Nigel Kennedy: My World

Nigel Kennedy (violin)

Nigel Kennedy is an international superstar in classical music.

He turns 60 on Dec 28th 2016!

His Vivaldi Four Seasons album released in 1989 is one of the best-selling albums in classical music history.

My Journey reveals a different side to Nigel Kennedy’s musical persona, in tuneful and immediately accessible compositions, all led by Kennedy’s incredible violin playing.

"MyWorld" Facts:

His first album of his own compositions - just in time for his 60th birthday – gives the most intimate insight into Nigel’s fascinatingly diverse musical life. In the cycle “Dedications” he pays tribute to his musical role models: to his teachers and mentors Yehudi Menuhin and Isaac Stern, the multi-genre violinist Stéphane Grappelli and Mark O’Connor, whom Kennedy rates as one of the most important violinists alive today. He also mentions jazz guitarist Jarosław Śmietana, whom Kennedy is close to as a result of his frequent visits to Cracow. The second half of the album is a moving and atmospheric suite Kennedy composed, entitled “Three Sisters”, based on Anton Chekhov’s play.

Nigel Kennedy and Neue Meister share a common vision: to make music that transcends all conventions. There could is no better way of launching a cooperation than with the MY WORLD album, which exclusively comprises Nigel’s own compositions.

1. Dedications: Dla Jarka (for Jarek Smietana)

2. Dedications: Melody in theWind (for Stephane Grappelli)

3. Dedications: Fallen Forest (for Isaac Stern)

4. Dedications: Gibb it (for Mark O’Connor)

5. Three Sisters: Intro - Tuzenbach - Solyony’s Prophecy - Masha’s Memory - Andrei Practising

6. Three Sisters: Vershinin’s Idealism - Irena

7. Three Sisters: Rode’s Pictures - Andrei’s Love - Vershinin’s View of Destiny - Solyony

8. Three Sisters: Olga - Solyony’s Possessiveness - Outro

9. Three Sisters: Link Acts 2 – 3 (Fire) - Chebutykin’s Despair - The Sisters’ Fate

10. Three Sisters: Link Acts 3 – 4

11. Three Sisters: Hymn

12. Three Sisters: Masha