by Kenneth Woods | Dec 11, 2012 | A view from the podium, Explore the Score
Schumann’s fate as an opera composer seemed to mirror that of his hero Beethoven, and not always in positive ways. Both men sought to reform the genre, stripping it of frivolity and artifice, eradicate virtuoso display and create an idiomatic, German approach to music...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 28, 2012 | A view from the podium
We’re only days away from next week’s Orchestra of the Swan concert and recording sessions, and everyone involved is getting excited about meeting up again with our old friends, Bobby and Hans. Our previous encounters have been most memorable. This time...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 27, 2012 | A view from the podium
Last spring, I was commissioned to write an essay on the work of Eugen Jochum for EMI’s new 20 CD box set of his late recordings in the Icon series. The disc is now out, and I thought Vftp readers might find the essay of interest. I’m confident that...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 27, 2012 | A view from the podium
From the December, 2012 Issue of Gramophone Magazine Critic’s Choice “Ensemble Epomeo provide ravishing accounts of both Gal works, fully in sympathy with the idiom… A splendid disc I cannot get enough of.” Buy here from MDT UK Buy here from Arkiv USA...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 6, 2012 | A view from the podium
Re-blogged from Broken Thirds, the Epomeo Blog A new review from critic and musicologist Calum MacDonald in the November 2012 issue of International Record Review for Ensemble Epomeo’s recording of the complete trios of Hans Gal and Hans Krasa. On newsstands now, but...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 30, 2012 | A view from the podium
Today (October 30th), Performance Today, produced by American Public Media, broadcast two recent live performances from the Orchestra of the Swan and yours truly. The first hour of the program opened with a movement from our live recording of Mahler’s Das Lied...
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