1 day Ago By Francisco Salazar
Welcome back for this week’s look at the latest CD and DVD releases in the opera world. This week Sonya Yoncheva releases her first solo recital with her new record label. There will also be a new album by Benjamin Appl and several rarely performed works.
There is also a complete opera recording coming out for Holocaust Remembrance Day. Constraints/Creativity The new album CONSTRAINTS/CREATIVITY considers the humanistic thread connecting disparate cultures across time and space. The album features a collection of 10 original works from composer Kai-Young Chan set to ancient Chinese lyric poetry, contemporary literature, and religious texts to moving choral music.
George Sonya Yoncheva releases her first recital album “GEORGE” on Naïve Records in collaboration with her company SY11 Productions. The recording includes art songs, duets, works for piano, piano and violin as well as spoken texts, all connected to one of France’s most famous authors of the 19th century, George Sand. Pianist Olga Zado, mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti and violinist Adam Taubitz accompany Yoncheva on the album.
Yoncheva also recites letters from and to George Sand as well as a poem by the renowned author. In a statement, Yoncheva said, “George Sand has always fascinated me. She was such a multi-layered woman, who dared to be herself throughout her life.
Her unconditional love for the arts was one of the first sparks that inspired me to realize this project. I was intrigued by her artistic world: her salon, her friends, and how she lived surrounded by music and art. Her many affairs, to name a few: Alfred de Musset, Frédéric Chopin, and even rumors of a fling with Franz Liszt.
She had all these men around her and was incredibly close to everything they were creating. For this project, I imagined Sand’s house, kitchen, and salon, with all these artists, lovers, and friends. And that is how this project was born.
I wanted to bring this woman to life through my voice, through these works and melodies, also using her actual texts and thoughts, which show her vibrant nature.” The Passenger Deutsche Grammophon releases Weinberg’s opera from the Teatro Real. Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducts the recording which stars Amanda Majeski, Gyula Orendt, Daveda Karanas, and Nikolai Schukoff.
The release coincides with the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, Holocaust Remembrance Day. The album will only be released on digital platforms. Donizetti: L’aio nell’imbarazzo Naxos releases the rarely performed work by Donizetti.
The recorded stars Marilena Ruta, Caterina Dellaere, Francesco Lucii, Lorenzo Martelli, Alessandro Corbelli, Lorenzo Liberali, and Alex Esposito. The Orchestra e Coro Donizetti Opera is conducted by Vincenzo Milletarì. Beethoven: Missa Solemnis Alpha Classics releases Beethoven’s Missa Solenis with Chen Reiss, Varduhi Abrahamyan, Daniel Behle, and Tareq Nazmi.
The Audi Jugendchorakademie and Le Cercle de L’Harmonie are conducted by Jérémie Rhorer. György Kurtág – Franz Schubert: Lines of Life Alpha Classics releases Benjamin Appl’s new album. The album alternates Romantic German lieder by Schubert and Brahms with vocal pieces by György Kurtág, five of which are world premiere recordings.
, Pierre-Laurent Aimard and James Baillieu are featured on piano. Categories.
