Nightafternight playlist for the advent of autumn

New and recent releases of interest.

— La Fauvette Passerinette: Peter Hill plays Ravel, Stockhausen, Anderson, Benjamin, Dutilleux, Sculthorpe, Douglas Young, Murail, Takemitsu, and Messiaen [including the première recording of the title work] (Delphian, available October)

— Tchaikovsky, The Seasons and Six Morceaux; Pavel Kolesnikov (Hyperion)

— Sibelius, Lemminkäinen Suite and The Wood Nymph; Osmo Vänskä conducting the Lahti Symphony (BIS)

— Stella di Napoli; Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano, with Riccardo Minasi conducting the Orchestra and Chorus of the Opéra de Lyon (Erato)

— Gerald Barry, The Importance of Being Earnest; Barbara Hannigan, Katalin Károlyi, Hilary Summers, Peter Tantsits, Joshua Bloom, Alan Ewing, Thomas Adès conducting the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (NMC)

— Helen Grime, Night Songs and other works; Mark Elder and Jamie Phillips conducting the Hallé Orchestra and Hallé Soloists (NMC)

— Feldman, String Quartet No. 1, Structures, Three Pieces; FLUX Quartet (Mode)

— Unsuk Chin, Piano Concerto, Cello Concerto, Šu for sheng and orchestra; Sunwook Kim, Alban Gerhardt, Wu Wei, Myung-Whun Chung conducting the Seoul Philharmonic (DG)

— John Harbison, String Trio, Four Songs of Solitude, Songs America Loves to Sing; Camerata Pacifica (Harmonia Mundi)

— Wagner without Words; Liŷr Williams, piano (Signum)