by Kenneth Woods | Jan 28, 2026 | Mahler, News and Reviews
Re-blogged from BachTrack UK English Symphony Orchestra brings total transparency to Strauss and Mahler By Simon Cummings, 03 December 2025 It’s a courageous move to take a great work from the Romantic canon, composed by a consummate master of orchestration, and...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 28, 2026 | Mahler, News and Reviews
Re-blogged from Critics Circl by Guy Rickards | Nov 28, 2024 | Music | 0 comments (photo (c) Suzi Corker) Joanne Chiang, Owen Gunnell, percussion (Zhenyan Li) Yvonne Howard, Satriya Krisna, City of London Sinfonia / Kenneth Woods (Mahler) Sinfonia Smith’s Square,...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 8, 2024 | A view from the podium, Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective, Nuts and bolts, Performing Life
What follows is an essay about my new Performing Version of Mahler’s arrangement of Schubert’s Death and the Maiden String Quartet, premiered at Colorado MahlerFest in 2024. Schubert, Franz arr. Mahler/Woods – String Quartet in D minor (Der Tod und...
by Kenneth Woods | May 3, 2022 | Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective
It’s that time of year again, when we can feel the rapid approach of Colorado MahlerFest. Here are some of my thoughts about this year’s festival. The committed Mahlerians in our audience this week will already know that Mahler toyed with the idea of a...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 28, 2020 | Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective
This article (from 2016, but circulating this week online) is simply not on. The Neurotic Genius – Inside Mahler’s Mind by Alicia Watson Not at all. The author (a therapist) says “”neurotic” has been clinically retired,” and I wish she...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 13, 2020 | Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective
As a young musician for whom the music of Mahler was the most remarkable and unexpected discovery, I never thought that performances of his music would become so frequent and routine that music industry colleagues would begin to speak of “Mahler fatigue.” Although the...
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