Classical New Releases
Classical New Releases
Below is a list of all classical CD titles released in the last 120 days.
Displaying items 181 to 200 of 273
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Crown of Life Choir of the Queen's College, Oxford, Owen Rees [ Signum / CD - released 6/Mar/2026 ] The Crown of Life continues the Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford's exploration of overlooked treasures in twentieth-century English choral music under Owen Rees. At its centre is the first recording of Kenneth Leighton's Missa Christi (1988), the... |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY / GABRIEL FAURE / GUSTAV MAHLER / KURT WEILL etc
Lost to the World Daniel Lozakovich (violin), Hélène Mercier (piano) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 6/Mar/2026 ] A profoundly personal and curated new recording by violinist Daniel Lozakovich, joined by pianist Hélène Mercier, inspired by his own reflections on childhood and the redemptive power of music. It combines cornerstones of the Romantic repertoire... |
HUW WATKINS
Watkins:Fanfare, Symphony no.2, Concerto for Orchestra Hallé Orchestra, Mark Elder [ Hallé / CD - released 6/Mar/2026 ] This album celebrates a warm and close musical relationship between composer, conductor and orchestra - and the extraordinary impact the Covid pandemic had on British cultural life. Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé commissioned and premiered the works on... |
SEBASTIAN de VIVANCO / CHRISTOBAL de MORALES
Lead, Kindly Light Harry Christophers & The Sixteen [ Coro / CD - released 6/Mar/2026 ] Spain's Siglo de Oro, the Age of Gold, gave rise to some of the greatest sacred choral music of the Renaissance. Lead, Kindly Light is devoted to the music of two outstanding Spanish composers exploring majestic works by Cristóbal de Morales, famed... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Cinema Hauser (cello), London Symphony Orchestra, Robert Ziegler (conductor) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 6/Mar/2026 ] With his unmistakable artistry and passion, HAUSER breathes new life into cinema's most iconic music. This collection, recorded with the prestigious London Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Robert Ziegler, spans decades of cinematic history,... |
MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos Volume 12 Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 6/Mar/2026 ] Jean-Efflam Bovouzet's acclaimed cycle of Mozart's piano concertos reaches its conclusion with this twelfth volume. The programme offers a suitably celebratory mood: the Overtures to Idomeneo and La finta semplice frame the A major and D major Rondos... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Symphony no.2 'Lobgesang' Jone Martinez (soprano), Eri Sawae (soprano), Benjamin Bruns (tenor), Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS / CD - released 6/Mar/2026 ] Masaaki Suzuki and the Bach Collegium Japan, renowned for their definitive interpretations of Bach's vocal music, have also garnered critical acclaim for their recordings of major choral and orchestral works, including Mozart's Requiem and the Mass... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Live At The Met Lise Davidsen (soprano) James Baillieu (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 6/Mar/2026 ] On 14 September 2023, Lise Davidsen became one of the youngest-ever singers invited to give a solo recital at the MET, a house with which she has a very special relationship. With pianist James Baillieu, Lise performed a programme including... |
Los Angeles Film Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
Pictures at an Exhibition: The Paintings of Bob Peak [ Warner Classics / CD - released 6/Mar/2026 ] |
LEOKADIYA KASHPEROVA
Kashperova: Piano Concerto · Symphony Oliver Triendl (soloist) Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Anna Skryleva [ Capriccio / CD - released 6/Mar/2026 ] Leokadiya Kashperova was Igor Stravinsky's piano teacher, having herself been a student of Anton Rubinstein. To this day, however, her compositions remain in the shadow of the male Russian masters, a fate shared by many other women of this era.... |
JOHANN BAPTIST VANHAL / ANTON ZIMMERMANN
Zimmermann & Vanhal - Duality: Bassoon Concertos Ondrej Sindelar (bassoon), Sergio Azzolini (bassoon), Risonanza Praga [ Supraphon / CD - released 6/Mar/2026 ] The bassoon as a solo instrument does not appear all that often in the concerto literature, but a concerto for two bassoons is truly rare, being something that could arise only in the environment of an ensemble that possessed two soloists on that... |
EMIL TABAKOV
Tabakov: Complete Symphonies, Vol. 8 Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, Emil Tabakov [ Toccata Classics / CD - released 6/Mar/2026 ] The symphonies of the Bulgarian composer-conductor Emil Tabakov (b. 1947) explore the darker side of the human spirit in monumental scores as austere as they are powerful, his language sitting somewhere between Shostakovich, Varèse, Pettersson and... |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 5 'Spring', 9 'Kreutzer' & 3 Alena Baeva; Vadym Kholodenko [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 27/Feb/2026 ] Alena Baeva and Vadym Kholodenko are starting their recording of Beethoven's complete sonatas for violin and piano. Alena is recognised as a versatile violinist with a magnetic presence and now performs with the greatest orchestras and conductors,... |
MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Piano Quintets Alessandro Marangoni, Quartetto Adorno [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Feb/2026 ] Castelnuovo-Tedesco's chamber works were composed early and late in his career. He considered the Piano Quintet No. 1 in F major from 1932 to be the best of all his chamber works from that period. It exudes Romantic candour and contrapuntal richness,... |
ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV / MIKHAIL GLINKA / NIKOLAI MEDTNER / SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Forgotten Melodies: Glinka, Glazunov, Rachmaninov, Medtner Alexander Malofeev (piano) [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 27/Feb/2026 ] Hailed by Der Standard as "a world piano revolution," Malofeev turns to works by Glinka, Glazunov, Rachmaninov, and Medtner - four Russian composers whose music is deeply marked by nostalgia and the experience of exile. Centred around Medtner's... |
J.S. BACH
Bach: Transformations Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya [ Linn Records / CD - released 27/Feb/2026 ] For her debut solo album of music by J. S. Bach's contemporary Gottlieb Muffat, Gramophone praised pianist and harpsichordist Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya as 'an ideal advocate for the music'. Now, for her second solo recording for Linn, she turns to... |
FRANK BRIDGE / SIR EDWARD ELGAR / JOHN IRELAND
Bridge, Elgar, Ireland: English Cello Works Andreas Brantelid, Bengt Forsberg, The Royal Danish Orchestra, Thomas Søndergård [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Feb/2026 ] Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor is a cornerstone of the cello repertoire, a product of the composer's summer seclusion in the English countryside in 1919. A masterpiece of moods, it encompasses the world-weary and poignant but also the... |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphonies 5 & 9 (Live) Arvids Jansons, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra [ ICA Classics / CD - released 27/Feb/2026 ] Arvids Jansons (1914-1984) was born in Liepāja on Latvia's west coast. He studied violin from 1929 until 1935 at the Conservatory of Liepāja, then composition and conducting (under Leo Blech) at the Conservatory of Riga from 1940 until 1944 while... |
ARMANDE DE POLIGNAC
Polignac: Piano Works Bruno Belthoise (piano), João Costa Ferreira (piano) [ Grand Piano / CD - released 27/Feb/2026 ] Armande de Polignac was one of an unprecedented number of female composers emerging at the beginning of the 20th century. With training from the likes of Gabriel Fauré and Vincent d'Indy she was able to devote her life to music at the highest level... |
SERGEY RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Morceaux de Fantaisie Boris Giltburg (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Feb/2026 ] Composed at the age of 19, Rachmaninov's earliest published cycle of piano pieces, the Morceaux de Fantaisie, contains the Prélude in C sharp minor, destined to become his signature work, and the Mélodie in E major, much loved by Tchaikovsky. The... |
