Oistrakh

[ oi-strahk, -strahkh ]

noun

1. Da·vid [dey, -vid], 1908–74, Russian violinist.

Oistrakh

/ ˈɔjstrəx; ˈɔɪstrɑːk /

noun

1. OistrakhDavid19081974MRussianMUSIC: violinist David (daˈvit). 1908–74, Russian violinist
2. OistrakhIgor1931MRussianMUSIC: violinist his son, Igor (ˈiɡərj). born 1931, Russian violinist

Example Sentences

Dig through the criminal number of concertos — few of them as valuable as Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with David Oistrakh — and there are worthwhile records to be heard: consuming Mendelssohn; fierce accounts of Shostakovich’s Fifth and Tenth; an astonishingly brutal Vaughan Williams Fourth, Mitropoulos’s most exhilarating recording.

From New York Times

Mr. Perlman rose to fame as an earlier cohort of star violinists — Jascha Heifetz, David Oistrakh, Yehudi Menuhin — faded from view.

From New York Times

“The two biggest ones being Johannes Brahms with Joseph Joachim and Dmitri Shostakovich with David Oistrakh. You’re taught that almost all violin concertos are written for a specific person, and usually the best ones are based on some kind of fabulous working relationship. As a kid, I dreamed of that.”

From Los Angeles Times

Jascha Heifetz and David Oistrakh violin recordings are joined on his iPhone by Dr. Dre and Kendrick Lamar.

From New York Times

He studied with the great violinist David Oistrakh and others in Moscow and took prizes in major competitions, including the prestigious Tchaikovsky, in Moscow in 1970.

From New York Times