Nigel Kennedy Plays Vivaldi

Don’t miss – Nigel Kennedy, the great violinist Yehudi Menuhin’s one of the favorite students, the Violin “Grammy” owner: Gramophone Record of the Year, will appear in front of his many dedicated fans for the first time in many years in his best magical incarnation – playing the great composer Antonio Vivaldi accompanied with string orchestra. And of course, one of the concert’s parts will be dedicated to the “Four Seasons” – a masterpiece of

Italian composer. The musical world was in shock after Nigel Kennedy performed it in his imitable manner and that placed the musician on top of the violin art and brought him fame as the most popular and the most widely sold violinist of our time for sales of 3.5 million copies of Vivaldi’s Violin Concerto.

Kennedy is the most extraordinary owner of rare violins, one of which was created in 1736 by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu, and the other was established in 1732 by the great violin master Carlo Bergonzi of Cremona. For an outstanding ownership of these rare instruments Kennedy was given the prestigious Brit Award twice. His albums, The Violin Concerto by Tchaikovsky, Violin and Viola concert by Walton, Violin Concerto and Symphony №5 ин Sibelius as well as violin concertos by Mendelssohn and Bruch performed on the antique instruments became “golden” and set high standards for violin art.

Kennedy’s first album of Vivaldi’s compositions “4 Seasons” is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the most selling classical album of all time. For two years in a row the album headed the British classical charts. The second album of Vivaldi music was recorded in cooperation with Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and won the German Echo Award for Best Performance of 18th Century classics, as well as dignified Amadeus Prize and Austrian Classical Award.

For a long timeAfter Kennedy had reached the top in classical form of art, the violinist started instrumental experiments in different musical genres from jazz to rock ‘n’ roll – those variations were performed for the guests of Kennedy’s recent (and the only one, so far) Vivaldi tour in Russia and Estonia.

The warm welcome, received from an audience, that by prejudice, was considered to be unable to perceive improvisations, made the musician to grant a truly magnificent gift – Nigel Kennedy decided to come back in just a year, right after his concert at the Royal Albert Hall in August- 2013, to play Vivaldi’s Concerto and the best of his unique music collection, that made the world to fall in love with!

Do not miss the benchmark sound of the great maestro!

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