New and recent releases of interest.
— Jürg Frey, Collection Gustave Roud; Frey, Stefan Thut, Dante Boon, Andrew McIntosh, Regula Konrad, Stephen Altoft, Lee Ferguson (another timbre)
— Björk, Utopia (One Little Indian)
— Berlioz, Les Troyens; Joyce DiDonato, Michael Spyres, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Stéphane Degout, Nicolas Courjal, Marianne Crebassa, Hanna Hipp, Cyrille Dubois, Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Philippe Sly, John Nelson conducting the Choeur de l’Opéra du Rhin, Badischer Staatsopernchor, orchestra and chorus of the Philharmonique de Strasbourg (Erato, out Nov. 24)
— Metafagote: works of Jason Eckardt, Felipe Lara, Rand Steiger, Dai Fujikura; Rebekah Heller, bassoon (New Focus)
— The Wagner Project; Matthias Goerne, Daniel Harding conducting the Swedish Radio Symphony (Harmonia Mundi)
— Onutė Narbutaitė, La barca, no yesterday, no tomorrow, krantas upė simfonija (riverbank – river – symphony); Christopher Lyndon-Gee conducting the Lithuanian National Symphony, with Tomas Pavilionis, tenor, and Jovita Vaškevičiūtė, mezzo (Naxos, out Dec. 1)
— Brice Pauset, Der Geograph (Symphonie IV), Les Voix humaines, Concerto I (Birwa), Dornröschen; Emilio Pomárico and Matthias Pintscher conducting the WDR Symphony and WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, with Nicolas Hodges, piano, and the Arditti Quartet (Aeon)