by Kenneth Woods | Apr 1, 2019 | Not quite the news, Satire
A newly-released Critical Edition of Mahler’s First Symphony reveals that the composer made major changes to the work following its final performances in New York in 1910 and that musicians, for the last 100+ years, have been playing the work completely wrong. Newly...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 28, 2019 | A view from the podium, Mahler
Tuesday 2 April at 7:30 Orchestra of the Swan Stratford Playhouse David Matthews Winter Remembered Mahler Symphony No.10 (mvt 1 arr for strings) Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K.546 Britten Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge Kenneth Woods conductor Carmen...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 25, 2018 | Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective
One hundred years from the day of his birth, Leonard Bernstein remains for many music lovers a marmite musician. Reactions to his work as composer, conductor and pianist remain both strong and strongly divided. No part of his legacy remains more controversial than his...
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 3, 2018 | Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective
Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde is a work that ends with the beginning of a journey. Across the first five movements, and through much of the sixth, the narrative voices we hear are passive ones. In the third and fourth songs, the poetry of Li T’ai-po...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 30, 2018 | Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective
I’m conducting an incredibly cool programme next week with my friends in the English Symphony Orchestra on the 10th of February in Worcester’s lovely Huntingdon Hall. We’re doing Erwin Stein’s magical chamber version of Mahler’s...
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