by Kenneth Woods | Jun 18, 2012 | A view from the podium
Hi everyone For some time now, the “categories” and “tags” here at VFTP have not been working at all. The crack technical team at Portland Internetworks are hard at work on the problem, and have got them working, but it seems they will only...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 18, 2012 | A view from the podium
Robert Saxton’s 1992 trumpet concerto, “Psalm- A Song of Ascents” must be one of the most intense 19 minutes in music history. Sale! PSALM- CONTEMPORARY BRITISH TRUMPET CONCERTOS £12.00 £9.00 Described, with charming self-deprecation, by its composer as “a...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 18, 2012 | A view from the podium
Re-blogged from the Ensemble Epomeo website ____________________________________________________________ ‘If I state that I was influenced by Schönberg, by that I wish to emphasize the fact that I am trying all the more to avoid the emptiness which is so...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 10, 2012 | Bobby and Hans, News and Reviews
We couldn’t be more excited aout the fact that Gramophone Magazine has selected the Orchestra of the Swan’s new recording Hans Gal’s Symphony no. 4 and Robert Schumann’s Symphony no. 2 as a “Gramophone Editor’s Choice” for the...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 8, 2012 | A view from the podium, Bobby and Hans, Explore the Score, Nuts and bolts
Klangfarbenmelodie, or “tone colour melody” is one of those 2 dollar words we all learned in undergraduate music history class. Simply described, in Klangfarbenmelodie, a single melodic line jumps from instrument to instrument, creating a more-or-less constantly...
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