The son of a Ukrainian wool merchant, the violinist Nathan Milstein studied at St Petersburg before leaving Russia at an early age to settle in the West.

Technically brilliant, with warmth of tone and intensity of style, he was a notable exponent equally of unaccompanied Bach as of the music of Wieniawski or Stravinsky.

He always adapted himself to the nature of the music.

He gave notable chamber performances with his fellow Russian exiles Vladimir Horowitz and cellist Gregor Platlgorsky and continued to play and teach until shortly before his death in London in 1992, aged 87.

Daniel Barenbolm, who also performed with him, calls him "one of the most natural violinists I have ever come across. He was able to produce the most individual and beautiful sound in the most effortless way imaginable."

He calls Mllstein "the supreme example of the pure violinist".

-Roger Moodiman, Marine Parade, Brighton