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1. 1. The best Classical music of 2002

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 27 December 2002 Robert Beale reveals his best of 2002. "It's been an interesting year, as the big labels pull back but small independents bristle with ideas - and good old Naxos keeps on putting out excellent performances at affordable prices."

2. 2. 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.

3. 3. Manchester Camerata @ Bridgewater Hall

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 21 October 2002 THE Camerata reaches its 30th anniversary season with high hopes - but only just surviving, financially. One thing it will need to do this season and next is to regain the kind of following that it enjoyed in its best years in the past.

4. 4. Classics - Bruch and Britten

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 23 August 2002 REALLY, it should be called the Liverpool Symphony. Max Bruch, the German composer whose violin concerto has a good claim to being the favourite piece of classical music in the world ever (it's always top of the Classic FM popularity list), spent the years 1880 to 1883 as conductor of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society.

5. 5. Classical - Berliner Philharmonic Cellos and Sonia Wieder-Atherton

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 09 August 2002 SIR Simon Rattle as rapper - that is the unlikely prospect on offer in this second compilation from "Die 12 Cellisten der Berliner Philharmoniker".

6. 6. Classics: John Adams - Los Angeles Philharmonic (Nonesuch)

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 11 October 2002 WRITTEN in 1999 (before El Nino), this is the latest John Adams piece for symphony orchestra (characteristically, it fulfilled four commissions simultaneously), and one of his biggest.

7. 7. Halle/Elder @ Bridgewater Hall

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 11 October 2002 THE Hall' Thursday series began as no other has, at least as far as I'm aware.

8. 8. Head

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 19 April 2002

9. 9. Head

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 26 April 2002

10. 10. Wayne Marshall at Bridgewater Hall

    Manchester Evening News, Thursday 14 February 2002 WAYNE Marshall has played the Poulenc organ concerto a good few times at the Bridgewater Hall - but not in a Halle Opus One concert before.

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