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New Release Round-Up - 31st July 2026

Karim Sulayman (tenor), Alarm Will Sound, Alan Pierson

Based on Garth Greenwell's acclaimed 2016 novel about an American writer's obsession with a Bulgarian sex-worker, Little's one-man opera is scored for tenor and sinfonietta and was premiered in Virginia in September 2024, when Opera Magazine applauded the work's 'unflinching honesty' and Sulayman's 'hypnotic allure'. Reviewing this first recording, BBC Music Magazine noted that 'Britten and contemporary American composers lurk in the background, but Little's musical style is generally his own', whilst Gramophone declared that the work 'gets under one's skin and stays there'.