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1. 31. Maggini Quartet - Bliss (Naxos)

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 17 December 2004 THE Maggini Quartet, who have achieved such great things with Elgar's and other English composers' chamber music, now turn to Sir Arthur Bliss, one of the most feted of our composers in the post-Second World War period and now suffering from considerable neglect (apart from his film score for The Shape Of Things To Come).

2. 32. Hall' show to savour

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 02 August 2004 THOUSANDS of classical music fans basked in a Hall' Orchestra performance beneath the summer night skies at Tatton Park.

3. 33. The tracks of my years

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 23 August 2004 IF you loved the days when glitter, discos and flares weren't considered to be dirty words and the likes of Abba, Queen and Barry White ruled the world, the More Sounds Of The Seventies concert by the Performing Arts Orchestra is not to be missed.

4. 34. Wynton leads the way at MJF

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 14 July 2004 IF the rock 'n' roll bluster of the recent Move Festival wasn't entirely your cup of tea, the latest music event to arrive in the city may just hit the spot. As from July 24 the chilled out tones of some of the world's finest musicians will emanate from various city centre locations, as the Manchester Jazz Festival returns.

5. 35. Steven Osborne and Martin Roscoe - Messiaen (Hyperion)

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 14 October 2004 WRITTEN during the Second World War, Olivier Messiaen's sequence of seven meditations on "the Amen", for two pianos, springs very clearly from his organ music and the profound Christian beliefs he almost always sought to express through it.

6. 36. A great Wrench

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 16 April 2004 DAVID& Wrench is a six foot five albino who came to Manchester via Bangor and was soon signed up to rising local label Storm Music thanks to his darkly delicious electropop.

7. 37. Sting in the tale

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 19 November 2004 "I DON'T know where I'd be without music or what I'd be doing with my fingers if I wasn't playing anything. Stealing? Murdering people? says Sting, who finally arrives in Manchester on Monday, November 22, six months after he originally planned.

8. 38. Music Festivals 2004: Buxton Festival

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 07 July 2004 AFTER experimenting with a number of formulae, in recent years the Buxton Festival appears to have worked out the one which brings in the punters - and they've stuck with it.

9. 39. Status Quo @ Delamere Forest

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 02 August 2004 CAN we please have some respect for Britain's favourite rockers? Status Quo might be hated by the music elite for their predictable three-chord rock, but they are worshipped by the masses and you can't argue with the majority.

10. 40. Are you ready to Wobble?

    Manchester Evening News, Monday 01 November 2004 BASS virtuoso and rhythm magician Jah Wobble returns to Manchester on Saturday when he takes to the stage at the Life Caf'.

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