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Jun 18 21:29 UTC 1999

Ramblings from radio I heard on the drive home last night...

A long violin & piano piece turned out to be Beethoven's Violin Sonata #9,
by Anne-Sophie Mutter.  (I'm always getting her confused with the singer
Anne-Sofie von Otter, which does NOT help with web searches.)
I've drifted through an album of Beethoven violin sonatas before -- 
one of those chance encounters in a record shop -- and in general I've
been feeling that Beethoven is one of those pathways which I need to 
pursue.   
 
Everybody's got a web page.  http://anne-sophie-mutter.de/a
And I see in cdnow.com that the new Mutter recording of the Beethoven
violin sonatas is a four (?) disc set, judging by the price.
 
Following that was one of Brahms' Hungarian Dances.  This was an 
orchestral setting, conducted by Fritz Reiner; I'd had a vague 
memory that these were piano pieces originally, and I thought I had 
a recording of them.  Am I wrong?