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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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Blow: An Ode to Mr. Henry Purcell
Gerard Lesne, alto
Steve Dugardin, alto

La Canzona
Virgin Veritas 7243 5 4542 2 5 (64 min 14 s)

Clementi : Sonates
Andreas Staier, pianoforte
Teldec 3984-26731-2 (67 min 24 s)

Beethoven: String Quartets Op. 74, 95, 135
Eroica Quartet
harmonia mundi hmu 907254 (78'41)

Tarentule-Tarentelle
aniagua / Atrium Musicae de Madrid
harmonia mundi musique d'abord HMA 190379 (40'16)

Schumann: Concerto pour piano, Quintette op. 44
Maria Joao Pires, piano , Augustin Dumay, violon 1 , Renaud Capuçon, violon 2
Gérard Caussé, alto , Jian Wang, violoncelle
Claudio Abbado / Orchestre de Chambre d'Europe , Deutsche Grammophon 463 179-2 (62 min)

Latin Impressions
Yuli Turovsky, I Musici de Montréal
Chandos CHAN 9804 (71 min 29 s)

Alan Belkin: Works
Amberola ambc cd 7120 (57'01)