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1. 1. Robert Beale's Classical top 10

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 29 December 2006 SO here we go with my top 10 of the year again. It's been a year which started rather slowly, in terms of performances that moved and delighted as well as impressed. But the Hallé and Mark Elder pulled off one top-quality effort with The Wasps (though I didn't like the David Pountney contribution), and another with their selection of shorter English pieces.

2. 2. Robert Beale's Classical top 10

   CityLife, Friday 29 December 2006 SO here we go with my top 10 of the year again. It's been a year which started rather slowly, in terms of performances that moved and delighted as well as impressed. But the Hallé and Mark Elder pulled off one top-quality effort with The Wasps (though I didn't like the David Pountney contribution), and another with their selection of shorter English pieces.

3. 3. Robert Beale's Classical review of 2006

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 29 December 2006 IT was the year of Mozart and Shostakovich, and Manchester did each of them proud. Not only did we have a festival at the RNCM based on the chamber music of "Shostakovich and his Comrades", but the Danel Quartet at the University of Manchester gave the complete quartet cycle in five concerts over two-and-a-half days in November, too.

4. 4. MEN Theatre Awards 2009: Winners announced

   CityLife, Wednesday 09 December 2009 AFTER the thrills, spills, tears and tiaras of yesterday’s glittering awards ceremony, Theatre Awards judges Kevin Bourke, Natalie Anglesey, Robert Beale, Corinne Hill, Alan Hulme, Philip Radcliffe, Diana Stenson, and David Upton take you behind the scenes for their lowdown on the winners and the other nominees.

5. 5. Preview: Sing Live Magical Musicals

   CityLife, Tuesday 07 June 2011 Robert Beale reports on a landmark anniversary for the Manchester Sing Live concerts ...

6. 6. Cheadle Hulme-born opera singer Sue Bullock is Brünnhilde in Wagner’s Die Walküre performed for MIF

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 14 July 2011 Tonight marks the start of a three-day Wagner spectacular from the Hallé at Bridgewater Hall. And for Cheadle Hulme born singer Sue Bullock, a chance to show her amazing versatility. Robert Beale reports.

7. 7. Preview: Three-day Wagner spectacular

   CityLife, Thursday 14 July 2011 Tonight marks the start of a three-day Wagner spectacular from the Hallé at Bridgewater Hall. And for Cheadle Hulme born singer Sue Bullock, a chance to show her amazing versatility. Robert Beale reports.

8. 8. Best classical albums of 2005

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 30 December 2005 M.E.N. music critic Robert Beale guides us through his pick of this year's classical LPs.

9. 9. Piano superstar Lang Lang happy to cross boundaries

   CityLife, Thursday 26 May 2011 Robert Beale talks to world famous Lang Lang.

10. 10. Venezuelan Brass Ensemble to head RNCM Festival Of Brass

    CityLife, Wednesday 26 January 2011 Robert Beale talks to the artistic director of the RNCM Festival Of Brass about the event's showpiece concert by the Venezuelan Brass Ensemble.

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