Album: Nigel Kennedy, Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, 20th Anniversary Edition (EMI Classics) - Reviews - Classical - The Independent

Kennedy's Four Seasons is an album which transformed not just the interpretive breadth accorded Vivaldi, but the commercial potential of classical music as a whole. Repackaged along with a Golden Rose-winning film of Kennedy's performance, it remains strikingly fresh, with the sly, dive-bombing glissandi and fluttering-leaf trills which open the Adagio Molto second movement of the Autumn concerto still having the power to shock two decades on.

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