Conductor\u2019s score and set of parts available separately. – enquire via downbeatstore@kennethwoods.net<\/a><\/p>\n Also available in hardbound collector’s edition<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cHopefully this new addition to the Brahms symphonic canon will get the widespread dissemination it certainly deserves\u2026\u00a0Kenneth Woods has grasped this nettle and produced an absolutely imaginative arrangement.\u201d\u00a0Erik Levi, BBC Music Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cBy the time the work concludes, one has forgotten that the composer intended the music for a quartet. In essence, Woods has created a new Brahms Fifth Symphony.\u201d\u00a0John J. Puccio, Classical Candor<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWoods\u2019 versatile English Symphony Orchestra respond with energy and warmth, and it\u2019s fun to compare their rich sound with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra on Robin Ticciati\u2019s recent set of the symphonies. This quartet is an early, extrovert piece and Woods taps into the music\u2019s unbuttoned joy. The first movement\u2019s close is a case in point, a cheery, affirmative musical hug, pitched to perfection in this performance. Depths are plumbed in Brahms\u2019s \u201cPoco Adagio\u201d, and the scherzo\u2019s ingenuity shines through. And while the G minor quartet finishes with a blaze of nihilistic fury, this one ends in a blaze of brassy sunlight. All fascinating \u2013 a labour of love, handsomely recorded with decent notes\u2026. He\u2019s effectively given us an additional Brahms symphony.\u201d\u00a0Graham Rickson, The Arts Desk<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n
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<\/span><\/span>CD: Brahms- Piano Quartet no. 2 in A major orchestrated and conducted by Kenneth Woods (Nimbus)<\/h2>\n\t£<\/span>9.00<\/bdi><\/span><\/span>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
One of The Arts Desk\u2019s Ten Best Classical CDs of 2018<\/a>: \u201cKenneth Woods\u2019s idiomatic orchestration of Brahms\u2019s Piano Quartet No. 2 (Nimbus) proved a must-hear, a useful corrective to Schoenberg\u2019s OTT transcription of the G minor quartet.\u201d Graham Rickson<\/h3>\n
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