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Where have all the singers gone?
John Woodford questions why singing is not used more as a convenient method of making music in our classrooms.

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		"There's no point in getting up and playing a Shostakovich concerto à la Rostropovich - that would be pointless..." MusicTeachers.co.uk's John Woodford meets Pieter Wispelwey.

		David Bedford MusicTeachers.co.uk catch up with composer David Bedford to find out about his latest piece Like a Strand of Scarlet.

		Back to Ground MusicTeachers.co.uk's editor John Woodford meets virtuoso recorder player John Turner.

		Into Practice The third in our popular series of interactive performance notes. Pianist Paul Janes interprets the Andante grazioso of Mozart's Piano Sonata in A major, K331.

-	OCR AS Level Notes Haydn Symphony No 103, 2nd Movement
-	Edexcel Advanced Level notes: JS Bach Cantata No. 48 Ich elender Mensch
-	Edexcel Advanced Level notes: John Taverner O Wilhelme pastor bone

CDs and DVDs
-	Dave Brubeck: Points On Jazz and other works (Recording of the Month) Anthony and Joseph Paratore - pianos
-	A Marriage of England and Burgundy Binchois Consort/Kirkman
-	JS Bach Cantatas: Ich habe genug etc. Holman/Parrott/Kirkby/Thomas
-	JS Bach: The Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied violin Fulkerson
-	Mozart: The Piano Concertos Géza Anda/Camerata Academica des Salzburger Mozarteums
-	Bruckner: Symphony No 6 in A major Houston Symphony Orchestra/Christoph Eschenbach
-	Brahms: The Sextets Hausmusik London
-	Villa-Lobos: Symphony No. 10 Santa Barbara Symphony/Ben-Dor
-	Linda Merrick: Clarinet Merrick/Gourlay/Woolfenden/RNCM Wind Orchestra
-	Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Symphony No 4, Trombone and Horn Concerti Vernon/Jolley/Gregorian
-	Two Worlds Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin
-	Korngold Piano Works, Volume 1 Alexander Frey
-	In Accord Kronos Quartet (DVD)
Opera
-	Berg: Votzek City of Birmingham Opera, Liverpool, 9 March, 2001
Books
-	Making Music at the Piano Barbara English Maris
-	The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal John Harley/Andrew Ashbee
-	Heifetz As I Knew Him Ayke Angus
-	Francis Poulenc: Music, Art and Literature Buckland/Chimènes (eds)
Music
-	The Boosey and Hawkes 20th-Century Easy Song Collection 33 songs for the early grades