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| Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro Ingvar Wixell: Conte di Almaviva, Claire Watson: Contessa di Almaviva, Reri Christ: Susanna, Walter Berry: Figaro, Zoltan Kelemen: Barotlo, Margarethe Bence: Marcellina, Edith Mathis: Cherubino, Klaus Hirte: Antonio, Deirdre Aselford: Barbarina, Alfred Pf TDK – DVUS-CLOPNDF – 2 DVDs : 180 min B&W 4:3 picture, Sound 1.0 |
| | Frank Zappa: Greggery Peccary & Other Persusasions – Ensemble Modern Plays Frank Zappa – A selection of Works Ensemble Modern / Jonathan Stockhammer RCA Red Seal 82876 56061 2 – 61 min 6 s |
| | FRANZ LISZT: La campanella Liebeslied Widmung; Liebrestraum No. 3; Tarantella; Rigoletto Paraphrase; Piano Sonata in B minor; Yundi Li, piano Deutsche Grammophon – 471 585-2, DDD – 58 min 38 s |
| | Yi-Wen Jiang: Chinasong Shanghai Quartet, with Eugenia Zukerman on flute Delos – DE 3308 – 68 min 56 s
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| | Vivaldi: La vérità in cimento Gemma Bertagnoli, Guillemette Laurens, Sara Mingardo, Nathalie Stutzmann, Philippe Jaroussky, Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Ensemble Mattheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, dir. Naive. Vivaldi Edition – Opus 111, 30 365. 3 CD : 2 h 38 min |
| | Sorabji: Mélodies pour soprano Elizabeth Farnum (soprano), Margaret Kampmeier (piano) Centaur – CRC 2613 – 56 min 1 s |
| | Song of Consonance Yang Wei (pipa) et Betti Xiang (erhu), with Amelia Piano Trio Traditional Crossroads, 80702-4320-2 – 55 min 50 s |
| | Chostakovitch: Piano Sonata No. 1, 24 Preludes, op. 34 Konstantin Scherbakov, piano Naxos 8.555781 – 66 min 34 s |
| | Rossini: Bianca e Falliero Jennifer Larmore, Majella Cullagh, Barry Banks, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo. Geoffrey Mitchell Choir. London Philharmonic Orchestra, David Parry, dir. Opera Rara – ORC 20 – 3 CD : 3 h 10 s |
| | Les lauréats : Prix Québec-Flandres 1998-2003 Louise Bessette, piano, Walter Boudreau, Ensemble de la SMCQ et Ensemble Alizé Atma – ACD 2 2281 – 61 min 10 s |
| | Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn: First piano concertos Lang Lang, piano / Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Daniel Barenboim Deutsche Grammophon 474 291-2, DDD, 59:23 (also available in SACD: 474 637-2) |
| | Marcel Dupré: The Organ Encyclopedia vol 13 G.Baker, orgue Naxos – 8.554542 |
| | Georges Delerue dirige la musique de film de Maurice Jaubert Orchestre symphonique de Madrid Disques Cinémusique – DCM 110 – 62 min |
| | Dallapiccola: Ulisse Claudio Desderi, Gwynn Cornell, William Workman, Denise Boitard, Stan Unruh, Schuyler Hamilton, Colette Herzog. Choeur et orchestre philharmonique de Radio-France, Ernest Bour, dir. Naïve. Radio France – V4960 – 2 CD : 2 h 2 min |
| | Hyperrealism Noah Creshevsky Musiques électroacoustiques Mutablemusic – 17516-2 – 56 min 15 s |
| | Chen Yi: Orchestral Works Momentum, Chinese Folk Dance Suite (1), Dunhuang Fantasy (2), Romance and Dance (3), Tu - Cho-Liang Lin (1,3), Yi-Jia Susanne Hou (3), violins, Kimberly Marshall (2), organ, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Lan Shui, conductor BIS – CD1352 – 66 min 16 s |
| | Chen Gang & He Zhanhao, Peter Breiner: The Butterfly Lovers New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / James Judd Takako Nishizaki, violon Marco Polo – 8.225972 – 63 min 25 s |
| | Giacomo Puccini: Tosca Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Tito Gobbi, Victor de Sabata, choeurs et orchestre du Teatro alla Scala, Milan EMI Classics – 7243 5 85644 2 6 Disque 1 : 43 min 12 s / Disque 2 : 66 min 22 s |
| | Vincenzo Bellini: I Puritani Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Tullio Serafin, choeurs et orchestre du Teatro alla Scala, Milan EMI Classics – 7243 5 66432 2 2 Disque 1 : 68 min 59 s / Disque 2 : 73 min 4 s |
| | Beethoven / Sibelius: George Tintner Memorial Edition, Vol. 6 Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner, conductor Naxos – 8557238 – 79 min 19 s |
| | Baroque Delights / Plaisirs Baroques Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra Analekta – AN 2 9760 – 59 min 9 s |
| | Bach: Passion selon saint Jean, BWV 245 James Gilchrist (Évangéliste), John Bernays (Jésus), Eamonn Dougan (Pilate), Joe Littlewood, soprano, James Bowman, contre-ténor, Matthew Beale, ténor et Colin Baldy, basse Choeur du New College Oxford et Collegium Novum, direction Edward Higginbottom Naxos – 8.557296-97 – 2 CD : 110 min 17 s |
| | Bach: Messe en si mineur, BWV 232 Cantus Cölln, direction Konrad Junghänel Harmonia Mundi HMC – 801813.14 – 2 CD : 100 min 40 s |
| | Quotable Opera : Aria ready for a laugh? Stephen Tanner & Nancy Tanner Sound and Vision, Toronto 2003. 136 pages ISBN 0-920151-54-X
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| | Opérascope – Le film-opéra en Amérique Réal La Rochelle Éditions Tryptique, Montréal, 428 p.
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| | From Handel to Hendrix – The Composer in the Public Sphere Michael Chanan Verso, Londres, 2000, 342 pp. ISBN 1-85984-706-4 (Hbk)
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| | Guide des musiques du monde – Une sélection de 100 CD Yves Bernard et Nathalie Fredette Les éditions de la courte échelle, Montréal, 229 p.
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| | The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music Robert J. Zatorre & Isabelle Peretz, eds. Oxford University Press, Oxford, Angleterre, 452 p.
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| | Circuit : « Électroacoustique : nouvelles utopies » numéro dirigé par Yves Daoust Volume 13, numéro 3, Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2003 |
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