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In Reply to: RE: Streamed it last night on QOBUZ... posted by Ivan303 on September 05, 2015 at 07:01:42
While Oistrakh was a prodigy, as far as I know he did not have "stage parents." IIRC his mother worked in the box office of the local concert hall/opera theater. Very rare among first-rank violinists, Oistrakh's first instrument was the viola, and he continued to play viola throughout his life. I can't help but think that that influenced how he played the violin.
For whatever reason, Oistrakh's approach to the violin I think developed more along musical lines than toward "violinism." There might be dozens of players "who get around better on the violin" than Oistrakh did, but there was never in my opinion a violin player who was a greater musician--as a musician. Oistrakh's début recording of the Shostakovich first violin concerto is one of the most important recordings of the 20th-c.
Oistrakh's playing embodied (almost paradoxically) a monumental conception of the music, tempered with humanity and humility.
The once and future King David.
jm
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