Oleg Kagan
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Biography
Oleg Kagan was a leading classical violinist from the former Soviet Union who achieved international fame in the 1970s through collaborations with pianists Sviatoslav Richter and Elisabeth Leonskaja and cellist Natalia Gutman. Born just after World War II, he was encouraged to take up music by his doctor father and when the family moved to Riga, Latvia, he studied there and then in Moscow. He won the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in 1965 and the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition three years later.
He studied with Boris Kuznetsov and David Oistrakh and recorded the Mozart concertos and works by Tchaikovsky and Brahms. He performed a great deal of music by 20th century Russian composers as well as Hindemith, Messiaen, Beethoven and Ravel. The recordings he made behind the Iron Curtain were later released in the West and he toured internationally.
From 1969, he played a great deal of chamber music in collaborations with Richter and Gutman and later with pianist Vasily Lobanov. Kagan was stricken with cancer in 1989 and he died the following year aged 43. Naxos Records' biography of him praises his "expressive manipulations of tone" and says, "It is the energy and vitality he brought to performances of twentieth-century music that will be missed the most, in a tragically curtailed career."
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- Violin Partita No.3 in E major BWv1006 : I Preludio
- Adagio in E Major for Violin and Orchestra, KV 261 featuring The Latvian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra
- Adagio for Violin and Orchestra in E Major, KV. 261 featuring The Latvian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra
- Images, Book I, L. 110: III. Mouvement featuring Natalia Gutman
- Images, Book I, L. 110: II. Hommage à Rameau featuring Natalia Gutman
- Images, Book II, L. 111: I. Cloches à travers les feuilles (Encore) featuring Natalia Gutman
- Violin Concerto No. 7 In D Major, KV 271a: I. Allegro Maestoso featuring David Oïstrakh
- Violin Sonata in B-Flat Major, K. 378/317d: III. Rondo - Allegro
- Rondo for Violin and Orchestra in B-Flat Major, K. 269 by Oleg Kagan
- Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 63: IV. Mit Feuer - Nach und nach schneller featuring Natalia Gutman
- Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 63: III. Langsam mit inniger Empfindung â Bewegter â Tempo I â Attacca featuring Natalia Gutman
- Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 63: II. Lebhaft, doch nicht zu rasch featuring Natalia Gutman
- Images, Book I, L. 110: I. Reflets dans l'eau featuring Natalia Gutman
- Adagio for Violin and Orchestra in E Major, K. 261 by Oleg Kagan
- Rondo for Violin and Orchestra in C Major, K. 373 by Oleg Kagan
- Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 63: I. Mit Energie und Leidenschaft featuring Natalia Gutman
- Violin Partita No.1 in B minor BWv1002 : I Allemande
- Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219 "Turkish": II. Adagio by Oleg Kagan
- Violin Sonata No.3 in C major BWV1005 : I Adagio
- Violin Sonata No.2 in A minor BWV1003 : I Grave
- Piano Trio in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 1, No. 1, FWV 1: I. Andante con moto featuring Natalia Gutman
- Piano Trio in A Minor, M. 67: I. Modéré featuring Natalia Gutman
- Piano Trio in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 1, No. 1, FWV 1: II. Allegro molto featuring Natalia Gutman
- Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 5 In a Major, KV 219: I. featuring David Oïstrakh
