Nathan Milstein: The U.S. Armed Forces Studio Recordings

Featuring

Nathan Milstein
Valentin Pavlovsky
Artur Balsam
Joseph Kahn
Arthur Fiedler
NBC Symphony Orchestra

RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra
Antonio Vivaldi
Johannes Brahms
Jules Massenet
Maurice Ravel
Henryk Wieniawski
Robert Schumann
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Josef Suk
Édouard Lalo
Franz Schubert
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Gabriel Fauré
Ede Poldini
Stephen Collins Foster

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Recording & Production

This album includes three pieces that Nathan Milstein did not record in a studio setting elsewhere, notably Brahms's A-major Sonata.

Performer Biography

After the 1917 Revolution, Nathan Milstein met Vladimir Horowitz in Kiev in 1921, and their duo later became a trio with Gregor Piatigorsky.

Instruments

Nathan Milstein, like other great violinists, owned a Stradivarius violin from 1716, which he named 'Maria Theresa' after his daughter and wife.

Recording & Production

Much of this album features wartime recordings for the U.S. Armed Services, with Valentin Pavlovsky, known as Gregor Piatigorsky's accompanist, as Milstein's piano partner.

Performer Biography

Nathan Milstein studied at the St Petersburg Conservatory with Leopold Auer, where he learned as much from talented classmates like Jascha Heifetz as from the pedagogue himself.