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...Gieseking and Sviatoslav Richter are the leading pianists, with 46 recordings each; Richter had only 19 three years ago, and, having made the biggest jump of any instrumentalist, he is now being denounced as a musical prostitute for turning out such a long and uneven list of recordings. David Oistrakh is beginning to slip from record shelves, but with 70 of his recordings available, he still has nearly twice as many as Jascha Heifetz, the next most popular fiddler. E. Power Biggs leads the organists, and the cellist with the largest recorded repertory is Janos Starker...
...life of study, three weeks of merciless competition, and a midnight wait for the jury's decision, a young Russian violinist named Alexei Michlin had won last week's Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition, and there to share in the glory of it all was his teacher, David Oistrakh...
...Russian triumph turned attention to the sort of rigorous training young Soviet virtuosi grow up on and the day seemed especially bright for Oistrakh: of the winners at Brussels, three are his very own pupils. The Russian superiority, critics agreed, involved fidelity to the music, discipline-and the kind of maturity that let Michlin, 24, quickly snatch up the concertmaster's violin and go on playing when a string in his own instrument broke during his performance of a concerto written especially for the occasion...
...Oistrakh (Monitor) presents David Oistrakh and his son, Igor, in a good collection of works for virtuosi violins: Haydn's Duo in B Flat, Prokofiev's Sonata for Two Violins, Honegger's Sonatina, and Louis Spohr's Duetto II in D Major. The Oistrakhs play magnificently...
Persuasive Speech. The festival was organized as a salute to Soviet music in general: along with Shostakovich came Conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Violinist David Oistrakh, Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife, Singer Galina Vishnevskaya. (After Pianist Sviatoslav Richter failed to show up, forcing the refund of $11,200 worth of tickets, the Russians tersely announced that their great virtuoso was resting at home with a mild stroke.) But for all the heavy concentration of glamorous box office names, the center of attention remained Shostakovich, who often could be seen sprinting from one concert hall to another to keep up with...