When I was a young child, I was very ill with bronchitis and had a fever. My parents put this classic Brahms magic on the record player, and I lay on a sleeping bag on the floor in the living room under a blanket and from beginning to end I was enthralled, taken to another place through the journey of sound. By the time the record had finished, I felt soothed, peaceful and revived, my fever had gone, and my breathing was liberated. Such is the power of music. I will be forever grateful for this particular rendition of such an incredible masterpiece. Makes my heart leap for joy ❤
Uno dei più grandi violinisti di tutti I tempi, uno dei più grandi violoncellisti di tutti I tempi e un direttore d'orchestra fantastico ❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉Giuseppe Perego Monza 16.2.1962
ЩИРО ДЯКУЮ геніальним музикантам за виконання прекрасного і складного твору! БРАВО солістам, оркестру та диригенту. Окрема подяка автору - Й. Брамсу!!!
And kudos to whoever digitally remastered this historic treasure of a performance. The sound quality of both soloists and the orchestra is crystal clear and sensitively balanced. 🏅🥂⚘
Professionalism at its very best. No egos here - just pure musicianship. No sign of 'effort' - every sign of personal dedication to great music. So many modern 'greats' seem to want to show off their egos and their wardrobes!
WHO PUT THUMBS DOWN???? I mean that MUST be a dilettante!!!! One of the BEST performance EVER!!!! These two maestros breath the music!!! No sweat, no fuss...absolutely in accordance to each other and the orchestra as well!!! BRILLIANT!!!! We should be grateful that it have been recorded for the future generation!!! 🥰
When I was a kid in college I "discovered" this double concerto and I believe I purchased the violin score to follow it because I was a beginning student of that instrument. (Alas, I dropped the instrument after a few years.) I was so enthralled with this piece that I listened to 2 other recordings by other players and decided that this was the best. The sweetness of Oistrackh coupled with the passion and virtuoso playing of Rostropovich did it for me! Two Russians with an enormous capacity for expression, as well as technique.
Before smart phones and computers everywhere. Wish we could return to those days. Well of course keeping with us certain advantages! But without the requirement to be available 24/7
In these challenging times, we must be thankful we have a bank of recorded images and sound to bring the world back to what it should be. These two are wonderful.
GOOD OLD DAYS!!! BRILLIANT performance!!!! Both icons are outstanding in this performance as well...as in their others too...what a beauty!!! and...of course, we need to thank also Brahms...but not at last...gorgeous music 🥰
The fingerboard of Rostropovich's cello exhibits the depressions of hundreds, probably thousands, of hours of serious left hand finger action. Check a close up in the light. Oistrakh is so fluid and effortless. It's almost supernatural.
I'm quite sure those aren't depressions. Reflections on Oistrakhs violion also show such striping. Either there is something in the ceiling that reflects that way or (more likely) this are artefacts from digitisation (deinterlacing/aliasing/..).
I see the depressions as well. I am going to start practicing again and run it for at least two hours. Fifteen minutes every day of suggested practice by instructors is nonsense!
Franz Trischberger They are definitely impressions worn by his fingers. All fingerboards get them and eventually a luthier needs to resurface the fingerboard when they get too deep.
No tenía el placer y privilegio de conocer esta fantástica versión del Doble Concierto de Brahms interpretada por este par de míticos Genios que nos llenan de emoción; impresionante el temperamento de fuego que le imprimen a los clímax que contrastan con la poesía del segundo movimiento. La escucharé muchas veces!!! El Maestro Kiril Koldrashin, excelente!!! junto a la maravillosa Orquesta Sinfónica.
Après 35 ou 40 ans d’écoute émerveillée de ce colossal double concerto, je vois jouer pour la première fois ces deux géants, grâce à cette vidéo. À les regarder, on dirait deux hommes bourrus ou entêtés. Mais quelle magie au bout de leurs doigts, quelle musique jubilatoire, quel souffle !
IMPRESSIVE! I can't believe that exist this video. I have listen de record that BBC restored, but to see it is different. This is, by far, THE PERFORMANCE OF THE CENTURY of this mastework! Thanks a lot for share!
Raymond Robijns I've admired Oistrakh for quite some time, but just heard Arthur Grumiaux. My favorite work by Grumiaux are Mozart Violin Concertos &Sonatas and Bach Violin Solo. I find myself blessed with purity and peace when hearing his performance.
Огромное спасибо! Только такие» ГЛЫБЫ» как Д. Ойстрах, М. Ростропович и К. Кондрашин могли подарить нас такую редкую драгоценность, концерт И . Брамса для скрипки, виолончели с оркестром!!! Спасибо!
Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor, Op. 102 "Double" by Johannes Brahms Performer: David Oistrakh (Violin), Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello) Conductor: Kiril Kondrashin Orchestra/Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra Written: 1887; Austria Date of Recording: 10/09/1965 Royal Albert Hall London, England
1:51 I love how the clarinetist is just casually leaning back in his chair when he plays his solo, like "no big deal, im only playing the brahms double with oistrakh and rostropovich"
absolutely...its a ICONIC performance from ALL the players...sometimes the orchestra can mess up even the best performance...but they all JUST breathing this whole piece...like its nothing... (only professionals know what type of pitfalls these 3 parts hide even for the "simple" orchestra player as well) WONDERFUL!!!! We are lucky to have the recording! 😊
I also must say, this is a thought I cannot share at all. The reason, why the musicians of that time are so good, is beyond technic but has more to do with personality and maturity. Maybe also with history - revolution and WWII. But also I have a theory, that all these musicians learned their handwork before the recording technology was mature. They learned to explain their music in the live-act to the audience. That makes them so tense and interesting. Maybe. I believe that at least.
