Oliver Camacho

Many of this week’s new releases center on the music of American women composers. The Grammy-nominated duo of soprano Laura Strickling and pianist Joy Schreier present the first installment in a new series of recordings celebrating women as storytellers and bearers of cultural memory.

Winners of the 2025 Naumburg Chamber Music Competition and prizewinners at the 2025 Bordeaux and Wigmore Hall International Quartet Competitions, the Terra String Quartet presents three quartets by American composer Greg Sandow. The album heralds Sandow’s turn to full-time composing after a distinguished career as a critic, consultant, and teacher at Juilliard, Eastman, and Peabody.

A plethora of audience favorites have ventured forth with new releases in the height of summer. Two of the world’s most distinctive vocal ensembles — VOCES8 and the Swedish barbershop champions Ringmasters — join forces for a program that moves effortlessly from Renaissance polyphony and Romantic choral works to folk song, contemporary composition, and iconic popular repertoire. Legendary pianist Mitsuko Uchida presents Beethoven’s final three piano sonatas, Opp.