by Kenneth Woods | Apr 9, 2014 | A view from the podium, Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective
A few years ago, Julian Johnson’s excellent book “Mahler’s Voices” had been languishing on various bookshelves here in an embarrassingly half-read state. Eventually, with a performance of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony on the horizon, I began skimming through...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 12, 2013 | Mahler, Music and Media, Nuts and bolts
I’ve just turned in notes for an upcoming CD on ICA Classics commemorating the 50th anniversary of the passing of Hans Rosbaud, one of the most interesting of 20th C. conductors. That disc of works by Sibelius and Debussy is due out in the early Fall, and is...
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 16, 2012 | Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective, Not quite the news, Satire
The Home Office is launching a new “Mahler Licensing Scheme” from 2013, it was announced on Tuesday in Downing Street. “If the tragic events of 2010-11 taught us anything” Prime Minister David Cameron said in a joint press conference with Home Secretary Teresa May and...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 29, 2011 | Mahler, News and Reviews
In the October 2011 issue of Gramophone Magazine, one can now find the first review to directly compare the Orchestra of the Swan recording of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde and Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with the new recording by Manchester Camerata and Douglas...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 28, 2011 | Mahler, News and Reviews
There is a review from critic David Patmore in the current issue of Classical Recordings Quarterly of the new Orchestra of the Swan recording of Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen and Das Lied von der Erde on Somm Recordings. The complete review is...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 19, 2011 | Mahler, News and Reviews
A new review at the Classical Source from Peter Reed of the new Orchestra of the Swan recording of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde and Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen on Somm. Read the whole thing here. A short sample follows: …The three singers are...
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