2001 CONTENTS

Articles published during the year 2001 are listed below in chronological order of publication, with the most recent at the top of the list:

• Reminiscent retrospectives - In a new series, international musician and writer Jennifer Paull shares some of her musical memories. September 11th 2001


• CD Spotlight - Profound beauty. '... a commendable account ...' Ernest Bloch's music, with Robert Anderson


• CD Spotlight - Voice of an angel. 'A wonderful collection ...' Gillian Weir's Organ Master Series on Priory, with David Thompson


• Scriabin on disc - An overview of the recorded music of Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) by John Bell Young


• A countertenor virtuoso - Glyndebourne's latest new star talks to Roderic Dunnett


• CD Spotlight - A sense of occasion. '... pomp without pomposity, excitement without loss of dignity, and ... a sense of hushed awe.' The Coronation of King George II, 1727, reviewed by Peter Dale


• That time of year - The Editor attempts to thread a few thoughts together as a thunderous year draws to a close


• Christmas story - Juliet Averay visits Munich's Market of the Christ Child


• Ensemble - St Petersburg Revelations. Malcolm Miller attends UK premières of recent Russian music in London


• Ensemble - Masterly. Roderic Dunnett catches up with Glyndebourne Touring Opera's 'Rodelinda'


• Teenage talent - Malcolm Miller hears Asuka Nakamura at Leighton House, London


• Provocative thoughts, from Patric Standford - Counterpoint


• Record box - Unexpected delicacies. Telemann concerti as savoured by Basil Ramsey


• CD Spotlight - Darkly brooding. '... a thoughtful and carefully prepared account, beautifully played and recorded.' Shostakovich's Sixth and Tenth Symphonies, with David Thompson


• Ensemble - Jauchzet, frohlocket! Malcolm Miller at Cholmeley Choral Society's Christmas Oratorio in London


• Ensemble - Perennial favorite. Chad Neuman at Orlando Opera's 'The Tales of Hoffmann'


• Record box - Galactic timelessness. Keith Bramich listens to planets, old and new


• Ensemble - Eastern melisma. Malcolm Miller hears the Tel-Aviv Trio at London's Wallace Collection


• CD Spotlight - A luminous pearl. 'The performances on this disc are excellent.' The symphonies of Rued Langgaard, with Peter Dale


• CD Spotlight - Magisterial presence. '... a performance that is at once radiant, powerful and precise.' Garnet Ungar plays Brahms, reviewed by John Bell Young


• Ensemble - Sublimely sensual. Roderic Dunnett looks back on a stunning young clarinettist's début and the music of one of Britain's most rapturous modern composers, both featured at the 2001 Deal Festival


• Record box - Heart-rending sounds. Music for trombone and orchestra by Takemitsu, with Keith Bramich


• MV3, with Gordon Rumson and Keith Bramich - Habermann, Buckle, Green and snagloopdog


• Spiritual horizons - Jennifer Paull pays tribute to George Harrison, who died in November 2001


• Second Sight - Music with Wilfrid Mellers - A wizard at the keyboard. 'Hamelin ... may perhaps come closest to the necromatic dazzle that the composer's own playing was said to display.' Marc-André Hamelin plays Alkan


• Editorial musings with Basil Ramsey - On being caught - back on the trail ...


• Record box - Piano sonorities. Basil Ramsey hears American piano music.


• Ensemble - Truly chilling. David Thompson listens to Britten's 'War Requiem' in London


• CD Spotlight - A marked contrast. 'Exemplary performances, excellent recording and presentation ...' Two piano quintets, with David Thompson


• Provocative thoughts, from Patric Standford - Amateurs


• Record box - Minus the Adagio. Barber and some orchestral music, with Basil Ramsey


• Mussorgskian giant - Roderic Dunnett on the massive talents of the English composer and conductor Oliver Knussen


• Editorial musings with Basil Ramsey - Spinning on - looking at art in an uneasy world ...


