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Another concerto coincidence

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Earlier this year, we wrote about the unusual situation of violinists Arnaud Sussmann and Sarah Chang both playing Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto at the Singletary Center for the Arts within eight days of each other, with the Lexington Philharmonic and University of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, respectively.

Julian Rachlin. Photo by Pavel Antonov.

Julian Rachlin. Photo by Pavel Antonov.

There’s another concerto coincidence on the immediate horizon, this time with Astor Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aries — OK, it’s not a concerto, but it is a violin and orchestra showpiece, and I love alliteration.

This time, Central Kentuckians can hear the piece twice within six days, though there are a few more miles between the venues.

First up, violinist Julian Rachlin and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields will present the work Sunday afternoon at the Norton Center for the Arts.

Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg.

Then, the Philharmonic is once again part of the equation, with Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg joining the Lex Phil to play it as part of UK HealthCare’s Overture to Healing concert.

“It’s an absolute masterpiece,” Rachlin said in an interview with LexGo.

Salerno-Sonnenberg recently recorded the Piazzolla Four Seasons with her New Century Chamber Orchestra on her NSS Music label.

“It’s very rare that you hear a piece and say, ‘this is for me,'” Salerno-Sonnenberg said in an interview for a story that we’ll be putting out next week. “This is a piece that some presenters are afraid to program because it’s not Mendelssohn or Tchaikovsky or Brahms. But, thankfully, Piazzolla is not such a foreign name, and I am able to push the piece through, and then people are blown away by it.”

Central Kentucky presenters are clearly not so skittish, and there’s high potential for audiences to be blown away a couple times this week.

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