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Beethoven: "Diabelli" Variations, Alfred Brendel, piano (Philips). The publisher asked Beethoven for one variation of a simple little waltz tune; he wrote 33, and a masterpiece. Brendel performs with style and insight, verve and elan...
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...
...similar proposal came last month from a group styling itself the Centrist bloc and claiming support from 20 political parties and associations. And only two weeks ago, Ivan Polozkov, unreconstructed head of the Communist Party of the Russian republic, wrote in Pravda that a "Union for the Salvation of the Fatherland" should be formed to unite all "patriotic forces" and "prevent a transition to a market system...
...this year), and officials fear the scandal will further strain relations with the U.S. Others have called for air force chief Major General Avihu Bin-Nun's resignation. For now, that seems unlikely, especially given the gulf crisis. In an apologetic letter to his staff last week, Bin-Nun wrote, "I trusted Rami Dotan in exactly the same way that I would trust the aircraft technician from whom I receive a plane before a flight...
...people want to run back sometimes as well. Home is both magnetic poles, the start and the finish. T.S. Eliot wrote, "We shall not cease from exploration/ And the end of all our exploring/ Will be to arrive where we started/ And know the place for the first time...