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After a short break, Perlman and Zukerman came on the stage to tremendous applause. Mehta waited for the welcome to end, and then joked around with the soloists a bit while they turned. This was not the best of nights for an outdoor concert, because the temperature was dropping noticeably throughout the evening. Nevertheless, Perlman and Zukerman gave an outstanding performance...
...quick tempo, an indication of things to come, was chosen for the first movement. The soloists approached their task in different ways; Perlman played very methodically and correctly while Zukerman, playing with confidence on an instrument that carried beautifully, strove to come out when he had a melodic line...
...curiosities of Saturday's reading of the Mozart was a slightly uncoordinated set of slides that seemed to date the performance before its time. In his first playing of the main theme, Perlman slid the third pair of notes and was followed dutifully by Zukerman. However, in the recapitulation of the theme, Perlman also slid the second pair, and was not echoed by his partner...
...slow preceding section of the first movement also showed some difference of interpretation, as Zukerman took his again echoing part a bit faster than Perlman had. Zukerman showed his spirit for the outdoor concert by turning to spread his long notes over the whole audience. In the third movement, Zukerman again failed to follow Perlman in his rather unusual (for contemporary recordings) sliding in the first major theme...
Mehta and the soloists took the second movement a shade fast, but there were some pleasant surprises. Perlman showed his strength by hitting his high notes even better than he did on the recording. He also pulled off an amazing feat by constantly keeping even with Zukerman in volume despite the difference in their instruments timbre and size in this microphoneless (in the theater, not on the lawn) atmosphere...