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 McDermott, an accompanist Salerno-Sonnenberg has been working with for a number of years. A casual glance at what the majors have wrought in terms of releases for Salerno-Sonnenberg ...
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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 McDermott, an accompanist Salerno-Sonnenberg has been working with for a number of years. A casual glance at what the majors have wrought in terms of releases for Salerno-Sonnenberg leading up to this NSS Music issue makes clear that there was no room for this kind of low-key and intimate project. Nor is the program repertoire chosen here -- Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 7, the Violin Sonata of Francis Poulenc, and Franz Schubert's inexplicably obscure Rondeau Brillante -- on the "A" lists of any of the major labels in the manner of works to record. The result, however, is superb -- far above the average for what might normally be viewed as a "boutique" release even...
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