All Nigel-Kennedy articles – Page 2

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    Nigel Kennedy performs Summer from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons

    18 May 2014

    Nigel Kennedy performs Summer's third movement Presto from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons with the Polish Chamber Orchestra in 2005.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.

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    Violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley purchases 1732 Bergonzi once owned by Nigel Kennedy

    16 October 2013

    American violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley, leader of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, has purchased a 1732 violin by the Italian maker Carlo Bergonzi, a close associate of the workshops of Stradivari and Guarneri.The violinist spent over a year searching for a new instrument and tried out more than 50 violins ...

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    BBC to cut Nigel Kennedy 'apartheid' statement

    19 August 2013

    The BBC has confirmed it will remove a statement made last week by violinist Nigel Kennedy at a Proms concert for its TV broadcast on 23 August. The statement, made from the stage of the Royal Albert Hall, came at the end of a concert by Kennedy and ...

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    Nigel Kennedy's stolen Violectra violins turn up at auction house

    16 October 2012

    Three electric violins that were stolen from Nigel Kennedy's tour bus in Liverpool in 2005 are due to be returned to the violinist after turning up at an auction house in North Wales.The Violectra violins, two custom-finished in the claret and blue of Kennedy's beloved Aston Villa football club, and ...

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    Violinist Nigel Kennedy accuses period specialists of pushing Bach into a ghetto

    15 August 2011

    Nigel Kennedy has accused fellow performers of ghettoising Bach's music with soulless, 'so-called authentic' interpretations. In programme notes for his recent evening performance at the BBC Proms, he said he wanted to 'keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core'.Kennedy also ...

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    Tory MP Louise Mensch responds to allegations about incident with violinist Nigel Kennedy

    30 July 2011

    The Conservative MP Louise Mensch has said she probably took drugs with violinist Nigel Kennedy and danced with him while drunk at a nightclub when she worked at EMI.Mensch, who sits on the Commons culture committee and recently questioned News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch about phone-hacking at the News of ...

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    Sony signs violinist Nigel Kennedy

    26 June 2011

    Nigel Kennedy has signed an exclusive recording contract with Sony Classical. The violinist's first recordings for the label will include his new work Four Elements, arrangements of music by Duke Ellington, and a new interpretation of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. He will record all these works with his recently formed ...

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    Violinist Nigel Kennedy to score film of 1973 World Cup qualifier

    9 March 2010

    Violinist Nigel Kennedy will bring together his love of football and his skills at improvisation at London's Southbank Centre in May. Together with other musicians, he will play and partly improvise his own background score at a screening of the 1973 World Cup qualifier between England and Poland. The event ...