Prom 31: Nigel Kennedy – review

Royal Albert Hall, London"One composer – one performer" promised the Radio 3 announcer before Nigel Kennedy's late-night Bach recital, though a glance at the extra stools and instruments on the candlelit stage suggested something else was afoot.In the event, we got the transfixing Bach recital we hoped for, albeit – at 45 minutes – all too short. Then came what were, in effect, four jazz encores, Kennedy joined by three of his band partners, beginning with a riff around Bach's Air on a G s...

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