This is the most lucidly nuanced and powerfully convincing performance of this amazing music I have ever heard. Deep gratitude to performers and composer.
I wanted to thank you for putting this amazing live performance of Oistrakh and Richter on youtube. I am one of the concert-masters of the Portuguese Symphony Orchstra and will be playing this Bartok Sonata on the 5th March 2012 in a violin and piano recital in Lisbon Portugal. It has given me such an insight into the Sonata. All the best Alexander Stewart
I've been a huge fan of Bartok's music since age 14 (over 60 years). This sonata and the no. 2 are, I think, the only "hold-outs" for me among his works. As I listen to this I think I am finally starting to get no.1 at least. This performance almost certainly has something to do with that.
A bit of a struggle across a battleground, but well worth it- you made it, and with memories never to be forgotten, even if you wished them so; then comes a chance of recollection in another mental sphere, transcribed into a musical reenactment, and here the hell and fear are sort of civilized, the notes penetrating, a kind of revenge, even a stab at peace, putting it all behind you, yet, in truth, in vain.
При всем уважении к выдающимся исполнителям я не представляю как им тяжело играть эту какофонию! Барток, наверное, обладал весьма специфическим, если не сказать -больным воображением.Человек в здравом уме не может создавать ТАКОЕ!!!
