This handsome LP from EMI / Regal (SREG 1095, English EMI pressing. blue/silver label, stereo, glossy laminated jacket) features Leonid Kogan's masterful rendition of Brahms's Violin Concerto in D Major Op. 77, recorded at EMI Studio No. 1, Abbey Road, London, on 22 February 1959 with Kyril Kondrashin conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra on truly magisterial form. Kogan plays Joachim’s cadenzas. Wrote the critic R.F. in his review for the July 1960 issue of The Gramophone: “Of the four stereo versions of the Brahms Violin Concerto, the new Kogan shares top place with the recent Grumiaux disc. Kogan gives a romantic performance similar to Menuhin's though not, I think, quite reaching the heart of the music so successfully. But he is more realistically recorded. Menuhin, a shade too prominent on the mono, is almost too distant on the stereo and lacks a definite position; there seems too, to be some loss of quality on the violin itself. “Kogan's instrument on the other hand is beautifully placed in the first movement, and sounds magnificent. As on the mono he appears to be a shade closer in the later movements, but not enough to matter. Szeryng by comparison has a hard quality that possibly suits his efficient but rather cold approach, and I do not think that this is a performance you would grow to love. Grumiaux on the other hand is at least as well recorded as Kogan, though his playing perhaps has not quite the same drive and penetration. I'm not sure I wouldn't sooner have the Menuhin mono disc than any of them.” Incidentally, the liner notes on the reverse side of the jacket, in English only, were written by W.A. Chislett. Leonid Kogan Kyril Kondrashin Philharmonia Orchestra >>> Płyty winylowe należy przechowywać WYŁĄCZNIE w NAJLEPSZYCH NA ŚWIECIE koszulkach produkcji legendarnej wytwórni MOBILE FIDELITY. 100% gwarancji na pozbycie się trzasków będących w istocie w 90% efektem ładunków elektrostatycznych a nie uszkodzeń mechanicznych płyty! <<<