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No chocolate, coffee or ice cream? Oh dear, how sad. I am working my way through a bar of Ghirardelli right now. I was going to just eat half, but I will force down the whole thing in your honor.

I have ASM's Mozart 5, which is paired with her Mendelssohn, from 1981. I also have her Brahms sonatas, with Alexis Weissenberg, from 1983. I really like her recordings she cut as a teenager, and I prefer listening to them to her newer recordings. Her style is so fresh and straightforward, and I am always impressed. Her musical choices just seem so right. Tone, intonation...everything just so great.

Alexis Weissenberg's Debussy is pretty nice too, in case anyone is interested.

Ahh CDs! I’m having chocolate, coffee, ice cream all at once and am listening to the new CD just arrived in my mailbox today. It’s Testament’s Veneu (first recordings) and Hassid (complete recordings). Life is so good!

Oh, and don’t forget the books too. I got Applebaum’s “The Way They Play – Bk1” the other day from ABE Books for a reasonable price. They’ve got a few more copies so check it out if you want to: http://www.abebooks.com/

I don't know how you do it Buri, I couldn't live without bungee jumping without a chord. Greetings,
c minor is the chord of choice.
Yixi I had all the Way they play books when I wa sa kid. Should ahve kept them as they would be worth a fortune. Book one I have pretty much from memory.
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Buri Buri,are the book 2, 3, 4,... as good as the book 1? As I said, I don't recall paying too much for the book 1 at the ABE (The prices ranging from less than $20 to over $100 there) so I might be getting the later ones too if they are as good as the book 1. Greetings,
in terms of sheer information number two is my all time favorite. Fourteen is another great one.
They are all worth having. How are you going to explain it to your husband;)?
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Buri Buri,I'll get the book 2 and 14. When it comes to classical music and books, my husband is worse than I am. We have very few furnatures and no wall space because the books and CDs are taking over the house so much so that we'll soon have to find a bigger house for them. To me, ASM transcends normal violin playing, and that includes all the old masters, although they have their highlights. She seems to choose an approach for each individual piece. For example I heard her new Thais Meditation on the radio tonight and there was something very old-fashioned about it. mmm crunchy ps i like early mutter too the mendelssohn and bruch especially and the beethoven vid - you will notice her vibrato changed over the years compare the mendelssohn to something like say the brahms sonatas very different sounding

the mozart 5 was good, the mozart 3 was slow for me - note > i think the mozart recording she did was done with her old violin the emilia strad not the dunraven strad, a sweeter tone with less projection

love weissenburg - loved the brahms sonatas they recorded - him not her, her vibrato was already too wide for me even then

if you can find rachamninoff sonatas with weissenberg its unbelieveable but hard to find also saw a thing on youtube oh him playing a rach concerto with unbelieveable expression

belch Scott, I could have written the exact thing you wrote about the Brahms sonatas. I have a recording of Weissenburg playing Debussy's Suite Bergamasque. Bought it on a whim one day, without knowing who he was. I was looking for Debussy at the book store, found the title, previewed a few seconds of it, and was moved to tears instantly. I never get tired of hearing him play. Milstein's Mendelssohn is a joy. The introduction to the last movement always seems to be a test of the whole and for me milstein plays that tiny snippet (wonderful snippet) superbly.

However the mendelssohn is always with me as a piece written FOR Grumiaux

Greetings,
the interesitng thin is that Milstein said he didn`t like Abbado@s conducting...
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Buri I'm delighted to read your comments on the Menuhin Kempf "Spring." It has long been one of my favorite recordings. What a peerless matching. Thank you.