New and recent releases of interest.
Chopin, Nocturnes; Stephen Hough (Hyperion)
Baritenor: arias by Mozart, Méhul, Spontini, Rossini, Adam, Donizetti, Verdi, Thomas, Offenbach, Leoncavallo, Lehár, Wagner, Ravel, Orff, Korngold; Michael Spyres, Marko Letonja conducting the Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg and the Choeur d’hommes de l’Opéra national du Rhin (Erato)
Liza Lim, The Oresteia, Yuè Lìng Jié, Mother Tongue, The Navigator; Julie Edwardson, Deborah Kayser, Tyrone Landau, Andrew Muscat-Clark, Grant Smith, Jeannie van de Velde, Piia Komsi, Omar Ebrahim, Philip Larson, Talise Trevigne, Andrew Watts, with Sandro Gorli, Simon Hewett, Jean Deroyer, and Manuel Nawri conducting ELISION (Huddersfield Contemporary)
Time Travelers: works by Bach, Handel, Ravel, Ligeti, Barber, Brahms, Couperin, Rameau, Adès; Inon Barnatan (Pentatone)
Anima Aeterna: arias and works by Zelenka, Fux, de Almeida, Handel, Nucci, Manna; Jakub Józef Orliński, Fatma Said, Francesco Corti leading Il pomo d'oro (Warner)
Jessie Cox, When You're a Star (unknown tapes)
Ameriscapes: works by Loeffler, Hanson, Ruggles, Cowell; Robert Trevino conducting the Basque National Orchestra (Ondine)
Bach, Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut and Jauchzet Gott in allen Lande, Handel, excerpts from Brockes Passion and Giulio Cesare; Sabine Devieilhe, Raphaël Pichon leading Pygmalion (Erato)
Du Yun and Raven Chacon, Sweet Land; The Industry (The Industry Records)
Florence Price, Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3; Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra (DG)
Michael Pisaro-Liu, Tombstones; Barbara Dang and Muzziz (elsewhere)
Gubaidulina, Dialog: Ich und Du, The Wrath of God, The Light of the End; Vadim Repin, Andris Nelsons conducting the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig (DG)
Brahms, Symphony No. 4, MacMillan, Larghetto; Manfred Honeck conducting the Pittsburgh Symphony (Pentatone)
Josquin the Undead: Grandelavoix (Glossa)