by Kenneth Woods | Apr 2, 2009 | A view from the podium
On my desk this week is the Mozart Requiem, a piece I’m coming back to for the first time since 2002. I can scarcely think of a piece by any composer that affects me the way this one does. It is not easy music to study- it is as terrifying, as personal and as painful...
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 1, 2009 | A view from the podium, Not quite the news, Satire
I am humbled to report that I am the subject of a major feature this morning in one of the national papers…. From today’s Guardian- Modern Maestro Rescues the Classics Conductor Kenneth Woods found his own path to the podium. While many of...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 30, 2009 | A view from the podium
Run, don’t walk, to your computer to listen to this wonderful feature on Ravel’s La Valse on BBC iPlayer until Friday this week. Called “Dancing the Apocalypse” it’s about as good as the BBC gets at really getting to grips with a major...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 30, 2009 | A view from the podium
The big topic of conversation this week has been the 5th and final Prokofiev Piano Concerto, which I conducted on Saturday night with Daniel de Borah and the Surrey Mozart Players. Many of you will have already seen the review, which came out yesterday. The reviewer...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 29, 2009 | A view from the podium
Review- Surrey Mozart Players, 28 March, 2009 United Reformed Church, Guildford DE BORAH, WOODS AND MOZART PLAYERS ASTONISH WITH PROKOFIEV- Maestro Kenneth Woods led the Surrey Mozart Players into powerful battle on Saturday March 28th. They took on a...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 25, 2009 | A view from the podium, News and Reviews
Serge Prokofiev, writing about the Fifth Piano Concerto in his Autobiography- If we discount the Fourth Concerto for left hand, more than ten years had passed since I had written a piano concerto. Since then my conception of the treatment of this form had changed...
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