Classical New Releases
Classical New Releases
Below is a list of all classical CD titles released in the last 120 days.
Displaying items 241 to 260 of 273
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Early Piano Sonatas Opp. 2-7-10 Simone Pierini (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 20/Feb/2026 ] An experienced early-keyboard specialist brings his expertise to the 'New Testament' of the piano repertoire. 'Period' performances of Beethoven sonatas have become relatively mainstream during the present century, through artists such as Robert... |
ILDEBRANDO PIZZETTI
Pizzetti: Piano Trio, Works for Violin, Cello & Piano Trio Hèrmes [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Feb/2026 ] Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880-1968) was an Italian composer, music theorist, and teacher whose work bridges the late Romantic tradition and early twentieth-century modernism. A member of the so-called "Generation of the Eighties" alongside Ottorino... |
JOHN DOWLAND
Dowland: Songs, Ayres & Dances Various Artists [ Erato / 10 CD Box Set - released 20/Feb/2026 ] John Dowland was an English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer, often regarded as one of the greatest masters of the lute song. His melancholic music, filled with deep emotional expression, perfectly captures the mood of the Elizabethan and... |
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... |
J.S. BACH
Bach: Bach Arrangements (LP) Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / LP - released 13/Feb/2026 ] This delightful disc offers a selection from the wealth of piano transcriptions of Bach's music. The Bach revival that gathered momentum during the nineteenth century created a climate for many composer-pianists to interpret his works through their... |
Calidore Quartet
American Tapestry [ Signum Records / CD - released 13/Feb/2026 ] In a historical moment filled with tension and polarizing divide, this beautifully woven-together program of American music tells a story of human interconnectedness that resonates beyond any national borders. "The Calidore String Quartet play... |
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.... |
TALLIS / GESUALDO / SEERS / PARK / BYRD etc
Fading: 9 Centuries Of Choral Meditation & Reflection (LP) The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park [ Hyperion / LP - released 13/Feb/2026 ] From the twelfth century (Saint Hildegard) to the twenty-first, the voices of The Gesualdo Six weave a meditative reflection around the ancient Office of Compline in a moving sequence of music from fourteen composers. This 180g LP is part of... |
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... |
BELA BARTOK
Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Gustavo Gimeno [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 13/Feb/2026 ] Gustavo Gimeno and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra ascend the heights of two of Bartók ' s musical peaks: his dazzling Concerto for Orchestra and infamous Miraculous Mandarin , here presented in its complete version. As a pendant, the sediments by... |
