Composed for an earlier master, David Oistrakh, Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto was, to the composer’s mind, ‘a symphony for solo violin and orchestra’. Music of searing, soul-bearing intensity, it’s a work of taut complexity boiling over with one formidable technical challenge after another for the soloist in music of fragile beauty, blistering emotions and thunderous defiance to make it one of the 20th-century’s bona fide masterpieces.

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