Nigel Kennedy Four Seasons

Nigel Kennedy - Vivaldi: The New Four Seasons (2014)  Music

Posted by Designol at Oct. 4, 2022
Nigel Kennedy - Vivaldi: The New Four Seasons (2014)

Nigel Kennedy - Vivaldi: The New Four Seasons (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 344 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 151 Mb | Scans included
Classical Crossover, Contemporary | Label: Sony Classical | # 88875076722 | Time: 01:01:21

If anyone has earned the right to mess around with Vivaldi’s Four Seasons it is Nigel Kennedy, the violin world’s Marmite violinist. Remember how fresh he made this music sound on his recording of a quarter-century ago? This latest version offers a ferment of all he’s played since – concertos, jazz, Jimi Hendrix. It’s affectionate and irreverent in equal measure, and Kennedy and his Orchestra of Life never sound less than riveting. Pretty much all Vivaldi’s notes are there; around, above and in between them come interjections, overlays and linking passages involving guest musicians from jazz and rock: Orphy Robinson, Damon Reece, Z-Star and others. Spring is welcomed in by a distant-sounding intro on an electric-guitar. Summer’s storms bring forth bursts of crazily sampled static. Autumn tears off at a cracking pace, but with a jazz trumpet sauntering lazily over the top. It all sounds like a colossal jam session from the inside of a Botticelli painting.
Nigel Kennedy - Inner Thoughts: Bruch, J.S. Bach, Brahms, Vivaldi, Elgar, Mendelssohn (2005)

Nigel Kennedy - Inner Thoughts (2005)
Max Bruch, J.S. Bach, Johannes Brahms, Antonio Vivaldi, Felix Mendelssohn, Edward Elgar

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 394 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 184 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # 0946 3 31049 2 1 | Time: 01:09:33

Medieval Baebes and other far greater shocks to the bourgeoisie have come along. Wild adventures placed under the rubric of performances of Vivaldi's Four Seasons are commonplace. Yet Nigel Kennedy continues to roost atop the classical sales charts in Europe, and even to command a decent following in the U.S. despite a low American tolerance for British eccentricity. How does he do it? He has kept reinventing himself successfully. Perhaps he's the classical world's version of Madonna: he's possessed of both unerring commercial instincts and with enough of a sense of style to be able to dress them up as forms of rebellion. Inner Thoughts is a collection of slow movements – inner movements of famous concertos from Bach and Vivaldi to Brahms, Bruch, and Elgar.

Nigel Kennedy, Berliner Philharmoniker - Vivaldi II (2005)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at March 15, 2024
Nigel Kennedy, Berliner Philharmoniker - Vivaldi II (2005)

Nigel Kennedy, Berliner Philharmoniker - Vivaldi II (2005)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 370 MB | 01:08:58
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics

Nigel Kennedy created a sensation with his pumped-up Vivaldi on The Four Seasons, and this second volume of concertos with the strings of the Berlin Philharmonic offers more of the same: slapdash tempi, outrageously loud dynamics, over-the-top techniques, a pugnacious basso continuo, hammered exchanges between soloist and orchestra, and an aggressive pop/rock sensibility that speaks more of this star violinist than of the composer.
Nigel Kennedy - Vivaldi: The New Four Seasons (2015) [Official Digital Download]

Nigel Kennedy - Vivaldi: The New Four Seasons (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Time - 61:07 minutes | 609 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Over twenty-five years ago, Nigel Kennedy made his breakthrough with his recording of Vivaldi s The Four Seasons. The 1989 recording earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records as the best-selling classical work of all time and has sold in excess of two million copies. Now, he returns with a new and fresh interpretation, Vivaldi: The New Four Seasons. Mixed by Damon Reece (Massive Attack, Goldfrapp), who also did the electronic drum programming, Kennedy deconstructs this classic piece in a daring, modern way.

Nigel Kennedy - Les Stars Du Classique (2010)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Nov. 25, 2018
Nigel Kennedy - Les Stars Du Classique (2010)

Nigel Kennedy - Les Stars Du Classique (2010)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 371 MB | MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) - 195 MB | 01:16:38
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics

As one of the most successful classical performers of his time, violinist Nigel Kennedy's genre-defying music helped him achieve a level of fame typically reserved for pop stars. A native of Brighton, England, he studied music at the Yehudi Menuhin School and at Juilliard; his debut recording, Elgar Violin Concerto, appeared in 1984, shortly followed by Nigel Kennedy Plays Jazz.

