For his Double Violin Concerto (1997) Mark O'Connor temporarily set aside his popular "Appalachian" mode (adequately represented in the last three pieces here), and turned his attention to the blues and jazz -- or at least the aspects of these genres he had absorbed and accepted as fair game for "classicizing." Considering the Texas swing and ...
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 ...
This EMI Angel release Barber & Shostakovich: Violin Concertos places a new package on a time-honored item, the Barber and Dmitry Shostakovich violin concerti as interpreted by violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg with the London Symphony Orchestra led by Maxim Shostakovich. It originally came out in 1992, and the original release, while it was no ...
EMI Angel's Barber & Shostakovich: Violin Concertos features the Barber and Dmitry Shostakovich violin concerti as interpreted by Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg with the London Symphony Orchestra led by Maxim Shostakovich. This may have been the best recording made by Salerno-Sonnenberg under the terms of her EMI contract, and is one of the finest ...
Simply titled Live, this disc is the maiden voyage of violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg's do-it-yourself label, NSS Music, available exclusively through her website at www.nssmusic.com. It is an unusually direct representation of Salerno-Sonnenberg's live duo recitals given at Merkin Hall in New York in April 2004 with pianist Anne-Marie ...
Dawn Upshaw's collection of late Romantic (and several modern) songs is one of her earliest solo recordings, and it captures her when her voice was in full youthful bloom: warm, luminous, and full. They also reflect her emotional investment in each song, and the engaging musical intelligence she brings to them. This is repertoire that shows off ...
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