The highlight of the wide-ranging program on this DVD is the world premiere performance of the Shostakovich Second Violin Concerto, composed, as was the composer's first Violin Concerto, with Oistrakh in mind. The work, described by one critic as "a troubled sound world" with its complex thematic material and jolting harmonic shifts, holds no terrors for its dedicatee who provides an assured and brilliant performance.

60 minutes, black&white, mono, all regions.