by Kenneth Woods | Feb 22, 2010 | Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective, Nuts and bolts
The Bridgewater Hall- Mahler in Manchester The Halle and their music director, Sir Mark Elder, will be performing Mahler’s Symphony no. 5 on Thursday, the 4th of March at 7:30 PM in the Bridgewater Hall. Also on the programme is the premiere of Uri Caine’s Scenes from...
by Kenneth Woods | Feb 21, 2010 | Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective
Well, Hans Rott seems to be in the zeitgeist this week. My old school mate, Tom Consolo, has written a brilliant piece for Music in Cincinnati describing the events leading up to the first performances of the Rott Symphony in E in Cincinnati and Paris in 1989. The...
by Kenneth Woods | Feb 19, 2010 | Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective, Nuts and bolts
The Scherzo is a damnable movement. It will have a long history of suffering! Conductors will take it too fast for fifty years, and audiences—Oh heavens—what sort of faces will they pull at this chaos…..” (Gustav Mahler, speaking of his 5th Symphony...
by Kenneth Woods | Feb 17, 2010 | Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective
Hi readers- Peter Davison and I have continued to chat about the meaning of the Rott references in Mahler 3, which were further spurred along my the question of sin raised in my Mahler 4 post. He’s made some more very interesting discoveries, especially about the...
by Kenneth Woods | Feb 16, 2010 | Explore the Score, Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective
Gustav Mahler is the composer of contradictions and paradoxes. He is the composer of ambiguities, contrasts, complexities and cognitive dissonance. Nothing could make this truth more evident than the move from the 3rd Symphony to the 4th. * The reasons...
by Kenneth Woods | Feb 12, 2010 | Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective, Nuts and bolts
The Bridgewater Hall- Mahler in Manchester Shortly after I posted my most recent Mahler essay, I had a comment from Mahlerian and sometime Vftp contributor, Mitch Friedfeld, who suggested I might have overlooked something- There’s another instance of a Mahler-Brahms...
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