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This compilation is the fruit of Bruno Monsaingeon's patient delving in Soviet archives during the 1980s. The showpieces are three concertos performed in the 1960s by David Oistrakh at the Moscow Conservatory, conducted by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky. All three are major items from the Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Sibelius repertoire, in all of which "King David"'s playing is spot on. The encores from two of these concerts are Beethoven's Romance in A major and an version of Locatelli's The Labyrinth orchestrated by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky. Admirers of Oistrakh will also be delighted to discover rare films of a Kreisler Liebesleid and a fragment of Lalo's Spanish Symphony dating from 1937 and 1953 respectively. Part of a rehearsal of Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata in Japan in 1967, with Frida Bauer on the piano, is included as a bonus.
Repertory:
Kreisler: Liebesleid 3:32
Russia, 1937
Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole - Extract (Vladimir Yampolsky) 1:37
Russia, 1953
Brahms: Violin Concerto (Moscow Philharmonic, Rozhdestvensky) 38:17
Conservatory Hall, Moscow,1966
Sibelius: Violin Concerto (Moscow Philharmonic, Rozhdestvensky) 31:09
Conservatory Hall, Moscow, 1966
Beethoven: Romance for Violin & Orchestra (Moscow Philharmonic, Rozhdestvensky) 7:19
Conservatory Hall, Moscow, 1966
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto (Moscow Philharmonic, Rozhdestvensky) 35:45
Conservatory Hall, Moscow, 1968
Bonus
David Oistrakh and Frida Bauer: Beethoven "Kreutzer" Sonata
Japan 1967 |
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