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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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Antonio Vivaldi: Bajazet
David Daniels, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Marijana Mijanovic, Elina Garanca, Vivica Genaux, Patrizia Ciofi
Europa Galante, direction et violon Fabio Biondi
Virgin Classics 7243 5 45676 2 9 (2 CD - 146 min 26 s; dvd de 30 min)

Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Plácido Domingo (Gustavo III), Leo Nucci (Renato), Josephine Barstow (Amelia), Florence Quivar (Ulrica), Sumi Jo (Oscar), Kurt Rydl (Horn), Goran Simic (Ribbing), Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Georg Solti
Stage Director: John Schlesinger, Video Director: Brian Large
TDK DVUS-CLOPUBIM (145 min) Sound 2.0

Franghiz Ali-Zadeh
Oasis (1998), Apsheron Quintet (2001), music for piano (1989/1997), Mugam Sayagi (1993)
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, piano; Kronos Quartet
Nonesuch 79804-2 (79 min 58 s)

Adelaida Reyes
Music in America : Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture
Oxford University Press, New York, 2005, 123 p. (avec CD)

Hans Werner Henze: L'Upupa
Laura Aikin (Badi'at), John Mark Ainsley (Demon), Alfred Muff (Old Man), Hanna Schwarz (Malik), Matthias Goerne (al Kasim), Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/Marcus Stenz
Stage Director: Dieter Dorn, Video Director: Brian Large
EuroArts 2053929 (143 min) Sound 2.0 & 5.1

Sunleif Rasmussen: Orchestral Works
Symphony No 1 "Oceanic Days", Saxophone Concerto "Dem Licht entgegen"; Jeanette Balland (saxophone), Danish National Symphony Orchestra/Hannu Lintu
Dacapo 6220506 (Hybrid SACD - 61 min 57 s)

John Corigliano: Orchestral Works
Symphony No 2, Suite from "The Red Violin": Eleonora Turovsky (violin), I Musici de Montréal / Yuli Turovsky
Chandos CHSA 5035 (Hybrid SACD 62 min 28 s)

Rodolfo Halffter
Paquiliztli op.46, Obertura festiva op.21, Obertura concertante op.5, La madrugada del panadero op.12a, Don Lindo de Almeira op.7b
José Ramon Encinar, Orchestra of the Comunidad de Madrid
Naxos 8.557623 (58 min)

David Behrman : My Dear Siegfried
XI Records XI 129 (CD 1:59 min 6 s - CD 2:56 min 18 s)

Lukas Foss : Elegy for Anne Frank
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Gerard Schwartz, Laudibus / Michael Brewer, Seattle Symphony / Gerard Schwartz
Naxos – Milken Archive 8.559438 (66 min 27 s)

John Williams : Star Wars – Episode III (Revenge of the Sith)
The London Symphony Orchestra / John Williams
Sony Classical SK 94220 1 CD (70 min 45 s) 1 DVD (70 min)

Mendelssohn : Intégrale des Quatuors à cordes
Pacifica Quartet (Simin Ganatra, premier violon, Sibbi Bernhardsson, second violon, Masumi Per Rostad, alto, et Brandon Vamos, violoncelle)
Cedille Records CDR 90000 082 (3 CD - 213 min 41 s)

Fauré : The Complete Songs – 2
Jennifer Smith, Geraldine McGreevy, Felicity Lott, Stella Doufexis, John Mark Ainsley, Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, Chrisopher Maltman et Stephen Varcoe.
Graham Johnson, piano
Hyperion CDA67334 (68 min 03 s)

Moodswings
Musique composée et interprétée par Elvis Costello,Björk, Sting, Meredith Monk, Ron Sexmith, Richard Rodney Bennett, Errollyn Wallen, Randy Newman, etc.
Quatuor Brodsky
Brodsky Records BRD 3501 (55 min 23 s)

Adolph Deutsch
The Maltese Falcon and other film scores
William Stromberg, Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Naxos 8.557701 (75 min 51 s)

William Boyce: Eight Symphonies, Op 2
Aradia Ensemble/Kevin Mallon
Naxos 8557278 (60 min 57 s)

Franz Schubert
Fantaisie en fa mineur D940, Rondo en la majeur pour piano quatre-mains D951, Sonate en la majeur D664, Sonate en la mineur D784, Allegro en la mineur pour quatre-mains D947.
Maria Joao Pires et Ricardo Castro, piano
DGG 00289 477 5233 (2 CD - 93 min 13 s)

Concerto Veneziano (Vivaldi, Locatelli et Tartini)
Giuliano Carmignola, violon
Venice Baroque Orchestra / Andrea Marcon
Archiv 00289 474 5172 (65 min 56 s)