(1927-2007)
an outstanding violin player, a conductor and a pianist. People’s Artist of the USSR. The Lenin Prize winner (1964), the 2nd Degree Stalin Prize winner (1951), twice winner of the State Prize of Russia (1991, 1995). In 2002, The Times (London newspaper) called him «the best musician ever». Lloyd Webber, a Daily Telegraph musical columnist, called him «probably the greatest violin player ever».
