Soprano Sarah Traubel made her debut recording with arias premiered by Josepha Hofer, Mozart's first Königen der Nacht.  Along with famous arias by Mozart, Traubel also recorded rarely heard arias by Sussmayr, Winter, Righini, Wranitzky and Haibel.  Jochen Rieder conducted the Prague Philharmonia in the recording produced by Michael Fine at Prague Crossroads.  Jakub Hadraba was the engineer.  The recording will be released by SONY Classical.

Michael Fine will be one of the featured artists at this year's editionn of Festival Mozaic in San Luis Obispo, California.  In addition to playing clarinet in the Festival Orchestra, Michael will perform Prokofiev's Overture on Hebrew Themes in its chamber music version.  Additionally, his Bassoon Quintet will receive its world premiere performance (Fei Xie, bassoon), Alice K. Dade will give the world premiere of Michael's Flute Quintet, and Xiaodi Liu will give the American premiere of his Oboe Quintet. These will all be recorded along with the Clarinet Quintet (Anton Rist, clarinet) and 'Elegie For...' with Robert Walters (English Horn).  http://www.festivalmozaic.com/Michael Fine will be one of the featured artists at this year's editionn of Festival Mozaic in San Luis Obispo, California.  In addition to playing clarinet in the Festival Orchestra, Michael will perform Prokofiev's Overture on Hebrew Themes in its chamber music version.  Additionally, his Bassoon Quintet will receive its world premiere performance (Fei Xie, bassoon), Alice K. Dade will give the world premiere of Michael's Flute Quintet, and Xiaodi Liu will give the American premiere of his Oboe Quintet. These will all be recorded along with the Clarinet Quintet (Anton Rist, clarinet) and 'Elegie For...' with Robert Walters (English Horn).  http://www.festivalmozaic.com/