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 We review all the good CDs we get, but we don' t get every new release. Only the very best of the new recordings we receive each month are reviewed in the printed version of LSM. If a new release is not mentioned in print, it does not imply it is inferior.


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Lost Sounds. Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry. 1890-1919
Tim Brooks
Urbana et Chicago, University of Illinois Press, coll. «Music in American Life», 2004.

Le roman du piano
Dieter Hildebrandt
Traduit de l'allemand par Brigitte Hébert
Actes Sud, 2003, 492 p. ISBN 782742 745869

Identity and Everyday Life, Essays in the study of Folklore, Music, and Popular Culture
Harris M. Berger and Giovanna P. Del Negro
Wesleyan University Press, 2004, 185 p., ISBN 0-8195-6687-X

Grace Bumbry: Voices of Our Time, A Homage to Lotte Lehmann
Grace Bumbry, mezzo-soprano ; Helmut Deutsch, piano
Live performance (Theatre Musical de Paris - Chatelet, 5th May 2001) TDK (91 min)

Georges Bizet: Carmen
Marina Domashenko (Carmen), Maya Dashuk (Micaëla), Cristina Pastorello (Frasquita), Milena Josipovic (Mercédès), Marco Berti (Don José), Raymond Aceto (Escamillo), Marco Camastra (Le Danaïre), Antonio Feltracco (Le Rememdado), Dario Benini (Zuñiga), Rober
Stage Director: Franco Zeffirelli, Video Director: George Blume
TDK DVUS-OPCAR (150 min - 2 DVDs) Sound: 2.0 & 5.1

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Le Coq d'Or
Albert Schagidullin (King Dodon), Ilya Levinsky (Prince Guidon), Adnrei Breus (Prince Afron), Ilya Bannik (General Polkan), Elena Manistina (Amelfa), Barry Banks (Astrologer), Olga Trifonova (Queen of Shemakha), Yuri Maria Saenz (The Golden Cockerel), Cho
Stage Director: Isao Takashima, Video Director: Thomas Grimm
TDK DVUS-OPLCO (108 min) Sound: 2.0 & 5.1

Dmitry Shostakovich: Hamlet (Complete Film Score)
Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitry Yablonsky, conductor
Naxos Hybrid SACD 6110062 (62 min 28 s)

Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
Veronique Gens, Patrizia Ciofi, Angelika Kirchschlager, Lorenzo Regazzo, Simon Keenlyside
Concerto Köln, René Jacobs, conductor
Harmonia Mundi HMC 801818.20 (3 SACDs ; 2 hr 52 m)

Cape Breton, Fiddle and Piano Music: The Beaton Family of Mabou
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2004, SFW CD 40507 (63 min 22 s)

Calixa Lavallée: O Canada! The National Anthem / L'hymne national
Divers artistes et formations
Disques XXI - XXI-CD 2 1446 - (41 min 06 s)

Grieg and Sibelius Songs
Karita Mattila, soprano
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sakrai Oramo, conductor
Warner Classics 8573 80243-2 (58 min 22 s)

Les Gitans de Sarajevo: En voyage
Les Gitans de Sarajevo, 2004, CDLCD-2004 (54 min)

Gioacchino Rossini: La Pietra del paragone
Czech Chamber Chorus, Czech Chamber Soloists / Alessandro de Marchi
Agata Bienkowska (mezzo-soprano), Anna Rita Gemmabella (mezzo-soprano), Anke Herrmann (soprano), Raffaele Costantini (basse), Alessandro Codeluppi (ténor), Dariusz Machej (basse), Gioacchino Zarrelli (baryton), Teru Yoshihara (baryton)
Naxos - 8.660093-95 - 3 CD (2 h 41 min)

