I had to look twice at the label:  yes, it's EMI Classics.  When I saw the
title, I was sure it's Naxos -- offbeat repertory from a regional German
orchestra, manufactured in Holland.

Whoever is putting this out there, hurrah!  Zemlinsky's "Saemtliche
Orchesterlieder" includes 17 selections, including several world
premiere recordings.  Conlon conducts the Geurzenich-Orchester Koelner
Philharmoniker (an excellent orchestra, which I hear for the first time),
and in addition to a group of "old" favorites -- Violeta Urmana, Andreas
Schmidt and Michael Volle -- the CD introduces (to U.S.  audiences, at
least) the remarkable soprano Soile Isokoski, one of the most distinct
new (again, probably to me only) voices in my recent experience.

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