by Kenneth Woods | Feb 29, 2012 | News and Reviews
Orchestra of the Swan/Kenneth Woods at Cadogan Hall – Tallis Fantasia, Frank Bridge Variations – Tamsin Waley-Cohen plays The Lark Ascending Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Cadogan Hall, London Reviewed by Edward Clark When I travel abroad I am sometimes asked what the...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 22, 2012 | News and Reviews
A big thank you to Jason in Iowa, who alerted us to the fact that the eminent musicologist and Brahms scholar, Bernard D. Sherman, picked Orchestra of the Swan’s recording of the Third Symphonies of Hans Gal and Robert Schumann as one of his top 10 best...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 19, 2011 | News and Reviews
Chicago’s flagship station for classical music, WFMT has selected the Orchestra of the Swan’s recording of the Third Symphonies of Hans Gal and Robert Schumann in a column from new releases editor, Lisa Flynn. Read the whole thing here. THE BEST CLASSICAL...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 12, 2011 | News and Reviews
Critic Rob Barnett at MusicWeb is a little suspicious about coupling Bobby and Hans: “I don’t hold with the practice of coupling the classical familiar with the 20th century unfamiliar. I wonder if it does sell more discs… For me it is dilution not...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 29, 2011 | Mahler, News and Reviews
In the October 2011 issue of Gramophone Magazine, one can now find the first review to directly compare the Orchestra of the Swan recording of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde and Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with the new recording by Manchester Camerata and Douglas...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 28, 2011 | Mahler, News and Reviews
There is a review from critic David Patmore in the current issue of Classical Recordings Quarterly of the new Orchestra of the Swan recording of Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen and Das Lied von der Erde on Somm Recordings. The complete review is...
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