• Record box - Natural affinity. Geoffrey Poole's music is tracked and enjoyed by Basil Ramsey


• MV3, with Gordon Rumson and Keith Bramich - Film Musings


• CD Spotlight - Sheer joy. '... the dazzling Eva Depoltová in the title role ...' The music of Josef Bohuslav Foerster, with Roderic Dunnett


• Striving heavenwards - Malcolm Miller attends the Kendall Taylor Memorial Concert


• Record box - Ample gifts. From the world of Brahms, with Basil Ramsey


• Celebratory Parade - Bill Newman has been to the 2001 Spoleto Festival and reports on his impressions of the surroundings, local artists and international music-making.


• CD Spotlight - Immanent power. '... a musician's musician, one who harvests a composition for its intimacy and expressive nuance.' Walter Hautzig plays dances for the piano, reviewed by John Bell Young


• CD Spotlight - Celtic twilight. '... there is a welcome simplicity and integrity about the playing.' Listening to Arnold Bax, with Robert Anderson


• Record box - Alongside AD1620. Basil Ramsey listens to the music of Edward MacDowell


• Provocative thoughts, from Patric Standford - The performer


• Teenage virtuoso - Malcolm Miller attends the impressive Wigmore Hall début of Singaporean violinist Min Lee


• Whispers of heavenly death - Roderic Dunnett talks to Martin Lee-Browne about a newly discovered Vaughan Williams setting of Walt Whitman


• Record box - Flighty music. Unusual repertory with two flutes, as heard by Basil Ramsey


• Site seeing - cultural enlightenment, with Keith Bramich


• CD Spotlight - World Orchestral Music. 'Perhaps some future anti-ravers will take up this work ...' Hugh Flynn's Wexford Symphony, investigated by Gordon Rumson


• Provocative thoughts, from Patric Standford - The orchestra


• Record box - Benefits. A CD of Anthony Powers' music, reviewed by Basil Ramsey


• Ensemble - String Quartet Textures. Malcolm Miller attends the second performance of Graham Whettam's Fourth String Quartet


• Editorial musings with Basil Ramsey - The sounds of music - an attempt at some conclusions at a time of world crisis


• After tragedy - more letters received about music and the current international situation


• CD Spotlight - Symphonic matters. 'There is delicious writing along the way for woodwind and horns.' Attending to the symphony in 18th-century England, with Robert Anderson


• Ensemble - Mixed results. A critical view of Chisinau National Opera's 'Carmen' from Roderic Dunnett


• Record box - Church music by gaslight. Sullivan's church offerings, by Basil Ramsey


• Ensemble - Styles of our time - Malcolm Miller at the world première of Stephen Dodgson's Trio No 3


• MV3, with Gordon Rumson and Keith Bramich - M&V's monthly visit to the world of online music investigates the 'avant-garde'


• Ensemble - Fresh and engaging. Roderic Dunnett reports on Chisinau National Opera's 'Turandot'


• Second Sight. Music with Wilfrid Mellers - Mimi's Fate. Opera North's 'La Bohème'. '... alarming topicality and truth.'


• Editorial musings with Basil Ramsey - Mere ramblings


• Record box - No piano on that one. Basil Ramsey overhears musicians getting together


• Second Sight. Music with Wilfrid Mellers -


• CD Spotlight - An indispensable collection. '... indefatigably intelligent, sensitive and musical.' The final volume of Hyperion's Schubert Edition, explored by Peter Dale


• Second Sight. Music with Wilfrid Mellers -


• Second Sight. Music with Wilfrid Mellers - Civilisation and the Savage State. Janácek's 'Vixen' at Opera North. '... Annabelle Arden's magically imaginative production ...'


