Nathan Milstein, Master of Invention - Some Memories of a Quiet Magician | Part 1

Filmmaker Christopher Nupen about the film: “This film in two parts is about one of the finest performing musicians of the 20th century; an artist whose career spanned 73 years and who won the admiration and respect of virtually every international musician of his time and the genuine affection of almost all of them. His name: Nathan Mironovich Milstein. His instrument: the violin. This most professional, most modest and most honest of great musicians talks about his life, his career, his music and his friends; particularly about Auer, Glazounov, Rachmaninov, Horowitz and Piatigorsky. He also talks entertainingly about music to a younger friend and fellow violinist, Pinchas Zukerman. In the film, Zukerman asks, “l know that you are wonderfully simple and that everything you do is so wonderfully simple, but I want to know why it is so simple?“ Nathan Milstein’s answer: “If you are complicated, you spoil yourself.“ I have never met a musician who better lived out that simple truth than Nathan Milstein.“