NATHAN MILSTEIN
MOZART: ADAGIO, K. 261, AND RONDO, K. 373;
PAGANINI: TWO CAPRICES;
FALLA: SUITE POPULARIE ESPAGNOLE (JOTA, ASTURIANA)
NOVACEK: PERPETUUM MOBILUM
MOZART: VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 5 (FIRST MOVEMENT)
BRAHMS: VIOLIN CONCERTO (THIRD MOVEMENT)
All filmed in London, 1957 and 1963.
Source: BBC Archive
BEETHOVEN: KREUTZER SONATA (FIRST & THIRD MOVEMENTS)
BACH: PARTITA NO. 2 (CHACONNE)
PAGANINI: PAGANINIANA
Filmed in Paris, 10 December 1968.
Source: INA Archive
BACH: PARTITA NO. 3 (PRELUDE)
BONUS: MISCHA ELMAN PERFORMS KREISLER'S "SCHÖN ROSMARIN" & "PREGHIERA" ON A THEME OF PADRE MARTINI
Filmed in London in 1962 and 1963.
Source: BBC Archive
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A striking recollection of times past crops up as a 'bonus' on a DVD devoted principally to that most sophisticated of Old-World violin virtuosos, Nathan Milstein. Comparing Milstein's sleek delivery with the warmth and capriciousness of Mischa Elman in 1962 - his 'sobbing' tone was quite unlike anyone else's - is tantamount to comparing different instruments. Milstein, heard here between 1957 and 1968, is at his most dazzling in Novacek and Paganini, and at his most musically sublime in Mozart and Bach (including the great, unaccompanied "Chaconne" in D minor).

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