Bach: Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043 - Vivaldi: Concerto for 2 Violins in A Minor, RV 522 David Oistrach

• 1 I. Vivace 04:13
• 2 II. Largo ma non tanto 07:46
• 3 III. Allegro 05:12
• 4 I. Allegro 03:58
• 5 II. Larghetti spiritoso 04:42
• 6 III. Allegro 04:19
• 7 I. Allegretto moderato 06:40
• 8 II. Allegro 08:35
• 9 III. Recitativo - Fantasia. Moderato 07:38
• 10 IV. Allegretto poco mosso 06:23
• Total Runtime 59:26

Info for Bach: Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043 - Vivaldi: Concerto for 2 Violins in A Minor, RV 522

The existing recordings of Vivaldi’s Concerto Grosso in A minor op. 3/8 and Bach’s Concerto for two violins in D minor BWV 1043 came into being in April 1957 at Leipzig’s Kongresshalle. Since their joint debut in 1947, the Bach Double Concerto was the central work in the joint repertoire of David and Igor Oistrakh, which they performed in numerous concerts before David’s death in 1974. The then Eterna boss Dieter-Gerhardt Worm reminisces: “David Oistrakh was a very kind and approachable person. You can hear this in his recordings. His playing is so unbelievably accomplished yet nevertheless so humanly accessible. He was seized with the ambition to be at least as good as Menuhin, whose Bachian style he greatly admired. During the recording of the Bach Violin Sonatas in Dresden’s Lukaskirche, he constantly disappeared from the studio with his little tape recorder in order to listen to excerpts of Menuhin’s recording. And yet he had a much better technique, in fact the recordings with Oistrakh moved along very quickly.” – The recordings from 1957/58 were remastered in original monaural reproduction quality.

The recording of César Franck’s Violin Sonata with Igor Oistrakh is being released on CD for the first time.

David Oistrach, violin
Igor Oistrach, violin
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Franz Konwitschny, conductor

Digitally remastered

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