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...Perlman's reading became touching as he seemed to approach it less formally than he had the first movement. His playing was marred only by a quickly corrected tendency to sound flat on his longer notes that was probably a result of the changing temperature...
...tempo stood out again in the third movement as the soloists streaked to the end of the piece. Zukerman, finally able to speak fully in the broad chords of the second motif, was visibly enthusiastic. Perlman read the third movement flawlessly and contributed in volume and exuberance to the finale. Zukerman bit off a bit more than he could chew with his last low chord, but the mistake was hardly noticeable. In any case, the end was greeted by a lengthy and well-deserved standing ovation...
...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...