What’s it like to trade the soloist’s life for the role of an artistic director of an orchestra? Nadja Solerno-Sonnenberg knows all about that. The acclaimed violin soloist, who stepped into the post of artistic director at San Francisco’s New Century Chamber Orchestra in 2008, speaks to Jennifer Melick about balancing the solo life with her new musical “family,” and a recent CD release by New Century featuring Strauss’s Metamorphosen.
Also new this week, a duo of accordionists at the Copenhagen Chamber Music Festival offer a rendition of part of Stravinsky’s Petrouchka, and violinist Christian Tetzlaff weighs in on the persistent debate about the value of old Italian instruments.
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Posted March 16, 2012
