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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...
...American, and the crowd's favorite from the beginning, was Cleveland-born Sidney Harth, 32, concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Louisville Orchestra. His Soviet competitor was a talented Russian girl, Rosa Fain, 28, pupil of Russian Violinist David Oistrakh, one of the judges. Only 13 violinists lasted to the finals. The required work: a Polish violin concerto. Both Violinists Harth and Fain selected Wieniawski's Second Concerto...
...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...
...Oistrakhs: Bach's Sonata for Two Violins and Piano, Mozart's Sonata No. 15 for Violin and Piano, Beethoven's Trio No. 9 with Pianist Vladimir Yampolsky, and the Gilels, Kogan, Rostropovich trio; Monitor). Singly and together, papa David and son Igor Oistrakh show that the Russians know how to play Bach and Mozart with purity and cool grace...
...Khachaturian for his oratorios. ¶ Akhmed Gadzhiev, 39, noted for a 1952 symphonic poem, Peace. Other young Russian composers, better known outside the Soviet Union: ¶ Karen Khachaturian, 36. Aram's nephew, whose eclectic, highly rhythmic Violin Sonata in G Minor has been recorded by Russian Virtuoso David Oistrakh. ¶ Andrei Volkonsky, 23, whose works hint at Hindemith; he migrated from France to Russia a few years ago, caused a stir in Moscow last year with a Piano Quintet...