: "visit Naples and die". Here we can say: "Listen to Kogan and die". Incomparable!
Methotrexat3 2 months ago
why are you guys comparing chang and Kogan...these are both great violist..with different style...appriciate them both...can you play better than either one of them if not SHUT UP...and enjoy the FREAKNG video.
mstitine92 4 months ago
@mstitine92 Kogan:Chang = Tolstoy:Stephen King. That's more than a "style difference". So it's actually you who's doing the comparing. Because what the others are trying to point out is that there is no comparison. Period.
voxhunden 3 months ago
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@mstitine92 Kogan:Chang = Tolstoy:Stephen King. That's more than a "style difference". So it's actually you who's doing the comparing. Because what the others are trying to point out is that there is no comparison. Period.
voxhunden 3 months ago
This is really great, it's a pity the recording quality isn't better.
An0niempje 4 months ago
a 4:46 dice "Paganini".
Methotrexat3 4 months ago
@Methotrexat3 4:56...
Methotrexat3 4 months ago
Fantástico !!!
ricamado68 4 months ago
Thank you for this gem. Kogan best of all time.
DED319 4 months ago
mmm.. gran interpretacion pero pobre calidad de video la subire en HD._.
G0NZAL0666 5 months ago
Everytime I think my playing is going well, I go ahead and watch this video and it kind of puts things in perspective.
I read someone saying how Heifetz was the greatest violinist.
Heifetz couldn't carry this guys case on a bad day!
Not even in the same universe as Kogan
dtx1139 5 months ago
@dtx1139 Yes ! ! ! Thumbs up !
I am not a violonist, and will never be ; but I am absolutely amazed by what Kogan can do, this man makes me feel so "small" and imperfect. This piece is taken from a longer documentary on Kogan, where he is most of the time marvelous - but nothing close to what he does here. The part after 10:41 always sounds to me like he is coming from another dimension. Great Kogan, makes me a better man.
eliasvichy 3 months ago
Marketing. Those who love music don't care about "greatest", those who sell it do. And Kogan's universe definitely was a different one.
voxhunden 3 months ago
"I don't want to PLAY LIKE Paganini, I want to BECOME Paganini"
The gesture he makes at the very end seems to confirm he succeeded.
voxhunden 5 months ago
Unglaublich.......... Und da war er schon schwer krank.
nisanus 5 months ago
Unglaublich..........
nisanus 5 months ago
In my opinion not even Heifetz can match Kogan in terms of technique.
dududevynidu 5 months ago
It's thanks to Leonid Kogan that us mere mortals can even IMAGINE Paganini played like this.
voxhunden 5 months ago
i love how he LITERALLY is like one with the violin... it looks as though he glued the violin to his neck... he is godly- in every respect!!!
bummy33 6 months ago
Grande Leonidas Kogan
AGFreitas11 6 months ago
Those who dislike this video are just jealous.... Unless they just hate technique
MichelleUkulele 6 months ago
There are various brilliant interpreters of Paganini, honsetly I don't think it matters who the best interpreter is becaues it takes real guts and talent to play Paganini!! But Kogan is amazing!! This is really beautiful!
me2drescue 6 months ago
What a freaking BEAST
smanticus 6 months ago
this is ridiculous. i didn't think it was possible to be so virtuosic
ThyrmBloodaxe 7 months ago
Does anyone know what strings he uses? I read they were all steel... That might explain his incredible sound. He is such a great violinist
laqttu 7 months ago
Converted to Koganism last week. Best thing I've done in my life, really improved my slurred thirds and tenths.
saintmichael104 8 months ago 2
the most perfect technique
dududevynidu 9 months ago 2
simply the best interpreter of Paganini
retirares 9 months ago
how could somebody dislike this wonderfull performance???
13921319 10 months ago 6
@13921319 18 bieber fans
Flaminggential 10 months ago 5
Kogan is awesome as always and plays this monstrous showpiece with absolute mastery in every respect. However, Vasa Prihoda's performances of Nel Cor Piu are no less impressive: effortless virtuosity, similarly exacting intonation, crystal clear double harmonics, and explosive L.H. pizzicatos.
AdamerKeithski 11 months ago
My God!! I do not believe my eyes! he is the brother of my Grandma!!! I'm so proud!!
