Oistrakh plays Gluck "Melodie" from "Orfeo ed Euridice"

[unternimmdasnick]

Bah..screw my guitar...

Love this violin!

To bad music like this gets more and more rare..

[ydraki]

Excellent but I prefer Ginette Neveu.

[mrwasbesonders]

yawn

[mrwasbesonders]

@mrwasbesonders listen properly you bufoon. This is gorgeous.

[mrwasbesonders]

@mrwasbesonders Okay, you are right, but please don't call me a bufoon.

[mrwasbesonders]

@mrwasbesonders Sorry.

[arielsonnenberg]

@mrwasbesonders ...Pardon me if I'm wrong but the violin seems slightly flat (in pitch) in most of this. eg. the very first note. at first i thought it was Oistrakh but the sound is unmistakeable.

[mrwasbesonders]

@arielsonnenberg You could be right. I am struggling to hear the piano so I am not sure. I don't know if this is because my lap top isn't very good on the sound quality, if Oistrakh is too closely to the microphone, or it could be the pianist is playing very quietly out of respect to possibly the 4th greatest violinist in history (number 3 being Jascha Heifetz, 2 Nigel Kennedy and @ 1 who else than Vannessa Mae (Frorrrrr!) )

[mashajan]

in my opinion Oistrakh softer, but Heifetz so pure ... i can't choose between them because they are both brilliant..

[shovcom]

Heir! - Gluck Melodie, Renaud Capuçon violin (Isaac Stern's Guarneri del Gesù)

[pondeflouers]

Он исполняет эту вещь лучше других скрипачей.

[podraovet]

Tanks for this great song

[jlcel0818ya]

Can someone tell me what is this melody? what number from the opera "Orfeo ed Euridice" is?

[Dankbarkeit1980]

So beautiful played! I love his Art playing the violin!

[mingte3]

Yes. Don't miss..

Rachmaninoff and A. Grumiaux' s versions.

[dpogorelov]

the last photo is of Igor Oistrakh

[whitesymph]

Words are not enough...When'there's this music. why listen to anything inferior?

[takhirviolinest]

Fantastic,.

[cogermax91]

So beautiful violin !!!!!!!!!! thanks !!!

[Lohengrin]

This is a unique Jewel...

I still remember when I first head this piece, one of the greatest melodies ever conceived by a human brain... and Oistrakh a God :)

[omicron2020]

¿Asì serà el cielo? Como no escuahar algo tan bello sin sentir alguna làgrima de felicidad?

Muchas gracias por alegrarme la mañana con algo tan sublime.Que Dios te bendiga

Juan, de Argentina

[lecochonbleu]

Thanks. This is some of the loveliest violin playing I've heard. If ever I'd written for violin, I know who I'd want to play my music every time. It's so lovely.

I don't know the opera - is this separate from Dance of The Blessed Spirits which it usually accompanies outside of the opera?

[Sinfoniette]

It is a famous violin transcription of the Dance of the Blessed Spirits, and it is usually performed for the solo instrument. See Heifetz' and Hambourg's recording of this.

[caijpp]

Don't forget Rachmaninoff's elegant performance!

[ClassicalMusicReview]

Dear Min-Gyu,What is your detailed opinion of this both in fact and analogy?

[ApsisApocynthion]

Beautiful.