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Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg - Mendelssohn, Saint-Saens, Massenet | 
 enlarge | Artists: Felix Mendelssohn, Camille Saint-saens, Jules Massenet, Gerard Schwarz, Nadja Salerno-sonnenberg, New York Chamber Symphony
Label: EMI Classics
Category: Music
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 65713
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 49276
UPC: 077774927628
EAN: 0077774927628
ASIN: B000002RQ0
Release Date: October 25, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | Allegro molto appassionato | | • | Andante | | • | Allegro non troppo - Allegro molto vivace |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Salreno-Sonnenberg at her best September 13, 2007
Dr. George M. Davis (Annapolis, MD, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This recording is one of the best I ahve ever heard of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. Sonnenberg's performance is breathtaking, fiery and musically great
 The Mendelssohn is soupy, a style that suits Saint-Saens better July 2, 2006
Santa Fe listener
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
Having won a mass audience for herself thanks to low-cut dresses, stage antics, and coverage on 60 Minutes, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg had a chance to expose young listeners to serious musicmaking. Instead, she made it a one-woman show, and the results don't attract serious attention. She's at her worst here in the slow movement of the Mendelssohn concerto, dripping with swoops and swoons. Elsewhere, though, she reins things in. At bottom, when she isn't ladling on the syrup, NSS is a cautious violinist--she hasn't got the technique for fireworks--and in the outer movements of the concerto she shows some respect for the music.
Her fans will love her hyper-romantic way with the Havanaise and Meditation by Saint-Saens, two piecees that can't be hurt by a little extra shmaltz. The Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso is a more substantial piece, however, and she's pulls it to pieces mercilessly. Gerard Schwarz, like every conductor NSS works with, passively stands aorund and lets her hog the spotlight. It's what her fans want, and clearly so does she.
Nadja's Themes May 17, 2005
Erik North (San Gabriel, CA USA)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg is one of the finest classical violinists that America has ever produced, female or otherwise. Her style of playing has the same intense lyricism and virtuosity that distinguishes all the great violinists and inspires others to strive for that same kind of excellence.
A perfect example of Salerno-Sonnenberg's virtuosity can be found on this 1988 EMI recording that she made with conductor Gerard Schwarz and the New York Chamber Symphony. Her ability to navigate through the tricky world that is Mendelssohn's celebrated E Minor Violin Concerto, particularly in its vivacious finale, is definitely something to behold. Like the violin concertos of Beethoven, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky, the Mendelssohn is a work that all concert violinists know they must utilize at some point, and Salerno-Sonnenberg does not hold anything back here. Neither do Schwarz and his NYCS players.
But the violin and orchestral virtuosity doesn't stop there, as Salerno-Sonnenberg, Schwarz, and the NYCS take up two shorter works by Saint-Saens--the Havanaise, and the Introduction And Rondo Capriccioso--and the much-loved "Meditation" from Jules Massenet's 1894 opera "Thais." This last work gives Salerno-Sonnenberg to display a quiet but obvious passion in her playing.
Helped out by the combination of a fine orchestra and a great conductor, Salerno-Sonnenberg proves herself here to be one of the great violinists of our time. This is a recording that cannot be recommended highly enough.
SHEER GENIUS!! December 24, 2003
Lydia Lilli (Murrieta, California)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg is sheer genius! She speaks to the audience with her playing, with her violin. It is no longer a piece of wood but a bit of heaven that stirs the listen's soul and what better way to do so than with the great music of Mendelssohn, Saint-Saens and Massenet. I have just about all Nadja's cds and have just added this to my collection - it is like adding another treasure!
Beautiful music, beautifully played August 11, 2001
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a great CD. The violin is so full of feeling. The Mendedlssohn is a beautiful piece that is wonderful again and again. This is a good CD for your collection You won't get tired of it.
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