Oracule82 11 months ago 3
@TanGoGfrG98 I have this video. The name of it is 'Leonid Kogan: Interpretations'. If you search Amazon for it you'll find the VHS & DVD
lilromeodanny 11 months ago
Magic!
ASAngelo 1 year ago
Υπέρτατη εκτέλεση. Απίστευτος βιολιστής
ghkypreos1 1 year ago 2
Complete mastery of scales and everything else. Unbelievable!!!
violinhunter2 1 year ago
his playing is perfect!
It's funny but when I heard an English speech (translation) I was startled because I was sure that the video is in Russian =)) And Kogan's speach is measured and slow like it was in soviet tv
theCloud1990 1 year ago
lol I haven't researched this at all, simply inquiring, but is Kogan the only violinist other than Paganini to play this piece with such competence and nobility? I guess there are lots of people that can or have performed it well, but this is just amazing... & is this in one take, live? its executed perfectly- Insane control! ! !
bummy33 1 year ago
so many scales
dududevynidu 1 year ago
holy freak!!!! how on earth does he play the pizzicatos like that!!!!
sinahpr 1 year ago
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mophoplz 1 year ago
Words like Bravo, Genius, Virtuoso, Maestro are too small to be said after this performance. I played piano in the music school, but this is definately unrepeatable on any other instrument except violin.
sauliusipsc 1 year ago
But translation to English is complete crap!
Nicolo Paganini, we are relating to this name the very bet we have in epic violin. This is a genius-violinist and composer. Since my yourth Paganini is my idol. I should say that his compositions are very difficult for violinist. Even for the very best violinists its quite hard to play 'em... (Then translation is more or less fine)
sauliusipsc 1 year ago
MAGNIFICENT!!!
sauliusipsc 1 year ago
when i saw this a was heart crossed and cried for houers becouse it is so technicaly hard to play and i didnt ever think i would play something in this level. the day after when i was playing violin in my music school i throwed my violin in the wall.
Now i have bought a new one and keep training.
danielwowman 1 year ago
stunning and unforgettable!
svrfan 1 year ago
8:10 double harmonic with trill? :O
dududevynidu 1 year ago
Magnificent.Kogan,undubitable,is a virtuous,and playing Paganini's exercises it's superb.Off course,the value of this violin virtuosismuns,lack absolutelly of deep musical significance.
wolframg1 1 year ago
At around 5:25 it sounds like he's playing with two violins. And both sound insane.
TheGrimAvenger 1 year ago 2
Kogan, in my opinion, is one of THE GREATEST violinists of the 20th century (if not simply the best). I was a cellist in the Phoenix Symphony in the 60's, and he was the guest artist playing the Brahms. I had never heard of him before, and was totally mesmerized when he played an unaccompanied bach piece. Outstanding technique and intonation!!
TheTucsonJeff 1 year ago 6
ma dice in culo a paganini????
heehheheheeheh
lucciolo13 1 year ago
ahhh me encanto se gano mi aprobacion e.e
TheExorin 1 year ago
His left hand pizzicato is so clean and effortless!
TwelfthRoot2 1 year ago
How the fuck do you get this good at the violin lol
Tonys714 1 year ago 4
Ha! I used to listen to the Repin for years thinking it was the best. Now I see it wasn't even close to as good as this. I wish I'd heard this sooner. You know a lot of violinists omit one of the later sections. It is a real shame. I suppose it depends on what music you have. Anyway thanks a lot. Quite incredible.
lexarsepa 1 year ago
I'm wondering, if Kogan shunned publicity, why does he like to play paganini? Im not critisizing, I'm just wondering, Paganini's showpieces are mostly used to look "cool" and stuff like that and shunning publicity could not mean that he likes to show "cool" things to the audience. If he enjoys music, why couldn't he play something like beethoven or mozart sonatas?
jiasokim 1 year ago
Paganini's music is great, his sense of melody and violinistic clarity is unbelievable.A comparison between Paganini and Beethoven or Mozart really does not make any sense. After all, Kogan played all the great composers and gave marvelous interpretations.
MIchaelYiochalas 1 year ago
@MIchaelYiochalas except sibelius :(
ellegin88 1 year ago
@jiasokim maybe to him paganini was like mozart and beethoven
Violinmatt2 1 year ago
@jiasokim
He did play mozart and beethoven and lots of other stuff.
Monoprixchen 1 year ago
Impeccable. The most amazing play of this piece ever.
