April’s New Album Releases 2024
1/5/2024
April's New Album Releases 2024
Mozart, You Drive Me Crazy! is the title that Golda Schultz gives her new album released on the Alpha label, devoted to the heroines of Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutte and Le nozze di Figaro, roles that have marked Schultz’s career from the Glyndebourne Festival to The Metropolitan Opera. Schultz brings Da Ponte’s libretti to life together with special guests sopranos Julie Roset and Simone Easthope, mezzo-soprano Ashely Dixon, tenor Amitai Pati, baritone Samuel Dale Johnson, bass-baritone Milan Siljanov and bass Paweł Horodyski, under the guiding hands of another eminent Mozartian, Antonello Manacorda, and the Kammerakademie Potsdam.
Gustavo Gimeno released the album Dutilleux on harmonia mundi with Jean-Guihen Queyras, Luxembourg Philharmonic, featuring the composer’s Tout un monde lointain, Métaboles and Symphony No.1 for orchestra.
Julie Roset released Doux Silence with Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, François Lazarevitch and Lucile Richardot on Alpha Classics, an album that François Lazarevitch described to be “combining the qualities of sound and breathiness of the voice and the flute”.
Randall Goosby released the Deluxe Edition digital release of his album Roots with pianist Zhu Wang on Decca. The album celebrates Black classical composers including Birdsong’s Carlos Simon.