by Kenneth Woods | Jul 9, 2014 | 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- Brahms’s Serenade No. 1 in D major, Original Version for Nonet) The Brahms-Wagner rivalry was...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 1, 2014 | A view from the podium, Bobby and Hans, Explore the Score, Nuts and bolts
‘When his time to reach for the stars had arrived, Schumann’s personal language was fully formed, and just as the subtlety of his piano style had been an immense asset for the songwriter, so the expressiveness of his vocal melody was a bridge to the ‘voices of men and...
by Kenneth Woods | May 4, 2014 | A view from the podium, Explore the Score
Gál: Symphony No.2 in F Op.53 ‘The personal experience which is always expressed in music is very deeply buried in one’s own consciousness. One doesn’t know. One never knows.’ Hans Gál Hans Gál was born in 1890 just outside Vienna, where he studied with Richard Robert...
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 30, 2014 | Explore the Score
‘This traumatic experience…was linked to his First Symphony… This symphony thus spans the years of his ripening, the summer of his life… At that time he developed a stoicism, an ability to suppress his feelings and to tame the chaos within him, just as he mastered the...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 12, 2013 | A view from the podium, Explore the Score
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky seemed to be singularly unlucky in choosing the dedicatees of his great concertante works. He wrote his evergreen Variations on a Rococo Theme for the cellist William Fitzenhagen. As always, Tchaikovsky invited Fitzenhagen to suggest...
by Kenneth Woods | May 8, 2013 | Explore the Score
“It has always been known that the greatest pianoforte players were also the greatest composers; but how did they play? Not like the pianists of today who prance up and down the keyboard with passages in which they have exercised themselves—what does that mean?...
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