 Violin
Concerti
Performer: Zino Francescatti,
David Oistrakh
The Sibelius Violin Concerto
was David Oistrakh's specialty. He brought to it a personal warmth
and poetry, and Oistrakh made the most of what critics call Sibelius's
"Russian melancholy," which is the term applied to
Russian music when it sounds most Finnish. But seriously, the
great Finnish composer was a strong admirer of Tchaikovsky, whose
Violin Concerto was another David Oistrakh specialty. Eugene
Ormandy's Sibelius credentials were similarly well established
at the time that this great recording was made. At a budget price,
with a terrific Beethoven Violin Concerto tossed in, you'd have
to be nuts not to want to hear it. --David Hurwitz |
Violin
Concertos / Oistrakh
