David Oistrakh play Beethoven

[Grobanite122549]

He's amazing

[iluminada333]

I wonder what's passing through his mind...

[lovejazz42]

Well, Oistrakh is one of my gods. But this pianist, Lev Oborin, is absolutely superb.

[lklkhjhjdfs]

Difficult to play better...



[MatteoTornado]

one of the best violin in the history

[pianistaCasara]

Why not release the name of the pianist? He is also very good.

[JensaysLalala]

What is the pianist's name?

[hellboyreloaded]

@JensaysLalala Lev Oborin.

[mozart200657]

@JensaysLalala Lev Oborin

[CanadaPisces]

A wonderful musical moment!

[TheMedusa2000]

capolavoro, grandi Maestri.

[walkingwithlordfusaw]

Great performance in beautiful room!!

[VandelayandGannon]

7:27-7:29 "...Good David, good. Now get back behind ze Curtain."

[TuLithu]

Does anyone know where I could purchase this on DVD? Does it include all the Sonatas?

[simogaia92]

@TuLithu hi, this is a dvd published by EMI, that includes the whole spring, Debussy's claire de lune, bach's concert in A minor, the third movement of Brahms' concert and I don't remember anymore. anyway, that's the dvd, i don't know if it's still in commerce, try to ask to disc shop. bye bye

[SugarTomAppleRoger]

Actually, this is called the "Frühlings Sonate" - at least that is what I was told by my music teacher.

[okenta3ei]

@SugarTomAppleRoger fruhling is spring in german -.-

[cheeriopick]

he is reallyreallyreallyreally good!!!!!!

one of the best performances, i'm full of praises :DDD

[A4440HZ]

When i glanced at the freeze frame for this video, I, for a brief moment, thought the page turner was Oistrakh =)

[3NUNS]

born into a post-Soviet world what a pity !

[prayformercy4]

3NUNS: why a pity? i hardly see that relevant. Oistrakh is one of the greatest violinist ever. who cares about whether or not he was born into a communist country

[prayformercy4]

in my opinion best recording of spring sonata on youtube

[3NUNS]

and, yes, best heard in Spring, whether the northern, oder, southern hemisphere !

[calloffthedogs]

try Kogan and Gilels

[prayformercy4]

hey im only 17 and i appreciate this very much haha...not saying that i dont appreciate mainstream music as well

[3NUNS]

and, pray tell, what are your political preferences ?

[CARNFORTH]

Superb.

[Raphi8000]

It seems so easy to play the Violin.

[duhhh86]

yes, good players always make it seem so easy.

[3NUNS]

It is and I can tell you how !

[3NUNS]

It is. Contact me for lessons.

[GBV1961]

meraviglioso artista....

[cayman228]

E pensa che non aveva neanche il fisico per fare il violinista... il violinista deve avere le dita lunghe sì, ma sottili. Le sue dita erano molto grosse... la grandezza di Oistrakh era anche questa, riuscire ad avere una precisione incredibile nonostante la difficoltà dovuta alle dita grandi.

[rachmaninovisback]

the greatest vilinist of all times!

[cayman228]

David Oistrakh is the better violinist. Period.

[javideleon24]

Woooow!!

I´m playing the "Spring" sonata, and definetly this is the best version i´ve heard!!

Bravo Oistrakh!!

[mikeexpo]

Who play piano?

[albikocca82]

I think he is Lev Oborin!

[mikeexpo]

Thank you !

[Lukecash12]

It did, however, sound a bit too uniform.

[Lukecash12]

One thing i enjoy about this period of music, is that each phrase normally ends on a note leaning towards another about a whole tone or half step from it. The meter is also clear as crystal throughout. Great to dance to, obviously.

[IVIG77]

Oistrak is superb! the best of the xx century for Beethoven

[antoinezygfryd]

Kempff et Schneiderhan,...combien d'autres paires allemandes qui délivrent un Beethoven plus vivant? ici la perfection ne me touche pas,et,au piano,Richter offre un phrasé et une clarté d'élocution sans pareils.

[7514115]

I'm in heaven

[yinwong93]

bravo~

[OriginalMoonbeam]

Love this piece and he plays it beautifully...well done! The pianist resembles the Mayor of "Mayberry"

[ssai]

does anyone know the date of when this was taped?

[93N39]

look at the ties and the glasses--it has to be the sixties.

[68salerno]

@93N39 che commento istruttivo. . .

[Chaconnesque]

Oborin taught Richter.

[vova47]

No,you are wrong about that,I assure you!

Richter was taught first by his father, later

by Heinrich Neuhaus.That is all.

[Elfinsafety]

Oborin taught Ashkenazy.

[matteoss93]

Il pianista è Richter?

[udm77]

Lev Oborine i think..;;;

[matteoss93]

Ok, thanks. I really thought he wasn't Richter, but they two played much together.

[oatboy]

i love oistrakh, he's probably my all time favorite violinist, but this recording bores me, honestly. They both seem a bit bored, and the phrases are incredibly straightfoward and uncreative. Still his amazing sound is always present and gives life to it. Not his greatest recording though.

[takamori400]

Listen to other violinists play this piece, and then listen to Oistrakh. You will hear the difference how good he is!! And, his tone of violin is so good and pretty! Of course, technique is excellent!!!

[sstutter]

Why was this post negged? Oatboy speaks nothing but the truth. Stop uplifting Oistrakh so much, as if he could do wrong. Don't get me wrong; I love Oistrakh, but he's still human. And the truth is that this recording was just what oatboy said it was: dull and uncreative. For the spring sonata recordings on youtube, Szeryng > Oistrakh.

[3NUNS]

Perhaps O was not yet developed as an artist : see the Kreutzer Sonata klip for O on this site.

