En attendant un grand coffret "Complete EMI recordings" qui réglera définitivement la question, voici ce "coffret d'attente / vaste anthologie" qu'EMI propose dans sa collection ICON pour le "Grand Nathan".
C'est un peu frustrant, après Oistrakh et Rostro, Milstein était tout désigné pour avoir son coffret intégral. Dates d'enregistrements : 1955-1964 sans plus d'indications pour le moment. Attention aux doublons (cf "Art of.....", "Introuvables", "Great Recordings of the Century", coffret Beethoven etc.....) tout de même :
Voici le contenu :
Aristocrat of the Violin
CD1
Bach: Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV1001
Partita No. 1 in B minor, BWV1002
Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV1003
Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004
CD2
Bach: Sonata No. 3 in C, BWV1005
Partita No. 3 in E, BWV1006
Vivaldi: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A. Op. 2/No. 2 (ed. David)
Handel: Violin Sonata No. 4 in D Op. 1 No. 13 (HWV371)
Vitali: Chaconne In G minor (attrib.)
Tartini: Violin Sonata in G minor "II trillo del diavolo" (arr. Kreisler)
CD3
Mozart: Violin Sonata in C, K296
Violin Sonata in E minor, K304
Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 5 in F, Op. 24 'Spring'
Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 9 in A, Op. 47 'Kreutzer'
CD4
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77
CD5
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35
Glazunov: Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 82
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D, Op. 19
CD6
Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61
Chausson: Poème, Op. 25
Dvorák: Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53
CD7
Beethoven: Romance No. 1 in G, Op. 40
Romance No. 2 in F, Op. 50
Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, Op. 28
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
Bruch: Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor, Op. 26
CD8
Rachmaninov: Vocalise, Op. 34 No. 14
Mussorgsky: Sorochintsky Fair – Gopak (arr. Jones)
Glazunov: Meditation, Op. 32
Tchaikovsky: Waltz-Scherzo, Op. 34
Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op. 42 (arr. Glazunov) – Meditation, Scherzo
Rimsky-Korsakov: Fantasia on Russian Themes, Op. 33 (arr. Kreisler)
The Tale of the Tsar Sultan – Flight of the Bumblebee (arr. Hartmann)
Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 2 (arr. Joachim)
Massenet: Thaïs – Meditation (arr. Marsick)
Bach: Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D. BWV1068 (arr. Wilhelmj)
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice – Dance of the Blessed Spirits (arr. Kreisler)
Chopin: Nocturne No. 20 in C minor (arr. Milstein)
Falla: Siete canciones populares españolas – Jota (arr. Kochanski)
Wieniawski: Scherzo-Tarantelle, Op. 16
Debussy: Préludes, Livre I – Minstrels (arr. Hartmann)
Sarasate: Introduction and Tarantelle, Op. 43
Novecek: Perpetuum mobile
Kreisler: Praeludlum and Allegro in the Style of Pugnani