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 Shostakovich’s Fifth...
by Kenneth Woods | May 21, 2010 | Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective
The Bridgewater Hall- Mahler in Manchester In American football, coaches learn that when a play is working for you, go keep going to it until the other team figures out a way to stop it. In this spirit, I’ve asked Peter Davison, whose previous contributions to...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 14, 2010 | A view from the podium, Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective, Nuts and bolts
The Bridgewater Hall- Mahler in Manchester Mahler in Manchester begins this weekend, as Gianandrea Noseda leads the BBC Philharmonic in Mahler’s 1st Symphony. The performance takes place at 7:30 PM on the 16th of January, 2010 in The Bridgewater Hall I promised, or at...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 13, 2010 | Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective
Even today, the First probably remains Mahler’s most popular piece- a generation ago, it was probably his only popular piece. How times have changed. It was the first Mahler work I encountered as a young cellist, and it made quite an impression on me. A...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 12, 2010 | Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective, Nuts and bolts
“Is Mahler’s music more difficult to conduct than that of other composers?” When I was asked this question just the other day it was by no means for the first time. It is not hard to understand why a listener might suspect that Mahler’s music is harder to conduct than...
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