by Kenneth Woods | Mar 3, 2011 | A view from the podium
Regular Vftp readers will have read before about my colleague at the Wrexham Symphony Orchestra, Nigel Hughes. Nigel is the orchestra’s principal trombonist. He is also blind. (He also designed the orchestra’s excellent website). The fact that someone can play...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 1, 2011 | A view from the podium, Favorite posts
I was on my way to work over the weekend when I heard an extended interview with violinist Daniel Hope on BBC Radio 3’s “CD Review.” Mr Hope and host Andrew McGregor were discussing Daniel Hope’s new album, “The Romantic Violinist,” a tribute to the musical legacy of...
by Kenneth Woods | Feb 9, 2011 | A view from the podium
From the Surrey Advertiser, February 4, 2011 A splendid start to Players’ concert season THE Surry Mozart Players’ concert seasons are events to be anticipated with enormous plasure and thereafter to be enjoyed with relish. The concert at the United...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 30, 2011 | A view from the podium, Music and Media, News and Reviews
There is a very nice piece in the current issue of Classical Music magazine on music of Hans Gal and our current efforts to get his music on disc. Click on the scan below to see a full sized (and easier to read) version. Regular Vftp readers will know that the first...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 25, 2011 | A view from the podium
Like all the greatest music, part of what makes Brahms’ music so compelling is the way it seems to work on so many levels- it can be happy and sad, abstract and programmatic, personal and universal all at the same time. To a certain extent, I think many fans of...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 10, 2011 | A view from the podium, Repertoire Reports
Next up in the 2010 Repertoire Reports, one of our annual mainstay’s, Leonard Slatkin. By one measure, Leonard seems to be slowing down this year- mere 91 works plus unlisted pops selections, compared to 121 2008 and 2009. One might be tempted to think that he’s...
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