Tartini and Oistrakh

I've been transferring a Melodiya/Angel LP from 1972 containing two Tartini sonatas ('The Devil's Trill' and 'Didone abbandonata' and Brahms' Op. 78 sonata, performed by David Oistrakh and Frieda Bauer. The recorded sound is very good, especially considering it's from Melodiya. What I find most impressive about this music though, is the awesome combination of power, passion and *control* that Oistrakh brings to the Tartini. I've heard 'The Devil's Trill' several times before, but nothing like this. The Brahms certainly has power and passion, but it's of a different sort - almost a release of tension after the Tartini.

Tartini's productive lifespan overlaps that of Vivaldi, and 'The Devil's Trill' is a Baroque sonata from 1713 - yet it sounds nothing like Vivaldi's music to me. In fact, I didn't know that any Baroque music could sound like that. What's the deal here, anyway?

I looked at Tower online, MDT and ArchivMusic, and found the Brahms in what is probably the same performance (same year anyway) in a 6 CD Praga set. Didn't find the Tartini performance on CD though. Anyone know of such a release?

ZYX/Melodiya 46038 (CD)

Is the OP's LP of the Brahms an issue of the 1972 performance not mentioned in the discography, I wonder.

As far as I know 'Russian Masters' are planning to release those 2 sonatas recorded by DFO (and probably Yampolsky) in 1958

The 'genuine' Melodiya LP Melodiya SM 02931/2 is from 1971.

I believe that the Brahms op. 78 Oistrakh & Bauer was recorded 6 years later, i.e. in 1966 In 1960 DFO used to perform with Yamposlky (sometimes with his old partner on piano trio - Lev Oborin).

there is very unlikely that Melodiya (1971) and Mel/Angel(1972) LPs bear a recoding different from the 1966

Sorry, the Brahms sonata isn't op. 78 but op, 108

There is a 1954 Devil's Trill with Oistrakh and Yampolsky on a recital CD of shorter pieces (LDC 278 945)

Harry Collier