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Nigel Kennedy - Walton: Violin Concerto & Viola Concerto (1987)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at March 15, 2024
Nigel Kennedy - Walton: Violin Concerto & Viola Concerto (1987)

Nigel Kennedy - Walton: Violin Concerto & Viola Concerto (1987)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 56:52 | 246 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics | Catalog: CDC 7 49628 2

Like his teacher Yehudi Menuhin before him, the artist formerly known as "Nige" proves to be an uncommonly dab performer on the viola. He certainly has the full measure of the 26-year-old Walton's astonishingly mature concerto (unquestionably the finest of the composer's three), penetrating to its bitter-sweet core with devastating emotional candour. Similarly, Kennedy's bitingly intense reading of the yearningly lyrical Violin Concerto earns the warmest plaudits in its characterful involvement and edge-of-seat spontaneity.

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.
Tenebrae & Nigel Short - In Winter's House: Christmas with Tenebrae (2022)

Tenebrae & Nigel Short - In Winter's House: Christmas with Tenebrae (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 245 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 180 Mb | 01:18:28
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Signum Classics

Setting the scene for Christmas in an uplifting and inspiring programme of seasonal favourites. "Unaccompanied choral singing comes no better than this - in blend, accuracy, precision and commitment…" (The Guardian)
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.

Iestyn Morris & Nigel Foster - Romances (2023)  Music

Posted by delpotro at April 8, 2023
Iestyn Morris & Nigel Foster - Romances (2023)

Iestyn Morris & Nigel Foster - Romances (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 221 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 145 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:02:25
Classical, Vocal | Label: Qaurtz Music

The Romances presented here, are borne out of intense national internal debate, between Western modernity and Eastern nationalism. It is a story of immense personalities, pioneers, revolutionaries, virtuoso pianists, lesser-known heroes and sumptuous revealing poetry that is as relevant today as it was over a century ago. Thanks to the level of fame achieved by their ballets, symphonies and operas, a wide range of composers of Russian origin, who lived between the time of Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev have become household names, which has established them a permanent place in opera houses and concert halls throughout the world. However, often overlooked in the West, is the extraordinary contribution that composers in this period made to the world of song. They did nothing short of giving the Russian language a standing in the international musical landscape, by establishing a new canon of Art Song, the Romance.

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.

Monika Mauch, Nigel North - Musical Banquet (2008)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Aug. 17, 2023
Monika Mauch, Nigel North - Musical Banquet (2008)

Monika Mauch, Nigel North - Musical Banquet (2008)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 314 MB | MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) - 187 MB | 01:12:42
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: ECM New Series

Various vocalists and lutenists specializing in the late Renaissance have constructed artificial tours of the European continent, but soprano Monika Mauch and lutenist Nigel North rely here on an original source to do the same thing. They emerge with a superior product in every way. The original source in question is the book whose cover text is reproduced on the back cover of the CD box: Robert Dowland's A Musical Banquet, published in London in 1610. Robert Dowland was John Dowland's son, and he had a lot of help in this enterprise from his famous father.

Nigel North - John Dowland: Complete Lute Music (2009)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Jan. 18, 2023
Nigel North - John Dowland: Complete Lute Music (2009)

Nigel North - John Dowland: Complete Lute Music (2009)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 04:17:20 | 1,23 Gb
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | Catalog: 8.504016

Naxos has collected its four volume traversal of the lute music into a handy slipcase. All the volumes are available singly, but you can also buy the four together as a quartet of excellence, presided over by Nigel North, the acknowledged hero of the hour. What follows is a reprise of two volumes already reviewed - volumes 1 and 3 - and a look at volumes 2 and 4.
Nigel North - J.S. Bach: Complete Lute Works & Other Transcriptions (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Nigel North - J.S. Bach: Complete Lute Works & Other Transcriptions (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 148:17 minutes | 2,81 GB
Classical | Label: Deux-Elles Recordings, Official Digital Download

Nigel North is one of the finest lute players in our midst today, and his legendary four-CD set, ‘Bach on the Lute’ (Linn records 1994 to 1996) remains unsurpassed in its technical and musical brilliance. Now, he completes his journey with a double CD combining Bach's original 'lute works' (more likely written for Lautenwerck, or luteharpsichord), with North's own lute transcriptions of Bach's music for flute, organ, and more. This is an exquisite recording, full of space and intimacy, which makes you feel as though it is being played just for you. A must-have.
Nigel North - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Lute Works & Other Transcriptions (2023)

Nigel North - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Lute Works & Other Transcriptions (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 683 Mb | Total time: 02:28:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deux-Elles | # DXL1194 | Recorded: 2022

Nigel North is one of the finest lute players in our midst today, and his legendary four-CD set, ‘Bach on the Lute’ (Linn records 1994 to 1996) remains unsurpassed in its technical and musical brilliance. Now, he completes his journey with a double CD combining Bach's original 'lute works' (more likely written for Lautenwerck, or luteharpsichord), with North's own lute transcriptions of Bach's music for flute, organ, and more. This is an exquisite recording, full of space and intimacy, which makes you feel as though it is being played just for you. A must-have.