Mozart: Sonatas for Piano & Violin (David Oistrakh) (2006) [DVD5]

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Mozart: Sonatas for Piano & Violin (David Oistrakh) (2006) [DVD5]

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Brief description: The concert at the "Carinthian Summer" Festival in Austria in late August 1972, the radio recording is here given its first release. Cooperation between the festival and Austrian televiaion at the same time resulted in a television film made at Schloß Klesheim near Salzburg, which is also now reaching a wider public for the first time. Mozart lay at the heart of the collaboration between the David oistrakh and Paul Badura-Skoda.
The result, as conveyed to us by the television film, and perhaps even more directly and spontaneously by the concert recording, is certainly among the finest testimonies of David Oistrakh that have come down to us. The playing of both instrumentalists, as captured on film by the German director Hugo Käch, appears wholly concentrated on theri common task of recreation.
Despite its numerous roots in the Baroque trio sonata and the musical practice of the pre-Classical era, the Classical violin sonata owes its essential development to Mozart. He composed his first sonatas at the age of seven, which are in part arrangements of existing pieces and wholly correspond to the Barroque type, he wrote no fewer than twenty-six sonatas now considered authentic.
The Sonata in D major K306 that opens the concert was written in Paris in the summer of 1778.

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Mozart: Sonatas for Piano & Violin (David Oistrakh) (2006) [DVD5]

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