by Kenneth Woods | Jun 20, 2011 | A view from the podium, News and Reviews
Critic, blogger and Mahlerian Gavin Plumley has offered up a thoughtful review of the my new Orchestra of the Swan recording of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde and Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (as arranged by Schoenberg) at his excellent blog, Entartete...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 19, 2011 | Nuts and bolts
Vftp readers will know that Brahms’ First Symphony has been much on my mind the last few weeks. With our final performance behind us, now, I thought it might be fun to just go through the piece on a very simple, nuts and bolts level and explain some of my current...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 18, 2011 | A view from the podium
Conductor Foster Beyers is the newly appointed Director of Orchestras at Concodia College in Minnesota. He is currently completing his Doctorate degree at the University of Minnesota, where his dissertation is on the recorded history of Sibelius’ Symphony no. 7....
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 16, 2011 | Mahler, Nuts and bolts
There are few more contentious subjects amongst Mahlerians than the order of movements in the 6th Symphony. As part of the Performer’s Perspective series last year, I tried to explain what a big and fairly complicated question it is. More recently, as part of my...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 15, 2011 | News and Reviews
There is a quite substantial interview piece with me by Colin Anderson online at The Classical Review today. We talked about recording Gal and Schumann, why I’ve paired them for this project, as well as talking about about Vftp itself and the Mahler recording....
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