For this album, "Brownlee has commissioned six of today's leading African-American composers - Damien Sneed, Brandon Spencer, Jasmine Barnes, Joel Thompson, and Shawn E. Okpebholo - to set poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to song, including poems by... Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, and more. The songs revolve around themes of joy, empowerment, faith, love, and strength in the face of challenge. "--Singer's website.

Classical singer Julia Bullock makes her solo recording debut, on Nonesuch Records. Bullock is joined on the album by London's Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Christian Reif for Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and an aria from John Adams's El Niño. With Reif on the piano, she also performs traditional spirituals and songs by Oscar Brown, Jr.; Billy Taylor; and Sandy Denny. The first track released is an interpretation of the Connie...

A look at some of the great tenor's most famous performances, including Che Gelida Manina; Vesti la Giubba; and E Lucevan le Stelle. Also features O Paradise; La Danza; O Sole Mio; Nessun Dorma; and much more.

"Among the treasures rediscovered in the BBC archives are two recitals by the soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf that were filmed in 1961 and 1970, when she was at the very peak of her powers and was partnered by a pianist who was without doubt the greatest accompanist of the 20th century: Gerald Moore. These two recitals allow us to re-encounter Schwarzkopf in her favourite repertory. Her anthology of German lieder takes us on a journey through the imaginative...