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Prokofiev: Violin Sonata No. 1 (David Oistrakh, violin, & Lev Oborin, piano; Vanguard). One of the world's finest fiddlers, Soviet Artist Oistrakh has never been recorded to better advantage. The subtlety of color, the sudden shock of ringing plucked strings, the driving intensity of dramatic episodes, all add up to the definitive recording of a major composition...
...great national theater) returned to Paris last week with delighted reports of how Georgy Malenkov, Scourge of the Bourgeoisie, had attended a performance of Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme-and had afterward treated some of the cast to candy and champagne. The U.S.S.R.'s famed Violinist David Oistrakh and Pianist Tatiana Nikolaieva recently concertized in Argentina, a Russian concert group is touring Canada, and the Soviet Ballet is preparing to open in Paris, its first appearance in Western Europe since World War II. And in London's Stoll Theater, a less-renowned Soviet dance group...
...more severe tastes, the Soviets also sent a young violinist named Igor Oistrakh. He played Beethoven's Violin Concerto with the London Philharmonic, and the critics approved to a man. The Times was relatively reserved, praising his "artistic integrity and surety of execution." The Daily Express' Cecil Smith, usually a hard man to please, went overboard: "Not since the piano playing of the 23-year-old Horowitz burst on Western ears 25 years ago has Russia given us so staggeringly gifted a young musician...
...Igor Oistrakh, but the Russians were too busy for interviews. The main facts about Igor: he is the son of famed Soviet Violinist David Oistrakh (TIME, July...
...Leeds has had its troubles. Last February, two U.S. companies released identical recordings by the National Philharmonic and Bolshoi Theater choruses and orchestras of Shostakovich's Song of the Forests: only one of them was Leeds-licensed. A few months later, two companies brought out Violinist David Oistrakh's expert performance of the Brahms Double Concerto...