American Record Guide (11-12/97, pp.246-47)
&...This collection is welcome since it collects some of [Oistrakh's] finest performances of works that he was a renowned interpreter of....There are a good number of concertos here, and they show Oistrakh at his most majestic....[Oistrakh and Richter's] performance of Bartok's Sonata 1 is one of the greatest I have heard...&