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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 inferior.


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La Flûte enchantée à l’Université de Montréal

No Tenors Allowed
Samuel Ramey, basse. Thomas Hampson, baryton
M. Gómez-Martinez / Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Teldec 0630-13149-2 (73’12

Artur Rubinstein (Vol. 1)
Grands Pianistes du XXème Siècle
Philips 456-955-2

Dinu Lipatti
Grands Pianistes du XXème Siècle :
Philips 456-892-2

Britten : Curlew River
Sir Neville Marriner / St. Martin in the Fields
Philips 454 469-2 (70’) DDD

Wolfgang Holzmair : La voix en vedette

Chopin : Piano Works
Gabriela Montero, piano
Palaxa CD-0510 (71’) DDD

Schubert : String Quartets (Vol. 3)
Naxos 8.550592 (73’15") DDD
Kodaly Quartet

Haydn : "Prussian" String Quartets Op. 50, Nos. 1-3
Naxos 8.553983 (65’02") DDD
Kodaly Quartet

Bertolt Brecht by Sylvia Anders
Justus Noll & Jazz Friends
Myto 982.H016 (69’)

John Browning : Debut Recital
EMI 7243 567017 (70'20")

Ae Fond Kiss: Ballads and Folksongs
Edith Wiens, soprano. Rudolf Jansen, piano. Judy Loman, harpe
Les Disques SRC MVCD1102 (73'59

Bach : Cantates, Vol. 1 (BWV 4, 150, 196)
Masaaki Suzuki / Bach Collegium Japan
BIS-CD-7751

La Folia
Jordi Savall, viole de gambe, et al.
Aliavox AV 9805 (54'45")

Verdi : Falstaff
Will Humburg / Orchestre de l'Opéra d'État hongrois
Naxos 8.660050/51 (2 CD) (119')

Richard Strauss: Lieder
Edith Wiens, soprano. Rudolf Jansen, piano
Les Disques SRC MVCD1090 (57'54")

Brahms : Concerto pour violon / Sonate no 2
Maxim Vengerov, violon
Daniel Barenboim / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Teldec 0630-17144-2 (61’52")

Sir Georg Solti : A Celebration
Zubin Mehta / London Philharmonic
London 466-000-2 (76’ 48")

Sacred Music at the Saxon-Polish Court
H.-C. Rademann / Dresdner Barokorchester & Kammerchor
Raum Klang RK 9702 (65’43")

Mozart : Clarinet Concerto K. 622
Philippe Entrement / Wiener Kammerorchester
Musique d’abord HMX 2901304 (61’34") DDD

Winter Poems : Music of Glenn Buhr
Bramwell Tovey / Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
CBC SMCD 5184 (76’38")

Vaughan Williams : Symphony No. 6, etc.
Bernard Haitink / London Philharmonic Orchestra
EMI 5567622 (68’41") DDD

Caldara: La Passione di Gesù Cristo Signor Nostro
Fabio Biondi / Europa Galante
Virgin 7243 545 32528 (79’31") DDD

Concerti Italiani
Christopher Millard, basson
Mario Bernardi / CBC Vancouver Orchestra
CBC SMCD 5185 (69’57") DDD