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 136
Paranormal Music Chamber
[ Warner Classics / CD - released 13/Feb/2026 ] JB Dunckel first created these pieces through a highly organic process of spontaneous composition at his piano for his 2024 album Paranormal Musicality. Now they take on a new dimension, perhaps one of the many unknown potentials they held from the... |
Bor Zuljan (lute), Clara Brunet
Mr Dowland's Dream [ Ricercar / CD - released 13/Feb/2026 ] |
UNSUK CHIN
Unsuk Chin Samuel Favre, Dimitri Vassilakis (piano), Ensemble Intercontemporain (chamber ensemble), Pierre Bleuse [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 13/Feb/2026 ] The Ensemble Intercontemporain and its musical director Pierre Bleuse continue their monographs on the great figures of contemporary musical composition. After the multi-award-winning Ligeti, it is the composer Unsuk Chin who is celebrated here.... |
BEETHOVEN / SCHUMANN / BRAHMS
Heimat Kenji Miura (piano) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 13/Feb/2026 ] The concept of Heimat-the German word for 'homeland'-is a universal and deeply personal idea. Pianist Kenji Miura explores this theme, not as a geographical fact, but as a state of being we can choose for ourselves. A Long-Thibaud-Crespin... |
TONU KORVITS / ERKKI-SVEN TUUR / PETERIS VASKS
Prophecy Ksenija Sidorova (accordion), Estonian Festival Orchestra, Paavo Järvi [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 13/Feb/2026 ] With these works for accordion and orchestra, Ksenija Sidorova and Paavo Järvi pay tribute to the music of the Baltic countries: the Latvian and the Estonian, who have been collaborating for over 10 years, recorded in Pärnu with the festival... |
J.S. BACH
Bach: Mein Geist Le Banquet Céleste [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 13/Feb/2026 ] Following the departure (of his own accord) of its founder Damien Guillon, Le Banquet Céleste has reinvented itself as a collective of musicians and singers, all committed to continuing to explore the Baroque repertoire with the stylistic rigour that... |
ALBAN BERG / ANTON WEBERN / ERWIN SCHULHOFF
Out of Vienna Leonkoro Quartet [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 13/Feb/2026 ] The Leonkoro Quartet, founded in 2019 and winner of multiple prestigious awards in 2022 - nine prizes at the Wigmore Hall International Competition, including first prize, BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists, Jürgen Ponto Foundation Music Prize, first... |
Lidy Blijdorp (cello), Tobias Borsboom (piano)
Franck, Boulanger, Debussy & Vermeulen: Works for Cello and Piano [ Channel Classics / CD - released 13/Feb/2026 ] Dutch cellist Lidy Blijdorp and pianist Tobias Borsboom delve into the world of the Société Nationale de Musique in this programme of late-romantic and early modern French chamber music. César Franck's Sonata for Violin and Piano was transcribed,... |
ALLAN PETTERSSON
Pettersson: Symphonies 3 & 8 Norrköping Symphony Orchestra / Christian Lindberg [ BIS / CD - released 13/Feb/2026 ] Since 2010, Christian Lindberg and the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra have embarked on a unique and ambitious project: a complete performance and recording cycle of the orchestral works of Allan Pettersson, the Swedish master symphonist renowned for... |
Logan Lopez Gonzalez, Rémy Brès-Feuillet, Sarah Charles, Éléonore Pancrazi, Nicolò Balducci (countertenor), Giacomo Nanni Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal
Haendel: Sosarme [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / 3 CD - released 13/Feb/2026 ] At the borders of mythical Lydia, a crisis erupts: Prince Melo takes up arms against his father, King Haliate, who has been blinded by the slanders of a deceitful adviser who made him believe he would be disinherited in favor of an usurper. It is in... |
HUGO ALFVÉN / EINOJUHANI RAUTAVAARA
