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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
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 | Verdi : Requiem; Quattro pezzi sacri
Leontyne Price, Rosalind Elias, Jussi Björling, Giorgio Tozzi; Wiener Philharmoniker, Fritz Reiner;
Los Angeles Master Chorale, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta
Decca Legendary Performances 467119-2
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|  | Jan Dismas Zelenka :
De Profundis; Miserere; Requiem
Il Fondamento, direction Paul Dombrecht
Passacaille 9528
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|  | Vivaldi : Les Quatre Saisons
Kyung Wha Chung, violon
St-Luke’s Chamber Ensemble
EMI 7243 5 57015 2 7 (41 min 12 s)
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|  | Dvorák : Quatuor à cordes no 14 op. 105
Schulhoff : 5 Pièces pour quatuor à cordes
Kurtág : 12 Microludes op.13; Quatuor Hagen
Deutsche Grammophon 469 066-2 (56 min 28 s)
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|  | BOULEZ : Sur Incises;
Messagesquisse; Anthèmes 2
Ensemble Intercontemporain, direction Pierre Boulez
Deutsche Grammophon 463 475-2
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|  | Mahler Symphony No. 7
Jascha Horenstein / New Philharmonia Orchestra
BBC Legends BBCL 4051-2 (74.26)
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|  | Handel: Italian Cantatas
Minkowski / Les Musiciens du Louvre (Grenoble)
Magdalena Kozena, mezzo-soprano
DG 289 469 065 2 (67.37)
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| | Le Phénix du Mexique
Ensemble Elyma / Cor Vivaldi / Els Petits Cantors de Catalunya
direction Gabriel Garrido
K617 K617106
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| | Bach : Six partitas
Mireille Lagacé, clavecin
Atma baroque ACD 2 2231/32
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| | The Art of the Prima Donna
Joan Sutherland; Orchestra and chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Francesco
Molinari-Pradelli
Decca Legendary Performances 467115-2
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| | Verdi: Pezzi Sacri
Myung-Whun Chung
St. Cecilia Orchestra and Choir
DG 2894690752 (62.56)
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| | Gesualdo da Venosa : Il Quarto Libro di Madrigali, 1596
La Venexiana
Glossa GCD 920907
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| | Bruckner: Mass No. 1 / Five Motets
J.E. Gardiner / Wiener Philharmoniker
DG 459 6742 (66.01)
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| | True North Brass. Strong and Free.
Joan Watson, cor français, Alastair Kay, trombone, Scott Irving, tuba, Stuart Laughton et Raymond Tizzard,
trompettes.
Opening Day Recordings (59 min 15 s)
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