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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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Bach : Transcriptions
Esa-Pekka Salonen / Orchestre Philharmonique de Los Angeles
Sony SK 89012 (67 min 40 s)

Lie down, poor heart. English lutesongs and folk ballads
Daniel Taylor, haute-contre
Sylvain Bergeron, luth
Dorian DOR-90287 (69 min 20 s)

Dance Beyond the Color
Arabesque AJ0147

David Liebman / Michael Gerber
Souls & Masters
Performing the Music of Rhoda Averbach
Les disques Cactus CAC 9901

The Music of Germaine Tailleferre (2-CDs)
California Parallèle Ensemble, University of California Santa Cruz Orchestra
Nicole Paiement, conductor
Helicon HE 1048 (61’46)

Dance Beyond the Color
Arabesque AJ0147

Satoko Fujii
Toward, “To West”
ENJ-9382 - 2

Sylvie Courvoisier - Ocre
Y2K
Enja 9383-2

David Liebman / Michael Gerber
Souls & Masters
Performing the Music of Rhoda Averbach
Les disques Cactus CAC 9901

Trio Contrastes
Trios pour clarinette, violon et piano de Khatchaturian, Bartók, Stravinsky et Srul Irving Glick
Olivier Thouin, violon, David Veilleux, clarinette, Stéphan Sylvestre, piano
ATMA classique ACD 2 2223 (59 min 52 s)

The English Kreisler : Violin Music of Albert Sammons
Paul Barrit, violon
Catherine Edwards, piano
Hyperion CDA67096 (66 min 55 s)

Bach : Cantate du café / Cantate des paysans
Jeanne Lamon / Tafelmusik, Suzie LeBlanc, soprano
Brett Polegato, baryton, Nils Brown, ténor
Analekta FL 2 3136 (52 min 59 s)

Bach : Les 6 Sonates et Partitas pour violon seul
James Ehnes, violon
Analekta FL 2 3147-8 (CD1 : 73 min 49 s / CD2 : 76 min 22 s)

Charpentier: Louise
Sir Thomas Beecham / Metropolitan Opera
Naxos 8.110102-04 (209’29)

The Music of Germaine Tailleferre (2-CDs)
California Parallèle Ensemble, University of California Santa Cruz Orchestra
Nicole Paiement, conductor
Helicon HE 1048 (61’46)