Nigel Kennedy - Walton: Violin Concerto & Viola Concerto (1987)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 56:52 | 246 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics | Catalog: CDC 7 49628 2
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 56:52 | 246 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics | Catalog: CDC 7 49628 2
Like his teacher Yehudi Menuhin before him, the artist formerly known as "Nige" proves to be an uncommonly dab performer on the viola. He certainly has the full measure of the 26-year-old Walton's astonishingly mature concerto (unquestionably the finest of the composer's three), penetrating to its bitter-sweet core with devastating emotional candour. Similarly, Kennedy's bitingly intense reading of the yearningly lyrical Violin Concerto earns the warmest plaudits in its characterful involvement and edge-of-seat spontaneity.