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 40 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... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
France: Rigodon Sauvage Patrice Gabet; Michel Favre; Bruno Sabalat [ Ocora / CD - released 5/Sep/2025 ] Rigodon Sauvage, with a repertoire (Southern Alps, Dauphiné) drawn from folklorists' compilations and field recordings, has created an innovative style, giving a contemporary echo to a long musical history. The dominant image of the traditional... |
J.S. BACH / ANTONIO VIVALDI / G.F. HANDEL
Tra le fiamme Rowan Pierce; Florilegium; Ashley Solomon [ Channel Classics / CD - released 5/Sep/2025 ] Soprano Rowan Pierce joins Florilegium and Ashley Solomon in Tra le fiamme - a new recording of secular cantatas by G. F. Handel and J. S. Bach. Tra le fiamme is one of Handel's Italian style cantatas, combining vocal virtuosity with deep emotional... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Quintette imaginaire Sandrine Piau, Quatuor Psophos [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 5/Sep/2025 ] Sandrine Piau admits that she has always been fascinated not only by Schubert's music but also by the genre of the string quartet. "The endless quest for the pure gesture in which we lose ourselves in order to become one with each other reminds me of... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: 6 String Quintets on Historical Instruments Spunicunifait [ Alpha Classics / 3 CD - released 5/Sep/2025 ] Spunicunifait is the curious name adopted by a group of five musicians, all of whom have a great deal of experience in chamber music as well as in prestigious orchestras such as the Chamber Orchestra of Europe; they have founded this ensemble to be... |
BELA BARTOK / ANTONIN DVORAK / LEOS JANACEK
Gypsy Melodies Talich Quartet [ La Dolce Volta / CD - released 5/Sep/2025 ] Are 'hits' exclusively associated with modern pop music? Popular successes have roots much deeper in the history of music, spanning various genres and contexts, including music created and shared in private settings, such as homes, as well as in... |
MOZART
Mozart: Concertone KV 190, Horn Concerto No. 3 KV 447, Piano Concertos Nos. 2 KV 39 & 4 KV 41 Veriko Tchumburidze; Sofiko Tchumburidze; Pascal Deuber; Giorgi Gigashvili; Sasha Calin; Marcus Thomas Pouget; Mozarteumorchester Salzburg [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 5/Sep/2025 ] For the 13th volume in the 'Next Generation Mozart Soloists' series, Georgian pianist Giorgi Gigashvili, who has already released a highly acclaimed debut album (Alpha 930), has agreed to tackle the early piano concertos of the very young Mozart:... |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies No. 5, 6 & 8 (Intégrale des symphonies, Vol. 2) (Live) Victor Julien-Laferrière; Orchestre Consuelo [ B Records / 2 CD - released 5/Sep/2025 ] Victor Julien-Laferrière and his Consuelo Orchestra continue their complete works of Beethoven's symphonies with a second volume devoted to the famous diptych premiered on 22 December 1808: the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, so contrasting and yet so... |
ARVO PART
Pärt: And I Heard A Voice Vox Clamantis, Jaan-Eik Tulve (conductor) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 5/Sep/2025 ] Estonian vocal ensemble Vox Clamantis and their leader Jaan-Eik Tulve have established themselves among the leading interpreters of Arvo Pärt's music over a quarter-century of close collaboration with the composer - a relationship that builds on the... |
ARVO PART
Pärt: And I Heard A Voice (LP) Vox Clamantis, Jaan-Eik Tulve (conductor) [ ECM New Series / LP - released 5/Sep/2025 ] Estonian vocal ensemble Vox Clamantis and their leader Jaan-Eik Tulve have established themselves among the leading interpreters of Arvo Pärt's music over a quarter-century of close collaboration with the composer - a relationship that builds on the... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 and No. 3 'The First of May' - Two Scherzos BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds [ Chandos / CD - released 29/Aug/2025 ] For this, the fifth instalment of his Shostakovich symphony cycle, John Storgårds turns to some of the earliest of the composer's orchestral output, works which Shostakovich largely wrote during his student years. The orchestral scherzo was a... |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
