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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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Vivaldi: Concerti e Cantate
Rinaldo Alessandrini / Concerto Italiano
Opus 111 OPS- 30-181

Vivaldi : L'estro armonico, op. 3
Fabio Biondi / Europa Galante
Virgin Veritas 7243 5 4531521

Shostakovich : Violin & Cello Concertos
Oistrakh / Mitropoulos / New York Philharmonic
Rostropovich / Ormandy / Philadelphia Orchestra
Sony MHK 63327

Régine Crespin : On Stage, Off Stage
Northeastern University Press, 1997

Matthew Boyden : The Rough Guide to Opera
Penguin Canada. 672 pp. $34.99

Morales : Missa pro Defunctis
Paul McCreesh / Gabrielli Consort
Archiv DG 457-597-2

Angela Hewitt Plays Messiaen
Angela Hewitt
Hyperion CDA 67054

Mahler : Symphony No. 1
Bruno Walter / New York Philharmonic
MHK 63328 ADD Mono

Hans Krása : Verlobung in Traum
Zagrosek / Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
London 289-455-587-2

Prokofiev : Betrothal in a Monastery
Valery Gergiev / Kirov Opera and Orchestra
Philips 462-107-2

Gershwin Fantasy
John Williams / London Symphony Orchestra
Joshua Bell, violin
Sony SK 60659

Haydn: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Ivan Monighetti, cello
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin harmonia mundi HMC 901599

The Composer-Pianists
Marc-André Hamelin, piano
Hyperion CDA 67050

Bellini: La Sonnambula
Leonard Bernstein / La Scala
Opera d'Oro OPD-1139

My World
Angela Gheorghiu, soprano
Malcolm Martineau, piano
London 289 458 360-2

Dvorak : Symphonies No. 7, 8, 9
George Szell / Cleveland Orchestra
Sony MH2K 63151

Art of the Baroque Trumpet Vol. 2
Naxos 8.553593

The Black Madonna: Songs from Montserrat
Michael Posch / Ensemble Unicorn
Naxos 8.554256

Boismortier: Ballets de Village et Sérénade
Hervé Niquet / Le Concert Spirituel.
Naxos 8.553296

Schubert : Lieder
Ian Bostridge, tenor
Julius Drake, piano (EMI 7243 556347 26)

Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier (Book II)
B. Lagacé / Organ of Église Immaculée-Conception
Analekta FL 2 3015/16/17

Britten: Choral Edition Vol. 2
Paul Spicer / Finzi Singers
(Chandos CHAN 9598)

Tobias Picker : Emmeline
George Manahan / Santa Fe Opera Orchestra
Albany Records (Troy 284-85)

The Yellow Guide: Opera
DG 457-444-2

The Yellow Guide : Classical Music
DG 457-440-2

Eugen D'Albert: Die Abreise
Janos Kulka / Philharmonia Hungarica
CPO 999-558-2

Dvorak : Works for String Quartet, Vol. 5
Vlach Quartet
Naxos 8.553375

Verdi: Don Carlo
Horst Stein / Vienna State Opera
Opera d'Oro OPD-1131

Richard Wagner : Lohengrin
Eugen Jochum / Bayreuth, 1954
Opera D'Oro OPD-1149 (4 CD)

Richard Strauss : Taillefer, Die Tageszeiten, etc.
Michel Plasson / Dresdener Philharmonic
EMI 7243 55657220

Haydn: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 &. 2
Han-Na Chang, cello
Sinopoli / Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
EMI 5565352

Mendelssohn : 17 Lieder ohne Worte - Grieg : 31 Lyric Pieces
Walter Gieseking, piano
EMI Références 7243 5 6677524

Jane Eaglen : Mozart and Strauss Arias
Zubin Mehta / Israel Philharmonic (Sony SK 60042)

Beethoven : Piano Concerto No. 5 & Violin Concerto
Jos van Immerseel, fortepiano / Vera Beths, violin
Bruno Weil / Tafelmusik
Sony SK 63365

Pierre Petit : Verdi.
Le Seuil / Solfèges, 1998,

John Ardoin : The Callas Legacy
Amadeus Press, 1995. 4th ed. 236

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