• Record box - Confident skill. Basil Ramsey listens to a choral composer at work


• CD Spotlight - Poetic best. '... a white-hot listening experience.' Jorge Bolet's rediscovered Liszt recital, by Igor Kipnis


• Ensemble - A home-coming. Philip Lancaster was at Gloucester for the UK's 274th Three Choirs Festival


• Record box - Full flower. Schubert lieder - Ian Bostridge with Julius Drake, by Basil Ramsey


• Golden age - Peter Dickinson reviews two books on American music


• CD Spotlight - Issued afresh. '... sheer variety of registration colours ...' Igor Kipnis plays Bach's Partitas reviewed by David Ponsford


• DVD Spotlight - Interpretative talents. '... how detailed and engaged are his interpretations of all he sings ...' An evening with Placido Domingo, live at Wembley, by Mark Valencia


• After tragedy - letters received, including a comment from the Editor


• Ensemble - Keith Bramich reports on a McCabe première, given as part of Japan 2001


• The Name of the Game - Oboe d'Amore soloist Jennifer Paull meanders through the maze of musical instrument names


• Record box - Drawing out. Herbert Howells on CD, considered by Basil Ramsey


• Provocative thoughts, from Patric Standford - Down to earth


• CD Spotlight - Spectral Sounds. 'Dora De Marinis is at once mistress of the suituation ...' Ginastera on Naxos, by Robert Anderson


• Ensemble - Naïve and Sentimental Music - Malcolm Miller attends the London première of John Adams' most recent and largest orchestral work


• Editorial musings with Basil Ramsey - Prom fever


• Record box - Guitar scenario. Basil Ramsey hears a record from Christopher Parkening


• Record box - Two by two. Animals and music, with Basil Ramsey


• Site seeing - It's all online ...


• MV3, with Gordon Rumson and Keith Bramich - M&V's monthly visit to the world of online music


• CD Spotlight - Reflective modality. '... a notable collection of songs in beautifully controlled and devoted performances ...' Listening to a recital of music by Rubbra and Vaughan Williams, with Patric Standford


• CD Spotlight - Journeying into space. 'Highly recommended.' Contemporary music for chorus, welcomed by Shirley Ratcliffe


• Editorial musings with Basil Ramsey - Bach and Handel. Some thoughts


• Record box - A comfortable stroll. Basil Ramsey meets with clarinet, basset horn and piano


• CD Spotlight - Monumental achievements. '... stunningly committed performances ...' Some thoughts on Bernstein's recordings of the Mahler symphonies, by David Wilkins


• National ambition - Keith Bramich visits Wales for the opening concert of the 2001 Presteigne Festival


• Iberian spice - Malcolm Miller attends a recital by Mats Lidström and Alberto Portugheis


• Record box - Quick-change artist. Encounters with Poulenc, by Basil Ramsey


• Editor's inbox - a selection of letters from our readers


• Stage presence - Keith Bramich listens to soprano Anya Szreter in London's Regent Hall


• Second Sight - Music with Wilfrid Mellers - Touching Touch-pieces. 'We are grateful to the player for her skill and sensitivity ...' Bach's Seven Toccatas for Harpsichord


• Virtuoso demands - Robert Anderson listens to music by Poul Ruders, Lutoslawski and Sibelius in London's Royal Albert Hall


• Record box - Period reflections. Grechaninov's symphonies, with Basil Ramsey


• Fool's gold - An alternate meaning to the music of Philip Glass, from Gordon Rumson


• Cosmic Failure - Malcolm Miller on the world première of Tavener's 'Song of the Cosmos'


• CD Spotlight - Impeccable ensemble. 'Christopher Robinson demonstrates that his team is at the forefront of our church choirs ...' Rubbra's church music, with Robert Anderson


• Record box - Worth a challenge. William Schuman's music, with Basil Ramsey


• Many pleasures - Roderic Dunnett at Stowe Opera's Rusalka


• MV3, with Gordon Rumson and Keith Bramich - M&V's monthly visit to the world of online music


• CD Spotlight - Perfect legato. '... as honest and durable a tribute to the unending delights of Bach's mastery as one could wish for.' Angela Hewitt plays Bach, with David Wilkins


• CD Spotlight - Russia's roots. '... generally this is a recording well worth having.' The colourful world of Rimsky-Korsakov and Russian folk music, by Patric Standford


• Rare Strauss - Roderic Dunnett samples a Garsington speciality


• Record box - Space and light. Two American composers in the light, with Basil Ramsey


• Site seeing - Yet more composers online - have you seen these sites?


