Bach, Händel, Vivaldi, Benda / David & Igor Oistrach
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"I was three and a half when my father brought home a toy violin," said the great Russian fiddler David Oistrakh. "I enthusiastically imagined myself a street player, a sad profession quite common at that time in Odessa." But he went on, he said, to become a child prodigy, "boring and without a spark." His own son Igor's violin training took a more conventional path, but to hear father and son together on this CD is to get a whiff of that original, wonderfully liberated Odessan sound. Liberated, but also remarkably disciplined: the tempi are often followed with metronomic precision, and there's no trace of virtuosic affectation. Their Bach is grave, their Vivaldi glowing, and their Handel full of vivid warmth. When they do let rip in the final Sarasate number, it's to dazzling effect. Recorded in the late 1950s, this is a disc to treasure and marvel at: their violins speak as one, in perfect symbiosis of mood and purpose. --Michael Church
Bach, Händel, Vivaldi, Benda / David & Igor Oistrach, Music, Johann Georg (Jan Jiri) Benda, Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, George Frideric Handel, Pablo de Sarasate, Antonio Vivaldi, Henryk Wieniawski, David Oistrakh, Franz Konwitschny, Hans Pischner, Gewandhaus Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Yampolsky, Igor Oistrakh, Chamber, Chamber Music & Recitals, Classical, Classical Artists, Classical Music, Concerto, Concerto for Two String Instruments, Duo for Two String Instruments, Trio Sonata, Violin Concerto, Violin with Keyboard
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Bach, Händel, Vivaldi, Benda / David & Igor Oistrach
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ASIN: B00004R7X7
Release Date: 2000-06-13 |
Tracks:
- Con Grosso in a, Op.3 No.8: 1. Allegro - David Oistrach/Igor Oistrach
- Con Grosso in a, Op.3 No.8: 2. Larghetto E Spirituoso - David Oistrach/Igor Oistrach
- Con Grosso in a, Op.3 No.8: 3. Allegro - David Oistrach/Igor Oistrach
- Son in C, BWV 1037: 1. Adagio - David Oistrach/Igor OistrachHans Pischner
- Son in C, BWV 1037: 2. Allabreve - David Oistrach/Igor OistrachHans Pischner
- Son in C, BWV 1037: 3. Largo - David Oistrach/Igor OistrachHans Pischner
- Son in C, BWV 1037: 4. Presto - David Oistrach/Igor OistrachHans Pischner
- Son in g, Op.2 No.7: 1. Andante - Allegro - David Oistrach/Igor Oistrach/Vladimir Yampolsky
- Son in g, Op.2 No.7: 2. Arioso. Poco Adagio - Attacca - David Oistrach/Igor Oistrach/Vladimir Yampolsky
- Son in g, Op.2 No.7: 3. Allegro - David Oistrach/Igor Oistrach/Vladimir Yampolsky
- Trio Son in E: 1. Moderato - David Oistrach/Igor Oistrach/Vladimir Yampolsky
- Trio Son in E: 2. Largo - David Oistrach/Igor Oistrach/Vladimir Yampolsky
- Trio Son in E: 3. Allegro - David Oistrach/Igor Oistrach/Vladimir Yampolsky
- 3 Etudes-Caprices, Op.18: No.2 in E flat - David Oistrach/Igor Oistrach
- 3 Etudes-Caprices, Op.18: No.5 in E - David Oistrach/Igor Oistrach
- 3 Etudes-Caprices, Op.18: No.4 in a - David Oistrach/Igor Oistrach
- 'Navarra' Op.33 - David Oistrach/Igor Oistrach
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"I was three and a half when my father brought home a toy violin," said the great Russian fiddler David Oistrakh. "I enthusiastically imagined myself a street player, a sad profession quite common at that time in Odessa." But he went on, he said, to become a child prodigy, "boring and without a spark." His own son Igor's violin training took a more conventional path, but to hear father and son together on this CD is to get a whiff of that original, wonderfully liberated Odessan sound. Liberated, but also remarkably disciplined: the tempi are often followed with metronomic precision, and there's no trace of virtuosic affectation. Their Bach is grave, their Vivaldi glowing, and their Handel full of vivid warmth. When they do let rip in the final Sarasate number, it's to dazzling effect. Recorded in the late 1950s, this is a disc to treasure and marvel at: their violins speak as one, in perfect symbiosis of mood and purpose. --Michael Church
Customer Reviews:
Enjoyable.......2003-10-20
The Bach BWV 1037 is great. The selection is a bit random, and I would have left out the Vivaldi. However, David and Igor Oistrach's playing has appealed to me from the first. They are lyrical without being affected. If you do not own any of their duets, then this CD is a pretty good place to start.
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