by Kenneth Woods | Nov 25, 2011 | Bobby and Hans
As I’m busy preparing to record the second volume in our Orchestra of the Swan series of CDs pairing the Schumann and Gál symphonies, I thought it was high time I addressed some of the nuts and bolts reasons behind the pairing. I’ve talked quite a bit in interviews...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 23, 2011 | Bobby and Hans
There’s a review of Bobby and Hans vol. 1 in the September-October issue of American Record Guide. No discussion of the Schumann, but lots of discussion of Gal and the Third Symphony in particular. Available at the ARG website for subscribers. A sample follows:...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 22, 2011 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts
The metronome mark problem. If you’ve been reading the classical music press over the last month or so, you would swear up and down that the great Riccardo Chailly had personally discovered the metronome markings in the Beethoven symphonies. Not so! It turns...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 22, 2011 | Nuts and bolts
Apologies to Vftp fans who have been virtuously checking their Google Reader for new posts, only be to repeatedly disappointed. It has been a very busy few weeks, to say the least. Of course, during busy periods like this there always ends up being a tragic imbalance...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 24, 2011 | A view from the podium
“A unique personality whose fatal flaw lay in his uncompromising belief that music and art must be kept apart from politics, a conviction that transformed him into a tragic figure.” Publisher’s blurb for The Devil’s Music Master: The Controversial Life and...
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