Featured New Releases for
December 24, 2021

A fresh holiday release from The Sixteen, which has done many of them before.

— James Manheim

Intriguing, all-overdub crossover film music album from young cellist Soltani.

— James Manheim

Crossover performances of French popular songs by Oliemans are, well, formidable!

— James Manheim

Christmas album inspired by the Camerata's 1974 A Medieval Christmas is similar in spirit but more tightly focused and affecting.

— James Manheim

A refreshingly lush Christmas album by a progressive string orchestra.

— James Manheim

The first release by Netrebko in her new dramatic mode finds her excelling in gloomy arias of various traditions.

— James Manheim

A brilliant, pathbreaking realization of an unknown opera by Rameau.

— James Manheim

Soprano Devieilhe emerges as a major star with this recital of Bach and Handel arias.

— James Manheim

Live concert release brings the rhythmic vitality of early Mexican music to life.

— James Manheim

Inventive new orchestral arrangement of Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, plus a version of Schoenberg's tone poem.

— James Manheim