by Kenneth Woods | May 30, 2019 | Explore the Score, Nuts and bolts
Ken will be conducting Vaughan Williams Fifth Symphony with the English Symphony Orchestra at the 2019 Elgar Festival in Worcester Cathedral on Saturday the 1st of June, 2019. Details here. In 1952, when Vaughan Williams was asked to pick one of his symphonies for a...
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 3, 2018 | Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective
Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde is a work that ends with the beginning of a journey. Across the first five movements, and through much of the sixth, the narrative voices we hear are passive ones. In the third and fourth songs, the poetry of Li T’ai-po...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 12, 2016 | A view from the podium, Lists
Ever wonder what sort of concertos exist for the violin beyond the marvelous mainstays from Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Bruch, Brahms and Sibelius? Well- there’s a lot out there. There are a number of tremendous 20th. C concerti that are now pretty well...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 30, 2015 | A view from the podium
2015 was quite a year for me- a year of very, very hard work, a year of ups and downs with some incredible highlights and some moments of rather intense frustration. I started the year talking- giving a long chat on the Gál symphonies at a gala launch event...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 26, 2015 | News and Reviews
Reviewed in the February 2015 issue of Gramophone Magazine buy Guy Rickards “Four vibrant, attractive concertos…. by three of Britain’s brightest and best, and performed with dazzling virtuosity and musicianship by Simon Desbruslais and the Orchestra...
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