The recordings with the Moscow Philharmonic under Kondrashin with the soloists Oistrakh, Rostropovich and Richter should be classified by UNESCO as world heritage, unmatched by interpretations using much more advanced technologies to help the sound. In particular, I like the tension between soloists and orchestra moderated and stimulated by the conductor. Thing you feel in these "old" recordings. It is not all about the star soloist.
This is truly like making love. These two voices become one and create something beautiful and alive. Being the composer of this piece, I can't imagine a performance more musical and inspiring. Arguing about the "why" and trying to explain it is futile. Close your eyes and feel.
Let´s not forget that the percentage of interpreters (and theachers) were then far more than today, that was THE music to play. There was no electronic music, Rock´Roll was yet to be born. When you have many people dedicated to pursue and perfect that music and reward them properly, the outcome is better. Today, any barely good or even lousy Rock Star makes amounts of money those legends never dreamed of.
Oistrakh, its unbelievable how great he is. I started listening hours ago video after another of him playing. I will be late to work tomorrow because I stayed very late hooked to this magician with a violin
Yehudi Menuhin - a passionate admirer of David Oistrakh - once said in an interview, that he never in his life saw anyone whou could move his hand so quickly back and forth over the bridge of the violin.
Nada pude atenuar la luz de divino talento que brilla desde interior de estos genios musicales! Fenomenal y exquisita es interpretación del Concierto de Brahms, a la perfección, en su resplandor!!!! Muy amable, muchas gracias, "dingaling 1380"!
avec de tels solistes de génie , il semble qu on atteigne les cimes du génie musical , de la grâce , l apogée du sublime tel que , je le pense , brahms eut voulu que son œuvre fut interprété , la magie élégiaque opère dès la première note , comment pourrait il en être autrement , et en tant que passionné de johannes brahms , on se laisse transporter vers les cîmes d un univers inaccessible , telle jacqueline du pré interprétant les œuvres pour violoncelle du génie de hambourg que fût brahms qui les soirs s en allait distraire les marins ivres des bars égrenant le grand port de hambourg avec ses brumes et la vie dissolue ou le jeune johannes fit ses premières armes , comme si la graine de l immense génie qu il allait devenir , commençait à éclore dans la pensée classique et torturée de brahms côtoyant la magie et le pire des ports cosmopolites ou dansaient et riaient filles de joie et marins levant leur pinte de bière dans les volutes d un tabac infusées dans cœur de l enfant émerveillé du jeune artiste ,,
Magistral interpretación de la Maravillosa Obra Maestra del Genial Compositor Aleman ; en la brillante ejecución de los LEGENDARIOS Y PRESTIGIOSOS MAESTROS CONCERTISTAS DAVID OISTRAKH Y MSTILAV ROSTROPOVICH .
Don't forget that the Moscow Conservatory was far and away the best on Earth at that time and the students had wonderful performing musicians for tutors. When children were five years old they were tested across Russia and later the USSR for talent. If they showed great promise, then at age seven they went to live with a top-flight musician during the summers (a friend of mine lived with Khachaturian) and only at fifteen were they then tested, with the very elite going on to the Conservatory.
The intelligence and knowledge of the commenters is an added advantage to listening to this wonderful recording. How fortunate we live in the age of recording; we have no idea how Chopin played, or Liszt, or Brahms. Or whether Brahms and Joachim played the Double Concerto together.
Tocar aquesta música meravellosa no és senzill. Ha de ser tocada per mestres com Rostropovich, Yo Yo Ma, Casals.... I la part de violí per mi com Oistrakh no hi ha cap. Ara que la música de Brahms es meravellosa i preciosa, no entenc com amb aquestes preciositats hi ha qui escolta reggaeton. Ja són ganes, perquè el reggaeton no té missatge, i en canvi aquesta música, apart de ser un regal per les orelles a mi em fa sentir com si somies. Això és una bona obra. Gràcies, Johannes , per haver composat aquesta bellesa de música.
Classic Russian playing, old school and refreshing. Wish the audio could be remastered and the video colorized and cleaned up. How cool would that be? Slava was my hero growing up, along with Leonard Rose, two very different cellists for sure. I remember Rostropovich rolling into Cleveland to play a concert with the Cleveland Orchestra to benefit their pension fund. He performed Saint-Saens concerto and Haydn C Major. Before his cello even cleared the door as he entered the stage, there was a standing ovation, cheers, almost like a football game. And, of course, he delivered that night. An unforgettable experience I was blessed to have experienced in person.
I respectfully disagree. I heard these guys live in the 60s and it was the experience of a lifetime. Plus, as far as Rostropovich goes, no cellist since has put out more pure sound than he. He did not need microphones! Just incredible ability to FILL any concert hall with his cello alone.
No respectable classical soloist plays with microphones, except when they play in huge arenas. I have not heard enough solo cellists live to compare them (and for Rostropovich, that is sadly not possible anymore), but Rostropovich is certainly among the greatest.
