2000 CONTENTS

Articles published during the year 2000 are listed below in chronological order of publication, with the most recent at the top of the list:

• CD Spotlight - Rocking the boat. Ex Novo play the chamber works of Casella, with Roderic Dunnett


• CD Spotlight - Circuit of excellence. '... the Lindsays provide performances matching the quality that strides through some of the best of Dvorák.' Dvorák well served, with Basil Ramsey


• Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 33. A Royal Composer


• Planning your collection - Elly Ney, William Primrose and the two Syds


• CD Spotlight - Poignant beauty. 'The performances are warm and sympathetic, making a good case for this composer's wider recognition.' The orchestral songs of Zemlinsky with Patric Standford


• Christmas again - A message from Editor Basil Ramsey to all reading at this time


• CD Spotlight - Passion and integrity. 'Peter Bruns and Roglit Ishay prove convincing advocates for this singleminded and almost obsessive music.' Remembering Ernest Bloch, with Robert Anderson


• Summer Opera Reviews - Roderic Dunnett looks back at a thumping good summer for opera festivals in Britain and Ireland. Part 5 - The Turn of the Screw


• Subtle colours - Malcolm Miller reports on a choice programme of English choral music in London


• Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 32. Stravinsky's Final Period Works


• Christmas box - A true spirit. The Nativity, with Basil Ramsey


• Christmas box - Passion of Scrooge. A stereoscopic, circle surround Christmas Carol, with Keith Bramich


• Christmas box - Lure of the hounds - a saxophonist's Christmas, with Basil Ramsey


• CD Spotlight - Bach passion. '... JSB himself would be bewitched and bewildered by what has emerged, even after being introduced to the wonders of electricity.' A bizarre pilgrimage with Basil Ramsey


• Summer Opera Reviews - Roderic Dunnett looks back at a thumping good summer for opera festivals in Britain and Ireland. Part 4 - Mr Emmet Takes a Walk


• Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 31. Bartok's Original 4th String Quartet


• Planning your collection - Faust, Iona Brown and Percy Grainger


• CD Spotlight - Rarity in performance. '... the playing is lively and full of spirit, and this disc is to be recommended.' Works for 2 harpsichords with David Ponsford


• Summer Opera Reviews - Roderic Dunnett looks back at a thumping good summer for opera festivals in Britain and Ireland. Part 3 - Bampton, White Horse and Dorset


• A shining example - Serving needs. Basil Ramsey pays an 83rd birthday tribute to Desmond Ratcliffe
  
• Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 30. Strauss's Tone Poem 'Der Hund von die Baskervilles'


• Record Box - The Russian Psyche - Sadness in song, with Basil Ramsey


• Record Box - Instant Blend - Weigl the unknown, with Basil Ramsey


• Berlin Festival Diary - Five weeks condensed into three, with Bill Newman


• Bizarrely stirring - David Wilkins listens to the Polish State Opera of Wroclaw


• Summer Opera Reviews - Roderic Dunnett looks back at a thumping good summer for opera festivals in Britain and Ireland. Part 2 - Longborough, Buxton and Garsington


• Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 29. Elgar: The Missing 'Enigma Variations'


• Planning your collection - Voormolen and Kodály


• Editorial musings - Those captivating moments - an unusual request from Basil Ramsey


• Sing English Song - A Practical Approach to the Language and the Repertoire. Stephen Varcoe's book is reviewed by Roderic Dunnett


• Summer Opera Reviews - Roderic Dunnett looks back at a good summer for opera festivals in Britain and Ireland. Part 1 - Castleward, Wexford and Stowe


• Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 28. Fibich's 'Moods, Impressions and Reminiscences'


• Record Box - Energy and calm. Stirring musical waters, with Basil Ramsey


• Record box - Musical heaven. Bach up aloft, with Basil Ramsey


• Dramatic tableaux - Roderic Dunnett was at Glyndebourne for Birtwistle's 'The Last Supper'


