by Kenneth Woods | Aug 17, 2014 | A view from the podium, Explore the Score
Schoenberg- Verklärte Nacht, Brahms Serenade no. 1- Original Chamber Versions £12.00 [Click here to Explore the Score of the companion work on this CD, Schoenberg’s Verklarte Nacht] The Brahms-Wagner rivalry was largely an affair of the press, whipped up...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 12, 2014 | News and Reviews
A new review from Robert Matthew-Walker at Classical Source. Read the whole thing here Philip Sawyers- Symphony no. 2, Cello Concerto, Concertante for Violin, Piano and Strings £12.00 A short sample follows with regard to Sawyers’s...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 5, 2014 | A future for music, A view from the podium
We’ve been hearing for a few years about the death of blogs. Certainly, blogs are not dead. When I started Vftp I could find no other active conductor blogs- none. A number of wise heads warned me that conductors should keep quiet- the more you go on record with your...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 3, 2014 | News and Reviews
“Few, though, will have heard this nonet version of the Serenade, reconstructed by Alan Boustead in the 1980s, for strings, flute, two clarinets, bassoon and horn. In this live recording a slightly chubby ugly duckling in its orchestral format suddenly achieves...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 31, 2014 | A future for music
The music world has seen many well-deserved tributes over the last several weeks for the author, musicologist, composer and critic Malcolm MacDonald, who passed away recently after a long battle with cancer. I never had the good fortune to meet Malcolm (although we...
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