Word: perlman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real story of the evening came minutes later, when Perlman and Zukerman quieted the crowd by resuming their places center stage. As the reduced (for the Mozart) Israel Philharmonic sat by silently, the soloists commenced a reading of an unbilled marvel of virtuosity and musicality, the Handel Passacaglia arranged for violin and viola by Halvorsen...
...people sitting on the lawn and the sides of the main theater slowly gravitated towards the stage, Perlman and Zukerman spun out dizzyingly fast and perfectly crafted notes in what seemed to be two parallel and inexorably linked sonatas rather than a duet...
...concentration of the artists and the audience lay heavy in the air as the other-wordly music floated out from the dais. When Perlman embarked upon a section that featured precipitously falling thirty-second notes, much like their counterparts in Prokofiev's Violin Concerto, a few gasps of awe and pleasure could be heard...
...soon as the two sudden titans finished with broad flourishes of their bows, a tremendous cheer accompanied by even more thunderous applause rose from the enraptured crowd. Perlman and Zukerman then left the stage in unquestionable triumph...
...Passacaglia revealed another, extremely promising and satisfying step in the continuing evolution of Perlman's playing. From the energetic dynamo of the seventies to the sometimes complacent and always prolific artist of the eighties has risen a mature, cerebral virtuoso who has proved his ranking next to Isaac Stern and Salvatore Accardo, although it is yet to be seen whether he can attain the inherent perfection of a Jascha Heifetz...