http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/nigel-kennedy-the-new-four-seasons-tour-colston-hall-bristol-rev/

He looks very colorful!

The shirt he is wearing are the colours of the football team he supports in the UK, being Aston Villa.

He will not be pleased as they have been relegated from the UK Premier League.

Kelly

I have seen Vanessa Mae play, at an outdoors concert, although we were too far away to get a close up viewing, but thankfully the loud-speeker's were placed quite near to us, so we sure never missed out on the sound of her playing, she was brilliant of course....I havent seen Nigel Kennedy performing though...

Hi Jackie
Nigel Kennedy has been at the forefront regarding the violin for many years.  He trained at the Yehudi Menuhin School of music before going to the Royal Academy of Music and graduating at the age of twenty two.

Watching him in concert a couple of years ago on the BBC he was brilliant. 

Kelly

I envy you who have witnessed live performance by such artists as Nigel Kennedy and Vanessa Mae. Vanessa has stirred mild controversy with her avant-garde approach to the classics.  I think Nigel Kennedy is more of a rebel seeking the shock value of outrageous clothing and hair style which is reminiscent of the age in which he grew up.

For sure that I would enjoy N.Kennedy more on radio or C.D. than live where I would be distracted by his appearance.  I suppose I am old-fashioned?

There's a good example of the sacred and the profane with two contrasting works by Gounod and a seldom heard piano concerto by Rimsky-Korsakov. And for a little contrast there are some lively renaissance dances, and a delightful work from Mexico. James Bond has some representation as well.

MarsGal You can demonstrate your prowess with a translation of #15

Reid’s Records:   Programme   #1505 Apr 24/2016

1:   von Suppe: Pique Dame CDS9885
        EMI 5099950 (track 6)                         07:41   7:41

2:   Offenbach: Overture To A Grand Orchestra CDO3162
   MMG 10022 (track 2 )             08:33   16:14

3:   Mendelssohn:  Octet     M4.0533
   Argo  ZRG 569   (side 1, track  3)               04:30    20:44

4:     Sibelius: 2nd Symphony CDS6344
   Sony LSBK 53509 (track 1)                     09:37    30:21

5:     Nielsen: 2nd Symphony 1st mvmnt  CDN3756
        Naxos 8570738  (Track 8                    07:30   37:51

6:   Verdi:  Libiamo CDM6381
       Naxos 8553041  (Track 11)                         02:55   40:46

7:   John Barry: Her Majesty’s Secret Service
   Silva 1445 (track 17)            03:30   44:16

8:   Handel: Alexander’s Feast CDH2829
   Naxos 8572224 (track 9 & 14)         06:55   51:11

9:   Moncayo: Huapango M5.833 CDR227
   Radio Netherlands 8817 (Tr 1)         09:05   60:16

10:   Gounod: Saint Cecilia Mass (Credo)   G8.0132
        D.G. 139111 (side 1, cut 3)                     13:23   73:39

11:   Rimsky-Korsakov: Piano Concerto CDS5743
   Danacord 660 (tracks 4-5-6-7)         14:53   88:32

12:   Beethoven: Violin Concerto CDB4100
        EMI CDM-7690012 (track 2)                       10:23   98:55

13:   Tielman Susato: Renaissance Dances CDS2920
   Decca 478 3195 (tracks 21 to 26)      11:10   110:05

14:   Bach/Lipatti: Partita #1 CDB2231
        EMI CDC 7475172 (tracks 1-2-5)                   06:49   116:54

15:   Bruckner: Locus Iste A Deo Factus Est CD69
        Hyperion CDA 66062 (track 2)                     03:22    120:16

16:   Lehar: Medley from the operetta Paganini 
   CBC 1112 (track 1)            11:31   131:47

17:   Haydn: 100th Symphony CDH4088
        CBS MK42047   (track 1)                         07:35   138:49

18:   Davies:  Good Times  CDD1212
        Water Lily WLCD5995   (tracks 5 & 7)            13:21   152:10

19:   Gounod: Faust Ballet Music CDG8150
        EMI CDZ7625152 (tracks 15-16)                   06:36   158:46

Sunday afternoon 1:00 P.M.  D.S.T    -5 GMT (Canada)
http://tunein.com/radio/1069-The-X-s12279/

The Huapango is the name of a northeastern Mexican musical style developed from the fandango. It accompanies a lively dance popular around the Gulf of Mexico, or Huasteca region. It can be played by anything from a guitar duo to a full mariachi band, which may include trumpets and guitarrones. The name itself may mean ‘on a wooden stand’, as the huapango is danced on a platform.

http://wiki.youngcomposers.com/Huapango


I look forward to this one!

