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'Eclectic Music That Will Put a Smile on Your Face' - Works for Saxophone Quartet by Terry Riley
Detroit Free Press - 22 November 2005

Christopher Hogwood's Recordings of Handel's Concerti Grossi Op. 3 and 6 Return to the Racks
Birmingham Post - 17 November 2005

Chamber Music by a Most Unusual Russian (A Non-Smoking, Teetotaling Polyphonist) - Sergei Taneyev
An all-star ensemble (Pletnev, Repin, Gringolts, Imai, Harrell) performs the Piano Quintet and Piano Trio.
Bangkok Post - 17 November 2005

The Bach Collegium Japan in Bach's Four Orchestral Suites
Birmingham Post - 10 November 2005

Eschenbach's First Disc with the Philadelphia Orchestra Is a (Flawed) Success
Philadelphia Inquirer - 2 November 2005

Not a Comfortable Mahler Fifth - Sakari Oramo and the City of Birmingham Symphony
Birmingham Post - 27 October 2005

'A Turbulent Listen' - Janácek's The Eternal Gospel and Other Works
Birmingham Post - 13 October 2005

Serene Lyricism and Seductive Tone: Camerata Freden Plays Schubert's Octet, Recorded in Surround-Sound
Bangkok Post - 6 October 2005

The Three Prizewinners of the 2005 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
Fort Worth Star Telegram - 2 October 2005

'Edifice of Musical Splendour' - Arvo Pärt's LamenTate
The Herald [Glasgow] - 1 October 2005

Marin Alsop Conducts Brahms's First Symphony
Birmingham Post - 29 September 2005

Sometimes Quaint, Sometimes Imaginative, Sometimes 'High-Grade Tosh' - Piano Music by Edward MacDowell
Birmingham Post - 29 September 2005

'All My Heart - Deborah Voigt Sings American Songs'
Akron Beacon Journal [Ohio] - 25 September 2005

'Everything One Could Have Hoped For' - Plácido Domingo in Tristan und Isolde
Washington Post - 25 September 2005

A Surreal Visual Fantasia: Christian Chaudet's 3D Animated Treatment of Stravinsky's The Nightingale
Bangkok Post - 23 September 2005

'Well-Nigh Spielbergian' - Stokowski's Orchestrations of Mussorgsky, in Surround-Sound
The Independent [London] - 20 September 2005

'It's Not Just That She's a Dazzling Virtuoso' - Emma Bell Sings Handel Arias
The Herald [Glasgow] - 17 September 2005

Something's Missing: MTT and the San Francisco Symphony in Mahler's Ninth
Birmingham Post - 15 September 2005

James MacMillan's Seven Last Words from the Cross
Birmingham Post - 15 September 2005

Lugansky, Oramo and the City of Birmigham Symphony Complete Their Survey of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concertos
Birmingham Post - 8 September 2005



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