" The Oistrakh collection has two complete works, Bach’s A minor Violin Concerto and Beethoven’s Spring Sonata, one from a live Festival Hall performance, the other from an ORTF Paris studio dolled up to look like an over-upholstered sitting room with a glowerin ......."
Works:
Bach: Concerto for Violin and Strings ,BWV1041
Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No 5, 'Spring',Op. 24.
Brahms: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra,Op. 77 (Final movement only)
Debussy: Suite bergamasque - Clair de lune
Prokofiev: 5 Melodies,Op. 35b. Sonata for 2 Violins,Op. 56.
Schubert: Sonata for Violin and Piano,D574.
Review:
The Oistrakh collection has two complete works, Bach’s A minor Violin Concerto and Beethoven’s Spring Sonata, one from a live Festival Hall performance, the other from an ORTF Paris studio dolled up to look like an over-upholstered sitting room with a glowering portrait of Beethoven in the background. In the Bach, the slow movement is warmly romantic in traditional style, and the solo can never have been played more sweetly. In the Beethoven too, with Lev Oborin given fair visual exposure alongside Oistrakh, the heavenly sweetness of Oistrakh’s tone in the slow movement cocoons the ear, as it does, too, in the arrangement of Debussy’s ‘Clair de lune’ among the short fill-up items. Brief as they are, they are all very enjoyable, even the movement from the Prokofiev Two-Violin Sonata, in partnership with his son, Igor, which suffers from a very dry acoustic. As a bonus there is the finale of the Brahms Concerto, a fine reading but tantalisingly on its own.
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Thanks for sharing Oistrakh's great performance.
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