by Kenneth Woods | May 26, 2017 | Explore the Score
Hans Gal (1890-1987) Concertino for Cello and Strings, opus 87 Hans Gál- Concertino for Cello and Strings, Solo Cello Works, Avie Records £12.00 Hans Gál was born in the small village of Brunn am Gebirge, just outside Vienna. He studied with some of the foremost...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 2, 2016 | A view from the podium, Explore the Score
For me, it was musical love at first sight. The first time I heard the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto was on a cassette tape. I loved it so much, I kept rewinding and replaying bits of the first movement (most often the big tutti at the end of the exposition- even then...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 7, 2016 | Explore the Score
The rediscovery and reevaluation of the music of Mieczyslaw Weinberg is surely one of the more positive stories in classical music in recent years. If this blog post piques your interest in Weinberg, do check out the podcast version of BBC Radio 3’s recent...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 25, 2014 | Explore the Score
Ensemble Epomeo- Penderecki, Kurtág, Schnittke and Weinberg String Trio’s £12.00 Alfred Schnittke’s String Trio, composed in 1985, was commissioned in celebration of Alban Berg’s centenary. Schnittke later arranged the work as a Piano Trio, and his...
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 30, 2014 | Explore the Score
‘This traumatic experience…was linked to his First Symphony… This symphony thus spans the years of his ripening, the summer of his life… At that time he developed a stoicism, an ability to suppress his feelings and to tame the chaos within him, just as he mastered the...
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