by Kenneth Woods | Dec 22, 2016 | A future for music, A view from the podium
From the January 2017 issue of Musical Opinion Magazine. My manifesto explaining the thinking behind the 21st C. Symphony Project. Subscribe to the magazine here. On 28 February, 2017, the English Symphony Orchestra will premiere the Third Symphony by...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 21, 2016 | A view from the podium, News and Reviews
I cannot recall the last concert I attended that included a Symphony by Haydn and one by Mozart, and also embracing an impressive recent English work. Kenneth Woods, the English Symphony Orchestra’s Artistic Director, has already revived what was a fairly moribund...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 5, 2016 | Headlines, News and Reviews
The Sunday Times has just announced their list of the “100 Best Records of the Year,” across all genres. We’re delighted to learn that our recording “Complete Piano Concertos of Ernst Krenek vol. 1” with pianist Mikhail Korzhev has made...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 4, 2016 | A view from the podium
Poulenc’s frothy, frivolous and rather sexy ballet Les biches does not seem, at first glance, to be the sort of piece to make a hardened muso well up with emotion, but it had just that effect on me about a week ago as I listened to it for the first time in ages....
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 2, 2016 | News and Reviews
For the second year in a row, the English Symphony Orchestra and Artistic Director Kenneth Woods have received the Classical Music Magazine Premiere of the Year nod for the Midlands. Following on the 2015 selection of the premiere of Donald Fraser’s orchestration of...
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