Havergal Brian: Symphonie no.1 « Gothic »
Eva Jenisova, soprano ; Dagmar Peckova, alto ; Vladimir Dolezal, tenor ; Peter Mikulas, basse ; Ondrej Lenard, Slovak Opera Chorus ; Slovak Folk Ensemble Chorus ; Lucnica Chorus ; Bratislava City Choir ; Bratislava Children's Choir ; Youth Echo Choir ; Sl
Naxos 8.557418-19 (2 CD : 1h 54 min)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Dances and Marches
Ballet Music Les Petits Riens K.299b, Three German Dances K.605, Five Contredanses K.609, Das Donnerwetter K.534, Three Marches K.408, Four Minuets K.601, Five Dances (selected by Cyril Rootham)
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner, conductor
Naxos Tintner Memorial Edition Volume 11 8557243 (74 min 14 s)

Nellie Melba : Complete Grammophone Company Recordings, vol. 4. The Hayes and London Recordings 1921-26
Nellie Melba, soprano
Oeuvres de : Puccini, Verdi, Rimsky-Korsakov, Ronald, Szulc, Romberg, Lieurance, Bishop, Douglas-Scott
Naxos Historical - 8.110780 - (69 min 37 s)

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No 8
Frances Yeend, Camilla Williams, Uta Graf, sopranos, Martha Lipton, Louise Bernhardt, contraltos, Eugene Conley, tenor, George London, bass, Carlos Alexander, baritone, the Westminster Choir, Schola Cantorum, Boys' Choir of PS 12, Leopold Stokowski, condu
Music & Arts Mono CD-1130 (77 min 54 s)

Hans Hotter - In Memoriam
Lieder de Haydn, Beethoven, Weber, Schubert, Nicolai, Schumann, Liszt, Loewe, Brahms, Wolf et Pfitzner
Hans Hotter, baryton-basse ; Michael Raucheisen, piano
Music & Arts CD-1063 (2 CD : 132 min 27 s)

RACHMANINOV: Transcriptions, Variations Corelli
Olga Kern, piano
Harmonia Mundi HMU 907336 (72 min. 37 s.)

Ottorino Respighi: Appian Adventures (le Tryptique romain)
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal / Charles Dutoit
Decca (Eloquence) - 4761514 - (61 min 36 s)

Georges Delerue: A Walk with Love and Death
Petit ensemble instrumental, synthétiseur / Robert Lafond (arrangements)
Disques Cinémusique DCM 113 - (42 min 42 s)

Robert Kurka: Orchestral Works
Symphony No 2, Julius Caesar: Symphonic Epilogue afer Shakespeare, Music for Orchestra, Serenade for Small Orchestra, Grant Park Orchestra, Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Cedille 90000 077 (64 min)

Felicja Blumental
Concertos pour piano de Arenski, Grieg, Kuhlau, Rachmaninov, Schumann et Tchaïkovski ; oeuvres diverses pour piano et orchestre de Fauré, Hummel, Liszt / Busoni et Saint-Saëns
Brana Records BR 0012 (46 min 54 s), 0013 (58 min 06 s), 0015 (61 min 08 s) et 0016 (72 min 13 s) (4 CD : 238 min 21 s)

Belle Voci: Airs de Bach, Haendel, Mozart, Beethoven et Puccini
Lyne Fortin, Karina Gauvin, Suzie LeBlanc et Diana Soviero, sopranos ; Marie-Nicole Lemieux, contralto
Orchestre Métropolitain, direction Joseph Rescigno, Ensemble Tafelmusik, direction Jeanne Lamon, Luc Beauséjour, clavecin, Marie-Claire Labbé, flûte baroque et Amanda Keesmaat, violoncelle
Analekta AN 2 9762 (61 min 34 s)

Heartbeat of the People, Music and Dance of the Northern Pow-Wow
Tara Browner
University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 2004, 163 p. ISBN 0-252-07186-7

Johann Sebastian Bach: St Matthew Passion
Irmgard Seefried, Anny Felbermayer, Gisela Rathauscher, Rosl Sterba, sopranos, Kathleen Ferrier, Magdalena Stowasser, contraltos, Walter Ludwig, Fritz Uhl, tenors, Otto Edelmann, Paul Schöffler, Walter Berry, bass-baritones, Erich Kaufmann, bass, Harald P
Andante BK-A-1170 (210 min 04 s, 3 CDs)