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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
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 | Jean-Baptiste Lully
Roland Nicolas Testé, Anna Maria Panzarella, Olivier Dumait, Monique Zanetti
Les Talens Lyriques ; Chœurs de l'Opéra de Lausanne ; Christophe Rousset
Ambroisie AMB 9949 (160 min 23 s - 3cd)
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|  | Igor Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
Vocal soloists; Simon Joly Male Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra / Robert Craft; Les Noces - Vocal soloists; Simon Joly Chorale; International Percussion Ensemble / Robert Craft
Naxos 8557499 (76 min 31 s)
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|  | Arthur LeBlanc. Le poète acadien du violon
Renée Maheu
Boréal, Montréal, 2004, 324 p.
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|  | Juan Diego Florez
Great Tenor Arias
DECCA 475550-2 (58 min 24 s)
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|  | W.A. Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
Knut Skram, Ileana Cotrubus, Benjamin Luxon, Kiri Te Kanawa, Frederica von Stade, Nucci Condo, Marius Rintzler, Glyndebourne Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra / Sir John Pritchard - Stage Director: Peter Hall, Video Director: Dave Heather
Arthaus 101 089 (185 min) Sound 2.0
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|  | Kurt Atterberg: Symphonies 1-9
Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt, Radio-Philharmonie Hannover des NDR, Radio Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart / Ari Railainen
CPO 777 118-2 (329 min 55 s - 5 CDs)
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|  | Richard Wetz: Violin Concerto & Vocal Works
Ulf Wallin, violin; Markus Köhler, baritone; Kammerchor der Musikhochule Augsburg, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz / Werner Andreas Albert
CPO 999 933-2 (52 min 11 s)
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|  | Dmitri Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Nadine Secunde, Christopher Ventris, Anatoli Kotcherga, Francisco Vas, Graham Clark; Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of Gran Teatre del Liceu, Chamber Chorus of the Palau de la Musica Catalana / Alexander Anissimov - Stage Director: Stein Winge, Video Direc
EMI 5 99739 9 (187 min - 2 DVDs) Sound: 2.0 & 5.1
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|  | Vienna State Opera 1978
Giuseppe Verdi: Il Trovatore - Piero Cappuccilli, Raina Kabaivanska, Fiorenzo Cossotto, Plácido Domingo, José van Dam; Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera / Herbert von Karajan - Stage Director: Herbert von Karajan, Video Director: Günther Schn
TDK DVUS-CLOPIT (151 min - 2 DVDs) Sound: 2.0 & 5.1
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|  | Georges Bizet: Carmen
Elena Obraztsova, Plácido Domingo, Yuri Mazurok, Isobel Buchanan ; Chorus, Ballet and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera / Carlos Kleiber - Stage and Video Director: Franco Zeffirelli
TDK DVUS-CLOPCAR (154 min) Sound: 2.0
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|  | Franz Schubert
An den Mond - Night Songs
Dietrich Henschel, baryton ; Helmut Deutsch, piano
Harmonia Mundi HMC 901822 (76 min 02 s)
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|  | The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer
Renée Fleming
Viking 2004, 222 pp. ISBN 0-670-03351-0
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|  | Nicolas Bernier
Petits Motets
Ensemble Almasis
L'empreinte digitale ED13205 (54 min)
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|  | Beethoven: Piano Concertos 2 & 3
Martha Argerich, piano; Mahler Chamber Orchestr / Claudio Abbado
DG 00289 477 5026 (64 min)
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|  | Antonio Vivaldi
Concerti per fagotto e oboe
Sergio Azzolini, basson ; Hans Peter Westermann, hautbois ; Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca
Opus 111 OP 30379 (59 min 29 s)
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|  | Magic Horn
Canadian Brass
Shire-Connors, Piazzolla, Paganini, Bramwell Tovey, Vivaldi-Bach, Fescobaldi, Mozart, Handel, Ellington-Henderson, Michael Kamen.
Opening Day Recordings ODR 9330 (55 min 54 s)
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|  | Nicolas Bernier
Les Nuits de Sceaux : Apollon ou le Dieu du jour ; L'aurore
Les Folies Françaises
Alpha 058 (71 min 52 s)
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|  | Johann Georg Pisendel
Violin sonatas
Anton Steck, violon ; Christian Rieger, clavecin
CPO 999 982-2 (61 min 11 s)
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|  | Giuseppe Verdi
La Traviata
Licia Albanese, Jan Peerce, Robert Merrill ; Arturo Toscanini, dir.
Music & Arts - 4271 (103 min - 2 cd)
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|  | Beethoven : 9e Symphonie
BBC Symphony Orchestra / Arturo Toscanini
Music & Arts CD 1144 (64 min 38 s)
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|  | English Fancy / Fantaisies anglaises
Ensemble Masques, Olivier Fortin, direction, Shannon Mercer, soprano
Œuvres de Henry Purcell, John Jenkins, Thomas Campion
Analekta AN 2 9905 (63 min 20 s)
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|  | CPE Bach : Kammermusik
Les Boréades de Montréal ; Pablo Valetti, violon baroque
ATMA ACD 2 2322 (60 min 44 s)
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| | Arnold Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
Vocal soloists; Simon Joly Chorale; Philharmonia Orchestra / Robert Craft
Naxos 8557518-19 (117 min 48 s - 2 CDs)
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| | Beethoven: 9e Symphonie
NBC Symphony Orchestra / Arturo Toscanini
Music & Arts CD 1135 (74 min 14 s)
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| | Christopher Nupen: We Want The Light
The Gürzenich Orchestra of Cologne, Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor
BBC Opus Arte (336 min - 2 DVDs)
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