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Genius Victor Pikaisen plays Partitas for Violin Solo No. 2 in D minor "Chaconne" No. 3 E major. Cover near mint. Vinyl MINT. Viktor Alexandrowitsch Pikaisen (also Pikaizen, Pikeisen, Pickeisen) was born on February 15, 1933 in Kiev. The mother was a pianist trained by Simon Barere, the father was concertmaster of the Kiev Opera Orchestra. From the age of four he was taught by his father, and from the age of six by the Kiev pedagogue Joseph Gutman. In 1941 the family moved to Alma Ata, where the boy received lessons from his father until the end of World War II. At the age of eleven he met David Oistrakh for the first time. "I remember Oistrakh smiling when I told him I was going to play Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto and Wieniawski's Faust Fantasy." What do you want to play when you grow up? "A few days later he invited me to play in front of the senior professors of the Moscow Conservatory: Abraham Yampolsky, Lev Tzeitlin, Konstantin Mostrass, Dmitri Tziganow and Semen Kosolupow." From this prelude, Igor Oistrakh reports that his father, who did not think too much of child prodigies, was fascinated by the play of little Vitja Pikaisen, which he heard in Kiev. "The future of a great violinist is certain for this boy," father said to me afterwards. He wasn't wrong. Pikaisen was the only student that Father had taught at the Gnessin Music School before his studies at the Conservatory, in a sense the record holder for the number of years of teaching with Father - fifteen years! Pikaisen is one of those violinists who honor the Soviet violin school inside and outside our borders. "At the age of nine, Vitja made her debut in Alma Ata with Wieniawski's Second Violin Concerto. At the age of thirteen he got the opportunity to play Rakov's violin concerto: “I accepted and agreed to learn the concerto in thirteen days.” After a concert in Moscow with Bach's G minor sonata, Lalo's espagnole symphony, Wieniawski's Faust Fantasy and some smaller pieces took him on David Oistrakh in 1946 as a student. During the fifteen years with David Oistrakh, Pikaisen won a number of international prizes: 1949 Jan Kubelik Competition Prague (2nd prize) Prize) 1955 Concours Reine Elisabeth Brussels (5. Prize) 1957 Thibaud Competition Paris (2nd prize) Prize) 1958 Tchaikovsky Competition (2nd prize) Prize) 1965 Paganini Competition Genoa (1st prize) Pikaisen: “The years of teaching in Oistrakh's class are the most memorable times of my life for me. To speak of Oistrakh solely as a teacher is impossible, because the various aspects of his diverse artistic activity organically merged into one another. His art shone in ever new facets. The most important thing that David Fjodorowitsch taught us was to always base the interpretation on the content of the music of the respective work. He was an enemy of all arbitrariness when lecturing, he taught us the truth in art. "Since 1966 Viktor Pikaisen himself taught at the Moscow Conservatory. His tours took him through the Soviet Union, large parts of Europe, the Middle and Far East and Latin America. The very long period of training with David Oistrakh has, in addition to the clear merits, possibly also contributed to a certain delimitation of "experimental" music. Without wanting to generalize this statement, Pikaisen belongs more to the type of conservative musician. In contemporary music he played and plays mainly that of his compatriots, to whom he is (or was) mostly connected in personal friendship. Shostakovich, Khatchaturian, Prokofiev, Boris Tschaikowsky, Kabalewsky, Chrennikow, Sviridow, Wainberg and Zara Lewina are mentioned here. "Subversion" is not in his nature. Neither being born into adverse external times nor the circumstances of his training with David Oistrakh may have favored such a development tendency. Nevertheless, he was the first in Russia to record Bartók's solo sonata in the concert hall and - together with Maria Yudina - Stravinsky's Duo concertant on record. He also campaigned for contemporary Russian works abroad. Meanwhile, Pikaisen's specific questions suggest, if not preoccupation with his own instrument, then at least a proficiency and interest in today's, also western, music events. Besides everything else, teaching at the Moscow Conservatory absorbs the lion's share of his time. If you take into account his concert activities, he would have far too little time for his family. He mentions his daughter Tatiana with particular pride, who has meanwhile passed her final exams for both harpsichord and piano at the Moscow Conservatory. Together with her, he could devote himself to chamber music despite his limited time. Here the names Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms - and again Bach.

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The free setting tool. List your articles quickly and easily and manage your active offers. Very rare German Melodia Eurodisc pressing. Cover and Vinyl near mint. Genius Victor Pikaisen plays Partitas for Violin Solo No. 2 in D minor "Chaconne" No. 3 E major. Cover near mint. Vinyl MINT. Viktor Alexandrowitsch Pikaisen (also Pikaizen, Pikeisen, Pickeisen) was born on February 15, 1933 in Kiev. The mother was a pianist trained by Simon Barere, the father was concertmaster of the Kiev Opera Orchestra. From the age of four he was taught by his father, and from the age of six by the Kiev pedagogue Joseph Gutman. In 1941 the family moved to Alma Ata, where the boy received lessons from his father until the end of World War II. At the age of eleven he met David Oistrakh for the first time. "I remember Oistrakh smiling when I told him I was going to play Tchaikovsky's Violin Concer