by Kenneth Woods | Jun 29, 2017 | News and Reviews, Satire
I recently attended a very enjoyable concert by a fine local student orchestra. When you think of many musical, technical and social skills one must acquire to play in orchestra, it seems implausible that it is actually possible that such a intricate and uncertain...
by Kenneth Woods | May 24, 2017 | Mahler, News and Reviews
CLASSICAL MUSIC Review: Kenneth Woods makes shattering impact at MahlerFest Orchestra performs unfinished Mahler masterpiece By Kelly Dean Hansen Camera Classical Music Writer- Boulder Daily Camera POSTED: 05/20/2017 10:49:21 PM MDT | UPDATED: 3 DAYS AGO Artistic...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 21, 2016 | A view from the podium, News and Reviews
I cannot recall the last concert I attended that included a Symphony by Haydn and one by Mozart, and also embracing an impressive recent English work. Kenneth Woods, the English Symphony Orchestra’s Artistic Director, has already revived what was a fairly moribund...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 5, 2016 | Headlines, News and Reviews
The Sunday Times has just announced their list of the “100 Best Records of the Year,” across all genres. We’re delighted to learn that our recording “Complete Piano Concertos of Ernst Krenek vol. 1” with pianist Mikhail Korzhev has made...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 2, 2016 | News and Reviews
For the second year in a row, the English Symphony Orchestra and Artistic Director Kenneth Woods have received the Classical Music Magazine Premiere of the Year nod for the Midlands. Following on the 2015 selection of the premiere of Donald Fraser’s orchestration of...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 2, 2016 | Bobby and Hans, News and Reviews
We’re all very, very pleased and proud to see Sarah Beth Briggs’ wonderful AVIE Records recording of piano concerti by Mozart and Hans Gál get a Gramophone Magazine Critic’s Choice of 2016 from Guy Rickards in the year-end issue of the magazine....
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