Season 1937-8
Eighth Concert from Queen's Hall, London
(Sole Lessees, Messrs. Chappell and Co. Ltd.)
Natan Milstein (violin)
The BBC
Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Malcolm Sargent
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Natan Milstein is a young Russian violinist who was born at Odessa in 1904 and studied first in his native city under Professor Atoliarski, and later in Petrograd under Leopold Auer. In 1925 Milstein left Russia. Forced to abandon his Guadagnini, he arrived in Berlin without a violin, without money, without connections. It was only a short time, however, before a guarantor appeared for a debut concert, a patron with a Stradivarius for him to play on. Milstein's first Berlin appearance definitely established him as one of the first talents of the new generation. From Germany he went to France and afterwards toured the whole of Europe and America with great success.