Album Summary
Performer
David Oistrakh (Violin)
Eliasberg, Karl
Gauk, Alexander
Kondrashin, Kiril
Mravinsky, Eugen
Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Sanderling, Kurt
Yudin, Gabril
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
USSR State Radio Symphony Orchestra
USSR State Symphony Orchestra
Antonín Dvorák (1841 - 1904)
Max Bruch (1838 - 1920)
Sergei Taneyev (1856 - 1915)
Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957)
Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963)
Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953)
Béla Bartók (1881 - 1945)
Alexander Glazunov (1865 - 1936)
Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847)
Edouard Lalo (1823 - 1892)
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904 - 1987)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)
Karol Szymanowski (1882 - 1937)
Ernest Chausson (1855 - 1899)
Nikolay Myaskovsky (1881 - 1950)
Notes & Reviews:
The violinist David Oistrakh is one of those musicians whose fame crossed many borders both physically and in time. He died over 30 years ago but is still a household name. This Russian musician won many prizes including first at the Ysae Concours in Brussels, Belgium. This was the start of his international career. His style evolved from elegant to more monumental. His technique was impeccable, his tone warm. Oistrakh readily played new music and many Soviet composers dedicated work to him. He was not only one of the greatest violinists of his time but also a gifted conductor. There are many recordings of Oistrakh's. In this 10 CD set we present part of this heritage. Some of these concertos are better known than others: Mendelssohn, Shostakovich (1 and 2), Prokofiev, Beethoven, Sibelius, Kabalevsky, Katchaturian etc.
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Works Details
Mendelssohn, Felix : Concerto for Violin in E minor, Op. 64 - Performer: David Oistrakh (Violin)
- Conductor: Kiril Kondrashin
- Ensemble: USSR State Symphony Orchestra
- Running Time: 27 min. 45 sec.
- Period Time: Romantic
- Form: Concerto
- Written: 1844
- Studio/Live: Studio
Dvorak, Antonin : Concerto for Violin in A minor, Op. 53 - Performer: David Oistrakh (Violin)
- Conductor: Kiril Kondrashin
- Ensemble: USSR State Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Running Time: 32 min. 13 sec.
- Period Time: Romantic
- Form: Concerto
- Written: 1879-1880
- Studio/Live: Studio
Shostakovich, Dmitri : Concerto for Violin no 1 in A minor, Op. 77 - Performer: David Oistrakh (Violin)
- Conductor: Eugen Mravinsky
- Ensemble: Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
- Running Time: 36 min. 27 sec.
- Period Time: Modern
- Form: Concerto
- Studio/Live: Studio
Shostakovich, Dmitri : Concerto for Violin no 2 in C sharp minor, Op. 129 - Performer: David Oistrakh (Violin)
- Conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky
- Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
- Running Time: 28 min. 19 sec.
- Period Time: Modern
- Form: Concerto
- Written: 1967
- Studio/Live: Studio
Lalo, Edouard : Symphonie espagnole, Op. 21 - Performer: David Oistrakh (Violin)
- Conductor: Kiril Kondrashin
- Ensemble: USSR State Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Running Time: 31 min. 42 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Form: Concerto
- Written: 1873
- Studio/Live: Studio
Bruch, Max : Scottish Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 46 - Performer: David Oistrakh (Violin)
- Conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky
- Ensemble: USSR State Symphony Orchestra
- Running Time: 31 min. 29 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Written: 1880
- Studio/Live: Studio
Beethoven, Ludwig van : Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 61 - Performer: David Oistrakh (Violin)
- Conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky
- Ensemble: USSR State Symphony Orchestra
- Running Time: 43 min. 42 sec.
- Period Time: Classical
- Form: Concerto
- Written: 1806
- Studio/Live: Studio
Beethoven, Ludwig van : Romance for Violin and Orchestra no 1 in G major, Op. 40 - Performer: David Oistrakh (Violin)
- Conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky
- Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
- Running Time: 7 min. 32 sec.
- Period Time: Classical
- Written: 1802
- Studio/Live: Live
Beethoven, Ludwig van : Romance for Violin and Orchestra no 2 in F major, Op. 50 - Performer: David Oistrakh (Violin)
- Conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky
- Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
- Running Time: 9 min. 11 sec.
