Backed by The Orchestra Of Life, led by violinist Lizzie Ball, you could tell how passionate he was about his music, dancing around the stage and proving what a versatile musician he is.

In the first half he wore casual trousers, a football shirt and jacket and made a few jokes about how badly Nottingham Forest were playing at the moment.

Nigel then launched into his own creative and innovative composition called The Four Elements and blew me and the rest of the audience away.

Set in four movements he started with Air, which had an ethereal quality, and a Japanese feel to it, with vocals performed by Kakie Taylor-Black.

Next came the very funky Earth, with amazing soul sounds provided by Xantoné Blacq. The third piece, Water, featured the vocals of Lucy Potterton and the whisperings of Z-Star. In the music you could hear the water rushing by and the raindrops falling.

In Underture there were lots of animal noises and some frenzied playing from the musicians. As well as the violin and electric violin, Nigel also played the piano.

In the second half, Nigel treated us to his reworking of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, containing lots of the classical elements to the piece but featuring some crazy vocals, rock ‘n’ roll guitar playing by Doug Boyle, powerful jazz-infused trumpet playing by Tomasz Nowak, syncopated rhythms from keyboardist Piotr Wylezol, mesmerising marimba from Orphy Robinson and mind-blowing percussion from Damon Reece and Krzysztof Dziedzic.

The piece was hijacked when Nigel decided to talk to cellist Beata Urbanek-Kalinowska about Bach and they played two sonatas together. For his encores, Nigel played Van Morrison’s Moondance, a Scottish reel and a piece about the environment called Fallen Forest.

The cheeky chappie could almost be dubbed the Ken Dodd of classical music as he never really wanted to leave the stage. He finally gave in at 10.50pm but it was three hours of fantastic music — DAB.