Nigel Kennedy - Uncensored (2021)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Nov. 7, 2021
Nigel Kennedy - Uncensored (2021)

Nigel Kennedy - Uncensored (2021)
FLAC tracks | 3:07:51 | 820 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Warner Classics

Nigel Kennedy is releasing his second book in autumn, titled Uncensored. This is not an autobiography, but a journey through Nigel Kennedy’s sixty-four seasons played home and away. It begins on a freezing balcony in Brighton before taking in the Yehudi Menuhin School and New York’s Julliard School (of Artistic Mediocrity), various concert halls and recording studios, police forces around the world, Aston Villa and classical music as redefined by Nigel. Here are Nigel’s thoughts on boxing, composing, Aston Villa, Vivaldi, violins and much more, all told in Nigel’s inimitable voice and idiosyncratic fashion.

Nigel Kennedy - The Early Years 1984-1989 [Box Set] (2019)  Music

Posted by JET 1 at March 27, 2021
Nigel Kennedy - The Early Years 1984-1989 [Box Set] (2019)

Nigel Kennedy - The Early Years 1984-1989 [Box Set] (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) +CUE, LOG | 1.44 GB | Scans
Genre: Classical | Label: Warner Classics | Catalog Number: 0190295355746

A 7CD collection tracing Nigel Kennedy’s journey from the phenomenal Elgar concerto with Vernon Handley in 1984 through to his ground-breaking Vivaldi Four Seasons with the English Chamber Orchestra in 1989 – the recording which launched him to global super-stardom. “If it wasn’t for a spiky-haired Nigel Kennedy’s 1989 recording of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons,” the Classic FM radio station told its website’s readers a few years back, “you and I might not be listening to Classic FM today”. The station had launched in 1992 with a mission to bring classical music to a wider public, three years after the runaway success of young violinist Nigel Kennedy’s Vivaldi album had revealed an untapped audience just waiting for the right invitation.

Nigel Kennedy - Nigel Kennedy's Greatest Hits (2002)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at March 24, 2018
Nigel Kennedy - Nigel Kennedy's Greatest Hits (2002)

Nigel Kennedy - Nigel Kennedy's Greatest Hits (2002)
MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) | Covers Included | 01:11:10 | 179 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI

Feelings run high about Nigel Kennedy, the bad boy of the violin (he's started using his first name again, if you hadn't heard). On the cover of this collection, he's pictured with red and blue paint on his unshaven face, biting the side of his violin for one reason or another. But Nigel Kennedy's Greatest Hits points to what has really always been the ironic thing about Kennedy – when it comes to the music, he's quite un-outrageous.

Nigel Kennedy - Classic Kennedy (1999)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at June 30, 2019
Nigel Kennedy - Classic Kennedy (1999)

Nigel Kennedy - Classic Kennedy (1999)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 414 MB | 01:19:25
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI

In Ms Minogue's garish book of weird and wonderful portraits of herself, Kylie, there is one which stands out: it is a simple and beautiful picture of a violin. It turns out that Kennedy has called his violin "Kylie", and so it was deemed worthy of a place in the book. This in-yer-face silliness could go either way, and translate into a trashy populist crossover approach to music–or be the mark of someone who genuinely wants to break down musical barriers and make waves.
Cho-Liang Lin & José Serebrier - Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (2001/2015) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

Cho-Liang Lin & José Serebrier - Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (2001/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time - 54:54 minutes | 1.93 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

Praised by Gramophone magazine as „an invigorating account of the Seasons“ when first released on Naxos CD 8.557920, Vivaldi’s universally popular Four Seasons, with their virtuoso part for solo violinist, depict the changing seasons in a pastoral landscape with dazzling variety. Vivaldi evokes not only the changing atmospheric conditions, but bird calls and animal cries, swaying grass, bubbling brooks, and even comical drunkards and a man walking on ice. Violinist Cho-Liang Lin, who has been compared with Gidon Kremer, Nigel Kennedy and Kyung-Wha Chung, and the virtuoso ensemble Sejong give ‘a durable and unmannered, yet bracing and continuously interesting version’ (Fanfare) of these immortal classics.