- Period Time: Classical
- Written: ?1798
- Studio/Live: Live
Kabalevsky, Dmitri : Concerto for Violin in C major, Op. 48 - Performer: David Oistrakh (Violin)
- Conductor: Karl Eliasberg
- Ensemble: USSR State Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Running Time: 15 min. 48 sec.
- Period Time: Modern
- Form: Concerto
- Written: 1948
- Studio/Live: Studio
Taneyev, Sergei : Suite de concert for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 28 - Performer: David Oistrakh (Violin)
- Conductor: Kurt Sanderling
- Ensemble: USSR State Symphony Orchestra
- Running Time: 41 min. 50 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Written: 1909
- Studio/Live: Studio
Prokofiev, Sergei : Concerto for Violin no 1 in D major, Op. 19 - Performer: David Oistrakh (Violin)
- Conductor: Kiril Kondrashin
- Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
- Running Time: 20 min. 3 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Form: Concerto
- Written: 1916-1917
- Studio/Live: Studio
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich : Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 35 - Performer: David Oistrakh (Violin)
- Conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky
- Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
- Running Time: 34 min. 27 sec.
- Period Time: Romantic
- Form: Concerto
- Written: 1878
- Studio/Live: Studio
Sibelius, Jean : Concerto for Violin in D minor, Op. 47 - Performer: David Oistrakh (Violin)
- Conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky
- Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
- Running Time: 29 min. 18 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Form: Concerto
- Written: 1903-1905
- Studio/Live: Studio
Bartók, Béla : Concerto for Violin no 1, Sz 36 - Performer: David Oistrakh (Violin)
- Conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky
- Ensemble: USSR State Symphony Orchestra
- Running Time: 20 min. 6 sec.
- Period Time: Modern
- Form: Concerto
- Written: 1907-1908
- Studio/Live: Live
Szymanowski, Karol : Concerto for Violin no 1, Op. 35 - Performer: David Oistrakh (Violin)
- Conductor: Kurt Sanderling
- Ensemble: USSR State Symphony Orchestra
- Running Time: 22 min. 41 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Form: Concerto
- Written: 1916
- Studio/Live: Studio
Hindemith, Paul : Concerto for Violin - Performer: David Oistrakh (Violin)
- Conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky
- Ensemble: USSR State Symphony Orchestra
- Running Time: 26 min. 32 sec.
- Period Time: Modern
- Form: Concerto
- Written: 1939
- Studio/Live: Studio
Glazunov, Alexander : Concerto for Violin in A minor, Op. 82 - Performer: David Oistrakh (Violin)
- Conductor: Kiril Kondrashin
- Ensemble: USSR State Symphony Orchestra
- Running Time: 21 min. 42 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Form: Concerto
- Written: 1904
- Studio/Live: Studio
Chausson, Ernest : Poème for Violin and Orchestra in E flat major, Op. 25 - Performer: David Oistrakh (Violin)
- Conductor: Kiril Kondrashin
- Ensemble: USSR State Symphony Orchestra
- Running Time: 15 min. 50 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Written: 1896
- Studio/Live: Studio
Ravel, Maurice : Tzigane - Performer: David Oistrakh (Violin)
- Conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky
- Ensemble: USSR State Symphony Orchestra
- Running Time: 9 min. 7 sec.
- Period Time: Modern
- Written: 1924
- Studio/Live: Studio
Glazunov, Alexander : Mazurka-oberek for Violin and Piano/Orchestra in D major - Performer: David Oistrakh (Violin)
- Conductor: Gabril Yudin
- Ensemble: USSR State Symphony Orchestra
- Running Time: 9 min. 37 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Written: 1917
- Studio/Live: Studio
Stravinsky, Igor : Concerto for Violin in D major - Performer: David Oistrakh (Violin)
- Conductor: Kiril Kondrashin
- Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
- Running Time: 14 min. 53 sec.
- Period Time: Modern
- Form: Concerto
- Written: 1931
- Studio/Live: Live
Myaskovsky, Nikolay : Concerto for Violin in D minor, Op. 44 - Performer: David Oistrakh (Violin)
- Conductor: Alexander Gauk
- Ensemble: USSR State Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Running Time: 35 min. 32 sec.
- Period Time: Modern
- Form: Concerto
- Written: 1938
- Studio/Live: Studio




























