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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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 | Dvorak: Rusalka
James Conlon / Opéra National de Paris
TYDK DVUS-OPRUS (2 DVD- 155 min)
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|  | Jules Massenet: Manon
Jesus Lopez-Cobos / Opéra National de Paris
TDK DVUS-OPMANON (2 DVD - 164 min)
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|  | Georg Solti In Rehearsal
Arthaus Musik 101 068 (87 min)
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|  | Tango Diablo !
Louise Bessette, piano. Œuvres de Piazzolla, Biscardi, Albeniz et autres.
Sept jardins SJCD-1910 (66 min 18 s)
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|  | Shchedrin: Piano Concerto No 2 - Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2
Marc-André Hamelin : piano ; Mark O'Keefe : trumpet ; BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Litton
Hyperion SACDA67425 - Hybrid SACD (63 min 13 s)
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|  | Schumann Symphonies Nos 1 – 4
Staatskapelle Berlin / Daniel Barenboim
Teldec 56461179-2 (2 CDs - 139 min 53 s)
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|  | Alla Pavlova Symphonies nos1, «Farewell Russia», et 3
Olga Vedernikova, violon; Leonid Lebedev, flûte; Nikolay Lotakov, piccolo; Mikhail Shestakov, violon; Valery Brill, violoncelle; Mikhail Adamovich, piano; Russian Philharmonia Orchestra, Konstantin D. Krimets et Alexander Vedernikov
Naxos 8.557157 (66 min 46 s)
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|  | Airs d'opéras français
Natalie Dessay, soprano. Orchestre National
du Capitole de Toulouse, dir. Michel Plasson
Virgin 7243-54561023 (67 min)
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|  | MAHLER Symphony No. 4
Karina Gauvin : soprano; Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal, dir. Yannick Nézet-Séguin
ATMA ACD 2 2306 (60 m 3 s)
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|  | La Luna En El Río Carmen Linares, voix
Naïve, 2003, WN 145001 (48 min 23 s)
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|  | Michael Berkeley Jane Eyre
Natasha Marsh, Beverley Mills, Emily Bauer-Jones, Andrew Slater, The Music Theatre Wales Ensemble, dir. Michael Rafferty.
Chandos CHAN 9983 (72 min)
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|  | J.S. Bach The English Suites
Angela Hewitt, piano
Hyperion Cd A67452 (2 CD : 145 min 5 s)
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|  | Beethoven Christus am Ölberge
Placido Domingo, tenor - Luba Orgonosova, soprano - Andreas Schmidt, bass, Berlin Radio Chorus, Deutsches Symphony Orchestra Berlin / Kent Nagano
harmonia mundi HMC 801802 - Hybrid SACD (47 min 35 s)
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|  | Fauré : Requiem op.48 ; Duruflé : Requiem op. 9
Barbara Bonney, soprano; Jennifer Larmore, mezzo-soprano; Thomas Hampson, baryton; Ambrosian Singers, Orchestre Philharmonia,
dir. Michel Legrand
Elatus 0927-49001-2 (77 min 42 s)
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|  | Collection: English Choral Works of the 16th & 17th Centuries
Byrd, Gibbons, Tallis, Tomkins
The Sixteen, The Symphony of Harmony and Invention / Harry Christophers, director
Coro CORSACD 16016 - Hybrid SACD 71 min 37 s)
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|  | A Carol Symphony Hely-Hutchinson, Kelly, Lane, Standford, Warlock
City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, dir. Gavin Sutherland
Naxos 8.557099 (68 min 23 s)
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|  | Frank Bridge
Quatuors à cordes no 1 en mi mineur et no 3
Quatuor Maggini
Naxos 8.557133 (59 min 35 s)
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|  | Bruckner: Symphony No 9 (with completion of finale)
New Philharmonic Orchestra of Westphalia, Johannes Wildner, conductor
Naxos 8555933-34 (2 CDs - 82 min 43 s)
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|  | Tia DeNora : After Adorno, Rethinking Music Sociology.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003. ISBN 0-521-53724-X, 167 p.
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| | R. Mathieu Chamber Works
Quintette pour piano et quatuor à cordes, Trio pour piano, violon et violoncelle, Trois Préludes, Sonate pour piano
Réjean Coallier, piano, Quatuor Claudel
Centrediscs CMCCD 9803 - re-issue of VOX 7911-2 (61 min 8 s)
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| | Bach Cantates BWV 20, BWV 7 et BWV 94
Yukari Nonoshita, soprano; Robin Blaze, alto; Jan Kobow, ténor et Peter Kooij, basse
Bach Collegium Japan, direction Masaaki Suzuki
BIS CD-1321 (73 min 17 s)
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| | Bax: Orchestral Works
Rogue's Comedy Overture, Tintagel, Symphonies Nos 1-7 -- BBC Philharmonic, Vernon Handley, conductor
Chandos CHAN 10122(5) (4+1 CDs: 294 min 45 s)
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| | Kong Nay Un barde cambodgien, Chant et luth Chapey
Inédit, 2003, W260112 (53 min 27 s)
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| | Trois concertos
Isabelle Panneton : Volando, concerto pour violon; Sean Ferguson : Inside Passage, concerto pour piano; Vincent Collard : Concerto « Lucky Luke », pour trombone ténor
Julie-Anne Derome, violon - Marc Couroux, piano - Alain Trudel, trombone - ensemble de la SMCQ, dir. Walter Boudreau
Atma ACD 2 2282 (53 min 47 s)
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| | J.S. Bach Cello Suites
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello. Producer: Guy Chenais
EMI Classics
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| | Gilles CANTAGREL. La rencontre de Lübeck.
Bach et Buxtehude.
Éditions Desclée de Brouwer, 2003, 150 p.
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| | John Canarina, Pierre Monteux : Maître
With a foreword by Sir Neville Marriner
Amadeus Press – ISBN 1-57467-082-4 – 353 p.
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| | Jean-Philippe Rameau Suites pour orchestre extraites de Dardanus et Le Temple de la Gloire
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, dir. Jeanne Lamon,
CBC SMCD 5229 (67 min 12 s)
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| | Bax: Orchestral Works
Tintagel, Symphony No 7 -- Royal Scottish National Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones, conductor
Naxos 8557145 (56 min 55 s)
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