Ludwig van Beethoven

Portrait from the public domain. This is my photo with David Oistrakh's youngest student. Her name is Rimma Sushanskaya. She is of course an established violinit.

David Oistrakh Plays Beethoven

• Beethoven's Violin Concerto
  1. about David Oistrakh
  2. 1st movement - part 1
  3. 1st movement - part 2
  4. 2nd movement
  5. 3rd movement

• Violin-Piano Sonata 4
  1. 1st movement
  2. 2nd movement
  3. 3rd movement

• Violin-Piano Sonata 5 (Spring)
  1. 1st movement
  2. 2nd movement
  3. 3rd movement
  4. 4th movement

• Violin-Piano Sonata 6. Oistrakh came to New York in 1970.
  1. Part 1
  2. Part 2
  3. Part 3

• Violin-Piano Sonata 9 (Kreutzer)
  1. Part 1
  2. Part 2
  3. Part 3
  4. Part 4
  5. Part 5

When I mentioned the Russian film Cranes are flying, she claimed she looks like Tatyana Somoilova acting as the main figure. Tatyana is one of the most popular actresses in Russia, and I bring this photo with me when I go to Russia to tell them I have a photo with Tatyana (very high honor!). Russians in Moscow know I am not telling the truth but they still like the photo. In other places, they think she is the real Tatyana. Here is a YuTube image of Tatyana Somoilova in her movie with Proschanie Slavianki as background music.

Anne Sophie Mutter

I have a complete CD set of her violin sonatas. She is of course the most active violinit of our time.

My photo with Irina Bachkova (Kazan 2000). Irina is a professor at the Moscow Conservatory of Music. She came to the scientific meeting I attended and played for us Beethoven's Sonata No. 5 (Spring). I gave her one of the postcards with my autograph. String instruments Beethoven used to own (from the Beethoven-Haus museum). I bought 30 copies of this postcard when I went to there in 1996, and bring a copy or two when I expect to meet important musicians.

In my dormitory room at Carnegie Tech, I was studying while listening. I had my record player (my right) and short-wave radio (my left).

• Violin-Piano Sonata 4
  1. 1st movement
  2. 2nd movement
  3. 3rd movement

• Violin-Piano Sonata 5 (Spring).
  1. 1st movement
  2. 2nd movement
  3. 3nd movement
  4. 4th movement

• Beethoven's Violin Concerto Anne Sophie Mutter plays her violin with Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Seiji Ozawa at Vienna's Musikverein.
  1. part 1
  2. part 2
  3. part 3
  4. part 4
  5. part 5
  6. part 6

• String Quartet No. 1
  1. 1st movement
  2. 2nd movement
  3. 4th movement

• String Quartet No. 2
  1. 1st movement
  2. 3rd movement
  3. 4th movement

• String Quartet No. 3
  1. 1st movement
  2. 2nd movement
  3. 3rd movement
  4. 4th movement

• String Quartet No. 5
  1. 1st movement

• String Quartet No. 6
  1. 1st movement
  2. 2nd movement
  3. 3rd movement
  4. 4th movement

• String Quartet No. 14
  1. part 1
  2. part 2
  3. part3
  4. part 4
  5. part 5

• String Quartet No. 15
  1. 3rd movement, part 1
  2. 3rd movement, part 2

• String Quartet No. 16
  1. part 1
  2. part 2
  3. part 3
  4. part 4