Review
Policy
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
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| Comprendre la musique baroque à travers ses formes Raphaëlle Legrand Collection Passerelles (harmundia mundi HMB 590001.02)
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| | Alexander Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau / Psalms 13 & 23 Riccardo Chailly / RSO Berlin London 444-969-2
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| | Trombone Concerti: Albrechtsberger, Wagenseil, Mozart, Haydn Alain Trudel, trombone / Northern Sinfonia Naxos 8.553831
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| | To the Soul (Songs to the Poetry of Walt Whitman) Thomas Hampson, baritone / Craig Rutenberg, piano EMI 55028
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| | Wings in the Night: Swedish Songs Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo. Bengt Forsberg,
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| | Shostakovich: New Babylon Valeri Polyansky / Russian State Symphony Orchestra CHAN 9600/SRI
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| | Schumann: Liederkreis, Op Ian Bostridge, tenor EMI 5565752
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| | Jean Jacques Rousseau : Le Devin du Village Louis de Froment / Orchestre de Chambre Louis de Froment Naxos CPO 999 559-2
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| | Renée Fleming : The Jeffrey Tate / English Chamber Orchestra
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| | Leos Janácek: String Prazak Quartet Praga PRD 250 108 / SRI
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| | Songs of Free Men Paul Robeson, baritone Sony MHK 63223
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| | Ninon Vallin, The Complete Pathé art Recordings (1927-1929) Marston 52006-2
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| | J.S. Bach: Cantates pour alto BWV 35, 54 & 170 Andreas Scholl, countertenor Philippe Herreweghe / Orchestre du Collegium Vocale harmonia mundi HMC 901644 / SRI
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| | Alfred Schnittke : Concerto grosso No. 1 Arvo Pärt : Tabula rasa Henry Goreck, Yuli Turovsky / I Musici de Montréal Chandos CHAN 9590 / SRI
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| | Hans Werner Henze: Undine Oliver Knussen / London Sinfonietta Deutsche Grammophon 453-467-2
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| | Chansons et Danses Jacques Lacombe / Les Vents de Montréal CBC MVCD 1105
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| | Aria: Opera Arias Arranged For Clarinet Richard Stoltzman, clarinet Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra RCA Red Seal 09026-68817-2 / BMG
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| | Callas, une vie Pierre-Jean Remy 297 pages, Éditions Albin Michel,
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| | Maria Callas, J'ai vécu d'art, j'ai vécu d'amour David Lelait 249 pages, Éditions Payot &
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| | Opera dOro A New Budget Opera Label
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| | Franz Liszt: A Faust Symphony Iván Fischer / Budapest Festival Orchestra Philip 454-460-2, 73.45 mins
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| | André Gauthier : Puccini Collection «Solfèges», Les Éditions du Seuil, Paris, 2e édition,
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| | Stewart Wallace: Harvey Milk Donald Runnicles/San Francisco Opera Orchestra (Teldec 0630-15856-2/ Warner)
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| | Albert Lortzing: Die Opernprobe Otmar Suitner / Chor & Orchester Naxos CPO 999 557-2
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| | Vivaldi Motets for Soprano Karina Gauvin, soprano / Les Chambristes de Ville-Marie Analekta FL 23099
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