by Kenneth Woods | Jun 20, 2011 | A view from the podium, News and Reviews
Critic, blogger and Mahlerian Gavin Plumley has offered up a thoughtful review of the my new Orchestra of the Swan recording of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde and Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (as arranged by Schoenberg) at his excellent blog, Entartete...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 15, 2011 | News and Reviews
There is a quite substantial interview piece with me by Colin Anderson online at The Classical Review today. We talked about recording Gal and Schumann, why I’ve paired them for this project, as well as talking about about Vftp itself and the Mahler recording....
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 13, 2011 | News and Reviews
A new review by Michael Tumelty in The Herald, Scotland for the new Orchestra of the Swan recording of Das Lied von der Erde and Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, published 12 June, 2011. Orchestra Of The Swan Kenneth Woods, conductor Mahler: Das Lied Von Der...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 13, 2011 | News and Reviews
From ClassicalSource, a new review by Colin Anderson of Bobby and Hans vol. 1. Gál’s Third Symphony (completed in 1952), in A (but it could major or minor) opens winsomely with an expressive oboe solo, the music sometimes harmonically curdling in...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 11, 2011 | Mahler, News and Reviews
From the June 10, 2011 Nottingham Post Orchestra Of The Swan/Soloists: Mahler Lieder Contralto Emma Curtis displays ardour in Mahler’s hour-long Song Of The Earth, with Brennen Guillory in the role of tipsy tenor. This setting of poems from the Chinese...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 8, 2011 | Music and Media, News and Reviews
I had a nice chat a month or so ago with Jeremy Pound, deputy editor of BBC Music Magazine about what I’ve been listening to with particular interest of late. The results of that chat form part of the “Music To My Ears” feature in the July...
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