Question by J0N4TH4N: who is your favorite tchaikovsky violin concerto interpreter?
I have Kogan, Oistrakh, Perlman, Stern, Heifetz, Milstein, Kyung Hwa Chung, Zukerman, Kremer and little more.
I like Oistrakh but recording is way too old and there’s just too much fizzes and buzzes.
I love Kogan for his technique, Perlman is excellent too but it feels like he has too much feminine quality with his interpretation, it is just so smooth and dynamic.
Who is your favorite Tchaikovsky violin interpreter?
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Answer by Malcolm D
Milstein I guess.
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Ron says
There is a 13 year old Russian kid who plays the whole thing, solo, and orchestral accompaniment, on the accordion, yes, accordion,
I'm not kidding about this. It was some of the best playing I have ever heard on any instrument lately.
Jack Herring says
Nathan Milstein
lainiebsky says
I'm partial to Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg's version myself.
del_icious_manager says
I would go with Oistrakh too (David, that is). There are some very serviceable CD remasterings of Oistrakh's old 1960s recording available on a variety of labels (some of them in box sets). I would suggest the 'Historical Russian Archives – Violin Concertos' 10-CD set (available for a bargain price on Amazon) which, as well as Oistrakh's classic 1968 recording of the Tchaikovsky with Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, also includes the following:
Bartók No 1 (USSR SO/Rozhdestvensky, 1960, mono)
Beethoven (USSR SO/Rozhdestvensky, 1962, stereo)(plus the 2 romances)
Bruch – Scottish Fantasy (USSR SO/Rozhdestvensky, stereo)
Chausson- Poème (USSR SO/Kondrashin, 1948, mono)
Dvořák (USSR SO/Kondrashin, 1949, mono)
Glazunov (USSR SO/Kondrashin, 1947, mono)(plus Mazurka-Oberek)
Hindemith (USSR SO/Rozhdestvensky, 1962, stereo)
Kabalevsky (USSR SO/Eliasberg, 1949, mono)
Lalo – Symphonie espagnole (USSR SO/Kondrashin, mono)
Mendeslssohn (USSR SO/Kondrashin, 1949, mono)
Myaskovsky (USSR SO/Gauk, 1939, mono)
Prokofiev No 1 (Moscow PO/Kondrashin. 1963, stereo)
Ravel – Tzigane (USSR SO/Rozhdestvensky, 1060, mono)
Shostakovich No 1 (Leningrad PO/Mravinsky, 1956, mono)
Shostakovich No 2 (Moscow PO/Kondrashin, 1968, stereo)
Sibelius (Moscow RSO/Rozhdestvensky, 1966, stereo)(another great classic recording)
Stravinsky (Moscow PO/Kondrashin, 1963, stereo)
Szymanowski No 1 (USSR SO/Sanderling, 1960, mono)
Taneyev – Suite de concert Op 28 (USSR SO/Sanderling, 1960, mono)
I know there are a lot of old mono recordings here, but they have cleaned-up surprisingly well. And, of course, you have some of the greatest performances ever.