Nate de Maria wrote: >The Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto has been my favorite concerto since I was >a little kid. However, I haven't settled on one recording of it yet. Does >anyone have any suggestions of a recording which takes a moderate tempo and >in which the soloist doesn't do anything unorthodox such as taking a phrase >up an octave? My favourite performance is David Oistrakh with URSS large radio symphony orchestra conducted by Gennady Rosdestvensky on Melodija. Irene Scopelliti [log in to unmask]