by Kenneth Woods | Nov 1, 2010 | News and Reviews
Robert C Reilly at the Catholic News Agency dedicates a good chunk of his monthly column for October to the music of Hans Gal: “Austrian Jewish composer Hans Gál fled the Nazis in 1938 and eventually moved to Scotland, where he died at the ripe old age of 97. I...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 26, 2010 | News and Reviews
The November/December issue of International Record Review features a 2 full-page feature on recent recordings of the music of Hans Gal, headlined by a review of our new recording of Triptych and the violin concerti. Martin Anderson is the reviewer. “At last a...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 18, 2010 | News and Reviews
From the November/December 2010 issue of Fanfare Magazine- entire article available for Fanfare subcribers. Excerpt below: CD Review by Barry Brenesal GÁL Violin Concerto. Triptych. Concertino for Violin and String Orchestra • Kenneth Woods, cond; Annette-Barbara...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 6, 2010 | News and Reviews
From MusicWeb International, published October 5, 2010 ….TheViolin Concerto comes from the period 1931-2 when Gál was at his most successful in Germany. It is in many ways quite an untroubled work. Throughout it I kept pinching myself that this was not a British...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 19, 2010 | News and Reviews
Classic FM, October 2010 issue Gál Violin Concerto, Triptych, Concertino for Violin and Strings Annette-Barbara Vogel, Northern Sinfonia/Kenneth Woods ***** (Five stars) One of a generation of native-born refugees from Nazi-dominated Austria in the 1930’s, Hans Gál...
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