by Kenneth Woods | Jun 28, 2011 | A view from the podium, Performing Life
A little over a week ago, I conducted the last concert of my 2010-11 season. In most years, I would now just be charging ahead at full speed into summer festival season, but this year, after a couple of projects fell victim to the economy, I’ve decided to allow myself...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 24, 2011 | Mahler, News and Reviews
A new review of our new Orchestra of the Swan Mahler disc in the Birmingham Post by senior critic Christopher Morley. The Post doesn’t have CD reviews on their website, so the complete review is below. MAHLER: LIEDER EINES FAHRENDEN GESELLEN, DAS LIED...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 20, 2011 | A view from the podium, News and Reviews
Critic, blogger and Mahlerian Gavin Plumley has offered up a thoughtful review of the my new Orchestra of the Swan recording of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde and Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (as arranged by Schoenberg) at his excellent blog, Entartete...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 16, 2011 | Mahler, Nuts and bolts
There are few more contentious subjects amongst Mahlerians than the order of movements in the 6th Symphony. As part of the Performer’s Perspective series last year, I tried to explain what a big and fairly complicated question it is. More recently, as part of my...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 15, 2011 | News and Reviews
There is a quite substantial interview piece with me by Colin Anderson online at The Classical Review today. We talked about recording Gal and Schumann, why I’ve paired them for this project, as well as talking about about Vftp itself and the Mahler recording....
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