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...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...
...music. Released at a rate of 12 to 15 CDs a month, the set already includes all the symphonies, played by Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin-in- the-Fields, and the piano concertos, performed mainly by Alfred Brendel. This month's releases include the violin concertos and wind concertos...
Despite that rather weighty academic challenge occupying much of his professional scrutiny, Layzer hardly confines his attention to his work. In fact, he seems to take equal enjoyment in listing his hobbies, which include playing violin in a chamber music ensemble and playing squash. Recently, he even flew to France to do some biking...
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...
...ISAAC STERN COLLECTION, VOLS. 1 & 2 (Sony Classical). These boxed sets, spanning the years 1946 to 1958, can serve as the foundation for a violin concerto library or as a reminder that, though he has de-emphasized his playing to pursue benevolent causes, Stern is one of the truly great violinists of the century...