In the period between the work's initial completion and the first performance on 29 October 1955, the composer and its dedicatee, David Oistrakh, worked on a number of revisions.

Gilels was one of the first Soviet artists, along with David Oistrakh, allowed to travel and concertize in the West.

He started on the violin at the age of six with Pyotr Stolyarsky, who was also the first teacher of David Oistrakh and Nathan Milstein.

In 1935 he played his first concert with the violinist David Oistrakh, with whom he continued to collaborate all of his life.

He gave first public performances of the works of several modern composers, including Khachaturian, Shebalin, Myaskovsky, Prokofiev ( including the Violin Sonata No. 1 with Oistrakh ), and Shostakovich.

The Soviet school was the resounding winner in 1937 as David Oistrakh took first prize.

The solo violin in this movement has the freedom to be wildly virtuosic, and much of the movement, due to its upbeat tempo ( when played at the metronome marking Shostakovich suggests, as Oistrakh does in his recordings, the movement remains true to its name, jokingly upbeat ) and rhythmic plays, seems to be derived from popular folk or peasant music.

As a conductor, Khachaturian made several commercial recordings, including a 1953 recording of his second symphony with the National Philharmonic Orchestra, a 1963 stereo recording of the symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic, and EMI recordings of suites from Gayane and Masquerade and his violin concerto in 1954 ( with David Oistrakh as soloist ) with the Philharmonia Orchestra.

He later made stereo recordings of the violin concerto ( again with Oistrakh ), the second symphony in 1977 on the Russian Disc label, and music from Gayane.

At age 15, Ginette Neveu achieved worldwide celebrity status when she won the Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition over 180 contestants, including the future virtuoso David Oistrakh, who finished second, and Henri Temianka, who finished third.

It was well received, Oistrakh remarking on the " depth of its artistic content " and describing the violin part as a " pithy ' Shakespearian ' role ".

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