by Kenneth Woods | Dec 4, 2016 | A view from the podium
Poulenc’s frothy, frivolous and rather sexy ballet Les biches does not seem, at first glance, to be the sort of piece to make a hardened muso well up with emotion, but it had just that effect on me about a week ago as I listened to it for the first time in ages....
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 2, 2016 | News and Reviews
For the second year in a row, the English Symphony Orchestra and Artistic Director Kenneth Woods have received the Classical Music Magazine Premiere of the Year nod for the Midlands. Following on the 2015 selection of the premiere of Donald Fraser’s orchestration of...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 2, 2016 | Bobby and Hans, News and Reviews
We’re all very, very pleased and proud to see Sarah Beth Briggs’ wonderful AVIE Records recording of piano concerti by Mozart and Hans Gál get a Gramophone Magazine Critic’s Choice of 2016 from Guy Rickards in the year-end issue of the magazine....
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 28, 2016 | A view from the podium, News and Reviews
Joubert’s Jane Eyre is hauntingly intimate – review April Fredrick sang the title role in John Joubert’s Jane Eyre John Allison 27 OCTOBER 2016 • 1:43PM Christmas is coming, and choirs are getting ready to sing such perennially popular carols...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 3, 2016 | Not quite the news, Satire
Philip Sawyers – Violin Concerto, Trumpet Concerto, Valley of Vision, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Simon Desbruslais, ESO (Nimbus) Members of the Metropolis Symphony Orchestra reacted with public expressions of glee upon learning that their colleague, principal...
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