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PPS The greatest and most musically dulling mistake that many violinists make in beginning this movement, is that, from the very first upbow for the "B"s, they try to synthesize the "passion" by making sudden and strong movements primarily of the bow, trusting that the fingers of the left hand wi...

For a proper understanding of what this slow movement is all about, one cannot do better than listen to Oistrakh and, especially, Mischa Elman, with their unadulterated purity and tenderness, marvellously apt phrasing and superb control of tempo and rubato. You younger players, no matter how tal...

Sorry to go on, but there is much ignorance and butchery of phrasing in this performance. The girl's teachers have obviously just allowed her to habitually play blindly on, trampling onexpressive phrasing opportunities--such as from 4.37, to cite but one early one. (Again, compare with Oistrakh a...

Frost, the record producer here, errs greatly in saying, at 2:40

"The challenge is that you're going to be compared to the great violinists of this century who have recorded Bach."

Surely the "challenge", as in all musical performance, is to be faithful to the intentions of the composer. Bach ...

For those, especially violinists, who prefer and advocate musically helpful and meaningful, not histrionic, body movement, Oistrakh's 1966 performance with the

Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, directed by Gennady Rozhdestvensky, is exemplary; and also a much more authoritative and convincing one...

Vengerov, Bell and Hahn should stop and learn from Oistrakh here: the first two about how not to contort histrionically and unmusically; the third about the need to be moved at least somewhat by the music before putting bow to string. Perhaps to sing it a little first, to unfreeze oneself a bit.

He moves in the same way with great effect throughout the outer movements too. For example, in the 3rd movement where in his preparation, beginning 6:40, for his entry at 6:51 for the conclusion.

Vengerov, Bell and Hahn should stop and learn from Oistrakh here: the first two about how not to co...

Erratum: the Oistrakh perfomance I refer to was not with Kondrashin, but with Gennady Rozhdestvensky conducting.

A truly beautiful piano performance. Violinists wil lfind it interesting to listen to Nathan Milstein's two extraordinary recordings (both on Youtube) of his own arrangement of this Nocturne. Milstein himself said, in an interview when he was in his 80s, that the reason he wrote violin arrangemen...