In June 2006, Alsop conducted the Baltimore SO and violinist Joshua Bell in John Corigliano's Violin Concerto "The Red Violin", recorded by Sony Classics and released in September 2007. She and the Baltimore SO made their first-ever live recording release for iTunes of Igor Stravinsky’s "The Rite of Spring". Following her advent to the Baltimore post, one of her first projects as Music Director was a series of recordings of Dvořák for Naxos. The first disc in the series, featuring Symphony No. 9, "From the New World", and "Symphonic Variations", was released in February 2008, and was nominated for "BBC Music Magazine"’s 2008 Album of the Year.