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 116
GEORGE BUTTERWORTH / GUSTAV HOLST
Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad, Two Idylls, Banks of Green Willow Andrew Manze, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra [ Onyx / CD - released 26/Sep/2025 ] George Butterworth, one of the pre 1914 generation lost in the Great War, left a small but enduring body of work. He was introduced to folk music by Vaughan Williams, but he was also a dancer and collector of folk songs and dances - especially those... |
CARL NIELSEN
Nielsen: Symphony No. 5 / Clarinet Concerto / Helios Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos / CD - released 26/Sep/2025 ] Edward Gardner's series of Nielsen symphonies with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra continues with this recording of No. 5, complemented with the overture Helios and the Clarinet Concerto, featuring Alessandro Carbonare as soloist. Nielsen composed... |
ERNEST CHAUSSON / SAMUEL BARBER / CLAUDE DEBUSSY / AARON COPLAND / ERROLLYN WALLEN
The World Feels Dusty Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 26/Sep/2025 ] Dame Sarah Connolly and Joseph Middleton present a richly rewarding programme of art songs from a variety of composers. The recital opens with Chausson's Poème de l'amour et de la mer, which took almost a decade to compose and shows Wagner's... |
J.S. BACH
Bach: Goldberg Variations. BWV 988 Danny Driver (piano) [ Onyx / CD - released 26/Sep/2025 ] One of the peaks of keyboard repertoire, Bach's Goldberg Variations was published in 1741, and forms the fourth and final part of his clavierübung (keyboard exercise) cycle. It is one of Bach's greatest achievements and is a technical and... |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH / ROXANNA PANUFNIK / JOHANN LUDWIG KREBS / RICHARD BARNARD etc
Fantasia: Works for Trumpet and Organ Matilda Lloyd (Solo Trumpet trumpets, flugelhorn) [ Chandos / CD - released 26/Sep/2025 ] Matilda Lloyd and Richard Gowers, recital partners for more than a decade, present a diverse programme of music for trumpet and organ. Transcriptions of baroque works are interspersed with four world-première recordings of new works by British... |
Pene Pati (tenor), Il Pomo d'Oro
Serenata A Napoli [ Warner Classics / CD - released 26/Sep/2025 ] Pene Pati's glowing tenor voice, described by Le Monde as 'filled with sunshine', makes him the ideal interpreter of such roles as Rodolfo in La bohème and the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto. Now, with Serenata a Napoli, he brings his distinctive warmth... |
ECCLES / BYRD / DOWLAND / PALESTRINA / FRESCOBALDI / HANDEL / etc
Shani Diluka - Renaissance Shani Diluka (piano & arrangements) [ Warner Clasics / CD - released 26/Sep/2025 ] On Renaissance, Shani Diluka invites us on a journey through the humanist movement of the Renaissance era with repertoire selected from Byrd to Frescobaldi, from Dowland to Monteverdi. Many of the pieces have never been played on the modern piano,... |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: The Seasons (LP) Bruce Liu (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / LP - released 19/Sep/2025 ] Exceptional pianist Bruce Liu, winner of the 2021 International Chopin Competition, has recorded Tchaikovsky's most famous solo piano work "The Seasons" for his second studio album. With his unique interpretation of The Seasons, Liu brings the... |
John Taylor, Marc Johnson, Joey Baron
Tramonto [ ECM / CD - released 19/Sep/2025 ] Recorded live in Birmingham during a Contemporary Music Network tour in 2002, Tramonto finds UK pianist John Taylor (1942-2015) in celebratory, outgoing mood, fronting one of his most dynamic and quick-witted groups, with US musicians Marc Johnson... |
Rolf Lislevand (lute)
Libro Primo [ ECM New Series / CD - released 12/Sep/2025 ] On his newest recording for ECM's New Series, lute virtuoso Rolf Lislevand turns to the revolutionary Baroque literature for archlute and chitarrone, interpreting 17th century lute composers' works largely found in their first printed books - their... |
JOHN CAGE / EDVARD GRIEG / MAURICE RAVEL / ERIK SATIE / FEDERICO MOMPOU
