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![](lsm/sm10-3/images/critiques/simoneau.jpg) | Léopold Simoneau & Pierrette Alarie: Opera Arias and Duets (Donizetti, Bellini, Massenet, Delibes and Gluck) Pierrette Alarie, soprano; Léopold Simoneau, tenor; RSO Baden-Baden, Hans Rosbaud, conductor; Orchestre des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris, Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor Silver Oak / Scribendum MDV 004
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| ![](lsm/sm10-3/images/critiques/livre_philosophy.jpg) | The Philosophy of Music, Themes and Variations Aaron Ridley Edinburgh University Press, 178 p.
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| ![](lsm/sm10-3/images/critiques/livre_knowing-bodies.jpg) | Knowing Bodies, Moving Minds, Towards Embodied Teaching and Learning Liora Bresler, editeur Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht / Boston / London, 2004, 223 p.
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| ![](lsm/sm10-3/images/critiques/Kleztory.jpg) | Klezmer Kleztory & I Musici de Montréal Yuli Turovsky Chandos, LC 7038 (69 min 24 s)
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| ![](lsm/sm10-3/images/critiques/euroarts2050349.jpg) | Ton Koopman plays Bach organ works, harpsichord pieces, arias Kaus Mertens, baryton, DVD EuroArts no 2060348 (80 min)
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| ![](lsm/sm10-3/images/critiques/dvd_Les-contes-dHoffmann.jpg) | Jacques Offenbach Les Contes d'Hoffmann Neil Shicoff (Hoffmann), Bryn Terfel (Lindorf / Coppélius / Dr Miracle / Dapertutto), Susanne Mentzer (La Muse / Nicklause), Désirée Rancatore (Olympia), Ruth Ann Swenson (Antonia), Béatrice Uria-Monzon (Giulietta) ; Choeurs et Orchestre de l'Opéra Nation Mise en scène : Robert Carsen ; décors et costumes : Michael Levine. TDK DVUS-OPLCDH (2 DVD : 173 min)
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| ![](lsm/sm10-3/images/critiques/DVD_DuPre.jpg) | Jacqueline du Pré: In Portrait Christopher Nupen Documentary Elgar Cello Concerto & Beethoven Ghost Trio With Daniel Barenboim, Pinchas Zukerman, Sir John Barbirolli, the New Philharmonia Orchestra BBC Opus Arte (155 m)
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| ![](lsm/sm10-3/images/critiques/CD-kapustin.jpg) | Kapustin Musique pour piano Marc-André Hamelin, piano Hyperion CDA67433 (77 min 18 s)
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| ![](lsm/sm10-3/images/critiques/CD1138_Koussevitzky.jpg) | Koussevitzky Tchaïkovski : Symphonies n. 4, 5 et 6 Orchestre symphonique de Boston Music and Arts CD-1138 (2 CD : 132 min 13 s)
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| ![](lsm/sm10-3/images/critiques/CD_HMU_907329.jpg) | Bach Per cembalo solo Richard Egarr, clavecin Harmonia Mundi HMU 907329 (79 min 20 s)
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| ![](lsm/sm10-3/images/critiques/CD_GHP_020-2.jpg) | Veretski Pass, Traditional East European Jewish Music Cookie Segelstein, Joshua Horowitz, Stuart Brotman Golden Horn Records, 2004, GHP 020-2 (57 min 22 s)
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| ![](lsm/sm10-3/images/critiques/cd_ACD2_2344_Sept-Sauts.jpg) | Les Sept Sauts. Musique baroque à la cour de Stuttgart Ensemble Caprice / Mattias Maute OEuvres de Theodor Schwartzkopff, Sebastiano Bodino, Signor Detri et deux compositeurs anonymes ATMA classique ACD2 2344 (64 min 5 sec)
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| ![](lsm/sm10-3/images/critiques/cd_acd2_2343_bach.jpg) | Johann Sebastian Bach Psaume 51 (BWV 1083), Cantate 82 (BWV 82) Karina Gauvin, soprano ; Daniel Taylor, contre-ténor ; Les Violons du Roy ; Bernard Labadie, chef ATMA classique ACD2 2343 (65 min 52 s)
