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Title: pathetic!
Review: Kennedy's fame is entirely beyond my comprehension. (I supposeit has something to do with clever marketing.) He is a sub-mediocreviolin player who 30 years ago would have had little chance of making a career beyond his home town. His approach to Tchaikovsky and Sibelius (like his approach to all other music I've ever heard him play) is sentimental, limp, bloodless, an unstructured morass. His tone is thin, his sense for rhythm nonexistent, his phrasing a mixture of gooey, scratchy and choppy. There is neither emotional nor intellectual honesty in his interpretations. He undermines the standards and accomplishments of the great ones before him: Szeryng, Heifetz, Milstein, Oistrakh, Kreisler, Huberman.
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