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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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Joseph Rheinberger: Concertos pour orgue et orchestre nos 1 et 2
Paul Skevington, orgue ; The Amadeus Orchestra / Timothy Rowe
Naxos 8.557787 (52 min 04 s)

Thomas Tallis: Spem in alium
Jeremy Summerly, Oxford Camerata
Naxos 8.557770 (77 min 19 s)

Gaetano Donizetti: Instrumental Concertos
Imre Kovacs, flûte ; Jozsef Kiss, hautbois ; Agnes Girgas, cor anglais ; Bela Kovacs, clarinette ; Andras Kiss, violon ; Judit Kiss Domonkos, violoncelle ; Camerata Budapest / Laszlo Kovacs
Naxos 8.557492 (64 min 19 s)

Bloch: America (An Epic Rhapsody); Suite hébraïque.
Hagai Shaham, violon
Dalia Atlas, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra ; Atlas Camerata Orchestra; Lucnica Chorus
Naxos 8.557151 (62 min 43 s)

Guide de la musique de Beethoven
Élisabeth Brisson
Fayard, « Les Indispensables de la musique », 2005, 878 p.

Great Stars of Opera (1998-2000)
Agnes Baltsa, Neil Shicoff, Lucia Aliberti, Anna Tomowa-Sintov, Kurt Rydl, Deborah Sasson, Gunther Emmerlich, Sandra Schwarzhaupt, Daniela Barcellona, Vincenzo La Scola. Prague Symphony Orchestra and Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg / Roland Seiffarth;
EuroArts DVD 2504028 (103 min)

Empirical Musicology, Aims, Methods, Prospects
Eric Clarke, Nicholas Cook (sous la direction de)
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004, 229 p.

Verdi: Aïda
Eszter Sümegi, Kostadin Andreev, Cornelia Helfricht, Igor Morosow
Chorus, Ballet and Orchestra of the National Theatre Brno / Ernst Märzendorfer
EuroArts DVD 2054058 (150 min)

Œuvres de Jacques Hétu et André Prévost
Yegor Dyachkov, violoncelle ; Jean Saulnier, piano ; Nouvel Ensemble Moderne / Lorraine Vaillancourt
Dobberman-Yppan DO 505 (69 min 19 s)

Charles Ives: Symphony No. 2, The Unanswered Question
New York Philharmonic / Leonard Bernstein
Sony Classical, Classical Library SK 94731 (74 min 27 s)

Steve Reich: Different Trains
The Smith Quartet
Signum Classics SIGCD064 (47 min)

Joan Tower
Instrumental Music
Tokyo String Quartet ; Richard Wordages, hautbois ; Paul Neubauer, alto ; Chee-Yun, violon ; Ursula Oppens, piano ; Melvin Chen, piano ; André Emalianoff, violoncelle ; Joan Tower, piano.
Naxos 8559215 (51 min 05 s)

Antonio Vivaldi: Arie d'Opera
Modo Antiquo, dir. Federico Maria Sardelli
Sandrine Piau, soprano ; Ann Hallenberg et Guillemette Laurens, mezzo-sopranos ; Paul Agnew, tenor
Opus 111 Naïve OP 30411 (64 min 41s)

François Houle : Double Entendre
Earsay Productions ES 05001

Claire Guimond, Gary Cooper, Jaap ter Linden
Sur les traces de la sonate en trio de Bach à Mozart
Œuvres de J.S Bach, C.P.E. Bach, J.C.F. Bach, J.C. Bach et W.A. Mozart
early-music.com EMCCD-7762 (77 min 36 s)

La Casa del Diavolo
Œuvres de CPE Bach, WF Bach, Boccherini, Gluck, Locatelli
Enrico Onofri, violon ; Ottavio Dantone, clavecin ; Il Giardino armonico / Giovanni Antonini
Naïve OP 30399 (69 min 26 s)

François Couperin: Les Concerts Royaux
Le Concerts des Nations, Jordi Savall, viole et direction
Aliavox AV9840 (62 min 54 s)

Henri-Joseph Rigel
Quatuors dialogués, œuvre X
Quatuor Franz Joseph
Atma ACD2 2348 (76 min 44 s)

Beethoven
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, piano
Music and Arts CD-1162(1) (75 min 38 s)

Opera Proibita: Arias by Handel, Scarlatti, and Caldara
Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano
Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble; Marc Minkowski, conductor
DECCA CD 475 7029 (72 min 2 s)