Nathan Milstein (1903-1992) was one of the crucial elegant and innately gifted violinists of the 20th century. The biographer Boris Schwarz known as his taking part in, “a uncommon mixture of classical style and technical perfection,” including that “the easy nonchalance with which he achieves refined technical feats is superb.”
Born in Odessa, Milstein studied with the famend Pyotr Stolyarsky, who was additionally educating the six-year-old David Oistrakh on the time. On the age of 11, Milstein moved to St. Petersburg, the place he turned one of many final college students of the legendary Leopold Auer. Milstein toured extensively with Vladimir Horowitz and finally emigrated to the US. The naturalness and ease with which Milstein approached the violin was illustrated in his capability to alter fingerings on the spot throughout a efficiency. His use of speedy, energetic bow velocity produced a pure, ringing tone. Milstein’s method remained at a excessive degree into his 80s and he retired solely after struggling a damaged hand.
This efficiency of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D Main, Op. 61, recorded by the BBC at London’s Royal Competition Corridor on February 6, 1972, options Nathan Milstein with Sir Adrian Boult and the London Philharmonic. The cadenza was written by Milstein.
Paganiniana
These virtuosic variations for solo violin, composed by Nathan Milstein, draw upon the works of Niccolò Paganini. This efficiency was recorded in 1968:
Recordings
- Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D Main, Op. 61, Nathan Milstein, Sir Adrian Boult, London Philharmonic Orchestra Amazon