[symfotroll]

@sstutter you're right. But again, it's just typical Oistrakh.

[symfotroll]

@oatboy agree. most of his recordings are like that though. i remember his mozart violin concertos - the most boring thing imaginable.

[pepenomedestormento]

A todo el que ame la música, no se ha perdido todo, siempre nos quedaran Beethoven y Oistrakh.

[jkircher314]

Oistrakh lived in constant fear of being arrested. At one point everyone in his apt. bldg. was in a gulag except for him and a neighbor. He had to keep a suitcase packed at all times, waiting for the police to arrive. One night they came, walked up the stairs. Drenched in sweat Oistrakh waited. The knock was on the door across the way. He never was arrested, but think of the anxiety! To have to perform with that undercurrent of fear - no crime was committed other than being alive in USSR.

[ipmoic]

I'm surprised Oborin is playing with the lid down. Always the genial partner I guess...

[3NUNS]

I notice those with the 'lid' up tend to bang the chords.

[flllutiste]

Beethoven is really great , listen to this composition. So simple to listen and so great !

[3NUNS]

Yea, verily thou hast spoken well.

[swanningaround]

Oistrakh is a special guy. I wonder if he would have been that good, if he had not been in the SU. He is my favorite violinist. Richter is my favorite pianist.

[jkircher314]

Oistrakh and Lev Oborin - who could ask for more? What a pair! Thank you for sharing this.

[3NUNS]

Why, why, why, why. I say didn't we take the sixties more seriously. We dismissed the USSR 'cos we were right-wing musical 'infidels'. I should have taken up the violin 46 years ago.

[3NUNS]

Why, why, why didn't we take the sixties more seriously ? I should have taken the violin up 46 years ago.

[GaleoDeus]

Beautiful.

Oistrakh played with fine-tuners on E and A? Huh.

[SnowWing151]

Yes, Oistrakh like many russians used a steel A string, Thomastik Spiracore i think. The gut A's are extremely unstable. They go out of tune 3 times as fast as the other strings, also play it more so it also wears really fast. Steelcore A's are very stable and strong. With steel strings, you can also use fine tuners, gut strings discourage them, so why not add find tuner to A also.

[SnowWing151]

In the US we use one because everyone uses steel E's and synthetic or gut everything else. Back in the really old days, when E's were gut too! there were no fine tuners.

[3NUNS]

Ladies and gentlemen, musicologists one and all may I ask what year this performance occurred...

[nathanbob12]

what the heck?! absolutely no bow control, especially in the beginning.

[oatboy]

you think oistrakh doesnt have good bow control? i think you are a fool, he has one of the best bow arms i've ever seen.

[Oznerol1986]

you are an idiot man! I have no words to describe how crazy you are!!!! I would like to see your bow control..... ahahah shut up

[nathanbob12]

at ten seconds he creates an unnecessary accent due to his lack of bow control... Also, the very beginning was very off rhythmically

[3NUNS]

Don't accept this at all. This guy, David Oistrakh, is a very competent fiddler.

[trf62semmel]

I assume that the possibility he may have wished to add an accent for musical reasons, (or similarly a little rubato), is completely out of the question?

[trf62semmel]

I assume this is a joke... Oistrakh is known, indisputably, as having one of the best bowing arms in the business. Clearly you're either: a) not a violinist, b) a very bad one, or c) have seriously questionable audio visual skills.

[3NUNS]

Yep. Much to learn in bowing from this video.

[GreatPianists]

Yes, Oistrakh and Oborin made a lot of recordings (including complete Beethoven sonatas) of not just Beethoven together, and when Oborin died Oistrakh was devastated.

[vova47]

What´s interesting is that everyone is commenting on Oistrakh and Beethoven when this is supposed to be sonata for PIANO with violin !!! The pianist,for those who give a damn,is the great LEV OBORIN,one of the best Beethoven interpreters of his time.Oistrakh depended a lot on his advice concerning interpretation. Sadly,this the only video of his playing i´ve seen so far.Please ,if you have more post it! thanks for this great treat!

[3NUNS]

Thanks for your lovely and sensitive comments

[jkircher314]

Thank you so much for identifying the pianist. Oistrakh and Oborin (one of the greatest Soviet chamber musicians of all time) were so beautiful together. There are some piano trio recordings called The Famous Oistrakh Trio with Knushevitsky that are gorgeous. On the Preiser label.

[3NUNS]

We should return to the Cold War for the sake of Soviet and American culture. Culture is the best anodyne for war and, in such circumstances, culture is at its best.

[vova47]

Unfortunately,you are probably right!

[KoganSvetlanov]

amazing , oistrakh at his best....

[estrellapurpura]

snifff hermoso muy hermoso Y_Y

[DanielSong39]

Just lovely. Beats all other versions I've seen on Youtube, hands down.

[lordnifield]

this recording is a bit relaxed for my taste... i prefer it a bit faster as well. my favorite recording is szeryng with arthur rubinstein - technically inferior but i prefer the phrasing. i am posting it up here, check it out and let me know what you guys think.

[lordnifield]

excellent, of course. who's the pianist? honestly i couldn't stand how cuts off his staccato so short... it's almost comical :-)

[cancampus]

my goodness this is beautiful!

[dahlia777]

the other versions i have heard don't even sound like the same music. i love this.

[lucaiuriciuc]

The best interpretation ever....

[lourak]

The beauty of that opening makes one weep. Thank you Beethoven - and Oistrakh!

[thuani]

lindo

[typicalmusiclover]

yes! thank you for this post, i've been waiting a while to see oistrakh play beethoven, what a job he does out of it. amazing, just inspiring.

[sabrinajuvarra]

just perfect!!!

[oistrakhramirez]

omg! spring!!

[govibe]

beautiful!