New release highlights from Outhere Music (OH Music): June 2026

• Rafael Payare and San Diego Symphony Orchestra make Delos label debut with Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony, available exclusively from Apple Musical Classical beginning June 26
• Also from Delos, violinist Miclen LaiPang makes album solo debut with Deep River, exploring home, roots, and memories through personal recital program with pianist Nigel Yandell
• Plus, a recap of some of the Outhere label family’s most acclaimed releases of 2026 to date

Delos

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7
Rafael Payare, conductor
San Diego Symphony Orchestra
DE 3634
First recording in the orchestra’s newly renovated Jacobs Music Center
• Exclusively on Apple Music Classical: from June 26
• Worldwide digital release: Aug 28
• CD release: Sep 11

Under the leadership of Music and Artistic Director Rafael Payare, the San Diego Symphony Orchestra has undergone a galvanic artistic renewal, transforming its repertoire and forging a distinctive new sound. The recent renovation of Jacobs Music Center – a premier concert hall and architectural landmark — allows that artistry to be heard in all its power, color, and nuance.
To launch their new collaboration with Delos, Payare and the orchestra have made a live recording at Jacobs Music Center of Shostakovich’s monumental SeventhSymphony, to be made available to global audiences exclusively on Apple Music Classical, where listeners worldwide can experience the performance in high-resolution audio and immersive detail. Known as the “Leningrad,” because it was composed during that city’s notoriously brutal siege, the symphony is emotionally and historically supercharged. Marking the first recording captured in the hall’s newly renovated acoustics, it sets the tone for an exciting new partnership.
Charles Adriaenssen, Founder and President of the Outhere Music Group / Delos Executive Producer, comments:

“I’m delighted to launch the collaboration between our flagship American label Delos, and the San Diego Symphony Orchestra with Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony. Rafael Payare leads the orchestra with astonishing intensity, mobilizing the talent of each section in a mesmerizing live performance of this highly symbolic work. The splendid acoustics of the recently renovated Jacobs Music Center also greatly contribute to a unique experience. We are keen to develop this partnership with Maestro Payare, the orchestra, and this wonderful hall, and delighted to be partnering with Apple Music Classical to bring these extraordinary moments to a worldwide audience.”

Deep River
Miclen LaiPang, violin
Nigel Yandell, piano
DE3621
• Digital & CD release: June 5

“A force to be reckoned with” (The New York Times), violinist Miclen LaiPang makes his solo recording debut on Delos with a very personal recital. Featuring music that has accompanied him over time, Deep River traces a path through styles and places that have been meaningful over the course of his life. Like a river, his program flows from its source through different landscapes, crossing borders and mirroring a life shaped by movement between countries, cultures, and musical worlds. Such spirituals as Deep River and Nobody knows de trouble I’ve seen bring echoes of home, evoking Miclen’s childhood in the United States, while Widmung, Liebesleid, and Der RosenkavalierWaltzes are associated with his time in Germany and Austria, and Ravel’s Second Violin Sonata with his current home in France. Partnered by pianist Nigel Yandell, LaiPang performs on the Antonio Stradivari “Charles Castleman, ex-Marquis de Champeaux,” generously loaned by the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel.

Acclaim for recent releases from the Outhere label family

Out of Vienna
Music by Berg, Webern, and Schulhoff
Leonkoro Quartet
Released Jan 2026
Label: Alpha Classics
ALPHA1196

“Berg’s Lyric Suite (1926) — a meticulously coded account of a passionate extramarital affair — has already been well recorded, but the Leonkoro’s account is as compelling as any. Their ensemble transparency never wanes, even as the music works itself into a state of dreamlike delirium.”

– The New York Times

Adorations
Isidore String Quartet
Haydn: String Quartet, Op. 20, No. 2
Barber: Adagio
Mendelssohn: String Quartet, Op. 44, No. 3
Price: Adoration
Released: March 2026
Label: Delos
DE3622

“A scintillating debut album […] ‘A celebration of chamber music at its essence – a tapestry of joy, human connection, and the enduring resonance of lives intertwined’ is how the New York City-based Isidore Quartet, winner of the 2022 Banff Competition, describes its debut album’s multifaceted exploration of adoration in its various guises. And so it is […] All in all, thoroughly adoration-worthy.”

— The Strad Recommends

Beyond Vivaldi: Lute Concertos
Evangelina Mascardi, lute
Estrovagante ensemble
Riccardo Doni, conductor
Released March 2026
Label: Arcana
A593

“The disc’s centrepiece is Vivaldi’s RV93 […] Mascardi’s reading of the Largo is especially affecting, its wistful melody breathed rather than declaimed. The real revelation of the programme, though, is Kohaut’s Concerto in E major – a work full of yearning suspensions, chromatic turns and filigree passagework.”

– Gramophone

East Meets West
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
Released March 2026
Label: Alpha Classics
ALPHA1244

“Fabulous music. Fabulous playing. Fabulous mastering. […] I never thought Beethoven could sound more beautiful than Beethoven but Widmann’s framing sets each brief quotation as a precious jewel. As for Adès’s Air-Homage to Sibelius, for violin and orchestra, the soaring, gorgeous and heartfelt words only hint at its beauty.”

– Stereophile

Nico Muhly: No Resting Place
The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips, director
Released March 2026
Label: Linn Records
CKD790

“Phillips directs with his usual poise and intelligence, keeping everything clear and well-shaped. The Tallis Scholars sing magnificently: precise, alert and expressive. Their refusal to over-blend the sound helps bring out the emotional impact of Muhly’s writings.”

– BBC Music Magazine, Recording of the Month; Five Stars

Sibelius: Violin Concerto; Lemminkäinen Suite
Ava Bahari, violin
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Santtu-Matias Rouvali, conductor
Released April 2026
Label: Alpha Classics
ALPHA1215

“Hugely impressed by Ava Bahari here. She is truly a storyteller. There is untold generosity and cleanliness to the playing and the best way l can express what sets apart her reading of this oft-performed piece is the value with which she imbues every note, be it part of a singing phrase or a driving rush of pyrotechnics.”

— Gramophone, Editor’s Choice

Inferno
Behzod Abduraimov, piano
Released May 2026
Label: Alpha Classics
ALPHA1219

“Quite a few interpreters have built upon Maurizio Pollini’s standard-setting Petrushkarecording […] Abduraimov elevates this work further still: his ‘Russian Dance’ emphasises rhythmic centredness over sheer speed, with uncommon direction throughout the left-hand chords, while his right-hand octaves are suppler than most pianists’ single notes. […] A gratifying and gorgeously engineered recital that all piano lovers should hear.”

– Gramophone, Editor’s Choice

About Outhere Music

One of the world’s largest independent classical music production and recording groups, Outhere Music (OH Music) produces and distributes its recordings all over the world. They range from early to contemporary music, by way of jazz and world music. With a clear focus on making an impactful cultural contribution, OH Music emphasizes production quality, strong ties with the artists and scrupulous attention to the realization of each project. It proactively embraces new forms of distribution and engagement, targeting a wide variety of audiences.
Alpha Classics, Delos, Analekta, Arcana, Channel Classics, Linn Records, and Fuga Libera represent the group’s best-known labels; their catalogues encompass eclectic repertoires and artists of international stature.
Ricercar, Phi, and Ramée, the group’s specialist labels, have strong individual identities and offer outstanding, more specific musical experiences.
The Outhere Music group was founded in 2004 by Charles Adriaenssen and has offices in Brussels and Paris, with partners in London, Milan, the Netherlands, the US, Montreal and Mexico.

Advance music, physical copies and additional information on all releases from Outhere are available upon request.