by Kenneth Woods | Apr 3, 2018 | Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective
Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde is a work that ends with the beginning of a journey. Across the first five movements, and through much of the sixth, the narrative voices we hear are passive ones. In the third and fourth songs, the poetry of Li T’ai-po...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 30, 2018 | Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective
I’m conducting an incredibly cool programme next week with my friends in the English Symphony Orchestra on the 10th of February in Worcester’s lovely Huntingdon Hall. We’re doing Erwin Stein’s magical chamber version of Mahler’s...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 2, 2018 | A future for music
If nothing else, 2017 tested one’s ability to live by rule that one doesn’t speak about politics or religion in polite company. I’ve struggled to come up with some New Year’s thoughts this year because, frankly, it feels a little absurd to be talking about...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 2, 2018 | A view from the podium
“What an astonishing year for British symphonies on disc… Philip Sawyers‘s classically structured Third, however, out-compels its rivals in sweep, scope and and the ESO’s gripping performance” Congrats to April Fredrick, soprano, and producer Simon Fox-Gal, but...
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