<a href="http://edseckerson.independentminds.livejournal.com/3000.html">Edward Seckerson: Classical pickings 2008</a>

In no particular order.... English National Opera: "Riders to the Sea" - Fiona Shaw's "quietly devastating" staging of Vaughan Williams' one act opera; a fitting tribute to to the late lamented Richard Hickox who did so much for the cause of English music.