Nigel Kennedy
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Nigel Kennedy: why I’m going on stage to play jazz with my ‘young cats’
Best-selling violinist who learned from Yehudi Menuhin and Stéphane Grappelli, reveals he has been mentoring budding musicians ahead of London residency
Nigel Kennedy review – banter, birdsong and violin heroics
Shifting gears between Bach, Hendrix and Ryuichi Sakamoto, Kennedy and his quartet perform a characteristically wide-ranging and virtuosic set
Classical musicians are ‘clone-like’ these days, says Nigel Kennedy
Renowned violinist applauds the technical proficiency of young players although he finds new teaching methods a ‘brain and heart turn-off’
Other lives
Don Mousseau obituaryOther lives: Manager of musicians, including the composer Michael Nyman and the violinist Nigel Kennedy
Nigel Kennedy on his Classic FM fight: ‘Hendrix is like Beethoven, Vivaldi is more Des O’Connor’
Fresh from a bust-up with ‘Jurassic FM’ over playing Hendrix, the violinist talks about musical snobbery, going on strike and his lifelong regret at turning Duke Ellington down
Why can’t Classic FM handle Jimi Hendrix?
Letters: The radio station’s rigid view of classical music is out of date, argues Meirion Bowen, while Frank Paice applauds Radio 3’s approach and Will Scott finds a link between the rock star and a musician from an earlier era
Violinist Nigel Kennedy cancels concert after Classic FM stops Hendrix tribute
Performer pulls Royal Albert Hall gig over decision he compared to musical segregation
Nigel Kennedy: Bach Meets Gershwin review – rip-roaring and exquisitely tender
The classical star is a mesmerisingly musical jazz lover
Classical ‘factory line’ takes the joy out of Beethoven and Brahms, says Nigel Kennedy
Lazy tutors are creating musical clones by putting too much emphasis on technique, says violinist
Nigel Kennedy; Oxford lieder festival; London Philharmonic Orchestra/ Vänskä – review
Nigel Kennedy and Georgi Andreev cook up a storm. Plus, Sibelius at his deepest and darkest
Brix Smith Start: ‘Mark E Smith? He’s complicated’
Ex-Fall guitarist Brix Smith Start survived wild marriages to Mark E Smith and Nigel Kennedy. And now she’s written her memoir…
Nigel Kennedy review – still fist bumping, still virtuosic
On a tour that revisits Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, the violinist is still a mass of contradictions, but his skill is intact and the sound compelling
Nigel Kennedy: The New Four Seasons CD review – affectionate and irreverent in equal measure
The violin world’s Marmite player and his orchestra never sound less than riveting as they overlay and interject Vivaldi with jazz and rock
The playlist
The playlist: jazz – Miles Davis, Gregory Porter, Laura Mvula and moreNigel Kennedy’s Hendrix Project review – hard-riffing accounts of timeless themes
2013 in review
Best portraits of 2013 – in picturesFrom artists to activists and politicians to personalities, a selection of the best portraits taken by Guardian photographers this year
Passing on the baton from the players to the conductor
Letters: Even with 20 players, such was the din that it was impossible to hear my own playing – and thus we had a conductor to tell us when to play, how fast, how loud
Saturday interview
Nigel Kennedy interview: 'Conductors are completely over-rated'From an early age, violinist Nigel Kennedy refused to play by the rules. He still managed to make the bestselling classical record of all time, and next week he plays the Last Night of the Proms
Penguin suit out, feather boa in: orchestra gets a Vivienne Westwood makeover
Extravagant designs replace 'boring and outdated' black for the London Contemporary Orchestra – but opinion is divided
Proms 30, 33 & 34 – review
Two star Proms turns were undoubtedly worth the wait, writes Fiona Maddocks
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