Nigel Kennedy - Uncensored - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco always remained faithful to a tonal musical language. He is mostly known today for his guitar works, but his output is much richer and more varied than is widely appreciated. Castelnuovo-Tedesco selected Heinrich Heine's more ironic poems in the three collections recorded here, adding light-hearted quotes from Schumann and Verdi in his cycle The Stories of Joseph. Also included are unpublished songs such as La canzone di Usigliano with it's references to Tuscan folk songs, and the Three Sonnets from the Portuguese, which reflect the romantic and dreamy character of texts by Elizabeth Barret Browning.

2010 album from the British violinist and his quintet. Shhh! Confirms the maverick status and omnivorous musical taste of one of Britain's finest and most unpredictable musicians. InchI am a natural improviser. I can't just always stand up and follow a score,Inch says Kennedy, the virtuoso violinist who has been ploughing his own furrow ever since as a 16 year old student he joined the jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli on stage at the Carnegie Hall - to the alarm of his classical teachers at the Juilliard School.

This album focuses on perfect melodies with the English Chamber Orchestra and the London Voices as well as a few instrumentalists here and there. This album is a must for violin music lovers everywhere.