LP reissue of Nigel Kennedy’s ground-breaking recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, including liner notes tracing this phenomenal success story.

Nigel Kennedy’s recording was released 25th September 1989 on vinyl, cassette and CD and went on to become one of the best-selling classical albums of all-time. Originally recorded in November 1986 in the Church of St John-at-Hackney, London, it was a recording that would achieve unprecedented public and media attention and change the course of music history.

Vivaldi’s work, 12 movements in short three-minute bursts, was tailor-made for commercial radio. It was the first time that commercial pop marketing techniques had been used in the classical world, and the first time that Nigel was unleashed on the media.