This week audiences will get a chance to listen to debut albums, classic works and world premiere recordings. Here is a look at the varied releases.

La bohème

Signum releases the Irish National Opera’s performance of “La bohème.” It marks the second recording in its new partnership with Signum Classics. Presented with a cast featuring Irish talent including Celine Byrne, Anna Devin, Ben McAteer, John Molloy, and more, this disc of Puccini’s lavish score cements INO’s reputation as a company that records canonical operas to the highest standards.

Blue

Resurrexi!: Easter in Vienna with Mozart and the Haydn Brothers

This new album brings you the powerful truth of Easter, celebrated in sound by two enthusiastic and devoted groups, in a fusion of what might have been heard in late eighteenth-century Salzburg or Vienna in Austria. With its choir and chapel services, Keble College aims to make itself accessible and approachable. The Choir of Keble College and Oxford Instruments of Time and Truth join forces led by Paul Brough.

Eastertide Evensong

This album is the second live Evensong album from the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, and marks the next great season of the Church’s year, Eastertide. This celebration of Jesus’s resurrection also initially spans forty days, taking us up to Ascension Day, and culminates on the fiftieth day with the Feast of Pentecost. Where the previous album reflected the tradition of using no organ from Ash Wednesday until the Gloria of the Easter Vigil, the instrument is fully utilized here by the Chapel’s organ scholars Glen Dempsey and James Anderson Besant. The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge is one of the finest collegiate choirs in the world, known and loved by millions from its broadcasts, concert tours, and recordings.

Dissonance

Alpha Classics releases Lithuanian soprano Asmik Grigorian’s first album “Dissonance,” a collection of Rachmaninoff romances. Partnered by Russian-Lithuanian pianist Lukas Geniušas, Grigorian offers nineteen selections, from the title song to the ever-popular “Spring Waters.”

In a statement, the soprano said, “Most of Rachmaninoff’s romances really demand operatic power. In fact, he wrote ‘mini-operas’ which last a few minutes.”

Trennung

Soprano Carolyn Sampson releases her new album for BIS, “Trennung: Songs of Separation”  with Kristian Bezuidenhout at the fortepiano. The new albums includes music by Mozart, Haydn, Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer, Christian Michael Wolff, and August Bernhard Valentin Herbing.

Requiem 

Frank Martin’s Requiem for four soloists, chorus, orchestra and organ is released in a recording featuring soloists Jane Marsh, Ria Bollen, Claes H. Ahnsjö, Robert Holl, the Wiener Jeunesse Chor, Rudolf Scholz, and the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Sopranista

Venezuelan sopranista Samuel Mariño presents his debut album showcasing his unique, delicate voice. The recording features music by Mozart and Gluck written for castrati of the 18th century. There are also world premieres and rarities by Cimarosa and Bologne, Chevalier de St-Georges.