Rpkist77 1 year ago
Impeccable. The most amazing play of this piece ever.
Rpkist77 1 year ago
This is Paganini's Joke, if i am correct.
Rpkist77 1 year ago
This is Paganini's Joke, if i am correct.
Rpkist77 1 year ago
Kogan was incomparable. Chang isn't even in the same universe!
ChonQuahog 1 year ago 24
DUDE HIS ARMZ MUS B DEEEEZED!!!!!!
4znhatred 1 year ago
JAJAJAJA , da risa como habla ruso .
piazzolleks 1 year ago
@piazzolleks
provavelmente porque no sabes tu!
lottiheitor 1 year ago
I adore Paganini but while he plays admirably well and has a very unique style I'm used to a more somber form for this composition and I like Chang's better. I can say this, he gives you the full gamut of emotions to experience, and it is custom that nags at me.
kagasaki6 1 year ago
To qqleq2. You cannot "like" Paganini.You love him or hate him.why are you even watching this?
banjaxed31 1 year ago
@banjaxed31 Why are you so picky about his words? I'm sure he meant love in the same sense.
geographyihate 1 year ago
great
rcagianese 1 year ago
9:58-10:01 !!!WOW!!!
garynaz 1 year ago
A true magician of the pizzacatto. You are right, there is and was no other like Mr. Kogan
jayadsilva67 1 year ago
OMG, he looks like he's just playing Frere Jacques... His face just says "piece of (beautiful) cake"... Played like this I actually start to LIKE Paganini....
qqleq2 1 year ago 2
I cry tho when i listen to his perform of Kreisler's -"Joy of Life" because he was so happy playing this piece and he is dead now because he was also a human being.
StanislawGromadowski 2 years ago 3
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lol, wtf? epic fail.
moldyoreo 1 year ago
I was a violinist for 12 years - started when i was 5. I know one thing - if i have heard this piece on my end-days career i would have never stopped playing violin...
Leonid Kogan was and will be the best violinist who have ever lived on earth. His precision, technique, and feeling the music is just god-like. I wonder if Paganini himself was a beter performer and artist on the stage...
StanislawGromadowski 2 years ago
Wow sounds are coming out of that mans violin, that I thought I could only imagine coming out of a violin.
Gargantupimp 2 years ago
A true magician with his pizzacatto. How does he do that. He must have sold himself to the devil.
jayadsilva67 2 years ago
I think he has tuned his violin a semi-tone higher. I don't think anyone can play a violin like that. Not even Signor Paganini. I wonder what Signor Paganini would have to say about this.
jayadsilva67 2 years ago
He'd say you're a douchebag.
moldyoreo 1 year ago
What a powerful player. I heard his Tchaikovsky played with the Philharmonia orchestra and was impressed. The knock on him is technique over warmth! The Tchaikovsky excels in both!! He was one of the best, yet little known!
Edzoo77 2 years ago
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AntonPolezhayev 2 years ago
Amazing !!!
Rigoletto2000 2 years ago
como pudo ser paganini si hasta es un mito y Kogan le honra This is awesome
manuelspcool 2 years ago
fenomenal
domisoldo12 2 years ago
Och! magnificent! Kogan's playing is technically impeccable - for this reason, it's of the best live accounts of this paganini to be found, if not the very best one.
Please good people, do not be arguing so spitefully. Why not simply enjoy this rare flawless playing of one of the best violinists that you'd find performing this paganini.
Thank-you very much for posting Adamwas :-)
M145A5V9836E 2 years ago 38
well I've by no means heard everyone, but he's the best from what I can tell
nes7827 2 years ago 4
well.. you are being too subjective and biased...
I dunno why you must defend Kavakos like that, and you seem to support Kavakos blindly... there's always explanation why you think Kavakos is better than Kogan... well.. I guess, to each to their own..
BratscheChen 2 years ago
Personally I think that Kogan is the most perfect, technically talking, violinist in the history. I can never find an imperfection. For example his Carmen Waxman interpretation is the best for me and better than the printed version.
krakatoakilimanjaro 2 years ago
playing is not about technical perfection
ElEsquisProductions 2 years ago
this guy was a badass darn lol, just look at his eyebrows ^^
fishpig20 2 years ago
The jews are good
StephaneGrappelli 2 years ago 3
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Bautisnemo 2 years ago
I'm sorry.. I just watched Kavakos' video of this very piece... IMO, you are being biased...
