by Kenneth Woods | Jul 25, 2019 | A view from the podium
Recorded LIVE at Cadogan Hall, 9 June, 2019 English Symphony Orchestra Kenneth Woods – conductor “Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony also received one of the best performances I have heard live. Woods’s fine and sane musicality ensured...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 21, 2019 | News and Reviews
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by Kenneth Woods | Jul 10, 2019 | News and Reviews
From the Summer 2019 issue of Musical Opinion Quarterly, a new five-star review from Guy Rickards: There are a number of orchestrations of Brahms piano or chamber works, most notably (perhaps) Rubbra’s of the Handel Variations, Op 24, made in 1938, and Schoenberg’s of...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 25, 2019 | A view from the podium, Not quite the news, Satire
Just ten months ago, the City of Manchester Ensemble was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. Ticket sales were dropping faster than Boris Johnson’s pants at a Royal Ascot after-party, and the orchestra was haemorrhaging money at an alarming rate. It looked like their...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 17, 2019 | Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective
Here’s a bit of music history I didn’t know I had. Gerhard Samuel, who gave the first performance of Hans Rott’s Symphony Symphony in E, repeated the work for his final concerts before retiring from the podium as conductor of the Cincinnati...
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