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Nigel Kennedy - Vivaldi: The New Four Seasons (2014)

Posted By: Designol

Date: 4 Oct 2022 18:19:14

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.

Review by Erica Jeal, The Guardian

When you see someone called Z-Star among the guest artists, it's a fair bet that you're not getting a conventional recording of Vivaldi's Four Seasons violin concertos. And sure enough, bad-boy violinist Nigel Kennedy and his Orchestra of Life use the score as a starting point for various kinds of embroidery. There are beats, long solo interjections, abrupt tempo shifts, electronics, rock guitars, and samples of various kinds of outdoor sounds, some of them quite loud, and so on. How you'll feel about this may well depend on your stance toward The Nige in the first place, but give this a chance either way: several things make it work better than you might guess. One is fidelity to Vivaldi's spirit, if not to his notes: Kennedy reproduces (in English) the sonnets, perhaps by Vivaldi himself, that accompanied the original score, and his sound effects generally correspond to the scenes in the poetry. Second, Kennedy has perhaps never played better than he does here, slashing through his various heavy accompaniments with brilliance and speed. And finally, there's an X factor here that's due to a certain break-on-through-to-the-other-side quality. The performance is not just loud and brash but focused and intense as well. In all, you may be left with the impression that if Liszt had known Vivaldi's music and had had access to modern popular forms and technologies, he might have come up with something like this. Even if not, it's a wild, wild ride.

Review by James Manheim, Allmusic.com

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Members of the Orchestra of Life

Tracklist:

Spring

01. Melodious Incantation (Allegro) (03:46)
02. Transitoire # (02:24)
03. The Goatherd Sleeps With His Trusty Dog Beside Him (Largo E Pianissimo Sempre) (02:17)
04. Transitoire ## (01:02)
05. Nymphs And Shepherds Dance (Allegro) (05:07)

Summer

06. Destiny (Allegro Con Molto) (05:17)
07. Transitoire # (01:34)
08. Fear (Adagio) (03:26)
09. Transitoire ## (00:48)
10. His Fears Are Only Too True (Presto) (03:01)

Autumn

11. The Peasant Celebrates the Rich Harvest (Allegro) (05:16)
12. Transitoire # (01:38)
13. Pleasure of Sweetest Slumber (Adagio) (02:53)
14. Transitoire ## (06:30)
15. Horns, Guns, and Dogs (Allegro) (04:18)

Winter

16. Prolitoire # (01:19)
17. To Shiver, Frozen (Allegro Con Molto) (03:10)
18. The Rain Outside (Largo) (01:48)
19. Transitoire # (01:12)
20. Walk on the Ice (Allegro) (03:38)
21. The End (00:45)

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