Tag: Kenneth Woods-Principal Conductor

Cooler Classics, Interviews, Music, NCCR

Cooler Classics.(Sunday 14th November 2021. 9pm-11pm, Repeats Thursday midnight, Listen Again & on Mixcloud)

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Features:

  • Sarah Class talks with Cooler Classics about her album “Resonate”, COP26, HRH The Prince of Wales and “Rhythm Of The Earth.”
Sarah Class.
  • Kenneth Woods, principal conductor of the English Symphony Orchestra reflects on the recent successful Elgar Festival, Sibelius, Steven R Gerber and Steve Elcock.
Kenneth Woods.

With new recordings from :

  • Christian Thielemann & Vienna Philharmonic (of Bruckner’s 4th Symphony.)
  • Daniil Trifonov “Bach: The Art Of Life” (featured piece Chaconne in D Minor for the Left Hand.)
  • Daniel Johnson’s latest music: Thunder.
  • And a second hearing for Jamie Lonsdale’s “White Doves of Peace” and Roberto Cacciapaglia’s “Angel Falls”

Sunday 9-11pm and repeated Thursday at Midnight. Plus Listen Again (7 days) and Mixcloud (several weeks!)

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English Symphony Orchestra, Interviews, Music

English Symphony Orchestra:CELEBRATION OF ELGAR IN BARNSTAPLE. Saturday 10th November, 2018 at 7.30pm

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Saturday 10th November, 2018 at 7.30pm

Queens Theatre, Barnstaple

English String Orchestra
Kenneth Woods- Artistic Director
Zoë Beyers – Violin

Programme

Elgar – Serenade for Strings
Vaughan Williams – The Lark Ascending
Elgar – Songs for Strings
Dvorak – String Serenade
Elgar– Introduction and Allegro

 

The English String Orchestra bring a concert celebrating the glories of the Romantic string orchestra repertoire with a portfolio of works form their celebrated discography. Violin virtuoso and ESO Leader, Zoë Beyers performs Vaughan Williams’ haunting and evocative “The Lark Ascending”, recently voted the nation’s favourite piece of music by Classic FM listeners.

Appropriately for an orchestra based in Elgar’s home city of Worcester, the ESO also bring to Barnstaple his beloved Serenade for Strings and the touching Songs for Strings, arranged by Donald Fraser. The concert concludes with the ESO specialty, Dvořák’s beguiling Serenade, infused with the unforgettable melos of his native Bohemia.

Here is an interview with Kenneth Woods from earlier this year for NCCR..

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Kenneth Woods-Principal Conductor,English Symphony Orchestra