Oleg Kagan & Sviatoslav Richter play Shostakovich Violin Sonata - video 1985

[@jeffreyjones4525]

It's hard to imagine, watching on a laptop screen, how powerful this must have been. It's not just a piano and a violin being played, it's the entire life stories of three fascinating men.. the two on the stage and the one who composed this gut-wrenching, shrieking terror of a sonata.

[@vivienmerchant]

That was out of this world. I have never heard this work played so wonderfully and so movingly.

[@texwiller4029]

Richter + Oistrakh find it.

[@pianoredux7516]

@@texwiller4029 See my comment above about a live Oistrakh/Richter performance I saw.

[@texwiller4029]

@@pianoredux7516 Where it is, can you paste it here? Do you think it's worse than this?

[@hospitality5522]

How lucky whe are to listen and see so high interpretation!

[@jennyjang5894]

So marvelous harmony..

[@pianoredux7516]

As a teenager I attended the February 1970 Carnegie Hall recital where Oistrakh and Richter performed this work, then "hot off the presses." I'd always adored Oistrakh's sweet tone, but the two artists were an odd couple onstage, they seemed almost mismatched. I found Richter's hulking presence dominated Oistrakh. Richter had an indecorous physicality; he entered the stage as if he were an Olympic wrestler before a bout. Oistrakh was all silk and elegant restraint. In one solo piano passage--I think the one at 25:15 here--Richter went berserk, as if he were an ape let out of its cage. (He was not at that time performing from score.) You can see the vestiges of that outburst even here, although not as pronounced as it was in 1970, if memory serves.

[@steveegallo3384]

@pianoredux7516 -- The same complaint surfaces regarding the Tschikowski Piano Trio....but I find Richter's aggression there exhilarating; it's my favorite. Cheers from Acapulco!

[@Violin1995]

Благодарю Вас за ценнейшее историческое свидетельство!(: Привет Вам из Москвы.

[@leonardobastos1945]

Fabulous Kagan!!!

[@АлексейБелоусов-и5э]

Гениальное исполнение!

[@sergebouchard6222]

Enormous thanks to you and to U-Tube for this treasure.

[@pierrelauret2794]

When you listen to those great musicians, you can't figure how dull and severe this sonata may sound when it's played by less inspired instrumentists. Kagan sounds like a master of style.

[@tigerjeetsharanjit]

this is very important video film i have long been waiting for

[@alexeyvinokurov75]

I have a CD and it's my favourite of all time

[@asddfgfjhgjhu]

Вот бы с Ойстрахом видео найти..

[@texwiller4029]

10:53 never underestimate old grandpas

[@bartoszkowalczyk2873]

0:18 10:53 17:31

[@steveegallo3384]

OMyGod....24:00 - 28:00......BRAVI from Acapulco!

[@dougronald561]

I'm hearing this piece next week at Carnegie Hall, but instead with Yuja Wang and Leonidas Kavakos.

[@sergebouchard6222]

Sober, full of power, noble, just enough modernism.

[@БорисШалагінов]

Первая часть: можете смеяться, но мне представляется баба-яга из русских сказок - варит какое-то зелье в горшке и шепчет, шепчет, шепчет...

[@jeanparke9373]

0:17 10:52 17:31