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GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony Nr.6 in a-minor (1903 – 1906) performed in the Piano Arrangement for 4 hands by Alexander von Zemlinsky (1906) by MARIALENA FERNANDES and RANKO MARKOVIC at the Austrian Cultural Forum, Kensington, SW7 on Sunday 30 October. Reviewed by Jim Pritchard.

Kurt Cobain: Photographed and Fictionalized: Proud Galleries, 34 John Adam Street, London WC2 (until 17^th November 2005) and Gus Van Sant’s Last Days (2005), reviewed by Marc Bridle

SELF PORTRAIT - Renaissance to Contemporary: National Portrait Gallery, Wolfson and Ground Floor Galleries, London, 20 October 2005 - 29 January 2006 (AR)

Commissions, World and UK Premieres at the 2005 Proms: written by John Warnaby

UK AND INTERNATIONAL REVIEWS

Purcell, Crumb, Previn, Berg, Schumann: Renée Fleming, Hartmut Höll, Barbican Hall, 03.11.2005 (ME)

Tippett, The Midsummer Marriage: soloists, orchestra and chorus of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden / Richard Hickox, conductor, ROH, 31.10.2005 (ED)

Ivan Moravec in New York: Janáček, Debussy, Chopin; Carnegie Hall, New York City, 31.10.2005 (BH)

György Ligeti: The Complete Piano Etudes: Christopher Taylor, Piano, Miller Theatre, Columbia University, New York City, 29.10.2005 (BH)

Varése, Lang/Greenaway, Andriessen: London Sinfonietta, Synergy Vocals, Jurjen Hempel (conductor), Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 29.10.2005 (AO)

Mozart and Schoenberg: Mitsuko Uchida (piano/director), Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Alexander Janiczek (director, Schoenberg), Barbican Hall, 29.10.2005 (CC)

Gubaidulina and Tchaikovsky: Gidon Kremer, violin, San Francisco Symphony, Kurt Masur, conductor, Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, 28.10.05 (HS)

Glinka, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky: Pieter Wispelwey (cello), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor), Queen Elizabeth Hall, 28.10.2005 (AR)

Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky: Debussy, Jeux: Poème Dansé; Ravel, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G; Stravinsky, Petrushka (1911 version), Jean-Philippe Collard (piano) Philharmonia Orchestra/Charles Dutoit, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 25.10.2005 (ED)

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