There is a saying, clothes do not maketh the man.

Regarding Nigel Kennedy, surely it has to be his talent.

The clothes he usually wears are the colours of his football team Aston Villia. Which is his way probably of showing his passion and how proud he is for the town he was born in.

Kelly

Good it is not garlic that he is fond of, or he would wear them braided on his head?   

Nothing wrong with being patriotic to your home town.

Kelly

Zubin Mehta is 80 years old. He is having three big performances in Israel, but today the Israeli philharmonic went with him to Mombay, his birth town and they played there a Beethoven with him directing.  We saw it on the local TV.  What a performance!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Deutscher

Have you ever hear of Alma?  There was a program on her on TV tonight. Stunning musician.

Kelly I think the saying of which you speak is "the clothes doth oft proclaim the man." which is the opposite in meaning to what you assert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxUI4DeoWGg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epshAHNiY9Q

Tanja Zhou and Alma Deutscher

Bubble she is a remarkable young lady; thanks for those posts.

Hi Radioman
I don't assert anything, not my place to.

Clothes do not make the man is an English proverb, or as it says, 'meaning you cannot judge a person solely by their clothes'.

Maybe a different slant on the meaning here!

Kelly

Bubble, all I can say about Alma is WOW.  Because I like both the piano and violin, I watched the video with the violin too.  She is remarkable.  Thanks for giving us the links.

Mary Ann

Hi Everyone
I heard Pumeza Matshikiza sing on the BBC at the 2014 opening of the Commonwealth Games And I think she has a super voice.

Kelly


https://youtu.be/J_vRv4XgXfE

That's a very interesting program for Sunday, some things I never heard of and some things I want to hear again, plus Lipatti, an icon.

I heard a good concert last Saturday--the San Francisco Symphony conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas.  Two pieces only--a very fine rendition of Schubert's unfinished symphony, and Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde.  I thought I'd heard the Mahler before, but I guess not.  It's symphonic, but mostly songs, based on Chinese poems, and very demanding on the singers.  The tenor, Australian Simon O'Neill, has a huge barrel chest, and he needed every ounce of power that gave him.  I think I'm beginning to appreciate Mahler a lot more.

IMHO Amira Willighagen, though much younger, seems to put more heart into her rendering of O Mio Babbino Caro.  Maybe I am biased for younger performers? 

PatH2 I am with you with Lipatti.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2UvDOGo3qI

He has such a sensitive fingering on the piano - what a pity he died so young.  I would have loved to see him play.

Thinking about it, there are many Romanian musicians who attain international fame, aren't they? Is that a question  of education, of sensitivity, or what? Pondering...

This is my kind of Classical

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbaNGU1CrXI

Interesting: it is the first time I have a clear view of those modern transparent electric instruments.
That is fun music too. Rieu enjoyed the playing around as well lol/

Natureboy, tune in on Sunday afternoon 1:00 P.M.  D.S.T    -5 GMT (Canada)


http://tunein.com/radio/1069-The-X-s12279/

as I think you might enjoy it too.

So many great pieces to listen to this morning.

NatureBoy, I like Bond but only ever got around to buying one CD. I haven't heard anything about them for a while. Now that I have my new SmartTV, I can bring up these YouTube offerings on the big screen and relax on my easy chair. Sigh! Ahhhhhhh!

Hi Natureboy
Did that group not take part in Britains Got Talent.

Lively music.

Kelly

They were on the proms apparently

Did you mean Last Night of the Proms as I never saw them.

Hi everybody!  5 minutes and counting

Present and accounted for.