The death of Nathan Milstein last week did indeed mark the end of an era, as the obituary writers noted.He was the last of a remarkable set of violinists – Jascha Heifetz and David Oistrakh ...

Born in Odessa, Nathan Milstein studied with Leopold Auer in St Petersburg and, after the Russian Revolution of 1917, garnered support from the composer Alexander Glazunov and formed friendships with ...