by Kenneth Woods | Jul 10, 2019 | News and Reviews
From the Summer 2019 issue of Musical Opinion Quarterly, a new five-star review from Guy Rickards: There are a number of orchestrations of Brahms piano or chamber works, most notably (perhaps) Rubbra’s of the Handel Variations, Op 24, made in 1938, and Schoenberg’s of...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 8, 2012 | A view from the podium, Bobby and Hans, Explore the Score, Nuts and bolts
Klangfarbenmelodie, or “tone colour melody” is one of those 2 dollar words we all learned in undergraduate music history class. Simply described, in Klangfarbenmelodie, a single melodic line jumps from instrument to instrument, creating a more-or-less constantly...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 10, 2010 | cello, Nuts and bolts
It’s Bobby Schumann week on planet Earth, and all the nations of this blue planet are gathering their energies and chanting “Bobby, Bobby, Bobby” in honor of his 200th birthday. I’m celebrating the week by book-ending the week with performances of the Cello and Violin...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 27, 2008 | A view from the podium
The Complete Robert Schumann Symphonies with the Orchestra of the Swan on Avie Records I voiced concerns here on Wednesday about cycles in general, and mentioned that it felt like the first manifestations of cycle-phobia were appearing in this rehearsal sequence. I...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 14, 2007 | A view from the podium, Explore the Score, Mahler
Beethoven (arr. Mahler)- String Quartet in F minor, op. 95 “Serioso” We often think of Beethoven as having three basic styles that he went through in his career- the early style of the op. 18 quartets, the early piano sonatas and the 1st and 2nd symphonies,...
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