David Oistrakh: In Recital | VAI DVDVAI4473

David Oistrakh: In Recital

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Label: VAI

Cat No: DVDVAI4473

Format: DVD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 5th January 2009

Contents

Artists

David Oistrakh (violin)
Frida Bauer (piano)
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Kirill Kondrashin

Works

Debussy, Claude

Preludes (12), Book 1
» no.8 La fille aux cheveux de lin (The girl with the flaxen hair)
Violin Sonata in G minor, L148

Dvorak, Antonin

Mazurek in E minor, op.49

Liszt, Franz

Soirees de Vienne: Valses caprices (9) d'apres Schubert S427
» no.6 in A minor

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Violin Concerto no.2 in C sharp minor, op.129

Sibelius, Jean

Belshazzar's Feast: Suite, op.51
» Nocturne

Artists

David Oistrakh (violin)
Frida Bauer (piano)
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Kirill Kondrashin

About

David Oistrakh (1908-1974) had few peers among violinists of his generation and continues to this day to be regarded as one of the supreme musicians of the 20th century. His playing, technically impeccable and sumptuous in tone and dramatic flair, served his interpretations eloquently. Yet there was no grandstanding in an Oistrakh performance. To one observer, he played with the quiet concentration of a chess master.

The highlight of the wide-ranging program on this DVD is the world premiere performance, in 1967, of the Shostakovich Second Violin Concerto, composed, as was the first Violin Concerto, with Oistrakh in mind. The work, described by one critic as “a troubled sound world” with its complex thematic material and jolting harmonic shifts, holds no terrors for its dedicatee, who provides an assured and brilliant performance.

The sonic watercolours of Debussy’s lovely G minor Sonata and a group of diverse shorter works amply demonstrate Oistrakh’s versatility and mastery of style. The works with Frida Bauer are from a 1972 recital.

60 minutes, B&W, Mono, All regions.

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