No doubt about it: no violinist anywhere is David Oistrakh’s master. As soon as he left the stage. Virtuoso Oistrakh lost some of the firmness of figure and face, the no-nonsense attitude ...

Just before Soviet Violinist David Oistrakh left for his first visit to the U.S., he played the world premiere of a new concerto dedicated to him by top Soviet Composer Dimitry Shostakovich.