Notes and Editorial Reviews
It is possible that David Oistrakh was the most consistently satisfying violinist of his generation. At least that's the impression his large discography conveys. As it happens, EMI was responsible for some of his most memorable recorded achievements, many of which have been reissued numerous times, and in some cases reviewed for Classicstoday.com. There's little anyone can add to years of positive critical consensus concerning such catalog mainstays as the Beethoven Triple Concerto with Rostropovich, Richter, and Karajan, both versions of the Brahms Concerto (with Klemperer and Szell, respectively) and Double Concerto (Fournier/Galliera, Rostropovich/Szell), the two Prokofiev Concertos (No. 1 with Matacic, No. 2 with Galliera), plus those
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warm, lyrically generous Mozart concerto collaborations with the Berlin Philharmonic, including a Sinfonia concertante to die for. And Oistrakh himself preferred his 1972 Shostakovich First concerto with the composer's son Maxim at the helm to his pioneering mono recording with Mitropoulos.
However, this 17-disc complete Oistrakh edition's main attraction for collectors concerns rarities that either are new to or long unavailable on CD, such as the superb 1954 Sibelius and Beethoven concertos with Sixten Ehrling and the Stockholm Festival Orchestra, and, with Jean Martinon, a passionate, vividly characterized Lalo Symphonie espagnole (including the once-rare-now-common central Intermezzo movement).
If you don't mind old-fashioned clarinet and bassoon vibrato circa Moscow 1955, an expansive Schubert Octet will give you pleasure. The "new" sonata recordings feature Oistrakh's equal-minded if not always sonically well-balanced partnership with Vladimir Yampolsky (the Franck, Khachaturian, and Mozart B-flat K. 454), plus a Beethoven "Kreutzer" hampered by Lev Oborin's dull pianism. For the most part, previously reissued items are represented by their most recent EMI transfer. Tully Potter's notes provide welcome biographical information plus interesting background details on the recordings themselves. Buy this release together with Brilliant Classics' wider ranging concerto collection and you'll have an instant, near-definitive Oistrakh library worth far more than its modest asking price.
--Jed Distler, ClassicsToday.com
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Works on This Recording
6.
Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 61 by Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer:
David Oistrakh (Violin)
Conductor:
Sixten Ehrling
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Stockholm Festival Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1806; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 6/1954
10.
Concerto for Violin in D minor, Op. 47 by Jean Sibelius
Performer:
David Oistrakh (Violin)
Conductor:
Sixten Ehrling
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Stockholm Festival Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1903-1905; Finland
Date of Recording: 6/1954
11.
Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 61 by Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer:
David Oistrakh (Violin)
Conductor:
André Cluytens
Orchestra/Ensemble:
ORTF National Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1806; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 11/1958
12.
Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 77 by Johannes Brahms
Performer:
David Oistrakh (Violin)
Conductor:
Otto Klemperer
Orchestra/Ensemble:
ORTF National Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1878; Austria
Date of Recording: 6/1960
14.
Concerto for Violin no 3 in G major, K 216 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer:
David Oistrakh (Violin)
Conductor:
David Oistrakh
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1775; Salzburg, Austria
Date of Recording: 3/1971
15.
Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 77 by Johannes Brahms
Performer:
David Oistrakh (Violin)
Conductor:
George Szell
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Cleveland Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1878; Austria
Date of Recording: 5/1969
16.
Concerto for Violin no 1 in D major, Op. 19 by Sergei Prokofiev
Performer:
David Oistrakh (Violin)
Conductor:
Lovro von Matacic
Orchestra/Ensemble:
London Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1916-1917; Russia
Date of Recording: 11/1954
17.
Concerto for Violin no 2 in G minor, Op. 63 by Sergei Prokofiev
Performer:
David Oistrakh (Violin)
Conductor:
Alceo Galliera
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Philharmonia Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1935; Paris, France
Date of Recording: 5/1958
18.
Concerto for Violin no 1 in B flat major, K 207 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer:
David Oistrakh (Violin)
Conductor:
David Oistrakh
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1775; Salzburg, Austria
Date of Recording: 3/1971
19.
Concerto for Violin no 2 in D major, K 211 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer:
David Oistrakh (Violin)
Conductor:
David Oistrakh
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1775; Salzburg, Austria
Date of Recording: 9/1971
21.
Concerto for Violin no 4 in D major, K 218 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer:
David Oistrakh (Violin)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1775; Salzburg, Austria
Date of Recording: 11/1970
26.
Concerto for Violin no 3 in G major, K 216 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer:
David Oistrakh (Violin)
Conductor:
David Oistrakh
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Philharmonia Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1775; Salzburg, Austria
Date of Recording: 5/1958
27.
Concertone for 2 Violins in C major, K 190 (186E) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer:
Igor Oistrakh (Violin)
Conductor:
David Oistrakh
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1774; Salzburg, Austria
Date of Recording: 3/1972
28.
Symphonie espagnole, Op. 21 by Edouard Lalo
Performer:
David Oistrakh (Violin)
Conductor:
Jean Martinon
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Philharmonia Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1873; France
Date of Recording: 11/1954
29.
Concerto for Violin no 1 in G minor, Op. 26 by Max Bruch
Performer:
David Oistrakh (Violin)
Conductor:
Lovro von Matacic
Orchestra/Ensemble:
London Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1868; Germany
Date of Recording: 11/1954
30.
Concerto for Violin no 1 in A minor, Op. 77 by Dmitri Shostakovich
Performer:
David Oistrakh (Violin)
Conductor:
Maxim Shostakovich
Orchestra/Ensemble:
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: USSR
Date of Recording: 11/25/1972
31.
Concerto for Violin in D minor by Aram Khachaturian
Performer:
David Oistrakh (Violin),
Sviatoslav Knushevitzky (Cello),
Lev Oborin (Piano)
Conductor:
Aram Khachaturian
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Philharmonia Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1940; USSR
Date of Recording: 11/1954
36.
Hungarian Folksongs (10): Excerpt(s) by Zoltán Kodály
Performer:
Vladimir Yampolsky (Piano),
David Oistrakh (Violin)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1906; Hungary
Date of Recording: 2/28/1956
38.
Suite bergamasque: 3rd movement, Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy
Performer:
Vladimir Yampolsky (Piano),
David Oistrakh (Violin)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1890/1905; France
Date of Recording: 2/28/1956
Notes: Arranged: Francis Poulenc
41.
Extase, Op. 18 by Eugčne Ysa˙e
Performer:
Vladimir Yampolsky (Piano),
David Oistrakh (Violin)
Period: Romantic
Date of Recording: 2/28/1956
45.
Octet for Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon and Strings in F major, D 803/Op. 166 by Franz Schubert
Performer:
Vladimir Sorokin (Clarinet),
Peter Bondarenko (Violin),
Sviatoslav Knushevitzky (Cello),
David Oistrakh (Violin),
Mikhail Terian (Viola),
Joseph Gertovich (Double Bass),
Joseph Stidel (Bassoon),
Jacov Shapiro (French Horn)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1824; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 10/27/1955
Featured Sound Samples
Concerto for Violin and Cello "Double Concerto" (Brahms): II. Andante
Violin Concerto no 1 (Bruch): II. Adagio
Mazurka for Violin and Piano (Zarzycki)
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