Minnesota-based mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski presents her debut solo recording with pianist Timothy Lovelace, an active recitalist who heads the Collaborative Piano program at the University of Minnesota. Regularly heard as soloist with Music of the Baroque, Osowski is an internationally recognized interpreter of song literature. She received the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society Prize at the 2019 Wigmore Hall International Song …

The latest album from the St. Charles Singers, led by founder and music director Jeffrey Hunt, centers two works written expressly for them. In the spring of 2025, the St. Charles Singers and harpist Erin Freund gave the John Rutter’s Dancing Tree, a suite of eight songs with harp accompaniment on texts by the 20th century British poet Charles Causley. …

Cantus’s new album new album examines stories of forbidden love discovered in passionate letters spanning millennia. Music by composers including Abbie Betinis, Mohammed Fairouz, Leoš Janáček, Libby Larsen, Francis Poulenc, Steven Sametz, Mari Esabel Valverde, and Consuelito Velázquez woven together with excerpts from letters by Marcus Aurelius, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and others whose stories bear witness and …

Tucson, Arizona-based True Concord Voices and Orchestra present two works by the pioneering American composer Jocelyn Hagen. Based in Minnesota, Hagen composes primarily for voice — solo, chamber and choral — and has explored large-scale multimedia works, electro-acoustic music, dance, and opera. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci has been performed more than 50 times around the world since 2019, …

The Grammy-nominated duo of soprano Laura Strickling and pianist Joy Schreier present the first installment in a new series of recordings celebrating women as storytellers and bearers of cultural memory. LEGENDS: Rebellion comprises world-premiere recordings from composers Cecilia Livingston, Jens Ibsen, Jodi Goble, Jasmine Arielle Barnes, and Juhi Bansal on texts by Duncan McFarlane, Susan Bywaters, Caitlin Vincent, and Jocelyne …

Brass for Uncommon Times is an all-star collective of 40 top-notch brass and percussion performers who hail from the DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia) and who are affiliated with the region’s most celebrated orchestras, military bands and universities. Directed by Brian Kaufman, their debut album features seven works composed between 2004 and 2022 that reflect the concerns and crises of our …

Two of the world’s most distinctive vocal ensembles — VOCES8 and the Swedish barbershop champions Ringmasters — join forces for a program that moves effortlessly from Renaissance polyphony and Romantic choral works to folk song, contemporary composition, and iconic popular repertoire. Alongside music by Gabrieli, Rachmaninov, Praetorius, and Whitacre sit imaginative arrangements of Loch Lomond, The Fool on the Hill, …

The Kansas City Symphony under the direction of Michael Stern joined by cellist Yo-Yo Ma, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, and the Sphinx Organization’s vocal ensemble EXIGENCE (Dr. Eugene Rogers, director) present a landmark recording—the first commercial release devoted exclusively to the music of Joel Thompson.  The career of composer Joel Thompson has risen rapidly since the premiere of his breakthrough choral …

As a finalist of NBC’s The Voice in 2020, countertenor John Holiday’s fan base extends well beyond the world of classical music. His highly anticipated debut solo album reflects both the breadth of his artistry and the clarity of his artistic voice. Praised as one of the finest countertenors of his generation, Holiday brings together a thoughtfully curated program spanning …

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra and its music director Jader Bignamini present Carl Orff’s monumental scenic cantata Carmina Burana for soloists, chorus and children’s chorus, and orchestra. Recorded live in concert, DSO is joined by the vocal ensemble Audivi and the Detroit Opera Youth Chorus. Orff tasks the baritone with the majority of the solos — an athletic, high-lying, and lusty …

Internationally acclaimed for her emotionally charged performances, technical command, and interpretative depth, Canellakis has become one of the most in-demand conductors of her generation. As Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Canellakis and the orchestra are joined by the Netherlands Radio Choir with soloists tenor Dmytro Popov, soprano Kristina Mkhitaryan, and bass Alexander Vinogradov, for an all-Rachmaninoff program. …

On their eleventh album for Hyperion, The Gesualdo Six explore a more secular repertoire, drawing on music they have performed live since their formation in 2015. The program spans Renaissance works celebrating nature and love, alongside contemporary settings of texts by Christina Rossetti and Kathleen Jamie. Themes of childhood and innocence run throughout, interwoven with imaginative reworkings of traditional British …

