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Pianist David Korevaar--performs Brahms. In Lehman Hall in Harvard Yard. Call 495-4162.
The MIT Musicians Behind-the-Desk Series--performs Mozart, Brahms, Faure, Schumann and Rossini. In Killian Hall at MIT at noon on Friday.
Brahms: The Three Violin Sonatas, Itzhak Perlman, violin; Daniel Barenboim, piano (Sony Classical). There are half a dozen or so great sonatas for violin and piano; Brahms wrote three of them. Perlman and Barenboim -- the latter back at the keyboard, where he belongs -- give them robust yet sensitive readings.
BRAHMS: SONATA NO. 3; INTERMEZZI, OP. 117 (Sony Classical). Emanuel Ax whittles Brahms' mightiest sonata down to size in a performance that combines majesty with might. Meanwhile, the mournful, enigmatic intermezzos of the composer's later years get tender, loving care.
Despite Harvard's cultural pretensions, more first-years arrive with Guns'n Roses in their tape collection than Brahms. Though some students dismiss them as stodgy and outdated, choral music groups at Harvard are still very much alive. Directed by Harvard music faculty, the six major choral groups comprise a...