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		“It’ll still never end up sounding like the Turangalîla-Symphonie. I should be so lucky, and so should they!” MusicTeachers.co.uk meet composer and ondes Martenot player Cynthia Millar.

		The two sides of Matthew Barley “I love the idea of putting things in a very unusual sound context, to have a little spice around. It makes us see things in such a different light!” Cellist Matthew Barley talks to MT.co.uk.

		Aspects of Performance Practice MT.co.uk meet up with Baroque violinist Pauline Nobes to discuss attitudes towards stylistic awareness of Baroque music when playing the modern violin.

		Into Practice: Choir Training for Beginners In the second of his series, Jeffrey Makinson looks at warming up, and gives helpful advice on the pitfalls for any choir trainer.


		This month we talk to gifted young pianist Hanja Strydom, a native of South Africa who studied in Bosnia and Germany before coming to the UK.

-	Edexcel Advanced Level notes: John Tavener The Lamb
-	OCR Advanced Level notes: Mendelssohn Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream

New Recordings
-	Oliver Knussen: Higglety, Pigglety, Pop! and Where the Wild Things Are Buchan/Saffer/Hardy/et al/London Sinfonietta/ Knussen (Sophie Baker) (Recording of the month)
-	Thomas Tallis: Missa Salve intemerata Winchester Cathedral Choir/Scriven/Hill (Peter Syrus)
-	The Unaccompanied Violin/Nobes (Stephen Bray)
-	JS Bach: Organ Masterworks Franz Hauk (John Woodford)
-	Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride Delunsch/Keenlyside/et al/Minkowski (John Woodford)
-	Mozart: Piano Concertos K482 and K595 Brendel/Mackerras/SCO (Paul Janes)
-	Reicha: Lenore Dolezal/Lenore/Hajossyova/et al//Mati (Alisdair Jamieson)
-	Beethoven and his pupils; Variations & Bagatelles Kagan/Pletnev (John Suchet)
-	Beethoven: String Quartets The Lindsays (John Suchet)
-	Hugo Wolf: Goethe Lieder McGreevy/Johnson (David Jones)
-	Dawn to Dusk: Ravel and Janácek string quartets Avalon Quartet (Paul Janes)
-	Guilmant, Fétis, Boëllmann: Masterworks for Organ and Orchestra Hauk/Ingolstadt Philharmonic/Koch (Jonathan Scott)
-	Martinu: Ariane Lindsley/Phillips/Novak/Czech Philharmonic/Neumann (Alisdair Jamieson)
-	On This Island Lynne Dawson/Malcolm Martineau (Gavin Meredith)
-	Sacred Music by John Rutter Polyphony/City of London Sinfonia/ Wallace Collection/Lumsden/Layton (Stephen Bray)
-	Libby Larsen: Orchestral Music Colorado SO/Alsop/Kinzie (Clark Rundell)
-	Lowri Blake: Captain Cook’s Cello (Anwen Lewis)
Performances
-	Olivier Messiaen: Turangalîla Symphony; Francis Poulenc: Organ Concerto Bridgewater Hall, 25 May 2001 (Ian le Prévost)
-	Beethoven: Fidelio Glyndbourne 26 May 2001 (John Suchet)
Books
-	Ann Bond: A Guide to the Harpsichord, David Rowland: Early Keyboard Instruments: A Practical Guide (John Woodford)
-	Michael I Wilson: The Chamber Organ in Britain, 1600-1830 (John Woodford)
-	Esti Sheinberg: Irony, Satire, Parody and the Grotesque in the Music of Shostakovich (Paul Janes)
Music
-	Spectrum 3: An International Collection of 25 Pieces for Solo Piano & accompanying CD compiled and played by Thalia Myers (Simon Parkin)