Proms 2005 (2): Unsuk Chin, Sorensen, Hayes, Salonen

MARK-ANTHONY TURNAGE: Scherzoid; Evening Songs; When I Woke; Yet Another Set To. Gerald Finley (bar), Christian Lindberg (trb), LPO c. Jonathan Nott, Vladimir Jurowski and Marin Alsop. LPO — 0007.

TURNAGE: This Silence; True Life Stories; Slide Stride; Two Baudelaire Songs; Eulogy; Cantilena. The Nash Ensemble. Onyx 4005.

London, Barbican: Aho's Clarinet Concerto

London, Barbican Centre: Simon Holt's ‘witness to a snow miracle’.

BERNARD STEVENS: Fantasia on ‘Giles Farnaby’s Dreame’, op. 22See Peter Quinn, ‘Out with the Old and in with the New: Pärt's Credo’ in Tempo No.211 January 2000), pp.16–20 (Ed.).; Five Inventions, op. 14; Theme & Variations, op. 2; Ballad No. 1, op. 17; Ballad No. 2, op. 42; Sonata in one movement, op. 25; A Birthday SongThe work exists in two versions: this purely instrumental one being the first with a second, scored for tenor, solo flute and choir having been prepared for the Estonian Philharmonic Choir and premièred by them under Paul Hillier’s direction in 2002. They recorded this, with tenor Tiit Kogerman and flautist Neeme Punder, on Harmonia Mundi HMU90 7331.; FugatoSee also Euridice EUCD 26, containing two percussion pieces, Ras (1999) and Diabolus.; Invention; Fugue à 3; Fantasia on ‘The Irish Ho-Hoane’, op. 13; Barcarolle; Haymakers’ Dance; The Mirror (Canon); Square Dance; Aria; Introduction & Allegro, op. 29; 2 Dances, op. 33; Fuga alla sarabanda; Nocturne on a note-row of Ronald Stevenson, op. 51; Elegiac Fugue on the name ‘Geraldine’; Concertante for 2 pianos, op. 55. Florian Uhlig (pno), Michael Finnissy (pno), Isabel Beyer & Harvey Dagul (pno duet). Dutton CDLX 7160 (2-CD set).

London, Barbican: Salonen's ‘Wing on Wing’

London Reports: Elliott Carter, Jan Vriend, Erkki-Sven Tüür, John Kinsella, Alexander Levine, Tobias Picker

Proms 2005 (3): Gubaidulina, Adès, Turnage

JOHN METCALF: Mapping Wales; Plain Chants; Cello Symphony. Raphael Wallfisch (vlc), Catrin Finch (hp), Cardiff Ardwyn Singers, English Symphony Orchestra, Bulgarian Chamber Orchestra, Orpheus c. Helena Braithwaite, William Boughton and Raicho Christov. Nimbus NI 5746.

London, St. Andrew’s Church, Holborn: Ed Hughes’s The Birds, Wed 29 June.

London, Guildhall School of Music: Contemporary Israeli Composers

Channel 4: Judith Weir's ‘Armida’

KOECHLIN: Quatre Poèmes de Edmond Haraucourt, op.7See Peter Quinn, ‘Out with the Old and in with the New: Pärt's Credo’ in Tempo No.211 January 2000), pp.16–20 (Ed.).; Vers la Plage Lointaine (Nocturne), op. 43 no.2; Poèmes d’Automne, op.13; La jeune Tarentine, op.23 no.1; Mélodies, op.17 nos. 2 & 3; Études antiques, op.46 nos.2, 3 & 4; Le sommeil de Canope, op.36 no.1; Chant funèbre à la mémoire des jeunes femmes defuntes, op. 37, See also Euridice EUCD 26, containing two percussion pieces, Ras (1999) and Diabolus.. FAURÉ orch. KOECHLIN: Chanson de Mélisande. Juliane Banse (sop), SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR c. Heinz Holliger. Hänssler Classic CD 93.159 (2-CD set).

London: Music at the Globe Theatre, 2005 Season

Manchester, Bridgewater Hall: John Casken’s Rest-Ringing (and CD releases)

Birmingham: Morgan Hayes's Violin Concerto

HOVHANESS: Symphonies Nos. 4, 20 and 53; Prayer of St Gregory; ‘Return and Rebuild the Desolate Places’. John Wallace (tpt), Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Wind Orchestra c. Keith Brion. Naxos American Classics 8.559207.

HOVHANESS: Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra; Piano Concerto Lousadzak; Three Pieces for Two Pianos. Martin Berkofsky, Atakan Sari (pfs), Globalis Symphony Orchestra c. Konstantin Krimets. Black Box BBM 1103.

PERSICHETTI: Symphonies Nos. 3, 4 and 7. Albany Symphony Orchestra c. David Alna Miller. Albany TROY 771/772 (2 CDs for the price of one).

London: Music We'd Like To Hear, March–April 2006

Presteigne Festival 2005: Cecilia McDowall and John McCabe