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...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 22, 2011 | Nuts and bolts
Apologies to Vftp fans who have been virtuously checking their Google Reader for new posts, only be to repeatedly disappointed. It has been a very busy few weeks, to say the least. Of course, during busy periods like this there always ends up being a tragic imbalance...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 24, 2011 | A view from the podium
“A unique personality whose fatal flaw lay in his uncompromising belief that music and art must be kept apart from politics, a conviction that transformed him into a tragic figure.” Publisher’s blurb for The Devil’s Music Master: The Controversial Life and...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 28, 2011 | Nuts and bolts
I’m in the midst of doing the bowings for a performance I’m conducting of Beethoven 9 in November. It’s been just over ten years since I last conducted the work- during that time I’ve conducted all of his other symphonies several times, and it feels long overdue for...
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