Euroarts celebrates Halloween with the release of Donizetti’s haunting masterwork featuring Lisette Oropesa in her masterful interpretation. The cast also includes Stefan Pop, Mattia Olivieri, and Riccardo Zanellato. They are joined by the Coro del Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania and the Orchestra del Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania. Fabrizio Maria Carminati conducts the recording.

Sounds of Armenia

Prima Classic releases Hasmik Torosyan and Giulio Zappa’s new album, which explores the music of Komitas, an Armenian composer, musicologist, medievalist, ethnographer-folklorist, choirmaster, singer, and poet.

Canto Caló

Aerocade Music presents “Canto Caló,” the debut album by New Mexican composer Nicolás Lell Benavides. Featuring mezzo-soprano Melinda Martinez Becker and Friction Quartet, the release encompasses two major works exploring New Mexican identity, ancestral memories of grandparents, and how those live and breathe within us, cultural connections over generations, and what is lost and gained when we revisit our roots.

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson: Handel Arias 

AVIE Records releases a deluxe, 21st anniversary reissue of Lorraine Hunt Lieberson’s recording of arias by George Frideric Handel. Hunt Lieberson performances of Irene’s arias from “Theodora” plus the composer’s cantata “La Lucrezia” and the evergreen aria “Ombra Mai Fu” from “Serse” are also featured on teh album.

Specially remastered for this CD and newly available digitally in Dolby Atmos, the longevity of these performances is a testament to her unique artistry.

Gelosia

Philippe Jaroussky celebrates the cantata da camera with the world premiere recordings of two works set to Pietro Metastasio’s Gelosia text, composed by Nicola Porpora and Baldassare Galuppi . The album also features music by Vivaldi, Handel, and Alessandro Scarlatti.

In a statement, the countertenor said, “Cantatas of this kind often served as a laboratory for new ideas and, I believe, as a kind of personal diary for composers. Being away from opera, with its more academic demands, they could write as they wanted, completely free to express their feelings.”

The new album comes as Jaroussky celebrates both the 25th year of his career and the 10th anniversary of the foundation of the Jaroussky Academy.

BIG CRASS MONSTER

The soprano-clarinet duo Whistling Hens release an album featuring four works that amplify forgotten voices, misunderstood legacies, and reclamation through music. The album features tributes to Beethoven, Debussy, Webern, L. Boulanger, and Gershwin, among others.

Farming

The Crossing releases a new album featuring music by composer Ted Hearne. “Farming” confronts technology’s ominous encroachment upon humanity’s very being.

Astor Piazzolla: María de Buenos Aires

Brilliant Classics releases Astor Piazzolla’s vtango-operita featuring Ce Suarez Paz, Gualtiero Scola, Alberto Maria Munafò, and Cesare Chiacchiaretta. The  Orchestra della Calabria Filarmonica is conducted by Filippo Arlia.

Kurt Weill: Love Life: A Vaudeville in Two Parts

Capriccio releases the first complete recording of Kurt Weill’s work featuring Quirijn de Lang, Stephanie Corley, Themba Mvula, and Justin Hopkins. James Holmes conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of Opera North.