• Second Sight - Music with Wilfrid Mellers - Time and Truth. 'The conductor, Rinaldo Alessandrini, handles the band with fierily precise discipline ...' A new recording of a Handel oratorio


• Editorial musings with Basil Ramsey - Daily routine. Noting the downside


• Record box - A neglected vista. Basil Ramsey views Handel afresh


• CD Spotlight - Idiosyncracies. Anderszewski plays Beethoven, with Shirley Ratcliffe


• Editorial musings with Basil Ramsey - Looking for the best


• Record box - The divide. Basil Ramsey struggling with the Virtual Orchestra


• Ivor Gurney in Buckinghamshire - Roderic Dunnett writes about landscape and music


• CD Spotlight - Musical eloquence. 'The playing under Alexander Anissimov is as accomplished as the music.' Glazunov symphonies, with Robert Anderson


• Record box - The ravishing factor. Basil Ramsey spends 131 minutes with Mozart


• Towards and beyond the mighty Eighth - a select overview of major Bruckner Symphonies and interpreters on disc, by Bill Newman (with special reference to a rare recording by Rudolf Kempe)


• CD Spotlight - Incomparable performances. '... refined music making ...' Pola Baytelman plays Albéniz and Ginastera, by John Bell Young


• Bolt from the blue - The Editor gently ruminates


• Record box - Basil Ramsey with Malcolm Arnold's symphonies


• Proms before the Proms - Malcolm Miller attended two concerts by Israeli artists in a recent music festival in North London


• Larsen's Licence - Howard Smith writes about one of the most important and celebrated composers working today


• Mozart to savour - Alfred Brendel, Sir Charles Mackerras and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra at the Aldeburgh Festival, by Malcolm Miller


• Sharing the response - Bill Newman in conversation with Petr Altrichter


• Record box - The Kirkby sound. Handel from a special voice, with Basil Ramsey


• Music: The Chameleon Catalyst - Oboe d'Amore specialist Jennifer Paull reflects on education, liguistics and the muse


• The Turn of the Tide - Roderic Dunnett reports on a Maxwell Davies European continental première in Vatroslav Lisinski Hall, Zagreb, Croatia


• CD Spotlight - The Maid of the Mountains. '...sheer delight from beginning to end.' Harold Fraser-Simpson's operetta, with Roderic Dunnett


• Editorial musings with Basil Ramsey - Seeking a perspective - selecting what we need


• Record box - Trawling for treasure - Sviatoslav Richter


• Site seeing - More musical websites from classical cyberspace


• CD Spotlight - Collecting material. '... a mélée of romantic and selective modern language ...' Utilising the unusual, with Basil Ramsey


• CD Spotlight - Persuasively delivered. 'She is most compelling in the German literature ...' A Renée Fleming and Jean-Yves Thibaudet recital, with John Bell Young


• Excited by music - Flautist Kathryn Thomas in conversation with Keith Bramich


• Record box - Invention. Flute and piano, with Basil Ramsey


• Record box - Musical manners. Basil Ramsey listens to Robert King's performances of Johann Schelle


• New twists - Malcolm Miller listens to American pianist John Robilette


• CD Spotlight - Lilacs. '... interesting and imaginative music ... professional and committed throughout.' The music of American composer George Walker, with Keith Bramich


• On watch at the Van Cliburn Competition - with John Bell Young


• Record box - Trawling for treasure - Annie Fischer


• MV3 - fragments of forgotten sounds - take Gordon Rumson's world tour!


• Distinction and imagination - Malcolm Miller attended a recent concert by violinist Grigory Zhislin


• Second Sight. Music with Wilfrid Mellers - Celestial Voices. An early songbook on CD


• On watch at the Van Cliburn Competition - with John Bell Young


• Record Box - Floating. Bohemian Flute Concertos, with Basil Ramsey


• Record box - Touching Wood. Charles Wood's church music, with Basil Ramsey


• A deeper plane - Roderic Dunnett is impressed by John McCabe's score for 'Le Morte d'Arthur'


• Second sight. Music with Wilfrid Mellers. - A Double Man's Last Harvest. Vaughan Williams' Symphonies 8 and 9


