by Kenneth Woods | Nov 28, 2011 | A view from the podium
Has Classical Music anything to teach us about the current economic crisis? Why are people so disillusioned with contemporary living and its cultural norms? What can help us improve our quality of life? Peter Davison, Artistic Consultant to Manchester’s Bridgewater...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 26, 2011 | Bobby and Hans, Explore the Score, Haydn
(First time using “Explore the score?” Just click on the hyperlinks within the text to hear the musical excerpts.) “Here is something truly symphonic, a gesture worthy to introduce a great work…” Hans Gál, Schumann Orchestral Music “I sketched it at a time...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 25, 2011 | Bobby and Hans
As I’m busy preparing to record the second volume in our Orchestra of the Swan series of CDs pairing the Schumann and Gál symphonies, I thought it was high time I addressed some of the nuts and bolts reasons behind the pairing. I’ve talked quite a bit in interviews...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 23, 2011 | Bobby and Hans
There’s a review of Bobby and Hans vol. 1 in the September-October issue of American Record Guide. No discussion of the Schumann, but lots of discussion of Gal and the Third Symphony in particular. Available at the ARG website for subscribers. A sample follows:...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 22, 2011 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts
The metronome mark problem. If you’ve been reading the classical music press over the last month or so, you would swear up and down that the great Riccardo Chailly had personally discovered the metronome markings in the Beethoven symphonies. Not so! It turns...
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