• CD Spotlight - Creative beauty. '... clearly thought through and, as everything under Graham Johnson's direction, entirely convincing.' A visit to the Hyperion Schubert Edition, with David Wilkins


• CD Spotlight - Popular esteem. 'Chorus and orchestra under Christoph Spering respond splendidly, as do the soloists, to all Haydn's demands.' 'Seven Last Words', with Robert Anderson


• Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 27. Schumann's 'Blumenkinderstücke'


• Planning your collection - Busoni, Glazunov, Barber and Hanson


• 'American voice' - in celebration of the 100th birthday of Aaron Copland, by Richard Krause


• CD Spotlight - A paean of rejoicing. '... a sunburst carrying the listener forward and upwards to new quests of achievement.' Bax's Fifth Symphony with Bill Newman


• CD Spotlight - A thing of beauty. '... David Lloyd-Jones and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra spontaneously reach new poetic-dramatic heights ...' Bax's Third Symphony with Bill Newman


• Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 26. Chopin's 'Cantate de Noël'


• Record box - Irresistible beauty - Anonymous 4, with Basil Ramsey


• Record Box - Handelian decoration - Putting on the style, with Basil Ramsey


• Site seeing - An eye and an ear


• CD Spotlight - An early Kipnis recording, with Ann Bond


• CD Spotlight - Tremendous Engagement. '... the listener who attends carefully to this disc will be handsomely rewarded.' Adrian Williams on record, with Peter Dale


• Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 25. Purcell's 'Welcome Ode on Pepys's Recovery from the Bladderstone'


• Planning your collection - Stefan Jess and Barbara Moser; Louis Lortie and George Pehlivanian


• Leonard Bernstein 1918-1990 - Lenny - 10 Years On


• The lost chord - Newly furbished as a recital instrument, London's Royal Festival Hall organ was re-launched on 19 October. Shirley Ratcliffe was there and was in for a surprise.


• Bach in Manhattan - a memorable concert


• Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 24. John Taverner's 44-part motet, 'The Cryes of London'


• Record Box - Dussek in good light - Stylistic pleasures, with Basil Ramsey


• Record Box - Over the hills - Delius before the first cuckoo, with Basil Ramsey


• Luminous setting - Shirley Ratcliffe attends a John Tavener première


• CD Spotlight - Beauteous imagery. 'Mobius has been going from success to success since 1995.' Mobius play Bax, with Bill Newman


• CD Spotlight - A sense of balance. '... authoritative and splendid performances ...' Hummel back in the light, with Basil Ramsey


• Editoral Musings - Unique forays - the CDs we overlook, with Basil Ramsey


• Planning your collection - Evgeny Soifertis and John Bingham


• Site seeing - Best advantage - the first of a new occasional series of visits to the online world of classical music, with Keith Bramich


• CD Spotlight - Bruch rarities. '... the orchestral accompaniment transcends the accepted harmonic idiom, interspersed with Elizabeth Whitehouse's serene arias ...' Should we allow biased opinions to sway musical judgement? with Bill Newman


• Second Sight - Music with Wilfrid Mellers - Stylized subtleties - Campra emerges.


• Record Box - Manners of clothing - At ease with the sacred, with Basil Ramsey


• CD Spotlight - Classical allusions. '... all the solo voices are marvellously alert and sensitive. The choral singing and orchestral playing under Robert King is robust and stylish ...' Handel and Milton, with Robert Anderson


• CD Spotlight - Death be not proud. 'A quite wonderful CD of a composer and his music that should be at the forefront of live concert activities.' The music of Andrew Imbrie, by a devoted admirer, Bill Newman


• Planning your collection - Steven Wray and Sam Haywood


• Beyond Brussels - Roderic Dunnett journeys to de Vlaamse Opera


• CD Spotlight - Unknown gems. 'Throughout, Varcoe and Benson give musicianly, affectionate performances ...' Two Hyperion albums of Stanford's songs, with Trevor Hold