• Engagingly accessible - Malcolm Miller reports on the UK première of Peter Breiner's jazzy Piano Trio


• Robert and Clara - Major piano works of the Schumanns. Martino Tirimo in recital, by Malcolm Miller


• Dame Moura Lympany - A personal tribute by Bill Newman


• Record box - Trawling for treasure - Michelangeli


• CD Spotlight - Sonically brilliant. '... an entirely involving performance ...' A new recording of the Berlioz 'Te Deum', with David Wilkins


• CD Spotlight - On top of the notes. '... an ordinary, competent piano player.' A view of pianist Lang Lang, from John Bell Young


• Editorial musings with Basil Ramsey - Book search


• Record box - Checking the pulse. Vaughan Williams and chamber music, with Basil Ramsey


• Record box - Speaking out. The little-known Slavický, with Basil Ramsey


• Record box - Knowing Knüpfer. A pre-Bach notable, with Basil Ramsey


• CD Spotlight - '... "The World" and the six short Russian songs show Tavener at his best ...' The Vanbrugh Quartet plays John Tavener, with Patric Standford


• Second sight. Music with Wilfrid Mellers. - Wilfrid Mellers reports on Opera North's current production of 'Eugene Onegin'


• Remarkable young ensembles - Patric Standford attended the UK's National Young Musicians' Festival


• Paradise Moscow - Opera North's new production of the Shostakovitch musical at the Grand Theatre, Leeds, UK. Patric Standford was at the first night ...


• Record box - Trawling for treasure. Bill Newman seeks out Golden Age performers now reinstated on CD. BBC Legends and Beecham


• Record box - Trawling for treasure. Dennis Brain on BBC Legends


• Creating 'The Emperor's Orchestra' - Creating 'The Emperor's Orchestra', with Patric Standford


• MV3, with Gordon Rumson and Keith Bramich - M&V's monthly visit to the world of online music


• CD Spotlight - Merry or sad. '... New College ... can produce English chapel singing at its best, both sensitive and robust.' The 'worthy' William Boyce, with Robert Anderson


• The Ring in Chemnitz - Robert Anderson pays a visit


• Japanese tone painting - Takemitsu, Schumann and Musorgsky. Malcolm Miller at a recent recital by Noriko Ogawa


• Record box - Imaginative variety. Trevor Hold's reaction to Kilpinen's songs


• Site seeing - Islamey and friends - discoveries and re-discoveries, with Keith Bramich


• CD Spotlight - Power and virtuosity. '... a powerful (in every sense) take on these endlessly rewarding works ...' Kovacevich plays Beethoven, with David Wilkins


• Beethoven première? - Malcolm Miller evaluates the chamber version of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto, premièred recently in London


• The Haunted Manor - Roderic Dunnett congratulates Opera Omnibus for its recent 'Straszny Dwór'


• Record box - Flute tones. Basil Ramsey reports on the unusual in ensemble


• Record box - Saint-Saëns and Seki. An Admirable partnership, with Basil Ramsey


• Lithuanian fascination - Malcolm Miller attends a special piano recital


• CD Spotlight - Smyth's Mass. 'The musical ideas are often bold ...' A disc in the EMI British Composers' series, with Peter Dale


• Editorial musings with Basil Ramsey - Technology, music and life. A new sense of purpose?


• Record box - Polished gems. Roderic Dunnett continues his occasional series on East European music with a visit to the Polish Royal Court


• Joining threads - Monica McCabe tells the story of the collaboration between David Bintley and John McCabe


• CD Spotlight - Rich and rare sonorities. '... a pleasure beyond expectation.' Robert Anderson listens to quartets from Catalonia


• Second sight: Music with Wilfrid Mellers - Resuscitation. 'This tragic music, superbly sung by Dorothea Röschmann, pierces to the heart's core ...' Enthusing over an event in recorded opera


• Strange paradox - Bernard Coutaz, founder and chairman of harmonia mundi, writes on globalisation and the destruction of culture


• Beguiling interpretations - Liszt transcriptions in performance - a London début recital, with Malcolm Miller


