COMPOSERS: Shostakovich
LABELS: Alto
ALBUM TITLE: Shostakovich
WORKS: Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2; Alone - Suite
PERFORMER: David Oistrakh (violin); Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra/Mravinsky; Moscow Philharmonic/Kondrashin; USSR State Symphony Orchestra/Rozhdestvensky
CATALOGUE NO: ALC 1337 (1956-71)
Even if the First Concerto does not quite rival the bleak intensity of Oistrakh’s debut recoding with Mitropoulos, these masterly accounts mine the music’s emotional core with relentlessly probing acuity.
Julian Haylock
