Shostakovich’s Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2 performed by David Oistrakh
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COMPOSERS: Shostakovich
LABELS: Alto
ALBUM TITLE: Shostakovich
WORKS: Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2; Alone – Suite
PERFORMER: David Oistrakh (violin); Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra/Mravinsky; Moscow Philharmonic/Kondrashin; USSR State Symphony Orchestra/Rozhdestvensky
CATALOGUE NO: ALC 1337 (1956-71)
Even if the First Concerto does not quite rival the bleak intensity of Oistrakh’s debut recoding with Mitropoulos, these masterly accounts mine the music’s emotional core with relentlessly probing acuity.
Julian Haylock
Authors
Julian Haylock is the former editor of CD Review and International Piano Magazines and reviews of CD Classics Magazine. He is also the author of biographies on Mahler, Rachmaninov and Puccini, and co-author of the Haylock and Waugh pocket guides to Classical Music on CD and Opera Music on CD.