Alfvén / Rautavaara: Orchestral Works Neeme Jarvi / Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra [ Chandos SACD / SACD - released 13/Feb/2026 ] Hugo Alfvén was an accomplished writer and painter as well as musician and composer. Born in Stockholm in 1872, he studied first at Kungliga Musikhögskolan (the Royal College of Music) and then in Berlin, Dresden, Paris, and Brussels. Influenced by... |
MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos 6, 8 & 18 Olga Pashchenko; Il Gardellino [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 13/Feb/2026 ] Olga Pashchenko and Il Gardellino present a third recording of Mozart's piano concertos, following two volumes (Alpha 726 and 942) that were very well received by the press and the public: 'The most exhilarating "authentic" Mozart I have ever heard,'... |
Ti Frère
Mauritius: Tribute to Ti Frère. Séga, Music of Exile [ Ocora / CD - released 13/Feb/2026 ] The voice of Ti Frère rises up, alone in the silence. A voice with an edge and a hiss, grinning and derisive, shouting, rasping and groaning, it threatens and then becomes very sweet and tender, and with it now come all the manifold voices of the... |
Alexandra Dariescu (piano), Tomo Keller (violin), Richard Harwood (cello), Academy of St Martin in the Fields
A Child's Dream [ Signum / CD - released 6/Feb/2026 ] This album traces pianist Alexandra Dariescu's journey through discovery, memory and celebration, uniting masterworks with neglected gems and world premieres. Mozart's radiant Rondo in D major, K382, opens the programme, paired with Emmy Schäfer... |
AUGUSTA READ THOMAS
Thomas: Sol Alexander Hersh (cello), Marianne Parker (piano), Erica Neidlinger (conductor) [ Nimbus / CD - released 6/Feb/2026 ] 'For some twenty-five years I've had the inestimable privilege of collaborating with Augusta Read Thomas and so it is with some authority that I claim she is a singular refutation of Newtonian physics: she creates energy. In countless workshops,... |
GIUSEPPE MARTUCCI / SERGEI RACHMANINOV / OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Italian Perspectives: Martucci, Rachmaninov, Respighi Bamberger Symphoniker, Riccardo Frizza [ Pentatone / CD - released 6/Feb/2026 ] On Italian Perspectives, the Bamberger Symphoniker and Riccardo Frizza trace the revival and evolution of Italian instrumental music. Giuseppe Martucci's Symphony no.1 in D minor, completed in 1895, illuminates the Italian symphonic tradition often... |
RICHARD STRAUSS / LUDWIG Van BEETHOVEN
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben / Beethoven: Sinfonie Nr. 8 Thomas Beecham, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra [ SOMM Recordings / CD - released 6/Feb/2026 ] Sir Thomas Beecham had a long association with the works of Richard Strauss, to the extent that Strauss once told him "what you have done for my works in England cannot be sufficiently appreciated." SOMM Recordings pays tribute to this collaboration... |
HEINZ KARL GRUBER
Gruber: Piano Concerto, Short Stories from the Vienna Woods, etc. Frank Dupree (piano), ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra [ Capriccio / CD - released 6/Feb/2026 ] Now over 80 years old, the ever-energetic HK Gruber has become an integral part of the music scene, and not only in Austria. As a composer, chansonnier and music educator with constructive depth and his distinctive, ironical jokes, he unfailingly... |
Ruby Hughes (soprano), Jonas Nordberg (lute, archlute), Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann (viola da gamba)
Ruby Hughes: Amidst the Shades [ BIS / CD - released 6/Feb/2026 ] Soprano Ruby Hughes, celebrated for the profound "understanding and stylishness" (Gramophone) she brings to her artistry, has a distinguished discography of recitals showcasing the exquisite beauty of her voice. She is particularly known for her... |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN / BÉLA BARTÓK
Beethoven: The Last Three Sonatas Imogen Cooper (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 6/Feb/2026 ] Regarded as one of the finest interpreters of classical and romantic repertoire, Imogen Cooper is internationally renowned for her virtuosity and lyricism. Dame Imogen writes: 'It has taken many years for me to perceive the last three sonatas by... |
