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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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Mozart (et al.) : Der Stein Der Weisen
Martin Pearlman / Boston Baroque
Telarc CD-80508 (124 min 20 s)

Brahms : Concerto pour piano no 3
Emmanuel Ax, piano
Bernard Haitink / Boston Symphony Orchestra
Sony SK 63229 (78 min 52 s)

De Bach à Berio
Antonio Lysy, violoncelle
Disques Pelléas CD-0106 (70 min)

Danzi : Wind Quintets Op. 67
Michael Thompson Wind Quintet
Naxos 8.553570 (70'13)

Johann Baptist Vanhal : Symphonies, vol. 1
U. Grodd / Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia
Naxos 8.554341 (56 min 4 s)

Manfredini : Concerti Grossi op. 3 nos 1 à 12
Jaroslav Krcek / Capella Istropolitana
Naxos 8.553891 (78 min 26 s)

Basso Profondo
The Orthodox Singers
Russian Season RUS 288158 (65 m 44 s)

Hoquetus
P. Hillier / Theatre of Voices
harmonia mundi HMU 907185

Messiaen : Saint François d'Assise
Kent Nagano / Orchestre Hallé
DG 445-176-2 (4 DC - environ 240 min)

Berlioz : Les Nuits d'été et autres
Régine Crespin, soprano
Decca 460-973-2 (68 min 47 s)

Mahler : Symphonie no 8
Solti / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Decca 460-972-2 (79 min 48 s)

Bach : Cantates BWV 105, 179, 186
Suzuki / Bach Collegium Japan
BIS-CD-951 (63 min 12 s)

Bach : Great Choruses
Sir John Eliot Gardiner / Monteverdi Choir
Archiv-DG 445-610-2 (75'51)

Let's Dance
Angèle Dubeau / La Pietà
Analekta Fleur de Lys FL 2 3125 (56 min 54 s)

Schubert : Impromptus D. 899, D. 935
Radu Lupu, piano
Decca 460-975-2 (66 min 40 s)

Arvo Part : Fratres, Symphony No. 3
Gil Shaham, violin
Neeme Jarvi / Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
DG 457 647 2 (58'29)

Allegri : Miserere / Palestrina : Stabat Mater.
Willcocks / Choir of King's College, Cambridge.
Decca 466-373-2 (55 min 37 s)

España
A. Argenta / London Symphony. Etc.
Decca 466-378-2 (71'56)

Mahler : Das Lied von der Erde
Bernstein / Orchestre philharmonique de Vienne
Decca 466-381-2 (66 min 48 s)

Short Trip Home
Joshua Bell, violon
Sony SK 60864 (64 min 46 s)

Maximilian Steinberg : Symphonie no 1
N. Jarvi / Orchestre symphonique de Gothenburg
DG 457 6022 (60 min 56 s)

Concertos italiens pour violon
R. Goebel / Musica Antiqua Köln
Archive (DG) 445-612 (65'38)

Vivaldi : Concertos pour violon, cordeset continuo
I Musici
Philips 462 591 (56 min 35 s)

Bruckner : Symphonie no 4
K. Böhm / Wiener Philharmoniker
Decca 466-374-2 (68 min 10 s)

Tchaïkovski : Suites de ballet
Karajan / Wiener Philharmoniker
Decca 466-379-2 (69 min 28 s)

Romantic Duos For Piano Duet
Duo Turgeon
Marquis Classics 81241-2-8 (69'51)

Bartók: Le Château de Barbe-Bleue
I. Kertész / London Symphony
Decca 466-377-2 (59 min 30 s)

Mendelssohn et Bruch : Concertos pour violon
Kyung Wha Chung, violon
Dutoit / OSM
Decca 460-976-2 (78 min 17 s)

Glass / Rorem : Violin Concertos
G. Kremer, violon
DG 445-185 (78 min 30 s)