Coinciding with the conclusion of Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s 50th anniversary season and the final performances with Ken-David Masur as music director, MSO Classics presents a live recording of Brahms’s German Requiem. The highly acclaimed performance conducted by Masur was recorded in spring of 2025 at the Bradley Symphony Center featuring the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus under the direction of Cheryl Frazes …

Leading the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conductor and soprano Barbara Hannigan present a program exploring the concept of The American Dream. “I grew up in awe of America, but now my feelings are mainly nostalgic. With this repertoire, I want to express my admiration for the incredible creativity and tenacity of composers who shaped a musical language that was truly their …

The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford led by Mark Williams (Music Director and organist) present 13 premiere recordings of works by Nico Muhly written expressly for — and the majority commissioned by — the Choir. Comprising settings of the mass and canticles alongside anthems for Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, Ascensiontide, Trinity Sunday, and Remembrance, the collection sets a number of …

Mel Bonis (1858-1937) was a great musical talent and a sensitive soul, the child of a socially aspiring family who forbid their daughter to marry the love of her life. Forced into a utilitarian marriage with a respectable husband, she later had an affair with her first sweetheart after all — the stuff of a sentimental novel. Yet she was …

In 1558, two years after the last Carolingian emperor Charles V had stepped down from power, he realized his death was near and decided to have a rehearsal for his own funeral. This scene provides the starting point for Simon-Pierre Bestion’s imaginative assemblage of chants and hymns demonstrating Arabic influence in Spain, Requiem mass movements, and much more with his …

The latest release from tenor Nicholas Phan features his regular collaborator, the outstanding pianist Myra Huang, and The Jasper Quartet in world premiere recordings of works by Vivian Fung and Patrick Castillo alongside songs by Schubert, Ives, and Vaughan Williams. Timed to coincide with World Earth Day, the program explores humanity’s interaction with nature. Franz Schubert’s songs evoke images of …

The years 2023-2028 mark 200 years since the final five years of the life of Franz Schubert, leading up to the 200th anniversary of the composer’s death in Vienna on November 19, 2028. Paying homage to this important event, baritone Samuel Hasselhorn and pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz created SCHUBERT 200: a multi-genre international project aimed at a new, young generation of …

Marking Earth Day, Grammy-nominated harpist Yolanda Kondonassis releases her new album Terra Infirma featuring the titular work by Reena Esmail – a concerto for harp and percussion both performed by Kondonassis with the Interlochen Center for the Arts Orchestra conducted by Andrew Grams. Terra Infirma was directly informed by Esmail’s experience living in Los Angeles during the catastrophic fires of …

Cellist Seth Parker Woods, Artist-in-Residence at the University of Chicago, presents a new album exploring identity, intimacy, and human connection with music by André Previn, George Walker, Tania León, and Sergei Rachmaninoff. The album’s title is drawn from Toni Morrison’s poetry – setting the tone for a program that elevates the everyday into something resonant and revelatory. “I’m still on …

Decca Classics presents a recital by soprano Lise Davidsen and pianist James Baillieu recorded at the Metropolitan Opera in September 2023. Their program reflects the full spectrum of Davidsen’s range, moving effortlessly between opera, song and musical theatre. Davidsen demonstrates her mastery of the music of Richard Strauss with four songs: “Allerseelen,” “Befreit,” “Zueignung,” and “Morgen.” Opera highlights include  “Dich, …

The all-women a capella ensemble Lyyra (the only one of its kind based in the United States) presents their debut album with a genre-defying program that showcases the multifaceted beauty of upper voices. Created by VOCES 8, Lyyra’s members are Anna Crumley, MaryRuth Miller, Elizabeth Tait, Ingrid Johnson, Aryssa Leigh Burrs and Cecille Elliott, representing a wide range of specialisms …

Raphaël Pichon and his ensemble Pygmalion have emerged as superlative interpreters of Bach. They continue their exploration of the composer’s major works with this new recording of the St. John Passion. With their exemplary articulation and dynamic flexibility, the Pygmalion chorus is at the center of this striking drama. Raphaël Pichon’s precise direction restores the Passion’s original dramatic arc, instilling …

Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars present world premiere recordings of works written for them by Nico Muhly. Phillips says that Muhly “immediately understood our particular sound and a succession of masterpieces followed, each as powerful as the last.” The title work is a setting of Jeremiah’s Lamentations, interspersed with contemporary interviews with people from the Windrush generation of Caribbean …