Live review – English Symphony Orchestra / Kenneth Woods: Matthew Taylor Symphony no.5, Mendelssohn & Beethoven
Pavel Šporcl (violin), English Symphony Orchestra / Kenneth Woods (above) Cadogan Hall, London...
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Author: Kenneth Woods
Concert Review – Musical Opinion on ESO at Cadogan Hall
From Musical Opinion (July 2019 Issue): This was special. For their debut at the Cadogan Hall, Kenneth Woods and the English Symphony Orchestra constructed a fascinating combination of the very new and very, one might say over-familiar….
Read MoreClassicalSource Review: English Symphony Orchestra at Cadogan Hall – Kenneth Woods conducts the Fifth Symphonies of Beethoven & Matthew Taylor – Pavel Šporcl plays Mendelssohn’s E-minor Violin Concerto
Sunday, June 09, 2019 Cadogan Hall, London Reviewed by Robert Matthew-Walker Some may consider that things have come to a pretty pass when it takes an American Music Director of a regional English orchestra to conceive of, and...
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ESO Receives ‘Sirens’ Grant from Association of British Orchestras for Performance of Music by Historic Women Composers.
We are extremely proud and pleased to be selected as one of five orchestras receiving grants from the Association of British Orchestras as part of the Sirens programme for our upcoming perforomance of Vítězslava Kaprálová’s (1915-1940) ‘Partita for Piano and Strings’ at Kings Place on the 28th of April.
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Musical Opinion on Matthew Taylor’s Fifth Symphony
A fantastic feature in the current issue of Musical Opinion on the Fifth Symphony of Matthew Taylor, which we will premiere on the 9th of June in Cadogan Hall London on programme which also includes Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with soloist Pavel Sporcl.
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