Reminds me of my favorite violinist, his one of the cleanest players you'll find: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mixnMzHUYxA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mixn

Reminds me of my favorite violinist, his one of the cleanest players you'll find: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mixnMzHUYxA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mixnMzHUYxA Once he was asked what music piece he thought was most difficult to play, his reply was something like: "Either you can play a piece or you can't, there is no difficult, difficult leads to friction in your playing" The 'not best' players when faced with difficult passages will consciously or subconsciously have fear of it and stress out, this is will cause tension and can be picked up by the viewer. Milstein's was known for taking any musical piece he liked and 'hacking' it till he knew it inside out, for every passage he will try all sorts of fingerings. An average player will be content to play one fingering well, relying mostly on muscle memory, but Milstein would study a piece and really play from his head, at each moment he could choose between different fingerings. Thats how he thought and practiced, and if you look at his performance he is always relaxed because his preparation is so thorough and he played from his mind.