by Kenneth Woods | Sep 9, 2014 | A view from the podium, Explore the Score
Dmitri Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony opus 110a, an arrangement for string orchestra of his String Quartet no. 8 in C minor, opus 110, was the first of five orchestral transcriptions of his string quartets by his friend, the violist and conductor Rudolf...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 15, 2012 | Explore the Score
Welcome to a special edition of Explore the Score. I’ve told friends for years that some day I wanted to write a book about Shostakovich 5. Here’s the short version. Dmitri Shostakovich- Symphony no. 5 in D minor opus 47 Genesis...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 14, 2010 | A view from the podium
(The ghosts of Leningrad, now St Petersberg, as captured by the great Alexey Titarenko I think it is fair to say that a great composer never wastes an idea- be it a musical motive or a technical concept. Everything is explored and developed. We all know that the...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 13, 2010 | A view from the podium
(The ghosts of Leningrad, now St Petersberg, as captured by the great Alexey Titarenko) By this point in my life, the vast majority of works I’m conducting are ones I’ve already been thinking about for a long time, and already have very strong convictions about....
by Kenneth Woods | Feb 17, 2010 | A view from the podium
(The ghosts of Leningrad, now St Petersberg, as captured by the great Alexey Titarenko) For all that readers are seeing a lot about Gustav Mahler on these pages, the work on my desk right now is Dmitri Shostakovich’s 7th Symphony, which I am conducting next week. I...
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