Opera 2023

'Heaven on my mind' is the fifth album by the Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet and will be released in September 2023 for Challenge records. After the thematic albums 'True' (2012 inspired by Berlin and David Bowie). 'Desire' (2015, an instrumental opera about longing), 'Goldbrun' (2017 a homage to Europe and Honing's interest in European art music) and 'Bluebeard' (2020, a dark album mainly inspired by the 300-year-old fairy tale of the same name), there is now 'Heaven on my mind'.

Michael Garrick MBE (30 May 1933 – 11 November 2011) was an English jazz pianist and composer, and a pioneer in mixing jazz with poetry recitations and in the use of jazz in large-scale choral works.

Manon Lescaut, from the eponymous Puccini opera, is a difficult character to grasp, evolving from a naïve young girl to a venal and manipulative femme fatale, and finally a despaired woman weeping over her miserable end.

ATMA Classique proudly presents Jean Sibelius’ Symphonies No. 3 & 4 with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting the Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal. Recorded at Maison symphonique de Montréal, this new release is part of our complete cycle of Sibelius symphonies, launched in 2019 with Symphony No. 1.

A versatile figure at home in lieder and in opera of several types, Katharina Konradi is the first major vocal star to emerge from the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan. Based in Germany, Konradi has appeared in operas by Mozart, Strauss, and Wagner. Konradi was born on June 13, 1988, in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek. Like many people in that city, formerly part of the Soviet Union, she grew up speaking Russian. At age 15, she moved to Hamburg, Germany. Although she spoke no German when she arrived, she succeeded in obtaining her Abitur (secondary school graduation) certificate at the Johannes-Brahms-Schule in Pinneberg in 2009.

"Hans Zimmer LIVE" gathers more than two hours of new music by the Frankfurt-born composer-star! For the album, Hans Zimmer has arranged new "suites" based on some of the best-known themes and melodies from his Oscar®-winning film scores, including "Dune" and "The Lion King," as well as for modern classic films such as "The Dark Knight," "X Men: Dark Phoenix," "Dunkirk," "Gladiator," "Inception," "Interstellar," "Last Samurai," "Man of Steel," James Bond: No Time to Die," "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Wonder Woman 1984."

Challenge Classics celebrates the Rachmaninov anniversary (150 years from his birth) with this stunning debut recording by Trio 258.

It was as Ponchielli’s long-suffering ballad singer, La Gioconda, that Callas made her Italian debut, in 1947 at the Arena di Verona, and it proved crucial to her career.

Warner presents Michael Corboz leading various ensembles in presentation of Giovanni Gabrieli's "Sacrae symphoniae" as part of the continuing re-release series of his entire Erato catalogue.

Peter Schöne – baritone, PhilHarmonia Octet Prague: Vilém Veverka, Monika Boušková – oboe, Irvin Venyš, Karel Dohnal – clarinet, Martin Petrák, Václav Vonášek – bassoon, Přemysl Vojta, Ondřej Vrabec – horn.