Soloists included Soviet Russian composer and pianist Dmitri Shostakovich, composer and pianist Tikhon Khrennikov,pianist Lev Oborin, violinist David Oistrakh, cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, violinist Leonid Kogan, pianist Sviatoslav Richter, cellist Daniil Shafran, pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy, violinist Mikhail Vaiman, and others.