• Second sight - Music with Wilfrid Mellers - The Sun King - Lully's musical homage


• Editorial musings - Noise ... on facing the unavoidable, with Basil Ramsey


• Record box - Blowing to good purpose - Brass in consort, with Basil Ramsey


• Record box - Fruits of Glory - young composers in church, with Basil Ramsey


• CD Spotlight - Piano exotica - '... marvellously controlled rhythms, touch and stylistic finess.' Martin Jones plays Spanish piano music. With Bill Newman


• Dance of death - Roderic Dunnett marvels at Welsh National Opera's 'Queen of Spades'


• John Bishop (1931-2000) - Trevor Hold pays tribute to the music publisher


• Planning your collection - Global Fascinations and Sophistications - Annie Fischer, Luiza Borac, Anne Kaasa and Lukás Vondrácek, with Bill Newman


• CD Spotlight - 'Beautifully coloured, most intelligently but undemonstratively phrased and nuanced ...' Schumann songs, with Peter Dale


• CD Spotlight - Proud defiance - '... a marvellous sense of immediacy ...' - Bill Newman discusses a new recording of Prokofiev's 'War and Peace'


• Editor's Inbox - Another selection of letters from readers


• Record box - Spirit and polish - Hymns in demonstration, with Basil Ramsey


• Record box - Initial reaction - Icelandic music, with Basil Ramsey


• Admiring colleagues - Martin Jones and Mark Anderson in conversation with Bill Newman


• The Interpretation of Chopin - by Angela Lear


• Brave New World - Bill Newman reads 'Eric Leinsdorf on Music'


• Summa Summarum - Malcolm Miller attended the UK première of Henze's Ninth


• Planning your collection - Global Fascinations and Sophistications - Chopin Mazurkas, Hummel piano music, Charles Koechlin and Kenneth Leighton, with Bill Newman


• CD Spotlight - Showing paces. '... the oratorio performances can only give pleasure.' Charpentier's dramatic strengths, with Robert Anderson


• CD Spotlight - American voices. '... compellingly energetic rhythmic forces, clear, translucent orchestration, bold themes and simple structures.' Symphonies by George Antheil and Paul Creston, examined by Peter Dale


• Neapolitan uprising - Roderic Dunnett was at Dorset Opera's recent production of 'Salvator Rosa'


• Record Box - Cellos rule - the Berlin team in action, with Basil Ramsey


• Record Box - Vivaldi in season - Fruitful music, with Basil Ramsey


• Maestro - The Menotti Interview, with Bill Newman


• Getting the bird - Roderic Dunnett looks back with delight at Longborough Festival Opera's new production of Wagner's Siegfried


• CD Spotlight - Defiance and struggle. '... an excellent and polished tribute to an important Italian composer ...' The orchestral music of Ildebrando Pizzetti, with Simon Spencer


• PIANOS & PIANISTS, Editor: Ates Orga
  Martha Argerich
  
• Editorial musings - 'A composer is or isn't', with Basil Ramsey


• Planning your collection - Global Fascinations and Sophistications - Schubert's piano works for four hands, Liszt transcriptions, and the piano music of Nikolai Kapustin and Alfredo Casella, with Bill Newman


• Menotti at Spoleto - Bill Newman pays a tail-end visit to the Italian festival's 42nd season


• Adventurous spirit - Malcolm Miller reviews an open-air revival of Stephen Storace's Comedy of Errors


• CD Spotlight - Out of neglect. '... I find them tremendously exciting.' Roberto Gerhard's quartets, with Peter Lundin


• PIANOS & PIANISTS, Editor: Ates Orga
  The Julius Isserlis Scholarship 2001
  
• A bombshell - Roderic Dunnett talks to Austrian conductor Franz Welser-Möst about Franz Schmidt's Book with Seven Seals


