Oistrakh plays Brahms Concerto 1952 (4/5)

The past week I have been listening to this on my way to work in the car and just barreled over by the raw emotion Oistrakh plays with here!

Although there are many recording of Oistrakh playing the Brahms Concerto in print, I believe this one is not.

From a 5 cd box called The Oistrakh Edition, this was recorded as a radio broadcast in 1952 with Kryill Kondrashin and The USSR Radio LSO.

Like many Oistrakh recordings and recordings before 1955 in general, the sound quality is poor but the way he plays words can not describe, this is romance in the purest form, this is beauty this is the wonderful soul of the loving teddy bear of a man that can deliver justice to the most important concerto ever written like very very few can. Yes the sound quality is bad but listen to the red hot musical drama Oistrakh displays here. I believe he was much more proficient from the late 30's until about 45 and he is in his prime for this performance here.

It is so difficult to put into words what is necessary to do justice to the Brahms Concerto, masculine strength with feminine sensitivity, Oistrakh delivers the sentitivity and eloquence in spades I dont know if i have ever heard anyone ever play such a beautiful presentation of the melody, perhaps some technical hurdles were not handled in a manor equal to a kogan or heifetz but neither displayed this lever of beauty to my ears. I do however give the highest reccomendation to Hilary Hahn's Brahms Concerto recording.

In any event, this is a treasure to real violin lovers and fans of Oistrakh like me and I hope you all loved it as much as I did.

As a side note I read that this concerto was so poorly recieved when it was premered, that he burned all manuscripts and gave up on working on the completion of a second violin concerto, it breaks my heart to know the composer of the most important and robust of all violin concertos burned all his work on a second concerto, I guess it would be true to say genuis is easily misunderstood, but this is so much more then genius, it is love beauty romance and so many more emotions that words can not possibly describe.


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