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...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 13, 2019 | News and Reviews
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by Kenneth Woods | Jun 3, 2019 | Explore the Score
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847) Concerto in E minor for Violin and Orchestra, Opus 64 There were surely many Felix Mendelssohns, but perhaps the most singular of them is the figure described by Michael Steinberg as “the most astonishing of all the composing...
by Kenneth Woods | May 30, 2019 | Explore the Score, Nuts and bolts
Ken will be conducting Vaughan Williams Fifth Symphony with the English Symphony Orchestra at the 2019 Elgar Festival in Worcester Cathedral on Saturday the 1st of June, 2019. Details here. In 1952, when Vaughan Williams was asked to pick one of his symphonies for a...
by Kenneth Woods | May 30, 2019 | Headlines, Mahler, Music and Media, News and Reviews
Thanks to John Quinn from Seen and Heard International for this lovely and comprehensive review of last night’s epic Orchestra of the Swan concert with April Fredrick, soprano. Read the whole thing here. “The concert opened with one of Mozart’s...
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