• Driving force - Visits to Cambridge, with Basil Ramsey


• Record Box - The born and stillborn - Harping on, with Basil Ramsey


• CD Spotlight - Here lies the essence of rediscovery. '... fresh and stimulating ... musical pointers come alive as they occur ...' Symphonies Nos 3 and 4 by Joachim Raff, with Bill Newman


• CD Spotlight - Inventiveness. '...a resourceful CD to extend our knowledge of Bach's seemingly infinite ideas with chorale-based music.' Bach's captivating qualities with Basil Ramsey


• Editorial musings - Fruits of the best, with Basil Ramsey


• Planning your collection - Global Fascinations and Sophistications - Emma Johnson; Martinu string quartets, with Bill Newman


• CD Spotlight - 'Snippets of tune are bandied teasingly between the instruments ...' - A Lithuanian composer, with Robert Anderson


• CD Spotlight - Rare Vaughan Williams. 'All involved in this performance plunge merrily into the fray like persons possessed.' Hilary Davan Wetton's performances of the 'Tudor Portraits' and 'Mystical Songs' with Bill Newman


• Editorial musings - Seeking illumination - with Basil Ramsey


• Record Box - Basil Ramsey listens to 17th century organ music


• Fortuitous and rewarding - Bill Newman talks to Hilary Davan Wetton


• CD Spotlight - Gershwin arrangements - Peter Dickinson listens to Michael Finnissy as arranger


• CD Spotlight - Ikon of St Hilda - Roderic Dunnett listens to the girls of Wakefield Cathedral


• By the way - 'A first-world-war eccentric' with Richard Graves


• Planning your collection - Global Fascinations and Sophistications - Che Originali!, and Triumphal Music for Organ & Orchestra, with Bill Newman


• CD Spotlight - Burnished colours. '... these readings are heartfelt and do not disappoint.' Smetana's chamber music on the Supraphon label, with David Wilkins


• Second Sight - Music with Wilfrid Mellers - Copland's centenary


• More MacMillan - James MacMillan's new Evening Canticles for choir and organ have just been premièred at Winchester. Roderic Dunnett talked to the cathedral organist, David Hill.


• Record Box - Skilful manoeuvres - The art of John Gardner, with Basil Ramsey


• Record Box - Naked Power - the organ roars, with Basil Ramsey


• A true renaissance man - by Gordon Rumson


• CD Spotlight - The essential Emma Johnson. '... beautifully expressed in the highest musical terms ...' with Bill Newman


• PIANOS & PIANISTS, Editor: Ates Orga
  Who to listen for - the UK Concerto, Recital, Special Event round-up, July 2000
  
• By the way - 'The first screen musical?' with Richard Graves


• Planning your collection - Verdi Preludes, Overtures and Ballet Music


• Sharing concerns - Bill Newman talks to British clarinettist Emma Johnson


• Orchestral Polyphony - 'A "dream" performance, magical, sensuous, dramatic in turn, marvellously controlled during every gear change.' Admiring Suk's use of the orchestra - with Bill Newman


• CD Spotlight - Renaissance. 'Jennifer Paull gives sparkling performances.' The oboe d'amore revitalised - with Basil Ramsey.


• Subtle Celebration - James MacMillan talks to Roderic Dunnett about composing sacred and liturgical music.


• Record Box - Logging on, with Basil Ramsey


• CD Spotlight - Musical spurs. 'His musical palette constantly overflows with colour, never garish yet sometimes opulent and sometimes sombre.' Irish convictions - Basil Ramsey investigates the music of Ian Wilson.


• CD Spotlight - Resplendent Imagery. '...this whole CD does the greatest honour to a sadly neglected genius.' Bill Newman discusses the orchestral music of Viteslav Novák.


• Editorial Musings with Basil Ramsey - Thrill of the chase


• Record Box - Planning your collection  with Bill Newman. The Prague Symphony, British light music, Swedish orchestral favourites and Gilbert & Sullivan.
  
