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
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![](lsm/sm4-2/images/CD-Wispelwey.jpg) | J. S. Bach : Six Suites for Solo Cello Pieter Wispelwey, cello Channel Classics CCS 12298
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| ![](lsm/sm4-2/images/CD-Tchaikovsky.jpg) | Tchaikovsky : Symphony No. 5 - Glazunov : Violin Concerto Stokowski / London Symphony & London Philharmonic Orchestras Phase 4 Stereo. London 455-157-2
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| ![](lsm/sm4-2/images/CD-PrazakQuartet-2.jpg) | Leos Janácek: String Quartets No. 1 & No. 2 Prazak Quartet Prazak Quartet (Praga PRD 250 108)
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| ![](lsm/sm4-2/images/CD-NKennedy.jpg) | Brahms : Violin Concerto Nigel Kennedy, violin Klaus Tennstedt / London Philharmonic
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| ![](lsm/sm4-2/images/CD-Iolanta.jpg) | Tchaikovsky : Iolanta Valery Gergiev / Kirov Opera Orchestra and Chorus Philips 442-796-2
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| ![](lsm/sm4-2/images/CD-GustavMahler.jpg) | Mahler : Das Lied von Der Erde James Levine / Berlin Philharmoniker Deutsche Grammophon 439-9948-2
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| ![](lsm/sm4-2/images/CD-DGiovanni.jpg) | Mozart : Don Giovanni Claudio Abbado / Chamber Orchestra of Europe Deutsche Grammophon 457-601-2
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| ![](lsm/sm4-2/images/CD-Callas-Norma.jpg) | Bellini : Norma Antonio Votto / La Scala (Gala Mono GL 100.511)
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| | J. S. Bach : Cantatas BWV 8, 125, 138 Philippe Herreweghe / Collegium Vocale harmonia mundi HMC 901659
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| | Exquisite Fires : musique de Linda Bouchard Orchestre du Centre national des Arts - Trevor Pinnock et Derrick Inouye, chefs d’orchestre Kevin McMillan, baryton Marquis Classics EMI 81219
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| | Among Friends : Trios pour piano Trio des Iscles CMC Centredisques CMCCD-6098
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| | Beethoven : Piano Concerto No. 5 & Violin Concerto Jos van Immerseel, fortepiano / Vera Beths, violin Bruno Weil / Tafelmusik (Sony SK 63365)
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| | Mozart : Opera and Concert Arias Véronique Gens, soprano - Ivor Bolton / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Virgin 7243 5 45319 2 7
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| | Cherubini : Symphony in D Howard Griffiths / Zürcher Kammerorchester CPO 999-521-2
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| | Schubert : Complete Songs Volume 29 Marjana Lipovsek, mezzo. Nathan Berg, baritone. Graham Johnson, piano Hyperion Schubert Edition CDJ 33029
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| | Ernest Chausson : Symphony in B flat Op. 20 Jérôme Kaltenbach / Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy. Naxos 8.553652
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| | Mozart : Prussian Quartets K. 575, K. 589, K. 590 Prazak Quartet Prazak Quartet (Praga PR250-026)
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