Plus, saying that someone is still young and will be better in the future doesn't really prove anything..
Bottom line... there's no comparison between Kogan and Kavakos, sorry..
BratscheChen 2 years ago 3
Both these men were not of this universe.
voxhunden 2 years ago
That´s sum serius bow straightness...
OMW, every note doesnt matter how short it isit´s perfectly clear n understandable...he´s da best..
asertado2 2 years ago
Man, I love Heifetz, but this video is amazing!
darkhannibal007 2 years ago
im a pianist who picks master Kogan as his favourite music Artist all over. and i dont mean to point at his astonishing technic, not as much as to the sublime emotions he communicates with touch and musical taste. Thanks Adamwas and blessed Youtube for this opportunity to see and listen to such a legend
pianofolle 2 years ago
This is probably the closest thing we will ever see which represents how Paganini actually played. Astounding! A Master.
ewandobson 2 years ago
You know how paganini played??
Please,I want the recording also...
milstein91 2 years ago
He speaks in a quiet manner, yet his sound is HUGE!!! I think its a mixture of his perfect bow hold, his wonderful Guarneri del Gesu and his strings, which are made of steel (I think?)
Koganification 2 years ago
His G and D strings were synthetic gut. His A and E strings were steel. He used this combination for edge and clarity.
esk848 2 years ago
the SICKEST playing i think i have ever heard
kevaughn1030 2 years ago
The Best ever player of Paganini's works - Kogan. Just listen to other videos as well. Listen how he plays on Paganini's own violin!
ikaptg 2 years ago
not bad .... :D
harooba777888 2 years ago
kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
topp0 2 years ago
Anyway...let's just appreciate the beauty of the music.
Bautisnemo 2 years ago
My Anglais is enough for me and musiaque did not need langue.
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AlexanderZographos 2 years ago
I'm not russian, and I'm ok, but you can't insult a violin legend like Kogan , denigrate him and say that Kavakos plays better just because he's greek, I won't stay quiet in this situation, just it.
Bautisnemo 2 years ago
Kavakos is 42 years old , not anymore new blood of violin. Now you retract from your comments but you have openly said below that Kavakos is far superior than Kogan using just nationalistic reasons. We can not compare flowers, but don't even try to compare Kavakos to Kogan , is just impossible and if you dare to do so, better use intelligent reasons, not Byzantium "warmth":
Bautisnemo 2 years ago
I understood everything properly you just wrote : Kavakos is better musician than Kogan because he's greek and he plays with bizantyum warmth. I don't discuss any of your traditions as Constantinople was an important center of culture and arts you can discuss that with real facts, but saying that Kavakos is better musician than Kogan just because he's greek, is quite ridiculous.
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AlexanderZographos 2 years ago
Another nationalist, this is just a ridiculous coalition of people not willing to discuss anything because they think they have an unbeatable ancestral right to say and do whatsoever their balls want to just because it was written in a fucking book five thousand years ago or because far more brilliant people did incredible things in ancient times. To claim that someone has "better" musicianship than other guy is just incredible retarded
Bautisnemo 2 years ago
Obviously you can have different tastes and say, I like it, I don't like it , but to come to the point to say this things without no criteria is brilliant don't you think ? Anyway, just a retarded nationalist would compare musicians in those situations.
Bautisnemo 2 years ago
You are an idiot.How many great greek violinist existed in all history?As far as i know 1...and how many jews like kogan???maybe you don't know but i'l tell you:oistrakh,milstein,heifetz,szeryng,stern,vengerov,
shaham,mintz,menuhin,hassid,rabin,perlman,zukerman should i go on?? idiot,next time just shut up.
jasonform 2 years ago
Mitropoulos studied with Ferrucio Bussoni and Maria Callas received education from an Spanish opera singer called Elvira de Hidalgo. Well well we have two greek musicians which received foreign influence from the....WESTERN MUSIC. Or maybe Spain and Italy are countries in PLANET MARS ?
Bautisnemo 2 years ago
Uhm, you're a nationalist, not a thoughfull person to discuss with, now I understand it.
Bautisnemo 2 years ago
not a thoughtfull and not an intelligent person to discuss with.