Lyrique Adam Cicchillitti (guitar), Steve Cowan (guitar) [ Analekta / CD - released 5/Sep/2025 ] The guitar duo of Adam Cicchillitti and Steve Cowan presents a new album of their original arrangements of 19th and 20th century piano repertoire. Lyrique features the works of Edvard Grieg, Maurice Ravel, Erik Satie, Germaine Tailleferre, John Cage,... |
ANONYMOUS
Misteris del Corpus Capella de Ministrers [ Capella de Ministrers / CD - released 5/Sep/2025 ] Soundscape of the Corpus Christi procession in Valencia (17th-18th centuries) The Feast of Corpus Christi, established in 1264 by Pope Urban IV, became one of Valencia's most important and magnificent celebrations. Its origins are tied to a... |
Clément Ducol; Fakea
Radiophonie, Vol. 15 [ Signature / 4 CD - released 5/Sep/2025 ] Radiophonie vol 15"" is a collection of trailers broadcast in 2023-24 by various Radio France channels. France BLEU package, specially composed by Pascal Obispo and James Gravity; France Inter theme songs rearranged by Christophe Minck, Clément... |
ANTONIO DE PADUA PUZZI
Puzzi: Messa a quattro voci con Violoncelli, Fagotti, Basso, ed Organo Ensemble Bonne Corde; Diana Vinagre [ Ramée / CD - released 5/Sep/2025 ] The Messa a quattro voci con Violoncelli, Fagotti, Basso, ed Organo is an example of a particular type of sacred music that emerged at the end of the 18th century at the Portuguese court, in which the bass instruments imitate a classical orchestral... |
Francesco Galligioni (cello), Alberto Gallligioni (cello), Paolo Zuccheri violone Lorenzo Feder (organ), Roberto Lorregian (organ & harpsichord)
Caldara: Complete Cello Concertos [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 5/Sep/2025 ] A new and complete survey of the attractive body of cello sonatas which, in his day, helped to make Antonio Caldara a Viennese rival to the fame of Antonio Vivaldi in Venice. Born in Venice as the son of a violinist, Caldara grew up as a chorister... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / BENJAMIN BRITTEN / EDWARD ELGAR / JEAN SIBELIUS
Britten, Brahms, Elgar & Sibelius: Violin Concertos Ida Haendel (violin) [ ICA Classics / 2 CD - released 5/Sep/2025 ] The world-renowned violinist Ida Haendel CBE (1928-2020) was born in Poland, a child prodigy whose career spanned seven decades. She studied with the greatest teachers of the time, Carl Flesch and George Enescu. Haendel made her London debut... |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Mazurkas, Vol. 1 Ingrid Fliter (piano) [ Linn Records / CD - released 5/Sep/2025 ] According to The Telegraph 'Ingrid Fliter was born to play Chopin', such is her profound musicianship and affinity with the Polish composer. Here, the Gilmore Artist Award winner continues her highly acclaimed Chopin odyssey, which began over a... |
CESAR FRANCK / JOSEPH JONGEN / GUILLAUME LEKEU
Pièces égoïstes Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden [ Musique en Wallonie / CD - released 5/Sep/2025 ] Though Belgium in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was known above all for its "school" of violin-playing, represented by figures such as Henry Vieuxtemps and Eugène Ysaÿe, it was also home to a flourishing piano "school". After independence in... |
VARIOUS OPERETTA COMPOSERS
Jonas Kaufmann - Doppelgänger Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Ádám Fischer, with Rachel Willis-Sørensen (soprano) [ Sony Classical / 2 CD/DVD - released 5/Sep/2025 ] Jonas Kaufmann's latest album brings together two of Schumann's most profound song cycles-Dichterliebe and Kerner-Lieder-performed with exceptional sensitivity and vocal finesse. Accompanied by pianist and long-term collaborator Helmut Deutsch |
JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Rameau: Castor et Pollux (1737 Version) Judith van Wanroij; Véronique Gens; Reinoud Van Mechelen; Tassis Christoyannis; Olivia Doray; Hasnaa Bennani; Jehanne Amzal; David Witczak [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 5/Sep/2025 ] Castor et Pollux is Rameau's third opera and is packed with arias that show off the soloists to their best advantage: Tristes apprêts for Télaïre, Nature, Amour for Pollux, Séjour de l'éternelle paix for Castor, and Soulevons tous les dieux for... |
