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Title: Superb
Review: Beethoven is my favorite composer, but I have to say that Brahms topped him for the greatest violin concerto ever written and this is a great performance of it.Perlman's playing is beautiful, much warmer to my ears than Heifetz (with Reiner), which I also own. The orchestral accompaniment and solos from the Berlin Philharmonic are as perfect as you would expect. Tempos are somewhat broad but not sluggish; Barenboim gives the music enough room to breathe without being indulgent. The sound is excellent; it is a live performance, but other than some shuffling in the audience between the first and second movement and brief applause at the end you won't notice it.I'd rarely recommend a disc with a 38 minute playing time, but when it's a piece and a performance like this (or Brahms' 4th symphony with Kleiber and Vienna), who could complain?
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