{"id":4018,"date":"2012-04-17T20:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T19:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/?p=4018"},"modified":"2014-07-08T11:12:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T10:12:31","slug":"cd-review-audiophile-audition-on-bobby-and-hans-vol-2-five-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2012\/04\/17\/cd-review-audiophile-audition-on-bobby-and-hans-vol-2-five-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"CD Review- Audiophile Audition on Bobby and Hans vol. 2 (five stars)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very nice new 5-star review from Zan Furtwangler (3rd cousin of the conductor) at Audiophile Audition. <a href=\"http:\/\/audaud.com\/2012\/04\/hans-gal-symphony-no-4-schumann-symphony-no-2-orch-of-the-swan-kenneth-woods-avie\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the whole thing here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/AV2231.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3985\" title=\"AV2231\" src=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/AV2231-300x297.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/AV2231-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/AV2231-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/AV2231-1024x1015.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/AV2231-302x300.jpg 302w, https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/AV2231.jpg 1423w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdt.co.uk\/MDTSite\/product\/\/AV2231.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to order from MDT<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Hans-Gal-Symphony-No-Schumann\/dp\/B0071GPGAA\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1334689051&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to order from Amazon.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0071GPGAA\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to order from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A short excerpt follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Woods proves in this recording to be a front rank conductor, capturing the feeling of sorrow and compassion of the symphony. The work is for a chamber orchestra made up of two oboes, two bassoons, two horns, timpani and strings. Initially, this piece sounds gentle, even pastoral, but underneath is a current of turmoil and tragedy. It most sounds like R. Strauss\u2019\u00a0<em>Metamorphosen<\/em>\u00a0 and other of Strauss\u2019 late works.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">G\u00e1l referred to this work as \u201c\u2026akin to a\u00a0<em>concerto grosso<\/em>\u2026with the brilliant display and competitive spirit of four soloists who act as both a group and as individuals\u2026 .\u201d The soloists who participate splendidly are violinist David Le Page, cellist Christopher Allan, flutist Diane Clark and clarinetist Sally Harrop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Woods has seized on the essence of this Schumann\u00a0<em>Symphony<\/em>. His reading is smooth, grand and exciting and well worth the purchase of this disc. The G\u00e1l may take a few hearings to sink in, but the Schumann is right there from the start and one of the best recordings available.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Orchestra of the Swan is resident in the Civic Hall of Stratford-upon-Avon. The orchestra performs throughout England and Wales. It has made several recordings of the music of Arnold Bax, Berlioz and Mahler. It is quite a versatile group, easily shifting between G\u00e1l and Schumann.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Avie sound is exact and spacious. Program notes are in English, German and French. The bios of the performers are in English only.\u00a0 Highly recommended!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2012\/04\/17\/cd-review-audiophile-audition-on-bobby-and-hans-vol-2-five-stars\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Woods proves in this recording to be a front rank conductor, capturing the feeling of sorrow and compassion of the symphony&#8230; Woods has seized on the essence of this Schumann Symphony. His reading is smooth, grand and exciting and well worth the purchase of this disc. The G\u00e1l may take a few hearings to sink in, but the Schumann is right there from the start and one of the best recordings available.&#8221; FIVE STARS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,954,9],"tags":[955,1077,192,365,119,479],"class_list":["post-4018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-opion-life-as-a-performing-musician","category-headlines","category-newsandreviews","tag-audiophile-audition","tag-bobby-and-hans","tag-furtwangler","tag-hans-gal","tag-orchestra-of-the-swan","tag-robert-schumann"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4018"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6202,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018\/revisions\/6202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}