— Bach, Goldberg Variations, Simone Dinnerstein (Telarc)
— Daniel S. Godfrey, Wrinkled Moon (Koch)
— Haydn, Symphonies Nos. 88-92, Simon Rattle, Berlin Philharmonic (EMI)
— Thurston Moore, Trees Outside the Academy (Ecstatic Peace!, forthcoming)
— Handel Arias, Ian Bostridge, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (EMI)
— New Impossibilities, Silk Road Ensemble and Chicago Symphony musicians (Sony)
— Strauss, Salome, Teresa Stratas, Karl Böhm, Vienna Philharmonic (DG DVD)
— Vivaldi, Ercole, Zachary Stains (!), Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco (Dyamic DVD)
— Michael Harrison, Revelation (Cantaloupe)
— Cage, Complete Short Prepared-Piano Works, Philipp Vandré (Mode)
— Jonathan Rosenbaum, Discovering Orson Welles (University of California Press)
— Complete Sibelius Edition, boxes 1 and 2 (BIS)
— Brahms Sextets, Nash Ensemble (Onyx)
Note: All these items arrived in the mail in the past week. The list is not meant to imply any resemblance between Steve and Lara's blissful union and the plot of Salome.