Jubilee String Quartet Tereza Privratska (violin):
Recently I re-listened to Nigel Kennedy’s 1992 take on Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. I heard him playing it live in 2008 in Prague and I remember being fascinated but also overwhelmed – as a student, I almost couldn’t process all that was happening on stage. Now I can finally put words to it. This playing is just so fresh! It all makes so much sense and I feel refreshed by the broken convention – no prejudicial approach to music, yet respecting all that needs to be respected.
It is possibly due to my obsession with that I was initially attracted to the recording of his Sonatas for four hands, K521 & K497 by pianists Ferenc Rados and Kirill Gerstein, but ever since I heard the exhilarating first arpeggios of the C Major Sonata, it has been in my player. Through their uncomplicated playing, Gerstein and Rados make Mozart’s music
