Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto [Salerno Sonnenberg/Schwarz-New York Chamber Symphony]
This is one of the very first discs i bought on Ebay when i joined in mid 2005, seems like a lifetime ago, and yet i've only been on Ebay just over 6 years, i saw his in a second hand shop a couple of years before, decided against it, then regretted it, but it's good that i found another copy, it's a very good idea to give some shorter concertante works rather than another Violin Concerto, i think the shorter pieces work.
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg is Italian, though now she lives in the USA, she turned 50 at the start of the year, early on she made some nice discs, this one and her Vivaldi Four Seasons, but later she seems to have turned her hand to crossover, she recorded this disc in 1988, one of the things that attracted me to this disc was the front cover [photo by Christian Steiner], lovely strong colours, shame about the cut out background, but still nicely laid out.
