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 | Sep 25, 2018 | Explore the Score
Book your tickets here for this fantastic programme with the English Symphony Orchestra in Hereford Shirehall, 7 October 2018 at 3:30 English Symphony Orchestra Kenneth Woods – Artistic Director Roman Kosyakov – Piano Programme Schumann – Symphony No. 4 Liszt –...
by Kenneth Woods | May 26, 2017 | Explore the Score
Hans Gal (1890-1987) Concertino for Cello and Strings, opus 87 Hans Gál- Concertino for Cello and Strings, Solo Cello Works, Avie Records £12.00 Hans Gál was born in the small village of Brunn am Gebirge, just outside Vienna. He studied with some of the foremost...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 28, 2017 | A view from the podium, Explore the Score
John Joubert’s musical language is original yet familiar, subtle yet direct. Firmly rooted in tonality, his harmonic vocabulary is highly sophisticated and personal, and he seems to have a particular knack for energising traditional harmonies through clashes,...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 2, 2016 | A view from the podium, Explore the Score
For me, it was musical love at first sight. The first time I heard the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto was on a cassette tape. I loved it so much, I kept rewinding and replaying bits of the first movement (most often the big tutti at the end of the exposition- even then...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 7, 2016 | Explore the Score
The rediscovery and reevaluation of the music of Mieczyslaw Weinberg is surely one of the more positive stories in classical music in recent years. If this blog post piques your interest in Weinberg, do check out the podcast version of BBC Radio 3’s recent...
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