Re-blogged from the Bobby and Hans Campaign Indiegogo page<\/p>\n
Hello everyone<\/p>\n
The countdown to our final Bobby and Hans project is underway. In one week, the orchestra will take to the stage for the first live performance of Gal’s First Symphony in over 43 years.Concert details are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n There’s been a surge of interest in the project you made possible over the last few weeks, so we thought we might take a moment to update you.<\/p>\n Over at Capital Radio<\/a>, music programming director Kent Teeters offers up an audio review of vol. 2.<\/p>\n The audiophile magazine Positive Feedback reviews vol. 3\u00a0in their most recent issue.<\/a>\u00a0“Woods, proves a persuasive advocate for the score, balancing an ear for detail with a sense of the music’s long line; … they produce polished, full-bodied sounds and phrase expressively.”<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n There’s an essay on Gal\u00a0in the current issue of Listen Magazine<\/a>. Ken discusses Gal’s life, music and importance, and offers a behind the scenes look into the process of learning and recording this long-lost music.\u00a0“In 2009, I wrote a blog post entitled \u201cWho is Hans G\u00e1l and why are you recording his music?\u201d On that September morning, G\u00e1l was, in the words of one colleague, \u201cthe very best composer in the world that nobody has ever heard of.\u201d<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n Fanfare Magazine has a review\u00a0in their current issue<\/a>\u00a0for volume three in our series.\u00a0“Woods\u2019s album is a valuable addition to our understanding of the 20th-century symphony.”<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n Bob Shingleton, aka Pliable,\u00a0cites our Indiegogo campaign<\/a>\u00a0in a stinging critique of classical music’s misplaced priorities.\u00a0“Recordings of\u00a0Hans Gal’s Symphonies by Kenneth Woods<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Missy Mazolli’s opera<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0are just two important projects that relied on\u00a0crowdfunding<\/a>. $13,500 was needed to deliver the acclaimed Gal Symphonies; 0.08% of the amount reportedly paid each year to Gergiev”<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n Radio host Rich Samuels at WORT-FM continues to broadcast performances from our series. His most recent show included the complete recording of Gal’s 2nd Symphony,\u00a0which you can listen to online until Thanksgiving this week<\/a>. The Gal starts at 2 hours 8 minutes<\/p>\n A\u00a0review from<\/a>\u00a0Andrew Achenbach on the\u00a0Classical Ear<\/a>\u00a0for volume 3:\u00a0\u00a0“Woods and the Orchestra of the Swan \u00a0lend this radiant and substantial score the most eloquent and affecting advocacy, and go on to give a comparably accomplished and invigorating account of Schumann\u2019s masterly Fourth Symphony \u2013 a strikingly fresh-faced, spontaneous-sounding display, full of illuminating touches, personable warmth and genuine freshness of new discovery. Do investigate this bold, enormously rewarding coupling.”<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n