David Oistrakh Plays Debussy: “The Girl with the Flaxen Hair”
La fille aux cheveux de lin (“The Girl with the Flaxen Hair”) is the eighth piece in Book I of Claude Debussy’s solo piano Préludes, written around 1910. The title was inspired by an 1852 poem by Leconte de Lisle. We explored this dreamy, ephemeral piece in a previous post. David Oistrakh performed this transcription for violin and piano as an encore during a 1972 performance at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. He is …
