Nigel Kennedy and Vivaldi

[pastoralguy]

As did his mentor, the great Yehudi Menuhin.

[visualnickmos]

Let's just say that Mr. Heifetz managed a pretty successful career without the extra musical antics.

So has Anne Sophie Mutter - but catatonic states of mind ensue after the first few bars of listening....

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

As did his mentor, the great Yehudi Menuhin.

What - the yogic standing on his head doesn't count?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Or the Morecambe & Wise "banjo" appearance?

[visualnickmos]

What - the yogic standing on his head doesn't count?

Or the Morecambe & Wise "banjo" appearance?

There you have it! They're all at it, given half a chance!

[jayne lee wilson]

Always liked this one of him...



Earlier shots showed a repressed schoolboy, an unhappy teenager - this is a great look & a sharp self-assertion. Like a well-read 1980s indie rocker, ready with a quote from Marx, Sartre or... Gramsci. Shame he didn't take it further, but he obviously felt cabin'd, cribbed, confined by classical convention, performance and appearance. I'm less surprised now by his slightly outworn outfits than by his obsession with Vivaldi....

Is there anything more outworn than The Seasons...?

[Petrushka]

I met Nigel Kennedy sometime in the mid 1980s in the RFH after a wonderful performance of the Elgar Concerto with the LPO and Vernon Handley and he was what you would call perfectly normal. He looked like an ordinary young lad, chatty and friendly, wore the usual penguin suit and had absolutely no trace of any phoney accents.

An amazing talent then and ever since.

[visualnickmos]

I met Nigel Kennedy sometime in the mid 1980s in the RFH after a wonderful performance of the Elgar Concerto with the LPO and Vernon Handley and he was what you would call perfectly normal. He looked like an ordinary young lad, chatty and friendly, wore the usual penguin suit and had absolutely no trace of any phoney accents.

An amazing talent then and ever since.

Voila!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Voila!

Only on the Walton Concerto recording with Previn.

[Petrushka]

Only on the Walton Concerto recording with Previn.

[Dave2002]

I met Nigel Kennedy sometime in the mid 1980s in the RFH after a wonderful performance of the Elgar Concerto with the LPO and Vernon Handley and he was what you would call perfectly normal. He looked like an ordinary young lad, chatty and friendly, wore the usual penguin suit and had absolutely no trace of any phoney accents.

An amazing talent then and ever since.

Still is a very good violinist and musician. He was interviewed around 1990 for Public Radio in the USA - sounded very normal then, too. He may not be able to do that voice now.

[visualnickmos]

Leave the man alone, for goodness sake.

[Barbirollians]

So has Anne Sophie Mutter - but catatonic states of mind ensue after the first few bars of listening....

What ! Not here ASM is a genius IMO

[Barbirollians]

I met him after two concerts in the 1980s - a Tchaikovsky concert at the RFH when I asked him to sign his Elgar sonata recording - which he said was a nice change to sign and later in the 1980s in Sheffield when he played the Britten and he was very open and relieved as he said it was the first time he had played the Britten in public . Both occasions no mockney accents . I was a very big fan until that Four Seasons - the BPO version made me feel there were strong grounds for suspecting the 1989 version was affectation for commercial purposes .

[visualnickmos]

What ! Not here ASM is a genius IMO

That is unquestionable, I'm sure - just not the sort of genius that I can understand. My loss, I admit.....