MDT - 92609 - OISTRAKH, DAVID Historic Russian Archives. Violin Concertos. Brilliant Classics 10cds

DAVID OISTRAKH

Historic Russian Archives

CD 1

FELIX MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY: Violin Concerto in E minor Op. 64

1. Allegro molto appassionato

2. Andante

3. Allegretto non troppo-allegro molto vivace

ANTONIN DVORÁK: Violin Concerto in A minor Op. 53

4. Allegro con brio

5. Adagio ma non troppo

6. Allegro giocoso ma non troppo

David Oistrakh, violin, State Symphony Orchestra of USSR/ Kyrill Kondrashin

Recording: 25/10/1949 (Mendelssohn), 07/09/1949 (Dvorak)

CD 2

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor Op. 99

1. Nocturne

2. Scherzo

3. Passacaglia-Burlesque

Violin Concerto No. 2 in C sharp minor Op. 129

4. Moderato

5. Adagio-adagio, allegro

Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra/ Yevgeny Mravinsky (Violin Concerto No. 1)

Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Violin Concerto No. 2)

Recording: 18/11/1956 (Concerto 1), 27/09/1968 (Concerto 2)

CD 3

EDOUARD LALO: Symphonie Espagnole

1. Allegro non troppo

2. Scherzo-allegro molto

3. Intermezzo-allegretto non troppo

4. Andante

5. Rondo, allegro

MAX BRUCH: Scottish Fantasy Op. 46

6. Allegro

7. Adagio

8. Finale, allegro guerriero

David Oistrakh, violin, State Symphony Orchestra of USSR/ Kyrill Kondrashin (Lalo)

State Symphony Orchestra of USSR/ Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Bruch)

CD 4

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto in D major Op. 61

1. Allegro ma non troppo

2. Larghetto

3. Rondo

4. ROMANCE for violin and orchestra No. 1 in G major

5. ROMANCE for violin and orchestra No. 2 in F major Op. 50

David Oistrakh, violin, State Symphony Orchestra of USSR/ Gennady Rozhdestvensky (concerto)

Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra/ Gennady Rozhdestvensky (romances)

Recording: 25/12/1962 (Concerto), 27/09/1968

CD 5

DMITRI KABALEVSKY: Violin Concerto in C major Op. 48

1. Allegro molto e con brio

2. Andantino cantabile

3. Vivace giocoso

SERGEY TANEYEV: Concert Suite for violin & orchestra Op. 28

4. Prelude

5. Gavotte

6. Tema von variazioni

7. Fairy tale

8. Tarantella

David Oistrakh, violin, State Symphony Orchestra of USSR

Carl Eliasberg (Kabalevsky), Kurt Sanderling (Tanayev)

Recording: 12/05/1949 (Kabalevsky), 20/09/1960 (Taneyev)

under exclusive license from Gostelradiofund, Russian Federation.

CD 6

SERGEY PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major Op. 19

1. Andantino-andante assai

2. Scherzo, vivacissimo

3. Moderato

PYOTR ILYITCH TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto in D major Op. 35

4. Allegro moderato

5. Andante

6. Allegro vivacissimo

David Oistrakh, violin, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

Kyrill Kondrashin (1-3), Gennady Rozhdestvensky (4-6)

Recording: 07/09/1963 (Prokofiev), 27/09/1968 (Tchaikovsky)

CD 7

JEAN SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto in D minor Op. 47

1. Allegro moderato

2. Adagio di molto

3. Allegro ma non tanto

BÉLA BARTÓK: Violin Concerto No. 1 Sz. 36

4. Andante sostenuto

5. Allegro giocoso

Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra (Sibelius)

State Symphony Orchestra of USSR (Bartok)

Gennady Rozhdestvensky

Recording: 14/02/1966 (Sibelius), 24/12/1960 (Bartok)

CD 8

KAROL SZYMANOWSKI: Violin Concerto No. 1 Op. 35

1. Movement 1

2. Movement 2

PAUL HINDEMITH: Violin Concerto

3. Mässig bewegte Halbe

4. Langsam

5. Lebhaft

State Symphony Orchestra of USSR/ Kurt Sanderling (Szymanowski)/ Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Hindemith)

Recording: 20/09/1960 (Szymanovski), 25/12/1962 (Hindemith)

CD 9

ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV: Violin Concerto in A minor Op. 82

Moderato-andante-allegro

ERNEST CHAUSSON: Poeme, for violin and orchestra Op. 25

MAURICE RAVEL: Tzigane, rapsodie de concert for violin and orchestra

ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV: Mazurka-Oberek in D major for violin and orchestra

Mazurka-Oberek in D major for violin and orchestra

Kyrill Kondrashin (1, 2)

Gennady Rozhdestvensky (3)

Gabril Yudin (4)

Recording: 01/01/1947 (1), 15/03/1948 (2), 24/12/1960 (3), 25/02/1950 (4)

CD 10

IGOR STRAVINSKY: Violin Concerto in D major

1. Toccata

2. Aria I

3. Aria II

4. Capriccio

NIKOLAY MIASKOVSKY: Violin Concerto in D minor Op. 44

5. Allegro

6. Adagio molto cantabile

7. Allegro molto

Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Kyrill Kondrashin (Stravinsky)

State Symphony Orchestra of USSR, Alexander Gauk (Miaskovsky)

Recording: 08/02/1963 (Stravinsky), 01/01/1939 (Miaskovsky)

David Oistrakh died over 30 years ago but is still a household name. He won many prizes including first at the Ysaÿe Concours in Brussels, Belgium, the start of his international career.

His style evolved from the elegant to the 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. In this 10 CD set Brillliant Classics 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.

Brilliant Classics 10cds 92609