• Neglected Haydn - Gerald Fenech enjoyed the revival of a forgotten Haydn opera


• CD Spotlight - Absolutely idiomatic. '... his expressiveness is faultless.' Schumann's Dichterliebe and other Heine settings, with Peter Dale


• Paying tribute - The Editor's Quarterly Surprise


• Cultural flowering - Malcolm Miller in conversation with Hanna Munitz, General Director of New Israeli Opera


• Record box - Give and Take. Basil Ramsey enjoys companion organ CDs


• Variations - Malcolm Miller attended the Sixth Annual Jacqueline du Pré Concert in London


• MV3, with Gordon Rumson and Keith Bramich - M&V's monthly visit to the world of online music


• Classical Spam - Professor Oliphant Chuckerbutty returns to investigate the intriguing subject of musicians' unwanted emails ...


• Second sight - The Tyrant as Hero. Wilfrid Mellers, reflecting on a Handel opera


• Editorial musings - Personal experience. Eligibility to captivate, with Basil Ramsey


• Record box - Four-handed music. Igor Kipnis & Karen Kushner, with Basil Ramsey


• Site seeing - Linking with Plymouth, plus a sneak preview of M&V's new links page, with Keith Bramich


• Epistle of Love - Malcolm Miller was at the world première of Sir John Tavener's recent song cycle


• CD Spotlight - Definitely among the greats. '... Podvalová's Sárka is a celebrated interpretation.' A Marie Podvalová operatic recital, with Roderic Dunnett


• Wide range and experience - Joanne Chang writes on music education in the USA


• Record box - Curious polish. Village band music, with Roderic Dunnett


• Site seeing - The cabbage patch - more readers' suggestions, with Keith Bramich


• CD Spotlight - Humanitarian anxiety. 'It is hard to imagine more idiomatically persuasive performances.' Penderecki orchestral works, with Peter Dale


• CD Spotlight - Magical stuff. '... Gamba is remarkably successful ...' The film music of Alan Rawsthorne, with Roderic Dunnett


• Record box - Out with a bang. Trios for clarinet, with Basil Ramsey


• Site seeing - Silver discs - record labels online, with Keith Bramich


• CD Spotlight - An ingenious person. '... the Apollo Consort is wonderfully alert and sensitive.' John Jenkins admired by Robert Anderson


• CD Spotlight - Piano masterpieces. '... these performances are as compelling as they are touching.' A recital by the young Texan pianist Roger Wright, by John Bell Young


• Ives and the Establishment - Jennifer Paull compares the American visionary composer with Spanish architech Antonio Gaudí


• Record box - Absolute partnership. Finding choral sensitivity, with Basil Ramsey


• Record box - A Mediterranean Soundworld. Camilleri on record, with Basil Ramsey


• Site seeing - Snow White and the 7th Virus - websites recommended by our readers, with Keith Bramich


• MV3, with Gordon Rumson and Keith Bramich - M&V's monthly visit to the world of online music


• CD Spotlight - Transparently colourful. '... chamber music for orchestra, beautifully made.' The Preludes for Sinfonietta of Vagn Holmboe, with Patric Standford


• CD Spotlight - Beautiful vision. 'This is a spectacularly interesting recital ...' The Golden Voice of the Prague National Theatre, with Roderic Dunnett


• Trump card - Howard Smith tells the story of the New Zealand String Quartet's well-kept Hungarian secret


• Record box - Visiting ducks. Encounters with a recorder quartet, by Basil Ramsey


• Site seeing - Special collections - the top 10 websites of February 2000, with Keith Bramich


• Indispensable - Peter Dickinson reads Steven Moore Whiting's 'Satie, the Bohemian: from Cabaret to Concert Hall'


• Engaging and original - Malcolm Miller enthuses about English National Opera's 2001 Carmen revival


• Editorial musings - Highs and lows. Global issues, with Basil Ramsey, announcing new online forms to publish your concerts and news items.


