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...words: Kathleen Battle and ((another famous musician)) perform ((mainstream repertory)). Thus last year Battle teamed up with soprano Jessye Norman in a program of spirituals on Deutsche Grammophon that is still going strong as a crossover best seller. In January Battle released an all-Bach album with + violinist Itzhak Perlman, also on DG; it remains near the top of the classical charts. Now, in the new pairing with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, she has another best seller...
...course, the Dems would have to balance the ticket. Janis Joplin would fit the bill nicely. Or maybe Itzhak Perlman. An Elvis-Joplin (or even Elvis-Cuomo) ticket would galvanize the electorate as never before. Will past drug use sink the nominees? Chalk it up to youthful indiscretion, as President Bush did when explaining away Clarence Thomas' joint ventures...
...everyone shares that compunction, and there is no system of checks to make sure, for example, that Itzhak Perlman isn't putting his mark beside Motley Crue's Kickstart My Heart. "I don't like the idea of having the freedom to vote in areas outside your expertise," says Ken Barnes of the trade publication Radio & Records. The system seems to give the advantage to more widely publicized, commercially accepted acts. "If you don't sell, you don't have a chance at winning," says rock critic Dave Marsh. "But if you do sell, it doesn't guarantee winning...
...pieces and arrangements, are now estimated to total 835 compositions, instead of the familiar Kochel list of 626. The complete presentation will enable a sufficiently dogged listener to sample such obscure efforts as the unfinished opera L'Oca del Cairo. And the quality of performances should be extremely high -- Itzhak Perlman and Daniel Barenboim playing violin sonatas, for example; Mitsuko Uchida all the piano sonatas; both the Juilliard and Tokyo quartets on hand for chamber music...
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...