Word: oistrakhs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Including David Oistrakh, Yehudi Menuhin, Zino Francescatti, Joseph Szigeti, Ivan Galamian, Arthur Grumiaux...
...internationally, the least widely heard pianist is 44-year-old Russian Sviatoslav Richter. Most Westerners who have managed to attend one of his concerts are convinced that he is one of the greatest pianists now playing. But unlike such famed Russian contemporaries as Pianist Emil Gilels and Violinist David Oistrakh, Richter is not a Communist Party member and has never been allowed to travel to the West. Last week the West traveled to Richter. In Leningrad the touring Philadelphia Orchestra (TIME, June 9) joined him in a performance of Prokofiev's prickly, sardonic Fifth Piano Concerto...
When the Boston Symphony toured Russia two years ago, the members of the string section heaped praise on Russian Violinist David Oistrakh, who had played with the orchestra during his U.S. tour. Russian musicians countered with a standard response: wait until you hear Leonid Kogan. In Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week Violinist Kogan turned up with the Boston to demonstrate what his countrymen were talking about...
...younger sister of famed Pianist Emil Gilels and a fine violinist in her own right, Kogan is something of a musical hero in Russia. To the impressed men of the Boston string section last week, he seemed to lack some of the interpretive maturity of 49-year-old Violinist Oistrakh (with whom he studied briefly), but all agreed that Kogan was playing in the same rarefied league. "He's among the top alltime performers on the instrument," said Concertmaster Richard Burgin. "He ranks with the best...
...sections of the concerto in true virtuoso fashion. Contestant Fain showed brilliant technique, warmth and sincerity, though there seemed to be something constrained about her playing. Harth, on the other hand, got himself into trouble with some of the judges by playing too freely. When the vote was counted (Oistrakh giving both contestants identical, maximum scores), Violinist Fain nosed out Violinist Harth by 409 to 406 points. Some of the Western judges were wroth, argued that Louisville's Harth would have won but for open political partiality. At week's end the six top contestants played a joint...