• Slowing down but still performing and recording - Libor Pesek in conversation with Bill Newman


• CD Spotlight - A state funeral. 'It is not every day that one of England's smaller cathedrals has the opportunity to participate in bringing to our ears such an historic occasion as this.' Basil Ramsey listens to music for Lord Nelson.


• By the way - 'British melodies' with Richard Graves


• Record Box - Planning your collection - Bill Newman introduces his new series for the CD collector
  
• Editorial Musings with Basil Ramsey - Composers anonymous


• CD Spotlight - Equinox. '... repertoire not otherwise available - with considerable compositional ingenuity and in a way which is appreciated by performers.' Peter Dickinson listens to the music of Elliott Schwartz.


• Music for the masses - John Lubbock talks to Bill Newman


• PIANOS & PIANISTS, Editor: Ates Orga
  CD Spotlight - Masterwork - 'Time to listen with new ears' - composer Gordon Rumson admires Sorabji's 'Opus Clavicembalisticum'
  
• By the way - 'Happy Christmas!' with Richard Graves


• Record Box - Exposure - Bach known and unknown, with Basil Ramsey.


• Wondrous machines! - Colm Carey reflects on the fortunes of the organ


• Dark and light by turns - Roderic Dunnett writes about 'Arthur Part 1: Arthur Pendragon' in the light of its recent London première
  
• CD Spotlight - The traveller. 'His music even exceeds the brilliance of the man, travelling a path through an intense musical atmosphere interacting so bounteously with his creativity.' Basil Ramsey encounters Jesús Villa-Rojo, a composer from Spain.


• CD Spotlight - Entartete Musik. 'For the third quartet alone, this disc is worth acquiring ... an important musical document of one of those who perished in the holocaust ...' Peter Lundin listens to the 'undesired' quartets of Pavel Haas


• PIANOS & PIANISTS, Editor: Ates Orga
  10th London International Jewish Music Festival - world premieres by Paul Ben Haim and Nimrod Borenstein
  
• Vivid and sparkling music theatre - A modern revival of a rediscovered opera with music by Mozart after 176 years! Malcolm Miller attended the UK première and the world première of the English translation of 'The Philosopher's Stone'
  
• Record Box - French bonbons - things of the past? Bill Newman listens to Yan Pascal Tortelier conducting the BBC Philharmonic.


• Editorial Musings with Basil Ramsey - The outlook - shocking talk. What shape are we musicians in for the next 100 years?


• CD Spotlight - 'Restoring a sacred choral tradition. A truly gorgeous recording has just emerged from the Maîtrise de Caen ... tenderly supportive, with beautiful clear words, good intonation and an attractive feel for cadence and phrasing.' Roderic Dunnett listens to Les Petits Motets de Sébastien de Brossard.


• CD Spotlight - Passion and conviction. Very well played indeed. Very well recorded. Taxing music to perform even when accessible to the listener. Peter Dale explores the orchestral music of Penderecki - a composer who lit a beacon for Polish music.


• By the way - 'What do you think of that?' with Richard Graves


• Record Box - Suspending time - Working together. Basil Ramsey listens to Richard Stoltzman and Nexus.


• Record Box - By Special Arrangement - Basil Ramsey listens to the Rodolfus Choir


• CD Spotlight - Indelible visions of a troubled world - Bill Newman discusses the Emersons' new recording of the complete Shostakovich works for string quartet


• PIANOS & PIANISTS, Editor: Ates Orga
  Who to listen for - the UK Concerto, Recital, Special Event round-up, June 2000
  This Day in Piano History - The Legendary Recordings
  
• Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 23. Gustav Holst's 'Pluto', from The Planets (rev.)


