by Kenneth Woods | May 7, 2013 | A view from the podium
I attended my first Scotia Festival as a student in 1993- Peter Lieberson was the composer-of-the-year, Pierre-Laurent Aimard was the pianist-in-the-house. How could I not want to keep coming back? Over the following years I got to meet and work with composers like...
by Kenneth Woods | May 3, 2013 | A view from the podium
KENNETH WOODS RELEASES HANS GÁL’S SYMPHONY NO. 2 AND SCHUMANN’S SYMPHONY NO. 4 WITH ORCHESTRA OF THE SWAN ON AVIE THIRD OF FOUR-DISC SERIES Kenneth Woods, Principal Guest Conductor of Stratford-upon-Avon based Orchestra of the Swan, has made...
by Kenneth Woods | May 1, 2013 | A view from the podium, Headlines, News and Reviews
A new review from American Record Guide for “Spring Sounds, Spring Seas.” AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE – MAY/JUNE 2013 Spring Sounds, Spring Seas James Nyoraku Schlefer (1956-). Haru No Umi Redux, for shakuhachi, koto & ensemble (2011) [10:26] ...
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 28, 2013 | A view from the podium
This is a slightly expanded version of an essay on Brahms’s last symphony commissioned by The Bridgewater Hall for last week’s Budapest Festival Orchestra concert. “But in dark, dramatic outbursts such as those in the first and last movements of his Fourth...
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 27, 2013 | A view from the podium
A new review of our debut CD from critic Joshua Kosman in the San Francisco Chronicle. Kosman describes the Gal Serenade as “a witty, sardonic and often beautiful score, which adopts the mannerisms of the Classical style while simultaneously sending them up with love...
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 27, 2013 | A view from the podium
A new review of the Complete String Trios of Hans Gal and Hans Krasa from Fanfare Magazine GÁL Serenade in D, op. 41. Trio in fT, op. 104. KRÁSA Tanec (Dance). Passacaglia and Fugue Ens Epomeo AVIE 2259 (67:08) Buy here from MDT UK Buy here...
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