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December 22, 2011
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Some mean looking people playing some mean sounding music. 

Some mean looking people playing some mean sounding music. 

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September 22, 2011
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Ravel - Piano Trio in A minor II. - Pantoum. Assez vif. (Renaud Capuçon: violino Gautier Capuçon: violoncelo Franck Braley: piano)


This was playing at Old Orchard Shopping Mall last night. A lot of pizzicato for Skokie. 

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April 18, 2011
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Elgar was just one of the British composers to be entranced by violinist Jelly d’Aranyi, privately calling her his ‘tenth muse’

Elgar was just one of the British composers to be entranced by violinist Jelly d’Aranyi, privately calling her his ‘tenth muse’

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November 14, 2010
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Schubert - Sonata for Violin and Piano in D major, D. 384 ii. Andante.

This sonata is a gem, this movement in particular.

Andrew Manze; Richard Egarr (Harmonia Mundi HMU 907445)

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