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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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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

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

Opérascope – Le film-opéra en Amérique
Réal La Rochelle
Éditions Tryptique, Montréal, 428 p.

From Handel to Hendrix – The Composer in the Public Sphere
Michael Chanan
Verso, Londres, 2000, 342 pp. ISBN 1-85984-706-4 (Hbk)

Guide des musiques du monde – Une sélection de 100 CD
Yves Bernard et Nathalie Fredette
Les éditions de la courte échelle, Montréal, 229 p.

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music
Robert J. Zatorre & Isabelle Peretz, eds.
Oxford University Press, Oxford, Angleterre, 452 p.

Circuit : « Électroacoustique : nouvelles utopies »
numéro dirigé par Yves Daoust
Volume 13, numéro 3, Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2003