by Kenneth Woods | Jun 25, 2012 | Bobby and Hans, News and Reviews
A new review from Robert R Reilly in the June Crisis Magazine of several recent Hans Gál recordings, including Bobby and Hans vol. 1, which he describes as follows: Get your copy direct from Avie Download from iTunes “The Third Symphony, which opens with such a...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 25, 2012 | Nuts and bolts
Eighteen months ago in a program planning session, this sentence filled me with dread: “How about a clarinet concerto?” Don’t get me wrong- I love the clarinet as much as the next guy, but, in my experience, nobody ever really means “how about a clarinet concerto?”...
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 Original price was: £12.00.£9.00Current price is: £9.00....
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...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 3, 2012 | A view from the podium, Not quite the news, Satire
London- Eyebrows were raised across the sporting world today when anonymous sources within the Olympic organizing committee revealed that athletes in the 2012 Games have been told to mime their events to a pre-recorded result and commentary. In the case of the...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 2, 2012 | Bobby and Hans, News and Reviews
A new review for the Orchestra of the Swan’s recording of Hans Gal’s Fourth Symphony and Schumann’s Second from fellow Wisconsin native/cheesehead James R. Oestreich, in the June 3rd edition of the New York Times. Read the whole thing here. A short...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 2, 2012 | A view from the podium, Bobby and Hans, News and Reviews
A new review for the Orchestra of the Swan’s new recording of Hans Gal’s Fourth Symphony and Schumann’s Second from critic Colin Anderson, editor at Classical Source. Read the whole thing here. A short sample follows Click here to order from MDT...
by Kenneth Woods | May 27, 2012 | A view from the podium
Please give. Your donation is important. The Complete String Trios of Hans Gál and Hans Krása Ensemble Epomeo need your help to relase a very beautiful and important CD of the complete music for string trio by Hans Gál and Hans Krása, leading members of a gifted...
by Kenneth Woods | May 24, 2012 | cello, Nuts and bolts
Last month, my colleagues in Ensemble Epomeo and I had a chance to dust off our scores to Dmitri Sitkovetsky’s wonderful string trio arrangement of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Coming back to this most special of pieces was as inspiring, rewarding and humbling as ever,...
by Kenneth Woods | May 23, 2012 | Bobby and Hans, Explore the Score
“Whilst it may be a long road before the symphonies promoted by Kenneth Woods become regular concert fare (he can’t be everywhere !) the chances for this marvellous cello concerto to become part of “the repertoire” are far better, since...
by Kenneth Woods | May 22, 2012 | A view from the podium
Exciting news from my ancestral homeland. This Thursday, May 24, 2012, American Public Media’s “Performance Today” is going to broadcast the Orchestra of the Swan’s concert performance of Has Gál’s Fourth Symphony, recorded December 2011 in Stratford-upon-Avon....
by Kenneth Woods | May 14, 2012 | A view from the podium
Recent features in New York Magazine, the New York Times (additional video here), the Sydney Herald (in conversation with my former teacher, David Zinman) and a return of BBC2’s “Maestro” would all seem to be evidence of some kind of moment of curiosity about the true...
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