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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. London Symphony Orchestra - Bruckner 6 (LSO Live)

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 28 February 2003 COLIN Davis' recordings with the LSO are proving to be a magnificent series of mementos of his performances at the Barbican.

3. 3. 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.

4. 4. Buffalo Philharmonic - Frederick Converse (Naxos)

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 28 February 2003 ANOTHER from the Naxos American Classics stable, and an interesting sample of the work of the New England composer and businessman who died in 1940.

5. 5. 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.

6. 6. 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.

7. 7. 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).

8. 8. 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.

9. 9. Petersen Quartet @ RNCM

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 21 January 2003 BERLIN'S Petersen Quartet play new music on old instruments (three of them are 18th century), and the varnished tone they produce made Krenek's string quartet no.1, the main course they offered Manchester Chamber Concerts Society, all the more attractive.

10. 10. 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.

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