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Nathan Mironovich Milstein (January 13, 1904 [O.S. December 31, 1903] -- December 21, 1992) was a Russian-born American virtuoso violinist.
Widely considered one of the finest violinists of the 20th century, Milstein was known for his interpretations of Bach’s solo violin works and for works from the Romantic period. He was also known for his long career: he performed at a high level into his mid 80s, retiring only after suffering a broken hand.
He was born in Odessa, then part of the Russian Empire (now in Ukraine), the fourth child of seven, to a middle-class Jewish family with virtually no musical background. It was a concert by the 11-year-old Jascha Heifetz that inspired his parents to make a violinist out of Milstein. As a child (of seven years old), he started violin studies (as suggested by his parents, to keep out of mischief) with the eminent violin pedagogue Pyotr Stolyarsky, also the teacher of renowned violinist David Oistrakh.
When Milstein was 11, Leopold Auer invited him to become one of his students at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Milstein reminisced:
Every little boy who had the dream of playing better than the other boy wanted to go to Auer. He was a very gifted man and a good teacher. I used to go to the Conservatory twice a week for classes. I played every lesson with forty or fifty people sitting and listening. Two pianos were in the classroom and a pianist accompanied us. When Auer was sick, he would ask me to come to his home. [1]
Milstein may in fact have been the last of the great Russian violinists to have had personal contact with Auer. Auer did not name Milstein in his memoirs but mentions “two boys from Odessa ... both of whom disappeared after I left St. Petersburg in June 1917.“ [2] Neither is Milstein’s name in the registry of the St Petersburg Conservatory.
Milstein also studied with Eugène Ysaÿe in Belgium. He told film-maker Christopher Nupen, director of Nathan Milstein -- A Portrait, that he learned almost nothing from Ysaÿe but enjoyed his company enormously. In a 1977 interview printed in High Fidelity, he said, “I went to Ysaÿe in 1926 but he never paid any attention to me. I think it might have been better this way. I had to think for myself.“ [3]
Milstein met Vladimir Horowitz and his pianist sister Regina Horowitz in 1921 when he played a recital in Kiev. They invited him for tea at their parents’ home. Milstein later said, “I came for tea and stayed three years.“[4] Milstein and Horowitz performed together, as “children of the revolution,“ throughout the Soviet Union and struck up a life-long friendship. In 1925, they went on a concert tour of Western Europe together.
He made his American debut in 1929 with Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. He eventually settled in New York and became an American citizen. He toured repeatedly throughout Europe, maintaining residences in London and Paris.
A transcriber and composer, Milstein arranged many works for violin and wrote his own cadenzas for many concertos. He was obsessed with articulating each note perfectly and would often spend long periods of time working out fingerings which would make passages sound more articulated. One of his best known compositions is Paganiniana, a set of variations on various themes from the works of Niccolò Paganini.
In 1948, his recording of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, with Bruno Walter conducting the New York Philharmonic, had the distinction of being the first catalogue item in Columbia’s newly introduced long-playing twelve-inch 33 rpm vinyl records, Columbia ML 4001
Juila Fischer, Nathan Milstein, jascha heifetz, Maxim vengerov, ruggiero ricci, hilary hahn, itzhak perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Leonidas Kavakos,Alexander Markov, violino
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3 months ago 00:19:11 1
Glazunov: Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 82 - Nathan Milstein, Frühbeck de Burgos, New Philharmonia
3 months ago 00:25:06 4
Nathan Milstein - Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto in E minor, Op 64
3 months ago 00:06:27 1
Liszt: Mephisto Waltz no 1 arranged and played by Nathan Milstein?
4 months ago 00:09:55 1
Balalaika: Alexei Arkhipovskiy - Sharmanka
5 months ago 00:31:37 2
Goldmark: Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 28 - Nathan Milstein, Harry Blech, Philharmonia Orchestra
6 months ago 00:07:27 1
Leonid Kogan - Sarasate Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20
7 months ago 00:04:37 1
F. Chopin : Nocturne in c sharp minor for violin and piano_ YuEun Kim, Violin / 쇼팽 녹턴 : 바이올리니스트 김유은
7 months ago 00:20:52 1
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7 months ago 00:04:39 1
Augustin Hadelich plays Chopin Nocturne c sharp minor (arr. Milstein) with Charles Owen (Live)
8 months ago 00:34:47 1
NATHAN MILSTEIN - Recital
9 months ago 00:08:49 1
Rimsky-Korsakov: Fantasia on Russian Themes in B minor, Op. 33 - Nathan Milstein with Robert Irving
9 months ago 00:06:25 1
(Rare!) Fritz Kreisler’s 80th Birthday Interview (Part 1) (1955-02-02)
9 months ago 00:24:42 1
Eugène Ysaÿe - 10 Preludes for Violin Solo (1928) (Score, Analysis)
9 months ago 01:12:44 1
Eugène Ysaÿe - 6 Sonatas for Solo Violin (1923-4) (Complete, w/Posthumous Sonata and analysis)
9 months ago 00:03:00 1
Jascha Heifetz - Ponce Estrellita
10 months ago 00:04:38 1
Violin Technique - Old Russian / Auer Bow Hold (Lesson Excerpt)
10 months ago 00:01:23 1
Kreisler cadenza for Beethoven violin concerto, 3rd mvt: 1716 Stradivari “ex-Milstein“
10 months ago 00:35:07 1
Nathan Milstein: Beethoven - Violin Sonata Op 47 No. 9 “Kreutzer Sonata“
10 months ago 00:03:03 1
Nathan Milstein, Beethoven cadenza on 1716 Stradivarius “ex-Milstein“
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Nathan (1986)
10 months ago 00:04:25 1
Nocturne , F. Chopin - Anastasiya Petryshak
11 months ago 00:49:10 1
Nathan Milstein: Mozart Violin Concerto no.4 & 5 (-’64) with Leinsdorf or Milstein conducting