Prokofiev 5 - David Oistrakh

 

Another recording by Oistrakh as conductor: never available on CD, as far as I know. It goes without saying that from Koussevitzky and Szell to Celibidache, Bernstein, Jansons etcetera there are sharper, virtuoso or monumental interpretations of it, but this remains a very well shaped and authoritative reading.

To complement it I have added one of his lesser known recordings of the Violin Concerto No. 1

Prokofiev

Symphony no. 5 

Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

DAVID OISTRAKH

Studio recording, 1967

 

Prokofiev

Violin concerto n°1 op.19

 

DAVID OISTRAKH, vl

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

RAFAEL KUBELIK 

Prague - May 15, 1947

FLAC

Mahler 7 - Bernstein ODP 1981

 

Every Mahlerian recording by Bernstein is important, but in this case we add the interest of the unusual French timbre for a Mahlerian conductor that we know above all in American, Dutch and Viennese interpretations: the result is very particular and suggestive, especially in the three central movements.

GUSTAV MAHLER

Symphony no. 7

Orchestre de Paris

LEONARD BERNSTEIN

Live - Paris, Palais des congrès - 13 may 1981

FLAC - Separated tracks