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Old 10-07-2005, 11:29 PM   #14
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My favourite modern classical violinists are Gil Shaham (beautiful, warm tone) and James Ehnes (such clarity). I'm not really a big Ilya Kaler fan, I find that his recording of Paganini's 24 Caprices pales to Ehnes' or Itzhak Perlman's... of course, that may be in part because of Naxos' inferior sound quality.
Ah, Naxos. My brother and mother are seeing Perlman this Sunday (the day after tomorrow), and I'll hear a report when I visit Wednesday. No one's mentioned Louis Farrakhan yet, by the way.
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