ERC068 - David Oistrakh plays the Beethoven Violin Concerto conducted by André Cluytens

David Oistrakh was one of the preeminent and most renowned Soviet violinists of the 20th century. Born in Odessa, Ukraine (then the Russian Empire), on September 30, 1908 he began his studies of the Violin at the age of five. He was a pupil of eminent Soviet pedagogue Pyotr Stolyarsky and studied for a number of years at the Stolyarsky School before entering the Odessa Conservatory in 1923. It was during this time that he became close  friends with another great Odessian born violinist, Nathan Milstein. Oistrakh moved to Moscow in 1927 and commenced teaching at the Moscow Conservatory in 1934...