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1. 1. Goldberg Ensemble @ RNCM

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 24 February 2003 PITY the modern composer. Nobody comes to concerts of new music now (except academics and other composers) because they expect bumps and squeaks. And when, as happens, he (or she) writes something nice, people say it's derivative.

2. 2. Nash Ensemble @ RNCM

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 25 February 2003 THERE are some performances which engender such sheer joy that it's beside the point to analyse what they did to achieve it and why.

3. 3. Halle @ Bridgewater Hall

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 28 February 2003 THE Shakespearean theme of the Halle season yielded something genuinely rich and strange in the form of a selection of the music Sibelius wrote for The Tempest.

4. 4. BBC Philharmonic @ Bridgewater Hall

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 03 March 2003 TODAY'S concert audience is not deprived of new music and, on the whole, does not shy away from it.

5. 5. Halle @ Bridgewater Hall

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 17 January 2003 YOU can't say Mark Elder hasn't brought fun into the Halle Thursday concerts, after a programme like last night's (the Rabbi Felix Carlebach concert).

6. 6. BBC Philharmonic @ Bridgewater Hall

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 13 January 2003 THE concerts conducted by Gianandrea Noseda at the Bridgewater Hall in his first season could well be devoted to demonstrating the range of different music to which he can turn his hand.

7. 7. Opera North @ The Lowry

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 07 February 2003 THIS is the opera that the emperor Leopold II liked so much that at its first performance he ordered the whole thing to be done again - there and then. Being a decent chap, he bought dinner for everyone in between shows.

8. 8. Halle @ Bridgewater Hall

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 17 February 2003 IN films, evil nutters always play the organ. Dr Phibes' tune was The War March Of The Priests, I think, and Captain Nemo (like Carlo Curley) was a fan of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor.

9. 9. Walton Comes Home festival @ Bridgewater Hall

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 30 September 2002 THE "Walton Comes Home" festival could not have had a better launch in Manchester than that provided by Yan Pascal Tortelier and the BBC Philharmonic on Saturday.

10. 10. Halle @ Bridgewater Hall

    Manchester Evening News, Friday 31 January 2003 SPRING was hardly the uppermost thought in most minds last night (Thursday, January 30), but maybe a good bit of human sacrifice would have brought the colour back to our cheeks.

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