by Kenneth Woods | Oct 20, 2010 | A view from the podium, Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective
Gustav Mahler is a composer whose music again and again finds connectivity in contrast and contradiction. His music is full of starkly contrasting opposites, and yet he always seems to find connection and unity between light and dark, fast and slow, happy and sad, and...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 15, 2010 | Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective
It seems fair for once to say that I am truly approaching a milestone in my life- in about a month, I will be making my first recording of a work by Gustav Mahler. On November 19 and 20, I’ll be going into the studio with my colleagues at Orchestra of the Swan, three...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 7, 2010 | A view from the podium
I have to confess that the annual orgy of complaints about the BBC Proms always strikes this American transplant as absurd and hard to comprehend. Say what you will, it is an extraordinary international feast of great music played by the world’s greatest orchestras,...
by Kenneth Woods | May 21, 2010 | News and Reviews
There is a nice interview with me in the Birmingham Post today. Chief critic Chris Morley managed to take the conversation to a few places I’d never been asked about, particularly my affection for the music of William Walton, whose Facade I’m conducting...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 9, 2010 | A view from the podium, Mahler
If one happens to be thumbing through the February issue of Gramophone, you might notice a nice mention of my Orchestra of the Swan appointment on page 14- we even got a picture. You can find me right next to the piece on James Galway. I only mention this because I’ve...
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