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| ![](lsm/sm10-3/images/critiques/cd_ACD2_2276_Sainte-Colomb.jpg) | Sainte-Colombe Concerts a deux violes esgales (Volume II : Concerts xix à xxxv) Les Voix humaines ATMA classique ACD2 2276 (CD 1 : 41 min 42 s / CD 2 : 49 min 26 s)
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| ![](lsm/sm10-3/images/critiques/cd_acd2_2242_nem.jpg) | Nouvel Ensemble Moderne / Lorraine Vaillancourt Isabelle Panneton : Travaux et jeux de gravité ; Inouk Demers : Lo que vendrá ; Jean Lesage : Vanitas ; José Evangelista : Alap & Gat ATMA Classique ACD2 2242 (61 min 23 s)
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| ![](lsm/sm10-3/images/critiques/cd_8.jpg) | Genesis Suite (1945) Arnold Schoenberg, Nathaniel Shilkret, Alexandre Tansman, Darius Milhaud, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Ernst Toch, Igor Stravinsky Ernst Senf Choir ; Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin ; Gerard Schwarz, chef. Naxos 8.559442 (55 min 38 s)
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| ![](lsm/sm10-3/images/critiques/cd_2564_61561-2_Brahms.jpg) | Brahms : Concerto pour violon en ré majeur, op. 77 Mozart : Concerto pour violon no 3 en sol majeur, K.216 Julius Rachlin, violon; Orchestre symphonique de la Radio bavaroise / Mariss Jansons Warner Classics 25646 15612 (64 min 49 s)
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| ![](lsm/sm10-3/images/critiques/CD_00289_474_8172_Prokofiev.jpg) | Prokofiev et Ravel Cendrillon, ballet op. 87, Suite pour deux pianos, transcription de Mikhaïl Pletnev ; Ma Mère l'Oye, Cinq Pièces enfantines pour piano à quatre mains Martha Argerich et Mikhaïl Pletnev, piano DG 28947 48172 (49 min 47 s)
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| ![](lsm/sm10-3/images/critiques/bridge_the-sea.1004.jpg) | Frank Bridge: Orchestral Works Enter Spring, The Sea, Summer, Two Poems for Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Judd, conductor Naxos 20th Century British 8.557167 (62 min 17 s)
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| ![](lsm/sm10-3/images/critiques/bali.jpg) | Bali, Nusa Dewata Série Voyage musical - Escape Playasound, 2004, PS 69003 (52 min 5 s)
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| ![](lsm/sm10-3/images/critiques/Bach.1004.jpg) | J.S. Bach: Keyboard Works Fantasia and Fugue in A minor, BWV904 & BWV944, Aria Variata, BWV989, Sonata in D major, BWV 963, Partie in A Major, BWV832, Suite in F minor, BWV 823, Adagio in G major, BWV968, Fugue in C major, BWV953, Jesu, meine Zuversicht, BWV728, Wer nur den lieben Hyperion SACDA67499 (SACD Hybrid - 67 min 42 s)
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| | Vorísek Musique de chambre Quatuor Kocian, Pavel Hula, violon, Václav Bernásek, violoncelle et Ivan Klánsky, piano Praga Digitals PRD / DSD 250 204 (60 min 21 s)
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| | Ludwig van Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (Coupled with the Violin Concerto) Jascha Heifetz, violin, Jussi Bjoerling, Zinka Milanov, Bruna Castagna, Alexander Kipnis, The Westminster Choir, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini, conductor Guild 2248/9 (121 min 05 s - 2 CDs)
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| | Zeugma Katia Makdissi-Warren Third House on the Left, 2003 (51 min 31 s)
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| | Ludwig van Beethoven: Missa Solemnis Eleanor Streber, Nan Merriman, William Hain, Lorenzo Alvary, The Westminster Choir, New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Bruno Walter, conductor Music and Arts CD 1142(1) (78 min 06 s)
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| | Koussevitzky Sibelius, Grieg Orchestre symphonique de Boston, Orchestre symphonique de la BBC (Symphonie n. 7) Naxos 8.110168 (59 min)
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