SHOSTAKOVICH

Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2; Alone – Suite David Oistrakh (violin); Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra/mravinsky; Moscow Philharmonic/kondrashin; USSR State Symphony Orchestra/ Rozhdestvensky

Alto ALC 1337 (1956-71) 79:00 mins

Even if the First Concerto does not quite rival the bleak intensity of Oistrakh’s debut recoding with Mitropoulos, these masterly accounts mine the music’s emotional core with relentlessly probing acuity.