Kafka [Import]

Nigel Kennedy (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 9, 1997)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Angel Records
• ASIN: B000002SJM
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #325,832 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Autumn Regrets

2. I Believe In God

3. Transfigured Night

4. Melody In The Wind

5. From Adam To Eve

6. Fallen Forest

7. Innig

8. Soleil Levant Sur La Seine

9. New Road

10. Solitude

11. Breathing Stone

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If Hendrix played fiddle, February 9, 2001

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Syd Baumel (Winnipeg, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kafka (Audio CD)

This major genre hop by British classical violinist Nigel Kennedy appears to have trouble finding its audience. It seems that most of Kennedy's concert hall fans are not amused by his walk on the wild side, while most lovers of progressive fusion - which is what this marvelous album is - probably don't even know the record exists.

The compositions may not be Stravinsky or Elgar; but then even the best progressive music rarely is. What really makes this album an "event" is the innovative, jaw-dropping musicianship. Kennedy transforms his concert violin into an "axe"; he does for it what his hero Jimi Hendrix did for the electric guitar. He combines the virtuosity that has made him famous in the concert hall with a superlative command of electronic timbral shapeshifting and applies it to a highly varied set of compositions that mix rock with jazz with classical with East with West with . . . Importantly, Kennedy cooks. He rocks. He bites. He explodes. He cuts loose without a score as well as any rock or jazz musician, but with his own uniquely brilliant voice.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant music, February 14, 2008

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Frances Klopotic "Road Geek Book Freak" (Augusta, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kafka (Audio CD)

This album by Nigel Kennedy is brilliant. Full of diversity and vast in scope. A controversial figure he may be, but dull and boring he is not. Unclassifiable, "Kafka" has something for every type of music lover. I will be listening to this one for a long time to come.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning CD, April 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Kafka (Audio CD)

I can listen to Nigel Kennedy anytime. He makes the violin sing. This CD shows the versatility of this instrument and the talent of Nigel Kennedy.