Everyone knows that David Oistrach was a superb violinist, technically without par and with a sound so individual and special...where are these guys today? Many don't realize that he was also a very fine conductor, no mere beater of time!
Oistrach loved Bach and Handel and this recording of him conducting the soloists of the Moscow Philharmonic in Bach's Suite in b and Handel/Harty's Water Music Suite provide ample evidence of his podium gifts. The results here are tasteful, elegant and wholly appropriate to the style of the baroque.
From a Melodiya LP that I purchased in Bulgaria some years ago, recorded some 40 years ago, give or take.
