The Very Best of David Oistrakh

Release Date: 6th Feb 2012
Catalogue No: 6789872
Label: Warner Classics
Series: The Very Best of...
Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77

Work length40:51

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David Oistrakh (violin)
Cleveland Orchestra
George Szell
Recorded: 1969-05-16
Recording Venue: 13,16 May 1969/Severance Hall, Cleveland, Ohio

I. Allegro non troppo (cadenza: J. Joachim)

Track length22:36

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II. Adagio

Track length9:38

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III. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace

Track length8:37

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Beethoven: Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello & Piano in C Major, Op.56 (1997 - Remaster): II. Largo

Work length5:36

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Sviatoslav Richter (piano), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), David Oistrakh (violin)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan
Recorded: 1969-09-17
Recording Venue: 15-17 September 1969, Jesus Christus Kirche, Berlin Berlin

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63

Work length27:49

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David Oistrakh (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Alceo Galliera
Recorded: 1958-05-19
Recording Venue: 14th & 19th May 1958. No 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London.

Allegro moderato

Track length11:02

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Andante assai

Track length10:27

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Allegro, ben marcato

Track length6:20

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Schubert: Piano Trio No. 1 in B flat major D898 (1996 Digital Remaster): I. Allegro moderato

Work length10:50

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David Oistrakh (violin), Sviatoslav Knushevitsky (cello), Lev Oborin (piano)
Recorded: 1958-05-16
Recording Venue: 13-16 May 1958: No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road London

Tartini: Violin Sonata in G minor 'Devil's Trill'

Work length13:49

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Vladimir Yampolsky (piano), David Oistrakh (violin)
Recorded: 1956-02-17
Recording Venue: 16,17.II.1956. No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London.

I. Larghetto affetuoso

Track length2:48

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II. Allegro (tempo giusto della scuole Tartinista)

Track length2:50

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III. Andante - Allegro

Track length5:12

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Cadenza - Adagio

Track length2:59

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Kodály: Hungarian Folk Songs

Work length4:17

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David Oistrakh (violin), Vladimir Yampolsky (piano)
Recorded: 1956-02-28
Recording Venue: 28 February 1956/No.1 Studio, Abbey Road

Wieniawski: Légende in G minor, Op. 17

Work length7:27

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David Oistrakh (violin), Vladimir Yampolsky (piano)
Recorded: 1956-02-28
Recording Venue: 28 February 1956/No.1 Studio, Abbey Road

Zarzycki: Mazurka in G, Op. 26

Work length4:46

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David Oistrakh (violin), Vladimir Yampolsky (piano)
Recorded: 1956-02-28
Recording Venue: 28 February 1956/No.1 Studio, Abbey Road

Debussy: Suite bergamasque: Clair de lune

Work length4:40

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Vladimir Yampolsky (piano), David Oistrakh (violin)
Recorded: 1956-02-28
Recording Venue: 28 February 1956/No.1 Studio, Abbey Road

Falla: Suite Popular Española (2002 Digital Remaster): Jota

Work length2:59

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Vladimir Yampolsky (piano), David Oistrakh (violin)
Recorded: 1956-02-28
Recording Venue: 28 February 1956/No.1 Studio, Abbey Road

Tchaikovsky: Valse-scherzo in C major for violin & orchestra (or violin & piano), Op. 34

Work length5:28

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Vladimir Yampolsky (piano), David Oistrakh (violin)
Recorded: 1956-02-28
Recording Venue: 28 February 1956/No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

Ysaÿe: Extase Op. 21

Work length9:52

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Vladimir Yampolsky (piano), David Oistrakh (violin)
Recorded: 1956-02-28
Recording Venue: 28 February 1956/No.1 Studio, Abbey Road

Shostakovich: Concerto for violin & orchestra No. 1 in A minor Op. 99 (2005 Digital Remaster): Scherzo: Allegro

Work length6:33

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David Oistrakh (violin)
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Maxim Shostakovich
Recorded: 1972-11-25
Recording Venue: 25th November 1972. Studio No 1, Abbey Road Studios, London.

Taneyev, S: Suite de Concert Op. 28

Work length6:33

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David Oistrakh (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Nikolai Malko
Recorded: 1956-02-24
Recording Venue: 24th February 1956. Studio No 1, Abbey Road Studios, London.

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David Oistrakh is generally considered to be one of the very finest violinists of the 20th century. Born in the Ukraine of Jewish parents in 1908, Oistrakh received his musical training in his home town of Odessa. He made his first public appearance at a concert in 1914 and gave his own first recital in 1924. He moved to Moscow in 1928 and successfully developed his career both in Russia and abroad until the start of the Second World War, during which he played tirelessly in hospitals and factories and gave many concerts to entertain the Russian troops. After the war, he was one of the first Soviet musicians regularly allowed to visit the West and, despite the bureaucratic difficulties involved in making recordings abroad, Oistrakh began recording for EMI in 1953. He continued to make outstanding recordings for the company, both with his own regular accompanist, the pianist Lev Oborin, and with leading international orchestras and conductors up till the time of his death. He was the recipient of many awards and honours, and his great talent and genial nature enabled him to become one of the principal cultural ambassadors for the Soviet Union to the West. He died of a heart attack in Amsterdam in 1974.

The first CD opens with a complete performance of one of the great masterpieces of the violin repertoire, the Violin Concerto in D by Brahms, which Oistrakh performs with the famous Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell. This is followed by the slow movement from Beethoven’s Triple Concerto in which Oistrakh joins his two eminent Russian colleagues, the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and the pianist Sviatoslav Richter, with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Herbert von Karajan in one of EMI’s all time best-selling classical recordings. The CD ends with Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No.2, recorded in London with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Alceo Galliera in 1958.

The second CD opens with an example of Oistrakh as a consummate performer of chamber music in the opening movement of Schubert’s Piano Trio No.1. Oistrakh is heard here with his pianist colleague, Lev Oborin, and the cellist Sviatoslav Knushevitsky, who all performed regularly together as a piano trio. Next comes Tartini’s ‘Devil’s Trill’ Sonata with the pianist Vladimir Yampolsky, followed by a group of attractive short ‘encore’ pieces by Kodály, Wieniawski, Ysaÿe and others, mostly arranged for violin and piano from compositions from other genres including piano solos like Debussy’s ‘Clair de lune’ and Tchaikovsky’s ‘Valse-Scherzo’. The CD finishes with the lively second movement ‘Scherzo: Allegro’ from Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No.2, written in 1967and dedicated to Oistrakh, and the finale ‘Tarantella: Presto’ from Taneyev’s colourful ‘Suite de Concert’.

The Very Best of David Oistrakh

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