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David Oistrakh performs the cadenza to Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto.

Watch David Oistrakh perform Bach’s Double Concerto with Yehudi Menuhin.

Read about David Oistrakh and Joseph Szigeti’s ‘s influence on Prokofiev’s violin concertos and sonatas in The Strad’s March 2015 issue, out now.

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