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Nigel Kennedy: BBC is a pitiful and desperately politically correct institution
- Nigel Kennedy has branded the BBC a “pitiful and desperately politically correct institution” as he criticised their woke credentials.
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- LifestyleThe Guardian
Elgar: Violin Concerto; Violin Sonata review – sheer beauty and subtle playing
Elgar: Violin Concerto; Violin Sonata review – sheer beauty and subtle playingRenaud Capuçon/Stephen Hough/LSO/Simon Rattle (Warner Classics)Simon Rattle takes the concerto back to the 19th century and Renaud Capuçon’s partnership with Stephen Hough for the sonata is a meeting of equals More interventionist than many conductors … Simon Rattle. Photograph: Hiroyuki Ito/Getty Images
- EntertainmentEvening Standard
Nicola Benedetti — Elgar Violin Concerto review: Brings engaging personality and formidable technique
Tackling Elgar’s Violin Concerto, a mighty peak of the repertoire, takes courage.Rival versions include recordings by Nigel Kennedy and the youthful Yehudi Menuhin. But Nicola Benedetti is undaunted and brings her own engaging personality, as well as a formidable technique, to bear in a compelling account.
- EntertainmentThe Telegraph
Nigel Kennedy says record company 'jobsworths' drove him to withdraw from classical music
One of the world’s finest virtuoso violinists has hit out at record company executives who stifle creativity. Nigel Kennedy has revealed that “mental midgets” and “ignorant” jobsworths with little understanding of what it takes to play an instrument drove him to withdraw from the classical world for four years. He told the Sunday Telegraph that in the early 2000s, he found himself unable to work with EMI executives who were more interested in repeating previous successes than allowing artists th
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Nigel Kennedy pays tribute to cellist Lynn Harrell, who has died aged 76
Kennedy said he received encouragement from the cellist when he was in a period of 'self exile' from the music industry.
- LifestyleThe Guardian
Letter: Peter Boizot and the Original String Quartet
Peter Boizot, founder of Pizza Express. Photograph: Mike Floyd/ANL/Rex/Shutterstock
- SportFourFourTwo
The big interview: Nigel de Jong – I liked being the underdog at Man City. People only knew United, but we wanted to change that
Why is he called The Lawnmower? What was it like to be part of Manchester Citys transformation?And has he spoken to Xabi Alonso since the 2010 World Cup Final? Your questions answered in July 2018...
