by Kenneth Woods | Jun 24, 2010 | A view from the podium
As we celebrate the release of the new Gal CD, I’m hoping to use this blog to give readers a chance to get to know a little bit more about this fascinating musician and figure. I thought we might make a nice bridge from recent topics by starting with Mahler....
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 24, 2010 | A view from the podium
This Satuday evening I’m conducting a program that includes Berlioz’s Corsaire Overture, the Saint-Saens 3rd Violin Concerto and the Franck Symphony in D minor. It’s almost ten years to the day since I last conducted the Franck (that time around it was paired with the...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 23, 2010 | News and Reviews
Peter Grahame Woolf writing for Musical Pointers Han Gal: Violin Concerto, Violin Concertino & Triptych for Orchestra. Annette-Barbara Vogel, Northern Sinfonia / Kenneth Woods …….The two concertante works for violin from the ’30s, excellently...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 22, 2010 | News and Reviews
Orchestra of the Swan’s recording of Finzi and Copland Clarinet Concertos, the Finzi Romance for Strings and the 13 Instrument version of Appalachian Spring on Somm Records is Classic FM’s CD of the Week. Tune in on Saturday, June 26 to “The New CD...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 22, 2010 | A view from the podium, News and Reviews
Colin Anderson writing in today’s Classical Source- ….There is something deceptive about Hans Gál’s music, the work of the long-lived (1890-1987), from Vienna to Edinburgh composer, whose output has been so well served by Avie. Gál’s other violin concerto,...
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