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Something wrong?A Soviet violinist who held the stage so completely that Shostakovich and Khachaturian both wrote concerti with his sound in mind - the benchmark against which a generation measured virtuosity.
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Bundesarchiv Bild 183-45930-0004, Berlin, Gastspiel David und Igor OistrachIn their own words 3
, The main thing is not to lose your identity and to continue working ... You have a quartet. That is such joy! You can forget everything else in the world.
I was three and a half years old when my father brought home a toy fiddle," playing "with which I am very happy fancies himself a street musician...
When I think of myself in those years, it seems to me that I was playing quite freely and fluently, tonally pure.
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SpotifyAlbums 24
VCVivaldi: Concerto for 2 Violins in A Minor, RV 522 / Bach: Violin Concertos 1 & 2
BOBrahms Double Concerto In A Minor, Op. 102
BKBeethoven Violin Concerto in D Major (Cadenza - Kreisler)
TMTchaikovsky, Sibelius: Violin Concertos / Tchaikovsky: Meditation
TCTchaikovsky & Glazunov: Violin ConcertosAwards
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Born in September 1908, David Fyodorovich Oistrakh came up through the Soviet music establishment and landed a professorship at the Moscow Conservatory. He collaborated with orchestras across continents and became the dedicatee of some of the era's defining violin works: both Shostakovich concerti, the Khachaturian concerto. In 1953 he was named People's Artist of the USSR; seven years later came the Lenin Prize. He also took up the viola and conducting. He died in October 1974, leaving a recorded legacy that still defines what the instrument can do.
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