Welcome back as we explore the latest CD and  DVD releases from around the  opera world.

BMP: SONGBOOK Volume I & Volume II

In celebration its 20 years, the Beth Morrison Projects will release audio albums (CD and digital format, originally issued in January) that feature more than two dozen selections from the company’s two decades of disruption, innovation and leadership in the opera world. The albums include music by Missy Mazzoli, Kamala Sankaram, Paola Prestini, David T. Little, and Nico Muhly, among others.

Of Love and Transience

Acclaimed soprano Paula Sides and celebrated pianist Sergey Rybin present “Of Love and Transience,” a collection of some of the most hauntingly beautiful songs of the early 20^th century, by Alban Berg, Viktor Ullmann, Erich Korngold and Richard Strauss.

Opera Arias: Donizetti, Bellini, Rossini

Very Best of St. John’s College Choir

Alto releases a 2026 digital remaster of the Very Best of St John’s College Choir Cambridge, a collection of 19 choral favorites recorded in the College Chapel in June 1996 under director Christopher Robinson. The Very Best of St John’s College Choir Cambridge ranges widely across four centuries of sacred repertoire including works by Haydn, Fauré, Mozart, Bruckner, Rachmaninov, and Duruflé.

English, Anthems, Hymns & Laments from Cambridge

Alto presents a remastered collection of English sacred choral music performed by the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge under Timothy Brown. The programme gathers Tudor and early Baroque settings of grief and lament.

Echoes

Ongama Mhlontlo, a South African tenor and composer based in New York City releases a new project titled “Echoes,” bringing together the European art-song tradition.

MAHLER Lieder 

CAvi Music releases “MAHLER Lieder,” baritone Andrè Schuen and pianist Daniel Heide’s new album. The recording brings together the Lieder “eines fahrenden Gesellen,” “Kindertotenlieder,” “Rückert-Lieder” and “Urlicht” in their versions for voice and piano.

Legends, Romances and Lullabies

CiMA Streams presents a new album from New York-based composer and pianist James Adler. The new album is a journey through music that remembers, imagines, dances and dreams — a collection in which the distant past and the present seem to meet across the keyboard. Adler’s own compositions are performed alongside Rachmaninoff, Albéniz and Henco Espag. Recorded at Yamaha Artist Services Piano Studio in New York City by Jeanne Velonis. Soprano Shana Farr, flutist Denise Koncelik, and cellist Igor Zubkovsky are guest soloists.

Heroin Chic

Norwegian composer Solveig Sørbø’s opera “Heroin Chic” will be released via Solsnu, distributed by Diger, bringing the acclaimed work to audiences in digital, 2CD and 2xVinyl formats.

Based on the novel by Norwegian writer Maria Kjos Fonn, “Heroin Chic” explores addiction, self-destruction, identity, sexuality, death and the tension between innocence and physicality. The recording features soloists Susanna Wolff, Sofia Neacsu, Siv Misund, Ivar Magnus Sandve and Johannes Nikolai Aas, performing alongside Ensemble Oslo under conductor Hans Petter Mæhle. The recording was engineered and produced by Trond Kjelsås of LydFest.

BETWEEN LOVE AND LAW

BETWEEN LOVE AND LAW is the debut recording of the University of Memphis University Singers under the direction of Dr. Francis Cathlina. Featuring repertoire from two conference performance sets — Asimov’s 3 Laws of Robotics (2024 TnMEA) and 5 Love Languages (2026 Southern ACDA). Navona Records releases.

Haydn: Die Schöpfung (The Creation)

Alto presents a 2026 remastered edition of Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus performing Haydn’s “The Creation.” Originally recorded in 2007 at The Barbican in London, this recording features soloists soprano Sally Matthews, tenor Ian Bostridge, and baritone Dietrich Henschel.

Komm! Bach Cantatas with Recorder

Alpha Classics releases the first CD in a series designed to present Johann Sebastian Bach’s cantatas with a recorder part. It was recorded under the direction of Andrzej Kosendiak, featuring Giovanni Antonini, the NFM Boys’ Choir, and the Wrocław Baroque Ensemble and features “Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit BWV 106 (Actus Tragicus),” “Komm, du süße Todesstunde BWV 161,” and “Himmelskönig, sei willkommen BWV 182.”

The Deeps Have Music

Beth Taylor and Hamish Brown release “The Deeps Have Music,” the debut recital album for both artists. The sea-inspired program starts with the evocative “My Lagan Love” arranged by Hamilton Harty, followed by Hedwige Chrétien’s “Petits Poèmes du Bord de l’Eau,” Ethel Smyth’s “Three Moods of the Sea” and Edward Elgar’s “Sea Pictures.” Placed among these gems are songs by Schubert and Alma Mahler, together with a world premiere recording of Cameron Biles-Liddell’s “The Breakers.” LINN releases.

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor, “Resurrection.”

Louise Adler and Beth Taylor join the Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle in a live 2026 recording of Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony. BR Klassik releases.