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...Adams House Music Society (David Hurwitz, violin & Jonathan Thackeray, piano), Adams House dining hall...
...true communist fashion, violinist David Oistrakh has avoided the usual monopolism and recorded for almost every label. Some of his records have been reviewed here; by this time it is possible to look back on and evaluate his entire output. His recent Angel recording of Prokofief's First Violin Concerto stands out as one of the best examples of Oistrakh's technical virtuosity, rich tone, and great musicianship. An early Prokofief work, the concerto finds the composer in a lyrical mood and is one of the few entirely successful concerti of this century. (Angel...
...through the years, I got a basic disrespect-it got so I thought I could ignore authority if I thought I was right. I was cocksure." With what seemed genuine remorse, Harry Gold summed up how the spy ring manipulated him: "Like a virtuoso would play a violin...
...sternly ordered, "Make that boy as good a violinist as his father." For a while it looked as if nothing like that could ever happen. David Oistrakh was already on his way to being one of the world's finest fiddlers, and young Igor showed signs of detesting violin sounds from the time he started making them at the age of six. But they kept his bow to the catgut. At 18 he entered the Moscow conservatory, became a master class student. His teacher: father. Last week Fiddler Igor, a thin, large-faced, jug-eared...
Young Igor first ventured out of Russia in 1949 to win the first prize in violin at the Budapest Youth Festival. Since then he has popped up in England, France, Finland, Austria and Switzerland, collecting plenty of excited notices. This time he dashed through ten performances in West Germany (plus recording sessions) in 15 days, wound up last week with a grand finale in West Berlin's cold and functional Titania-Palast theater...