Roughly passionate and intensely dedicated, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg's disc of recordings of the violin concertos of Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Clarice Assad accompanied by Marin Alsop and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra on the violinist's own NSS label is ultimately persuasive if not always altogether convincing. Salerno-Sonnenberg is as volatile and expressive a soloist now as she was when she made her disc debut with her 1989 EMI recording of Brahms and Bruch concertos with Edo de Waart and the Minnesota Orchestra. Her ...
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Roughly passionate and intensely dedicated, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg's disc of recordings of the violin concertos of Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Clarice Assad accompanied by Marin Alsop and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra on the violinist's own NSS label is ultimately persuasive if not always altogether convincing. Salerno-Sonnenberg is as volatile and expressive a soloist now as she was when she made her disc debut with her 1989 EMI recording of Brahms and Bruch concertos with Edo de Waart and the Minnesota Orchestra. Her performance here of Tchaikovsky's concerto is hard-edged and strong-willed, with a lot of power but somewhat less finesse and sometimes not enough self-control. The question as to whether or not a Tchaikovsky concerto can be described as hard-edged could be considered attractive is entirely a matter of taste. Salerno-Sonnenberg's performance of Assad's concerto is as passionate and dedicated as her Tchaikovsky, but although the Assad concerto plays to the violinist's temperament with two...
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