By the way, Kogan came to Greece every year to teach in masterclass till the year of his death and they treated him like a god, but once again you don't know that. I can provide important and consistent information, you're just saying that Kavakos is greek. LOL
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Bautisnemo 2 years ago
No it's not you. It's a soviet recording. Remember them?
The communist b*****ds that murdered Leonid Kogan when he was trying to flee their evil regime?
Most of their recordings were vastly inferior to those of the west. So it's not you!! But what playing. Have you heard him play Paganin's Cantabile? Surely one of the most perfect renditions of this beautiful miniature there has ever been. It's on Utube .
Kogan is up there with my other idol - Jascha Heifetz.
einekleineblues 2 years ago
s it me or is the does recording have bad quality?
AlexanderWung 2 years ago
e o mare evolutie a tehnicii violonistice
andreivioara 2 years ago
the translation doesnt have to do anything with what hes saying
NoiseFieldBand 2 years ago
NOT EASY piece played SO EASILY !
Some moments the sounds have been even PAINFUL !...like..arrows..or sparks :-)
RIGHT INTO MY HEART !
lanarv 2 years ago
what an incredible violinist ...
Maestro ¡¡¡¡
bielsachile 2 years ago 3
Violin playing without mechanical hinderance at a supraphysical, spiritual level.
kitchenfiddle 2 years ago 4
10:00 -- 10:25 sounds incredibly familiar. I think that little section is in another one of his pieces.
OriginalBasaliskos 2 years ago
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sucks! He only looks like a taxi driver! LOL
ProfessorZedriks 2 years ago
what is wrong with you?
Newtacious 2 years ago 2
oh my god this guy is the chuck norris of violin!
vokuheila 2 years ago 6
No, that would be Paganini himself. Paganini had a finger deformity that allowed his pinky to go at a 90 degree angle from his hand. Very useful for the violin...
Another made his fingers long. Kogan is one of the greats for sure though.
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hey gay's I suggest you listen my playing. I was study school by Heifetz and Menuhin's but I play not bad I was study this peace one week.
takhirviolinest 2 years ago
I suggest you learn more english.
Bautisnemo 2 years ago
absolute perfection. Ive never seen better.
calloffthedogs 2 years ago 3
Paganini took the most boring theme in the world, and turned it into something AMAZING!
Newtacious 2 years ago
it is not paganini who composed this piece though
culiman23 2 years ago
it is not paganini who compsed this piece
culiman23 2 years ago
were is the other hand
furioso360flip 2 years ago
That's the purpose of "comments" . I am compareing all the techniques, the quality of "vibrato", the clearty of the "pizziccato", I admit Kavako has speed, but speed isn't the only thing to make a good music, it's not a speed contast.
sivery70914 2 years ago
he looks like Leonid Kogan! when was this recorded?
SexyAlien2 2 years ago
i think he plays fantastic!
LieElis 2 years ago 2
This is truly incredible playing. Does anyone know if Paganini himself approved the score for accuracy? Those passages with both hands playing pizzicato were simply dazzling. The work contains an incredible gamut of emotions. In listening to it, I can imagine the young Liszt rushing home from after a Paganini performance in an agony of inspiration to further hone his technique, determined to become a 'Paganini of the piano'. Thanks to pianopera for sending this on to me!
Noshirm 2 years ago 4
Compareing to Kogan, Kavakos is another violinest, lacking of vituoso style, no where close to Heifetz, not to mention about Krisler, Francescatti.
sivery70914 2 years ago
kogan era judio no etoi seguro un gran violinista
Ostirala 2 years ago
why is he speaking in spanish
shirusubemonaku 2 years ago
Oh man! He's speaking in Russian!!!!!
Oznerol1986 2 years ago 5
this is russian language,not spanish :)
mekuchika 2 years ago
retard
jvlazzar 2 years ago
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caf0u 2 years ago
he is the demon
is not normal to play like that O.o
mojjao2 2 years ago
I didn't hear a word he said or played.
casiokbman1 2 years ago
It's stereo and only coming out of the right speaker.
ptrefftz 2 years ago 3
Kogan is the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mekuchika 2 years ago 4
for me to
101219401 2 years ago 2
so some german dude heard that in a recital, memorised it, and wrote it??
now i now people with amazing aural dictation but that just takes the piss!!
watcherusdt 2 years ago 4
BRAVISSIMOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
settiklavio 2 years ago 6
BravO!
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