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- ↑ Classical Recording Foundation Third Annual Awards Ceremony. September 21, 2004.
- 1 2 "Harmonia mundi | la musique classique par excellence".
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- ↑ Dvorak & Friends - Czech Wind Music, Gramophone, September 1, 2013.
