New records of interest.
— Das Ewig-Weibliche: Marlis Petersen sings Goethe Lieder; with Jendrik Springer, piano (Harmonia Mundi)
— Nicholas Ludford, Missa Regnum mundi, Richard Pygott, Salve regina; Blue Heron (Blue Heron)
— Wolfgang Rihm, Astralis and other choral works; RIAS Kammerchor (Harmonia Mundi)
— Prokofiev, Sixth Sonata, works of Saint-Saëns and Liszt; Behzod Abduraimov (Decca)
— Britten, War Requiem; Ian Bostridge, Simon Keenlyside, Sabina Cvilak, Gianandrea Noseda conducting the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (LSO Live)
— Terrestre: works of Saariaho, Donatoni, Carter, Boulez, Fujikura; Claire Chase, members of ICE (New Focus)
— Saint-Saëns, Complete Piano Works, Vol. 1; Geoffrey Burleson (Grand Piano)
— Barbara Monk Feldman, The Northern Shore, In the Small Time of a Desert Flower; Sabat/Clarke, Aki Takahashi (Mode)
— Beethoven, Sonata No. 32, Ligeti, Etudes Books I and II; Jeremy Denk (Nonesuch, available May 15)
— John Luther Adams, songbirdsongs, Strange Birds Passing; Calithumpian Consort, NEC Contemporary Music Ensemble (Mode)
— William Bolcom, Gospel Preludes; Gregory Hand, organ (Naxos)
— Nicholas Deyoe, with throbbing eyes; Formalist Quartet, red fish blue fish (populist)