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This may have been the best recording made by Salerno-Sonnenberg under the terms of her EMI contract, and is one of the finest violin concerto discs of the digital era, demonstrating Salerno-Sonnenberg in peak form.
Salerno-Sonnenberg handles both works with equal care, her playing being a model of how to balance poise with passion. Likewise, Shostakovich's shepherding of the London Symphony Orchestra never overrides the soloist, maintaining a smooth, controlled texture; Shostakovich's orchestral underpinning falls beneath Salerno-Sonnenberg's violin like an expensive Berber carpet. But even as she is star of the show, Salerno-Sonnenberg doesn't let it get to her head. Throughout, Salerno-Sonnenberg's playing is smooth like
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cream and very expressive, although when the emotional content of the music heats up, she reacts in kind. The sound she makes is pure -- one does not hear, or even think, of the contact the bow makes with the instrument.
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Works on This Recording
1.
Concerto for Violin, Op. 14 by Samuel Barber
Performer:
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (Violin)
Conductor:
Maxim Shostakovich
Orchestra/Ensemble:
London Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1939; USA
2.
Concerto for Violin no 1 in A minor, Op. 77 by Dmitri Shostakovich
Performer:
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (Violin)
Conductor:
Maxim Shostakovich
Orchestra/Ensemble:
London Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: USSR
Notes: This concerto was originally published in 1956 as Op. 99.
Composition written: USSR (1947 - 1955).
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