by Kenneth Woods | Mar 23, 2012 | A view from the podium
Maybe it is because I’m more or less at the mid-point of a Brahms cycle with the Surrey Mozart players, but right now, I feel like I’m orbiting planet Brahms. 2012 is looking like a Brahms year for Ken, and I like that a lot. I’ve been accumulating some morsels of...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 21, 2012 | A view from the podium
Tomorrow morning, I’m off early and heading for London to attend a recording session. For once, I’m not conducting, playing or producing- I’m just listening. Still, it’s new territory for me, and I’m very excited to see how it goes. The English Chamber Orchestra and...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 19, 2012 | A view from the podium, Explore the Score
Cellist Antonio Meneses and the Northern Sinfonia have just made a stunning recording of Elgar and Gal’s cello concerti with his longtime friend and collaborator, conductor Claudio Cruz. Although I wasn’t involved in the recording, Avie Records asked me to...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 15, 2012 | A view from the podium
Rick Jones, long-time chief classical music critic for the London Evening Standard, has published a review of Bobby and Hans volume 2 on his blog , Words and Music. You can read the whole thing there (CD reviews are along the right hand side of the blog). A short...
by Kenneth Woods | Feb 27, 2012 | A view from the podium
Apologies to regular Vftp readers frustrated by the quiet state of the blog- it’s been a very, very busy patch here. The good news (well, depends on whether you look forward to or dread new content here) is that I’ve got quite a backlog of things for the blog that...
by Kenneth Woods | Feb 18, 2012 | A view from the podium
The composer Felix Mendelssohn made many visits to the British Isles during his short life, yet it is little known that he stayed in North Wales for several weeks in 1829, visiting many of its famous beauty spots. But fact can indeed prove stranger than fiction, since...
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