King of Kings - Orchestral Transcriptions of Bach BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis, Martyn Brabbins [ Chandos / CD - released 29/Aug/2025 ] Sir Andrew Davis was a talented keyboard player as a child and teenager, and after study with Peter Hurford, at St Albans, he spent four years at the University of Cambridge as organ scholar at King's College, under Sir David Willcocks. It was this... |
MOZART
Mozart: Works for Solo Piano, Volume 2 Federico Colli (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 29/Aug/2025 ] International sensation Federico Colli continues his personal exploration of the music of Mozart with this second volume of works for solo piano. Colli opens his programme with the Adagio in B minor, K. 540, from 1788, toward the end of Mozart's... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Double Concerto for Violin and Cello (LP) Itzhak Perlman (violin) Yo-Yo Ma (cello) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ Warner Classics / LP - released 29/Aug/2025 ] This recording of Brahms' Double Concerto with Itzhak Perlman and Yo-Yo Ma, with Daniel Barenboim conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, was originally released in 1997, captured from a live recording at Orchestra Hall in Chicago in 1996. |
VÍTEZSLAVA KAPRÁLOVÁ / ANTONÍN DVORÁK / BÉLA BARTÓK / VÍTEZSLAVA KAPRÁLOVÁ
Sparks from Ashes: Nicky Spence sings Czech Songs Nicky Spence (tenor), Dylan Perez (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 29/Aug/2025 ] Hailed by The Daily Telegraph as 'a voice of real distinction', Nicky Spence possesses unique skills as a singing actor and a rare honesty of musicianship, all of which has earned him a place at the top of the classical music profession. Admired in... |
Adèle Charvet; Florian Caroubi
Belle Epoque! [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 22/Aug/2025 ] For her second recital with piano, mezzo-soprano Adèle Charvet reunites with Florian Caroubi, who has been her regular duo partner since 2015. Together they celebrate the belle époque of the great French melodists (Massenet, Debussy, Fauré) and their... |
MOZART
Mozart: Flute Concertos Anna Besson; Reinoud Van Mechelen; A Nocte Temporis; Clara Izambert [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 22/Aug/2025 ] In 1777, Mozart met the wealthy Ferdinand Dejean, an amateur flautist and retired surgeon of the Dutch East India Company. Dejean commissioned a handful of works from the young composer, who termed them 'some simple, short little concertinos'.... |
Arianna Vendittelli; Emőke Baráth; Filippo Mineccia; Margherita Maria Sala; Valerio Contaldo; Federico Fiorio; Accademia Bizantina; Ottavio Dantone
Giacomelli: Cesare in Egitto [ Alpha Classics / 3 CD - released 22/Aug/2025 ] The Italian conductor Ottavio Dantone breathes new life into Cesare in Egitto, an opera by Geminiano Giacomelli (1692-1740) based on a libretto written by Domenico Lalli with the assistance of a young collaborator not yet in his thirties: Carlo... |
ADAM DARR / CARL KAMBERGER / FRIEDRICH KUHNEL
The Munich Guitar Society Manuscripts Daniel Marx (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Aug/2025 ] In 2009, a large collection of guitar music from the Gitarristische Vereinigung München ('Munich Guitar Society') was rediscovered in an attic in Munich. The collection included many significant works for guitar that have been hidden from view for... |
HEINRICH MARSCHNER
Marschner: Piano Trios, Vol. 2 - No. 2, Op. 111 and No. 6, Op. 148 (Gould Piano Trio) Gould Piano Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Aug/2025 ] Heinrich Marschner was the leading German operatic composer between Weber and the rise of Wagner, but he also wrote prolifically for chamber forces. His Piano Trios No. 2 and No. 6 share similar qualities: both are in a minor key, they are rich in... |
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: Dido & Aeneas Joyce DiDonato (mezzo) Michael Spyres (baritenor) Fatma Said (soprano) / Il Pomo d'Oro Choir, Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev [ Erato Warner Classics / CD - released 22/Aug/2025 ] The acclaimed mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato stars as Dido in this recording of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, captured at Essen Philharmonie as part of a celebrated European tour in 2024. |
