Nigel Kennedy looks out from the cover of his new recording ofthe Brahms Violin Concerto in D as if spoiling for a fight with theclassical establishment. With his scruffy beard and scarf around thehead, the violinist comes off as Nigel Rotten, out to tie irreverencerather than ribbons around the music people love.
For its part, the establishment gazes back at Kennedy with itsfists tied happily behind its back. When you sell more than amillion copies of Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" and send it up thecontemporary charts, as he did, and when you can play it with suchun-punkish beauty and command, you can look whatever you want to looklike. Heck, you can even play …
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