Below is a list of all classical CD titles released in the last 120 days.
CLAUDIO SANTORO
Santoro: Complete Piano Sonatas Alessandro Santoro [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2024 ] Written over a 46-year period, Claudio Santoro's six piano sonatas document the evolution of his creative and formal skills - together they present a survey of the composer's entire aesthetic development. Always radiating a forceful inner power and... |
BEETHOVEN / BENJAMIN / DOWNLAND / JOSQUIN
Resonance Benjamin Hochman [ AVIE / CD - released 1/Nov/2024 ] In his late piano sonatas, Beethoven created music of extraordinary originality, simultaneously looking far into the future and far into the past Pianist Benjamin Hochman pays homage to this Janus-faced aspect with the inclusion of two works from... |
DE LASSUS / ERBACH / KLINGENSTEIN / DE RORE / REGNART / etc
A monk's life The Brabant Ensemble / Stephen Rice [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Nov/2024 ] For a monk resident in one of post-Reformation Germany's religious institutions, music would have served as a focus of spiritual discipline as well as a source of joy. Some real discoveries await the listener who joins The Brabant Ensemble on this... |
DIMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1 (Nos. 1-5) Cuarteto Casals [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2024 ] After being subjected to public attacks by the Soviet regime in the mid-1930s, Shostakovich sought new avenues of self-expression by turning to chamber music, and the string quartet became for him the perfect medium for private confession. To launch... |
SCOTT JOPLIN
Elite Syncopations: Marco Fumo plays Scott Joplin Marco Fumo [ ODRADEK RECORDS / CD - released 1/Nov/2024 ] Italian pianist Marco Fumo always brings joy and unique insight to his Odradek recordings, and this album of the music of Scott Joplin is particularly special, reflecting his specialist knowledge of ragtime, and representing his last... |
CHARLES IVES / FRANZ SCHUBERT / ROBERT SHUMANN
Ives: Orchestral Works Orchestra New England, Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra, James Sinclair [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2024 ] Charles Ives was a master of miniatures, and this program brings together a miscellanea of numerous shorter pieces that includes seven world premieres. Embracing ragtime before it became a craze at the end of the 19th century, Ives' Four Ragtime... |
LUIGI BOCCHERINI
Boccherini: Cello Concertos, Sonatas & Quintets - Music of the Angels Steven Isserlis [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Nov/2024 ] Has there ever been a composer of more consistent elegance?' If Steven Isserlis's rhetorical question invites the listener to think of plausible alternatives, on the evidence of this wonderful album-an imaginative selection of Boccherini's cello... |
DALE KAVANAGH
Dale Kavanagh & Friends Amadeus Guitar Duo (guitar duo), Dale Kavanagh (guitar), Aniello Desiderio, Zoran Dukic, Margarita Escarpa, Frank Gerstmeier, Sümeyye Ergün, Laura You [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Oct/2024 ] Renowned as a soloist and as a member of the Amadeus Guitar Duo, Dale Kavanagh is one of the most prominent classical guitarists of her generation. With this album she not only plays solo works composed for leading guitarists all over the world, but... |
FREDERICK BLOCK
Block: Chamber Works ARC Ensemble [ Chandos / CD - released 25/Oct/2024 ] Friedrich Bloch (Frederick Block once he arrived in America) was born in Vienna in 1899. His father, Sigmund, supported music as a pastime, but opposed it as a career. His heart was changed when his son returned home unscathed at the end of World War... |
BERLIOZ / HAYDN / MUSSORGSY-RAVEL / DVORAK / STRAVINSKY / BEETHOVEN
Colin Davis: The Concertgebouw Legacy Arthur Grumiaux, Salvatore Accardo (violin) Heinrich Schiff (cello) / Concertgebouw Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis [ Decca Eloquence / 18 CD Box Set - released 25/Oct/2024 ] Colin Davis's complete Concertgebouworkest recordings for Philips, collected together for the first time CD premieres of Haydn's Symphonies Nos. 84, 86, 87, 88 (on Decca), and the DvoĆák Romance with Accardo (first international CD release). |