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David Oistrakh: Concerto For Two Violins
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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This programme introduces David Oistrakh not just as vioIinist, but aIso as father and friend in the performances of the Bach DoubIe Concerto and Mozart Sinfonia concertante with his son, lgor. This pairing is said to have been David Oistrakhs favourite performance partnership. The performance of the Bach concerto is one of the Oistrakhs best readings of the work it formed their first foreign engagement as a duo, with the FestivaI HaII concert beginning the 1961 tour. The performance of the Mozart Sinfonia concertante at the Royal AIbert HaIl was sold out (this tour was said to be onIy the second occasion that David Oistrakh had played the viola in forty years). This performance is a wonderfuI combination with Menuhin conducting Oistrakh in a work that he himself had recentIy recorded with Rudolf Barshai (the second half of this concert saw Oistrakh conducting Menuhin in the Beethoven Concerto). Kondrashin was renowned as a concerto accompanist, and demonstrates his immense controI and expressive technique in the Brahms performance. He was aIso one of David Oistrakhs favourite conductors. |
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