NADJA SALERNO-SONNENBERG: Concertos in D Major

Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg

Concertos in D Major

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Old meets new in this exciting live recording of classical music's Tchaikovsky and Assad Concertos.

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Salerno-Sonnenberg finally records the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto....and this one is LIVE with Marin Alsop and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. This is a treat for any fan who has waited a long time for this one.

She combines classical music's warhorse concerto with a brand new concerto written for her by young brazilian sensation Clarice Assad. This concerto is a natural fit for Salerno-Sonnenberg combining pulsating rhythms, virtuoso finger work, and liltingly beautiful melodies.

Hearing Salerno-Sonnenberg play the Tchaikovsky is an experience not to be missed....and cudo's to her for combining the great work with a new concerto in the repertoire.

She has said of this album...."it combines old with new...and so it goes...as music should".

BIO:

Sensational and unmistakable, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg stands out in the field of classical music. Individual, passionate and powerful sound, a risk-taking persona and energetic presence are her trademarks. A musician, author, and teacher, Nadja is recognized as one of the world's preeminent violinists.

Since 1981, when she burst onto the music scene as the youngest recipient ever of the Walter W. Naumburg International Violin Competition, Nadja has remained in the media spotlight.

A guest on NBC's The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson numerous times, Nadja has been featured on CBS' 60 Minutes, Nightwatch, and Sunday Morning, NBC's National News, and has been A&E's Artist of the Week with Elliot Forrest. She has also been featured on PBS' Live From Lincoln Center, Backstage/Lincoln Center, Journey, The Charlie Rose Show, City Arts, and Bravo's The Art of Influence, not to mention the PBS/BBC series The Mind, PBS' Sessions at West 54th, a PBS special presentation, "Dallas Symphony Orchestra: Music of Bernstein, Barber & Beethoven," and PBS' Children's Television Workshop's award winning program Sesame Street. In May 1999, CBS' 60 Minutes II aired a follow-up to their 1986 feature, highlighting the last 13 years of her career.

A highly acclaimed recording artist, Nadja's numerous classical recordings are released on the Angel/EMI Classic and Nonesuch labels. A sought-after artist who has performed with many of the world's greatest conductors and orchestras and at major international festivals, she has played at the White House in a command performance for the Arts & Humanities Awards. She has also collaborated with such artists as Mandy Patinkin, Joe Jackson, Judy Blazer, Janice Siegel, the Assad brothers, Mark O'Connor and Roger Kellaway.

Born in Rome, Nadja emigrated to the Unites States at the age of eight to study at The Curtis Institute of Music and later studied with Dorothy DeLay at The Julliard School.

In 1989, she wrote "Nadja: On My Way," an autobiography written for children, in which she shares her experiences as a young musician building a career.

She is the recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize (1999) awarded to the instrumentalists who have demonstrated "outstanding achievement and excellence in music."

She has been honored with an Avery Fisher Career Grant (1983), and in 1988 was Ovations Debut Recording Artist of the Year.

She is in Who's Who of American Women and is also the recipient of an honorary Masters of Musical Arts from the New Mexico State University (May 1999), the first honorary degree the University has ever awarded.

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  • She's the best!!
    author: Scott Leather

    This is a GREAT recording! Exciting and passionate as hell! And the Assad work is wonderful!! Very comprehensible and just as exciting! These are live performances caught in the heat of the moment! VERY RECOMMENDED! NADIA'S THE BEST!!

  • Tschaikovsky Violin Concert
    author: Anthony Lau

    Amazing techniques and tone. Hearty congratulation.

  • Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg
    author: Jeff Roberts

    Dear Mr Sivers; First, the email that you first sent was a pleasant way to begin a day. We all need more of this. Thank You. The recording was all I had hoped for and I fully intend to add more of the same to my collection. Again Many Thanks Jeff Roberts

  • Wonderful reliving of Nadja's Live performance of this work!
    author: J. Frieseke

    My wife & I experienced Ms.Salerno-Sonnenberg in live performance of the Tchaikovsky Concerto with the Santa Rosa Symphony. Playing this CD allows us to relive that wonderful experience. PS We really enjoyed it when the CD Baby pilot dipped the wings of his plane as he flew over our house on his return to Portland. We stood outside and waved to him.

  • FABULOUS
    author: Donald Stevens

    Tremendous performance. Almost like hearing it in person.

  • Loved it!
    author: Deanna

    The power and emotion of Nadja's talent comes through in this recording. You go, girl!

  • Tchaikovsky and Assad
    author: Micki Archuleta

    Once again, Salerno-Sonnenberg brings chills.

  • Moving....it illicits emotions from profoundly joyful to profoundly sad.
    author: The D Major

    The mic or mics should have been about two feet closer to her and two feet farther from the orchestra.

  • One of the greatest CD!!
    author: Naoya Hirabayashi, Japan

    I'v been listening so many CDs for various magazines ever day, but have a rare chance to meet really great CD. But the Nadja's latest CDs are most exciting one for me. And I'm very impressed the recording sound which captures good atmosphere of the concert hall. How great she is!

  • Nadla is Nadja, and she's special
    author: Nadja

    The CD had to be cranked up volume wise on my Teac but the recording engineers did a satisfactory job. I felt that in some areas she was overpowered by the accpompaniment. I want to hear the violin if it's in play.

  • Salerno-Sonnenberg's passion never dissapoints...It's in her blood.
    author: Michael Sakamoto

    Woo hoo! It's about time she recorded the Tchaikovsky. She manages to show off everything great about her in this recording - her passion, her idiosyncratic, visceral experience of the music, and her technical chops, which are absolutely necessary to pull off what she does in my humble opinion and something she doesn't get enough credit for sometimes. BRAVA!!!

  • Powerful and beauitfully artistic
    author: L Fugit

    I was at the concert at which this CD was recorded and have anxiously awaited its release. It does not disappoint! I got goose bumps then and goose bumps listening to the recording. The power and intimacy of a live performance are captured on this CD.

  • N. S-S. expresses a dynamic personality through music
    author: Thorn C. Roberts

    With regard to both works, N. S-S. expresses strong emotions through her playing. She is very technically skilled, and this is the essential means to the end. The Assad work has a resemblance to composers such as Debussy and Ravel, which allows a lot of scope for this; Tchaikov- sky and N.S-S. personaliies seem to relate somehow.

  • Great, chilling, and sentimental.
    author: Martin Alambar

    Never have I heard the Tchaikovsky played with more life and charisma. Nadja really has such a great presence. I have been waiting for this album for a long while now and it has been well worth the wait. The Assad concerto is amazing and Nadja milks it dry. I shall enjoy it for many years to come....

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