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 | A view from the podium
Today is June 8th, 2011. It is the 201st birthday of the great Bobby Schumann: author, pianist, publisher, public intellectual, beer drinker, and one of the greatest composers who ever lived. Discovering and exploring the music of Robert Schumann has been one of the...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 7, 2011 | News and Reviews
Martin Anderson has a review of my upcoming release of Robert Schumann and Hans Gal’s Third Symphonies with Orchestra of the Swan at the website The Classical Review. Also reviewed is TZ’s recording with Northern Sinfonia of Gal 1 and Schubert 6. At the...
by Kenneth Woods | May 23, 2011 | A view from the podium, News and Reviews
Classical CD Reviews has up a new review by Gavin Dixon of the Orchestra of the Swan recording of Gal and Schumann 3rd Symphonies on Avie records. Each successive release of Hans Gál’s orchestral music fits another piece into the jigsaw, and yet...
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