Sarah Maria Sun: new CD „AUGEN“

The new CD Augen – presenting soprano Sarah Maria Sun - has now been released at WERGO. The recording focuses on the German composer Enno Poppe, who, with this album, continues his existing series with the label WERGO. Sarah Maria Sun recorded his cycle Augen - 25 Lieder for voice and chamber orchestra on poems by Else Lasker-Schüler – with the WDR-Sinfonieorchester under the baton of Elena Schwarz in 2025 at the WDR. In 2022, she already sang the critical acclaimed world premiere of Augen in the musical direction of Bas Wiegers at the Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik. In 2023, concerts and further premieres followed at the Lucerne Festival and the Casa da Música in Porto. Further compositions on this CD include Poppe‘s Schnur for violin and orchestra with Carolin Widmann, Alan Gilbert and the NDR Elphilharmonie Orchestra, Schrauben for 13 percussionists with the Percussion Orchestra Cologne under the baton of Enno Poppe as well as Torf for orchestra performed by the WDR-Sinfonieorchester and Brad Lubman.

(published on 3 November 2026)

Anna-Lena Elbert: Franz Liszt Academy

Between 19-22 November 2026, the soprano Anna-Lena Elbert will make her debut singing four concerts at the remarkable LISZT FERENC ACADEMY OF MUSIC in Budapest at the invitation of the KAMARA.HU FESTIVAL:
On 19 November 2026, she will perform Robert Schumanns Lied cycle Frauenliebe und -leben Op. 42 with pianist Izabella Simon.
On 21 November 2026, she will sing two concerts presenting Ernest Chausson’s Chanson perpétuelle Op. 37 and Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s Niedecker Songs accompanied by the Merel Quartet and cellist Nicolas Altstaedt as well as W. A. Mozart‘s concert aria K. 505 Ch’io mi scordi di te... Non temer, amato bene with the Liszt Ferenc Chamber Orchestra and the pianist Roman Rabinovich.
On 22 November 2026, she will interpret Dmitri Shostakovich‘ Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok Op. 127 together with Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), Dénes Várjon (piano) and Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin).

(published on 27 October 2026)

Sofia Jernberg: Solo-Concert in Berlin

On 27 October 2026, the vocal artist Sofia Jernberg will start off the new series Cantadoras presented by the Deutsche Oper Berlin performing a solo concert at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. The highly acclaimed Ethiopian-Swedish soprano, performer and composer meanders between contemporary composition, noise, free jazz and experimental vocal art. Her voice ranges five octaves, from guttural growls to crystalline overtones, from microtonal glissandi to percussive sonic explosions. She just premiered her composition Sunville - Afrofuturistic Musical Theater at the Deutsche Oper Berlin/Tischlerei successfully.

(published on 21 October 2026)

Holger Falk: Klangforum & Wien Modern

On 24 October 2026, the baritone Holger Falk will sing Schubert’s Winterreise. A composed interpretation by composer Hans Zender for the first time. Vimbayi Kaziboni will conduct the Klangforum Wien in concert at the Evangelische Stadtkirche Ravensburg at the invitation of the Festival weit! neue musik weingarten. Zender closely follows Schubert’s musical language while incorporating effectively alienating sound effects that further emphasize the icy coldness and metaphysical gloom of the work. Just in spring, Holger Falk performed with the Klangforum Wien Bernhard Lang‘s Songbook II.2 at the Wiener Konzerthaus to great acclaim: Equally high-spirited was Bernhard Lang’s Songbook II.2. – Retextured, not least thanks to Holger Falk: the baritone shied away from neither rhythmically acrobatic nor ironic challenges, virtuously dancing his way through the intricate loops (...). Die Presse

On 13 November 2026, two concerts will follow at the festival Wien Modern at the Bockkeller Vienna presenting Friedrich Cerha‘s Keintate I+II together with the Attensam Quartett. In 2022, the artists released Cerha‘s cycle on CD on the label Kairos receiving raving reviews: Holger Falk’s performance is simply overwhelming - vocally nuanced, proofing a multifaceted articulation, and ranging from the vulgar to the artistic, from delightfully grumbling to sarcastically profound. It even overshadows the old recording by Viennese chansonnier HK Gruber, for whom Cerha originally wrote the two Keintaten. Opernwelt

(published on 14 October 2026)