TWENTY HIGHLIGHTS IN 2002

The end of the year beckons, and everyone (surely) has to be forgiven at least one favourites list. There has been so much good music around in 2002, in spite of the blights wished upon us by the usual money-grabbing elements in the recording industry. It is fiendishly difficult to choose, but my selection includes (in no particular order) Birtwistle, Turnage, Torke, new Messiaen Recordings, The Necks, classic Coltane, Joanna MacGregor, Threnody Ensemble and eleven more...