- Performer: Emil Gilels, David Oistrakh
- Orchestra: New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra
- Conductor: Zubin Mehta, Eugene Ormandy
- Composer: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
- Audio CD (19 Nov 2001)
- SPARS Code: ADD
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Essential Classics
- ASIN: B000026EMZ
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 111,764 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This is probably the best recording so far of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, largely due to Oistrakh's nigh on perfect interpretation. So many other recordings have been slightly too fast (Accardo & BBC SO) or too mechanical (Spivakov & Ozawa) and have been disappointing but the tempo and performance is absolutely perfect here with Oistrakh's violin really singing and soaring and I never fail to get a feeling of immense satisfaction that you should get from the closing bars of this masterpiece - it's also worth pointing out that this is also the only recording I've heard where that final tremolo in the final movement can actually be heard clearly in all it's exciting and uplifting glory - it's a wonderful climax and too many recordings fail to do it justice but not here.
As already mentioned, Oistrakh's performance is faultless, by turns impressively covering the really difficult moments (of which there are many) and then being the most perfect interpreter of the many highly melodic lines and where it is sometimes easy to hear other pros make an absolute mash of the more fiendish passages, like the first movements speedy multiple stops, Oistrakh seemed to have no problems whatsoever, it all just flows so smoothly with no jarring screeches or discernable slowing down to accommodate the inherent difficulties.
The orchestration and performance of the Philadelphia Orchestra's is also one of the best out there which means that this is an absolutely essential recording of an essential classic - if you've never heard this recording then you've not really heard Tchaikovsky's most perfect work as it absolutely should be.
As already mentioned, Oistrakh's performance is faultless, by turns impressively covering the really difficult moments (of which there are many) and then being the most perfect interpreter of the many highly melodic lines and where it is sometimes easy to hear other pros make an absolute mash of the more fiendish passages, like the first movements speedy multiple stops, Oistrakh seemed to have no problems whatsoever, it all just flows so smoothly with no jarring screeches or discernable slowing down to accommodate the inherent difficulties.
The orchestration and performance of the Philadelphia Orchestra's is also one of the best out there which means that this is an absolutely essential recording of an essential classic - if you've never heard this recording then you've not really heard Tchaikovsky's most perfect work as it absolutely should be.
4 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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I find the piano concerto unlistenable. To me the first movement is rather ponderous and the second movement so soft that you'll crank up the volume until you hear each and every one of the coughs and sneezes in the particularly unhealthy audience. I didn't bother listening to the third movement.
The violin concerto is lovely.
The violin concerto is lovely.
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