David Oistrakh - Sviatoslav Richter - Brahms - Sonata No 2 - Prokofiev - Sonata No 1 -
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David Oistrakh - Sviatoslav Richter


Brahms - Sonata No 2 in A


Prokofiev - Sonata No 1 in F minor Op. 80

EMI Angel Melodiya

Record is VG+ it does have some hairline scuff marks

Cover slight ringwear


David Oistrakh was undoubtedly one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century. He was born in Odessa in the Ukraine in 1908. He began playing the violin at age 5. He studied violin at the Odessa Conservatory with P. S. Stolyarski. He graduated from the Odessa Conservatory in 1926. He made his Moscow debut in 1933 at age 25. He gave recitals throughout the Soviet Union and eastern Europe and in 1937 won first prize in the Eugène Ysaÿe violin competition. From 1934 he taught violin at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1942 he received the Stalin Prize. He toured extensively through Europe beginning in 1951, and across the United States in 1955.
He played viola and conducted in addition to playing violin. Not merely a master of concertos and solo violin music, Oistrakh also played chamber music, collaborating with othe great artists such as Sviatoslav Richter, Frida Bauer, Sviatoslav Knushevitsky, Lev Oborin, Mstislav Rostropovich, Vladimir Yampolsky, and his own son Igor.

Oistrakh and Prokofiev

Although Oistrakh is best known as a specialist in late-classical and Romantic works, he also commissioned and was the dedicatee of several contemporary compositions. Prokofiev maintained a close relationship with Oistrakh, some times collaborating with him on violin works. Most famously, Oistrakh, upon hearing the Flulte Sonata Op 94 for violin, coaxed Prokofiev to re-write it for violin and piano, which he did, resulting in the now famous Sonata for Violin and Piano No 2, Op. 94b.

Prokofiev later introduced his First Violin Sonata to Oistrakh (and Miaskovsky) in 1946. Upon hearing it, Oistrakh remarked "the music itself made an enormous impression -- one had the feeling of being present at a very great and significant event. Nothing written for the violin in many decades -- anywhere in the world -- could equal this piece in beauty and depth." Oistrakh later played the first and third movements of the First Violin Sonata at Prokofiev's funeral


Oistrakh Richter - Prokofiev Violin Sonata Op.80
Sviatostav Richter, David Oistrakh
filmed in 1972, Moscow

Powerful




David Oistrakh & Sviatoslav Richter in Prokofiev - Violin sonata n°1 op.80 mvt2 Moscow 1972 ..

Spectacular!




Oistrakh & Richter : Prokofiev violinsonata 1 op 80 mvt 3

Can't describe it with words. A legendary interpretation