• Record box - Gentle pleasure. Dallying with Grétry, with Basil Ramsey


• Site seeing - Slice searching? A bizarre way to make sense of the net, with Keith Bramich


• CD Spotlight - Beautifully poised. '... the music is vibrant, insistent, and as urgently thrusting as the celebrated "Sturm und Drang" start to the G minor Symphony ... by Mozart ...' The symphonies of Joseph Martin Kraus, with Roderic Dunnett


• CD Spotlight - The essential acorn. 'The Armenian orchestra under Tjeknavorian gives a competent performance throughout ...' The music of Glinka, with Robert Anderson


• Unusual chemistry - Roderic Dunnett was at the Chisinau National Opera's 'La Bohème'


• Record box - Quite breathtaking. Roderic Dunnett listens to the Suites and double horn concerto of Johann Friedrich Fasch


• Site seeing - more 2000 top websites, with Keith Bramich


• Moldovan magic - Roderic Dunnett describes Chisinau National Opera's 'Cavalleria Rusticana' and 'Pagliacci'


• Songs of Ashes - The music of Julian Dawes on Holocaust Day, with Malcolm Miller


• Record box - Elemental music. Icelandic works, with Basil Ramsey


• Site seeing - Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001), and more top websites


• MV3, with Gordon Rumson and Keith Bramich - Music & Vision's monthly visit to the world of online music


• Resplendent panoply - Roderic Dunnett experiences the Chisinau National Opera


• CD Spotlight - Perfectly paced. 'Valerie Tryon is an excellent pianist and musician who grasps the style of these pieces beautifully ... her sound and phrasing are gorgeous.' Valerie Tryon performs the music of Ignaz Friedman, with Gordon Rumson


• Atavistic thrill - In a more extended 'captivating moment', Peter Dale discovers one of the truly great living musicians


• Record box - Flattery. Doubtful Bach well dressed, with Basil Ramsey


• Site seeing - 50 of the best. Top websites revisited, with Keith Bramich


• CD Spotlight - From rags to riches. '... clear purpose and technical prowess.' Peter Dickinson's music, with Basil Ramsey


• CD Spotlight - Unadulterated delight. '... 45 minutes of pure heaven ...' Saint-Saëns' 'La Princesse Jaune', with Roderic Dunnett


• Record box - Young music. Early quartets by Arriaga, with Basil Ramsey


• Jazz Legend - A tribute to Oscar Peterson, by Malcolm Miller


• Second Sight - Music with Wilfrid Mellers - The tragic dimension. Debussy's 'Pelléas et Mélisande' as in Opera North's current production


• Seeking the Soul - 'Faust Cantata' at the BBC Schnittke Festival in London's Barbican Centre, by Malcolm Miller


• Record box - Brilliantly handled. Roderic Dunnett listens to 'La Contadina' by Hasse


• Lisztian vision - In the first of an occasional series on East European music and opera, Roderic Dunnett reviews the music and recordings of Zdenek Fibich


• Legendary artist - Gordon Rumson investigates the pianist, composer, teacher, activist and organiser Gunnar Johansen


• Venetian Splendour - Trevor Pinnock and the English Concert, with Malcolm Miller


• Sympathetic strings - An introduction to the Viola d'Amore, with Thomas Georgi


• Record box - A maverick streak. Nielsen at his best, with Basil Ramsey


• Record box - Wagnerian colours. Draeseke's Symphonia tragica, with Roderic Dunnett


• Record box - Spring in his step. Diabelli entertains, with Basil Ramsey


• Editorial musings - Finger tapping. Looking ahead, with Basil Ramsey


• CD Spotlight - Continuously fascinating. The music of Gordon Crosse, with Peter Dickinson


• 2000 choice - Basil Ramsey looking both ways, but not at once


• Record Box - Wonderful achievement. 'Exciting to stumble across a composer and playing so vital and refreshing.' Roderic Dunnett listens to the 3rd Symphony of Wilhelm Peterson-Berger


• Record Box - Uphill struggles. Paul Archbold and Fabrice Fitch - Composers today, with Basil Ramsey


• Speaking universally - A Yank's appreciation of British music, with Richard Krause


• MV3, with Gordon Rumson and Keith Bramich - The first of Music & Vision's monthly visits to the world of online music