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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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Strauss: Four Last Songs/Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder
Jessye Norman, soprano; Kurt Masur, conductor; Concertgebouw; Colin Davis, conductor; London Symphony Orchestra
Philips 464 742-2 (47’41)

Beethoven Piano Concertos No. 4 and No. 5
Claudio Arrau/Davis/Staatskapelle
Philips 464 681-2 (78’25)

Frescobaldi, oeuvres pour clavier
Hank Knox, clavecin italien F.A., 1677
Atma ACD2 2184

Jean Derome – Pierre Tanguay
Plic ! Plonc !
Ambiances Magnétiques CD 092

Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
Chailly/Royal Concertgebouw
Decca 467-086-2 (73’05)

Anthony Holborne, The teares of the Muses 1599
Elizabethan Consort Music vol. 11
Hespèrion XXI, Jordi Savall
AliaVox AV9813

LISZT, F. Piano Recital
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
EMI CLASSICS 5570022

In Stilo Moderno, Frescobaldi à Vivaldi
Les Boréades, Francis Colpron
Atma ACD2 2217

Romantic Music for Cello
Rimski-Korsakov, Balys Dvarionas, Tchaikovski, Rubinstein, Davidov, Taneiev,Chostakovitch, Rachmaninov et autres
Vytautas Sondeckis, violoncelle, Orchestre de Chambre de Lituanie,David Geringas, chef
Naxos 8.554381 (60 min 19 s)

CD Jazz Rémi Bolduc, Renaissance
Les Disques Effendi FND 015 (57 min)

To a Poet
Brett Polegato, baritone
Iain Burnside, piano
CBC MVCD 1134 (71’ 57)

Don Giovanni/Leporello’s Revenge
Bradshaw/COC Orchestra
SMCD 5205 (64’27)

Bjoerling: In Concert
Jussi Bjoerling, tenor; Anna Lisa Bjoerling, soprano

Merola/San Francisco Opera Orchestra
Naxos 8.110142 (58’42)

A–Z of Opera
2 CD et un livret de 762 pages
(2h 30m)