• Record Box - Wonderfully moving - Exploring the music of Frank Martin


• Record Box - Visionary ideals - Rued Langgaard's Sinfonia interna


• Love, harmony and beauty - Stella Dickinson talks to Bill Newman
  
• Advertisement for Mountains and Monasteries - holidays available in July and August
  
• Spiritual Truth - Wilfrid Mellers discusses Opera North's production of Radamisto
  
• CD Spotlight - Beauty and Pleasure, Time and Disillusion - Wilfrid Mellers examines Handel's Il Trionfo del Tempo e della Verita


• Record Box - Love's Lore - Bill Newman enthuses over new folk song settings


• Editorial Musings - with Basil Ramsey. Invading Privacy.


• CD Spotlight - Words and music - David Wilkins listens to Urszula Kryger singing Chopin


• CD Spotlight - The dizzy sixties - Wilfrid Mellers listens again to George Crumb


• PIANOS & PIANISTS, Editor: Ates Orga
  Vladimir de Pachmann (Odessa 1848 - Rome 1933)
  11th Royal Philharmonic Society Awards
  
• Record Box - Fairest Isle - A New National Songbook


• Record Box - Life and Music - A celebration


• Record Box - Authenticity and Beauty - Medieval chant and polyphony from Anonymous 4


• One of the most modest of men - British composer Leonard Salzedo died on 6 May


• eMuse - Rhythm and the New


• PIANOS & PIANISTS, Editor: Ates Orga
  4th World Piano Competition London
  
• Believing out loud - The Emerson Quartet talk to Bill Newman


• Record Box - Incredible repertory - The world of the 18th century


• Record Box - Individual expectations - A composer from Texas


• In the footsteps of J S Bach - Douglas Hollick writes about his Churchill Fellowship 2000


• CD Spotlight - Staggering beauty - Roderic Dunnett listens to Judy Martin's choir Voces Sacrae


• CD Spotlight - 'Light and dark' - Basil Ramsey listens to lesser-known Schumann


• PIANOS & PIANISTS, Editor: Ates Orga
  Who to listen for - the UK Concerto, Recital, Special Event round-up, May 2000
  
• Separating fact from fiction - Mike Harth reads Peter Dickinson's book 'Marigold: The Music of Billy Mayerl'


• Record Box - Melodious Charm - Dvorak String Quartets


• Elizabeth and Essex - Roderic Dunnett on Phyllida Lloyd's Gloriana for BBC TV


• eMuse - Digital Images and Imaginings


• Bach at the Opera - Shirley Ratcliffe attends English National Opera's staging of the St John Passion


• PIANOS & PIANISTS, Editor: Ates Orga
  This day in piano history - Good Friday [April 21st 1848]
  
• Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 22. Esrum Hellerup: An Unknown Composer


• Record Box - Time and Space - John McCabe in flight


• Inordinate Affection - An overview of the oboe, with Jennifer Paull


• Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 21. Rubbra's Comedy Overture


• A Feast of Summer Opera - with Roderic Dunnett


• CD Spotlight - A New Adventure - Basil Ramsey discovers Bach in a different light


• CD Spotlight - The flower among flowers - Peter Aston explores the music of Guillaume de Machaut


• Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 20. Respighi's trittico The Bistros of Rome


• Record Box - Who can tell? - Bach in good hands


• Recent Opera Round-up - with Roderic Dunnett. 3: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera North. Grand Theatre, Leeds


• Recent Opera Round-up - with Roderic Dunnett. 2: Peter Grimes - Hungarian State Opera, Budapest


• Recent Opera Round-up - with Roderic Dunnett. 1: The Tales of Hoffmann, De Vlaamse Oper, Antwerp


• Editor's Inbox - Author's statement regarding 'Boulez is Dead'


• Editor's Inbox - Andrew Lance writes a rebuttal to Jeff Talman's 'Boulez is Dead'


• Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 19. Charles Ives's Grand Metropolitan Hotel, New York City


• A golden age of British music - Roderic Dunnett looks back at Sir Arthur Bliss, who died 25 years ago.


