by Kenneth Woods | Apr 26, 2020 | A view from the podium
This article was originally written for the Catholic Herald Next time you are listening to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony or Mahler’s Second, imagine what it would have been like to be there for the first performance. Imagine the excitement of buying a ticket to...
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 24, 2020 | Explore the Score
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto had one of the longer gestations of any of his works. He first began sketching ideas for the piece in 1796, and did most of the main work on the piece in 1800,...
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 23, 2020 | A view from the podium
Re-blogged from the Colorado MahlerFest website. During the Mahler anniversaries of 2010-11, Norman Lebrecht published a book called Why Mahler? Now, as then, even the most fervent Mahlerian might well ask of any book on this subject, “Why Another Book About Mahler?”...
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 22, 2020 | A view from the podium, Explore the Score
This essay was written for the launch of the now hugely- disrupted English Symphony Orchestra celebrations of Beethoven’s 250th birthday ahead of wonderful performances of the 7th and 8th Symphonies in January and early February. I hope we’ll all be...
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 15, 2020 | A view from the podium, News and Reviews
In the absence of any forthcoming concerts, we did the best we could!...
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