‘Conciertos para el fin del milenio’. TOUSSAINT: Concierto No. 2 para violonchelo y orquesta (1999). MARQUEZ: Espejos en la arena (2000). SIERRA: Cuatro versos (Concerto for Cello & Orchestra) (1999). Carlos Prieto (vlc), Orquesta de las Americas c. Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor. Urtext JBCC 047.

BRAUN: Psalterion (2000); Day and Day (1998); Piano Trio No. IV (2002). Amber Trio Jerusalem, Eli Sassoon (santur), Edna Prochnik (mezzo-sop). Gramola 98766.

BIRTWISTLE: The Axe Manual1; Oockooing Bird; Sad Song; Berceuse de Jeanne; Précis; Hector's Dawn; Ostinato with Melody; Betty Freeman: Her Tango; Saraband: The King's Farewell; Harrison's Clocks. Nicolas Hodges (pno), 1Claire Edwardes (perc). Metronome MET CD 1074.

DIAMOND: String Quartets (complete); Concerto for String Quartet; Night Music for Accordion and String Quartet1. Potomac String Quartet with 1Carmelo Pino (acc). 4-CD set (each disc available separately): Albany TROY 504 (Nos. 3 and 8, Concerto), 540 (Nos. 2, 9 and 10), 613 (Nos. 1, 5 and 6) and 727 (Nos. 4 and 7, Night Music).

HOWELL: Violin Sonata in F minor; Rosalind for violin & piano; Piano Sonata in E minor; Humoresque for piano; 5 Studies for piano. Lorraine McAslan (vln), Sophia Rahman (pno). Dutton Epoch CDLX 7144.

BACEWICZ: Violin Sonatas Nos. 4–5; Oberek No. 1; Sonata No. 2 for violin solo; Partita; Capriccio; Polish Capriccio. Joanna Kurkowicz (v;n), Gloria Chien (pno). Chandos CHAN 10250.

MARIC: Byzantine Concerto1; Cantata: Threshold of Dream2,3,6; Ostinato Super Thema Octoïcha4–6; Cantata: Song of Space7. 1Olga Jovanovic (pno), Belgrade PO c. Oskar Danon, 2Dragoslava Nikolic (sop, alto), 3Jovan Milicevic (narr), 4Ljubica Maric (pno), 5Josip Pikelj (hp), 6Radio-TV Belgrade CO c. Oskar Danon, 7Radio-TV Belgrade Mixed Choir & SO c. Mladen Jagušt. Chandos Historical 10267H.

MUSGRAVE: For the Time Being: Advent1; Black Tambourine2–3; John Cook; On the Underground Sets1–3. 1Michael York (narr), 2Walter Hirse (pno), 3Richard Fitz, Rex Benincasa (perc),New York Virtuoso Singers c. Harold Rosenbaum. Bridge 9161.

KUI DONG: Earth, Water, Wood, Metal, Fire1; Pangu's Song2; Blue Melody3; Crossing (electronic/computer tape music); Three Voices4. 1Sarah Cahill (pno), 2Tod Brody (fl), Daniel Kennedy (perc), 3San Francisco Contemporary Music Players c. Olly Wilson, 4Hong Wang (Chinese fiddle), Ann Yao (Chinese zither), Chen Tao (bamboo fl). New World 80620-2.

FIRSOVA: The Mandelstam Cantatas: Forest Walks, op. 36; Earthly Life, op. 31; Before the Thunderstorm, op. 70. Ekaterina Kichigina (sop), Studio for New Music Moscow c. Igor Dronov. Megadisc MDC 7816.

KATS-CHERNIN: Ragtime & Blues. Sarah Nicholls (pno). Nicola Sweeney (vln). Signum SIGCD058.

CHAMBERS: A Mass for Mass Trombones. Thomas Hutchinson (trb), Ensemble of 76 trombones c. David Gilbert. Centaur CRC 2263.

RICHARD ALLAIN : ‘When I'm Gone’ – choral works performed by Laudibus (Chamber Choir) and National Youth Choir of Great Britain, c. Mike Brewer. Delphian DCD34026.

ADÈS: Piano Quintet1. SCHUBERT: Piano Quintet D667, The Trout2. Thomas Adès (pno), 1Arditti Quartet, 2members of the Belcea Quartet, 2Corin Long (db). EMI 7243 5 57664 2 7.

Eli Zion – from St Petersburg to Jerusalem: Music from the ‘New Jewish School’. David Geringas (vlc), Jascha Nemtsov (pno). SWR and Hännsler-Classic CD 93.122.

I just received my copy of the January issue of Tempo, and with it the results of the Masterpiece Poll.