Leclair, J-M:

Sonata for two violins, Op. 3 No. 1 in G major

Sonata for two violins, Op. 3 No. 3 in C major

Telemann:

Sonata en Canon TWV 40:118 in G major

Ysaye:

Sonata in A minor for Two Violins, Op. posth.
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Leonid Kogan (violin) & Elizaveta Gilels (violin)

Firma Melodiya presents a rare collection of violin duet music.

Leonid Kogan is one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century. He was often compared with Niccolò Paganini, and his performances from a very young age to his last concerts entranced the audiences in any part of the world.

This is a recording of a rare genre of violin duet without accompaniment. The music of German and French baroque – sonatas by Georg Philipp Telemann and Jean-Marie Leclair – is next to a duet by the great Belgian violinist and composer Eugène Ysaÿe. Elizaveta Gilels, a talented violinist, pupil of Pyotr Stolyarsky, Miron Polyakin and Abram Yampolsky, professor of the Moscow Conservatory and pianist Emil Gilels’s sister.