Classical New Releases
Classical New Releases
Below is a list of all classical CD titles released in the last 120 days.
Displaying items 1 to 20 of 221
OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Respighi: Tre Liriche Alessandra Visentin Chamber Orchestra of New York, Salvatore Di Vittorio [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Oct/2024 ] This album presents a selection of works for voice and orchestra by Respighi. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
What I Saw in the Water Chromaduo [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Oct/2024 ] There are fruitful contrasts in the works for piano and orchestra of these two French composers. Gabriel Fauré's Ballade in F sharp major is graceful and serene but ends with a Lisztian flourish, whereas his neglected Fantaisie, though modestly... |
COPLAND / BERNSTEIN / WALTON / THOMSON / HONEGGER / MOZART / TCHAIKOVSKY / etc
Louis Lane & Cleveland Orchestra - The Complete Epic and Columbia Album Collection Cleveland Orchestra. Louis Lane [ Sony Classics / 14 CD Box Set - released 11/Oct/2024 ] Louis Lane went on to head major orchestras in Dallas and Atlanta and to guest conduct leading ensembles all over the world. But before that, Louis Lane honed his craft while working in the shadow of one of the great masters: in 1947, legendary... |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Late Symphonies, Vol. 4 Danish Chamber Orchestra, Ádám Fischer [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Oct/2024 ] The fourth volume in this series culminates in Haydn's grandest symphonies, written during his second, triumphant visit to London. The works possess increased artistic weight and mark a transition from Viennese Classicism to Romanticism. In their... |
XIAOGANG YE
Xiaogang Ye: Song of Farewell Without Words Guangrong Xie, Qingrong Wang, Rongping Cao, Shumin Chen, Yuanchun Yu (soloist), Hongxuan Chen (soloist), Tieshan Liu (soloist) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Oct/2024 ] Xiaogang Ye has been awarded numerous prestigious honours and is regarded as one of China's leading contemporary composers. His interest in mysterious and beautiful plants has led him to write many pieces inspired by subtropical flora - The Faint... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos, etc., Vol.10 Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano) / Manchester Camerata, Gábor Takács-Nagy [ Chandos / CD - released 11/Oct/2024 ] Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and Gábor Takács-Nagy continue their acclaimed survey of Mozart's Piano Concertos with this tenth volume, concentrating on the very early works of the child-genius composer. As an exercise, his father, Leopold, tasked the... |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina Mara Gaudenzi, Pietro Spagnoli (baritone), Valentina Pluzhnikova, Greta Doveri, Matías Moncada etc [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 11/Oct/2024 ] In 1822, the young Donizetti was engaged by La Scala to compose an opera. Chiara e Serafina was the outcome and the librettist was Felice Romani, a refined scholar but a notoriously slow and touchy worker. Consequently, Donizetti had barely twelve... |
IVOR BERTIE GURNEY
Gurney: Songs, Vol. 2 Marcus Farnsworth (baritone), Eric McElroy (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Oct/2024 ] Ivor Gurney was a poet as well as a composer and was accomplished in a number of musical genres including song. With his intuitive approach to poetry he selected texts widely, from contemporaries to ballads, Elizabethan and Jacobean poets, and even... |
GABRIEL URBAIN FAURE
Fauré - Poulenc: Works for Piano & Orchestra Romain Descharmes (piano), Malmö Opera Orchestra, Michael Halász [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Oct/2024 ] There are fruitful contrasts in the works for piano and orchestra of these two French composers. Gabriel Fauré's Ballade in F sharp major is graceful and serene but ends with a Lisztian flourish, whereas his neglected Fantaisie, though modestly... |
Various Composers
Italian Baroque Trumpet Concertos Thomas Reiner (trumpet) / Interpreti Veneziani [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Oct/2024 ] The brilliant dynamism of Italian Baroque music is at its most virtuosic and thrilling in works featuring the solo trumpet, whether in original compositions or transcriptions. Albinoni's astonishing ornamentations and the luminous dexterity of... |
Amandine Beyer; Gli Incogniti
Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] "A bestselling recording since its first release in 2008, Amandine Beyer and Gli Incogniti's memorable performance of Vivaldi's Four Seasons has been reissued by Alpha Classics for a second time. |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Wunderkind Felix Ars Musica; Patrick van der Linden; Nanette Mans [ Channel Classics / CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] Robert Schumann called Mendelssohn the Mozart of the 19th century given his mastery of both the keyboard and composition at such an early age. |
IGOR STRAVINKSKY
Stravinsky: Chamber Works Barbara Hannigan; Julliard School Ensemble; Royal Academy of Music [ Linn Records / CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] Barbara Hannigan, a Grammy award-winning artist at the forefront of creation, leads an ensemble of outstanding young musicians from the Royal Academy of Music and The Juilliard School. Since 2002, the Academy and The Juilliard School, both... |
ADRIAN SUTTON
Sutton: Orchestral Works BBC Philharmonic, Michael Seal [ Chandos / CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] Following a devastating cancer diagnosis in September 2022, Adrian Sutton, composer of the music for War Horse, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, and other National Theatre productions, made a conscious decision to change his focus,... |
Belcea Quartet
Belcea Quartet: The Alpha Classics Complete Recordings [ Alpha Classics / 15 CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] "This boxed set of fifteen CDs brings together all the recordings made by the Belcea Quartet for Outhere Music. |
LIZA LEHMANN / ARTHUR SOMERVELL / MAUDE WHITE
Splendid Tears: Setting of Alfred, Lord Tennyson Brian Thorsett, Richard Masters [ EM Records / CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] A perusal of a catalogue of English-language musical settings quickly reveals the powerful attraction composers have had to the verse of Tennyson. |
BRYCE DESSNER
Bryce Dessner - Solos Bryce Dessner (guitar), Katia Labèque (piano), Anastasia Kobekina (cello), Colin Currie (percussion), Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Lavinia Meijer (harp) + [ Sony Classical Vinyl / CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] "Dessner himself takes the stage in two short pieces for guitar, Francis and Walls. These are in the best tradition of guitar solos, the latter reminiscent of the Spanish guitar masters, and it is good to have Dessner performing in person." Fin.Times |
BRYCE DESSNER
Bryce Dessner - Solos Bryce Dessner (guitar), Katia Labèque (piano), Anastasia Kobekina (cello), Colin Currie (percussion), Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Lavinia Meijer (harp) + [ Sony Classical Vinyl / 2 LP - released 4/Oct/2024 ] Versatile composer, sought-after musical collaborator and guitarist Bryce Dessner makes his Sony Classical début with Solos, a collection featuring a series of unaccompanied instrumental works written by the composer over the past few years. |
Ô-Celli
Ô-Celli fait son cinéma [ Cypres Records / CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] "Exploring the classical repertoire from Bach to Nino Rota, but also venturing into lands less usually frequented by the cello, Ô-Celli transcends the boundaries between classical music and cinema for its third opus at Cypres. |
JAELL / LISZT / SAINT-SAENS
Jaëll, Liszt & Saint-Saëns: Piano à 4 mains Claudine Orloff; Burkard Spinnler [ Cypres Records / CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] "A singular composer, Marie Jaëll (1846-1925) made the piano the perfect confidant of her inspiration. |
