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| Brahms: Violin Concerto in D/Bruch: Concerto #1 in G Minor; Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg | 
| Artists: Johannes Brahms, Max Bruch, Edo De Waart, Nadja Salerno-sonnenberg, Minnesota Orchestra
Label: EMI Classics
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (12 reviews)
Sales Rank: 73149
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 077774942928
EAN: 0077774942928
ASIN: B000002RQC
Release Date: July 17, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | Allegro non troppo | | • | Adagio | | • | Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace | | • | Prelude. Allegro moderato | | • | Adagio | | • | Finale. Allegro energico - Presto |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 A good combination May 6, 2008
Maestro de Waart leading the Minnesota Orchestra with soloist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg create an almost magical combination of musical forces to bring the Bruch concerto (one of the five great violin concerti) to music lovers at every level. This is a significant performance of this masterpiece. It should be in every serious collection of great music.
 Oh hum. January 11, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Nadja had a nice cable documentary about her life and I thought she was a character that life deserved as well as music. However, in this CD she was buried by the rest of the instruments. It is still an okay CD however.
Passion January 10, 2007
I love the way Nadja plays...such passion, such richness. Some say she overdoses, I say she is just right.
 A typical Nadja show, focusing much more on herself than the music July 2, 2006
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
When a classical artist makes it into the mass media and attracts a wider fan base, as Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg has, it makes sense for serious music lovers to stay away. To her credit, NSS has won some respect, even though her basic shtick is to attract maximum attention to herself by swaying onstage with all the symptoms of divine rapture, and giving us interpreatations that are lushly over the top.
That's certainly true in the Brahms, where she stretches the first movement out to 27 min., all devoted to her swoony, exaggerated phrasing. Edo de Waart, who sets a slack tempo to begin with, has no way to keep pace--he stands by passively while NSS does her thing.
The other two movements are taken at regular tempo, but the orcehstral part remains slack and murkily recorded. The odd thing, as one can hear in the finale, is that NSS doesn't take any risks when she's not souping the emotion up--her technical command of this music is cauatious. EMI was generous to provide the Bruch concerto as a filler to this 74+ min. CD, and for her many fans this slow, wayward reading may bring joy. It's not really up to the standards of integrity one expects from a serious musician, however--the trumped-up ego that NSS displays is distressing.
Bravo Nadja January 18, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Nadja Solerno-Sonnenberg performs the Brahms Violin Concerto like possibly no one else could. This artist seems to have an almost mystical connection with this music so that I'm sure Brahms himself is smiling down at this performance with the recognition that someone has finally accomplished what he had in his ear when he composed it. This work, seldom understood and highly controversial, is made complete by Nadja's performance. This music is in Nadja's soul - tightly conected in her spirit. This manifests itself in a performance that is decisive, dramatic, and full of subtle overtones and nuances to the point that the analytical "double speak" doesn't even matter any more, because your hearing the real thing - how the composition becomes the music it was intended - how the composition/music performance equation becomes fulfilled - and how in the end this performance stands alone, so powerful that its definition need rely on no other point of reference. Bravo Nadja!
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