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...most recent major work of Russia's foremost composer, Dmitry Shostakovich, is the Violin Concerto No. 2 (1967). Soviet Virtuoso David Oistrakh has already performed it in a few cities in the U.S. and Europe, but most Westerners have not heard...
...change, deserved the title of special. CBS led the parade with S. Hurok Presents-Part II, and the indefatigable impresario produced a musical program of a quality that television has not achieved in years. Pianist Artur Rubinstein performed Beethoven's Concerto in G Major, Violinist David Oistrakh played Bach's Concerto in A Minor, and the Bolshoi Ballet danced a segment of Act II of Giselle. Throughout the 90-minute show, both music and ballet were presented on their own terms-without the usual TV camera tricks and, more important, without commercial interruption. In the 60-second intermissions...
...musical segments, CBS Director William Graham focused almost exclusively on Oistrakh and Rubinstein, dollying and zooming around them with gentle art, highlighting the dexterity of their finger work and the rapt expressions of two of the craggiest and most variable countenances in all the performing arts. In the Bolshoi segment, he gave the home viewer the same kind of steady, pictorial flow that is available from a good theater seat...
...HUROK PRESENTS (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Pianist Artur Rubinstein playing Beethoven, Violinist David Oistrakh performing Bach, and the Bolshoi Ballet in an excerpt from Giselle...
Good as the collaboration was, there was better to come. Last week, on the festival's closing day, Richter teamed up for an even more rewarding recital with his great Soviet contemporary, Violinist David Oistrakh. Both are natives of Odessa, but they had never played together before. In sonatas by Schubert, Brahms and Franck, they showed what a regrettable omission that had been...