Violinist Vadim Repin performed Dmitri Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op.77/99, alongside the Mariinsky Orchestra and conductor Valery Gergiev. 

Recorded live in 1992, the performance took place at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, and honored the legacy of violinist David Oistrakh. Oistrakh was a friend and collaborator of Shostakovich who was both the dedicatee and first performer of the latter's Violin Concerto.

The concerto, which Shostakovich composed with significant input from Oistrakh, was not performed publicly until seven years after its completion due to Shostakovich's denouncement by the Soviet state. Even with last-minute revisions by Shostakovich, the concerto's premiere in 1955 was a striking success, and Oistrakh quickly brought the work on a concert tour to the United States and England.

Hear Repin perform the work below:

 

A top prizewinner in the Queen Elisabeth and Wieniawski Competitions, Siberian-born violinist Vadim Repin has performed as a soloist with the world's leading orchestras and recorded with labels including Warner Classics and Deutsche Grammophon. In 2010, he was the recipient of the Victoire d'Honneur and the title of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres from the French government for his services to music, and he was also named Honorary Professor at both the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and the Shanghai Conservatory. Repin is the founder and Artistic Director of the Transsiberian Arts Festival.