by Kenneth Woods | Apr 15, 2018 | A view from the podium
Thurs April 19th at 730 PM St John’s Smith Square CONDUCTOR Ives- Symphony No. 3 ‘The Camp Meeting’ Copland- Clarinet Concerto Jesse Jones- Smith Square Dances (world premiere, commissioned by the ESO & St John’s Smith Square) Piston- Sinfonietta...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 2, 2018 | A view from the podium
“What an astonishing year for British symphonies on disc… Philip Sawyers‘s classically structured Third, however, out-compels its rivals in sweep, scope and and the ESO’s gripping performance” Congrats to April Fredrick, soprano, and producer Simon Fox-Gal, but...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 2, 2018 | A view from the podium
Filmed between recording sessions for Ken’s latest Nimbus CD, Ken and producer Phil Rowlands talk about his new orchestration of Brahms’ largest chamber music work. ...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 31, 2017 | A view from the podium
This is another real YouTube treasure. I’m conducting this mini-masterpiece tomorrow for the first time in about 20 years, but it’s a piece you hear (or least I hear) all the time, and there are many good performances out there under Bernstein’s...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 25, 2017 | A view from the podium, News and Reviews
More international praise for John Joubert – Composer‘s magnificent Jane Eyre- An Opera in Two Acts on SOMM Recordings, this time from Classica in France. ‘The vocal distribution of this creatiòn in Birmingham is of astounding beauty. April Fredrick assumes from end...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 21, 2017 | A view from the podium
A little update on the Brahms Piano Quartet orchestration project, for those of you interested…. A quick summary of how we got to where we are! The arrangement had its genesis in 2008 in Ischia when the idea came to me. I spent a good chunk of that summer...
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