• eMuse - Boulez is Dead


• Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 18. Reger's Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Satie


• Record Box - Areas of specialisation - The organ in various colours


• Music Web watch - choirs and choral music on the net


• Lieder's Dynamic Duo - Benjamin Ivry features Mitsuko Shirai and Hartmut Holl


• Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 17. Fauré's Saxophone Concertino


• Record Box - Sparkling Momentum - David Wilkins listens to Tim Hugh's Boccherini


• Music Web watch - classical music email newsletters


• Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 16. Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta, Billy Budd


• Record Box - Armoury of Invention - Nicholas Maw in fine form and Stan and Olly - Pranks with music


• Music Web watch - pointers to places on the web with interesting folk music content


• CD Spotlight - Virtuosity without swank - Peter Dale explores the Italian baroque


• A True Child of the Sixties - Shirley Ratcliffe at a John Adams London première


• Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 15. Berlioz's Études for Piano


• Record Box - Music from the fourth dimension - David Wilkins listens to Goldmark chamber music, and Uplifts - For the jaded spirit with Basil Ramsey


• Music Web watch - Humorous music websites - any here you don't know?


• News from Riga - Janis Purins on music education in Latvia


• Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 14. Schubert's Piano Concerto in A-flat major ('The Unfinished')


• Record Box - Varying Landscapes - New prizewinning music


• Music Web watch - Online concert listings


• CD Spotlight - The serious rival - Patric Standford examines music appealing to the listener with more time and patience


• CD Spotlight - A shot-gun marriage - Trevor Hold listens to the songs of Edward Elgar


• Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 13. Beethoven's English Folk-Song Arrangements


• Record Box - Songwriting - A welcome gathering


• Music Web watch - Music Website News 2000


• A touch of genius - A tribute to Stanley Vann on his 90th birthday by Barry Ferguson


• Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 12. J.S. Bach's Suite in the Spanish Style


• Record Box - Górecki's path - A journey in music


• Music Web watch - 21st century composers


• CD Spotlight - Reconstructing the image - Peter Dickinson listens to world première recordings of music by Constant Lambert


• CD Spotlight - Moods, emotions and scenes - Simon Spencer considers Turina's piano music


• Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 11. Tippett's Easy Duets for Children


• Record Box - Deep shadow - Light on Telemann


• Music Web watch - the world wide web of opera


• Sound-Houses - Michael Oliva issues a challenge


• eMuse - Sensation - Sense and Sensibility, with Jeff Talman


• Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 10. John Cage's Mushroom Music


• Record Box - Almost as one - a chance for Medtner


• Music Web watch - helping you to find composers on the web


• CD Spotlight - An all-consuming philosophical and spiritual agenda - John Bell Young writes in defence of Scriabin


• Editorial Musings - with Basil Ramsey. One thing after another - vanquishing peril.


• Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 9. Malcolm Arnold's Requiem for Olivier Messiaen


• Record Box - Latin urgency - Turina at his best


• Music Web watch - with details of various types of music software - sequencers, music OCR programs and toys and applets.


• eMuse - The Negative Spaces of Technology, with Jeff Talman


• Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 8. Debussy's Prelude and Fugue for organ


• Record Box - The 'Withdrawn' Symphony - Mendelssohn's 'Italian' in a new light


• Music Web watch - taking a listen to some Real Audio files


• The Rightness of Gurney - Roderic Dunnett continues his examination of Ivor Gurney the musician - part 4: Conscious or unconscious?


• Mysterious chemistry - David Wilkins reads Maria Callas - diaries of a friendship by Robert Sutherland


• Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 7. Delius's Evening Canticles


• Record Box - Maria Callas - David Wilkins listens to one of the legends of the 20th century


• Music Web watch - The start of another new series at Music & Vision which takes a look at a couple of possible Millennium bug problems.


• Midnight Mouse? - A Japanese notebook - some of it musical, with composer Adrian Williams


• The Rightness of Gurney - Roderic Dunnett continues his examination of Ivor Gurney the musician - part 3: Of earthly and heavenly Beauty


• eMuse - 'You Say You Want a Revolution...', with Jeff Talman