Classical New Releases
Classical New Releases
Below is a list of all classical CD titles released in the last 120 days.
Displaying items 21 to 40 of 284
JOHANNES BRAHMS / GABRIEL FAURÉ / CLARA SCHUMANN / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Loving Schumann Éric Le Sage (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Oct/2026 ] A recognised specialist in the music of Robert Schumann (he recorded the complete works for solo piano between 2000 and 2010 for Alpha Classics), the French pianist Éric Le Sage has devised this programme as a tribute to those who loved Schumann and... |
BÉLA BARTÓK / ERNŐ DOHNÁNYI / FRANZ LISZT
Ruralia Hungarica Suzana Bartal (piano) [ Channel Classics / CD - released 23/Oct/2026 ] Following her first recording of concertos for Channel Classics (CCS47825), the Franco-Hungarian pianist Suzana Bartal pays tribute to her Hungarian roots with a programme that showcases a variety of styles, from Liszt and his Gypsy influences to... |
GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA PALESTRINA / ARVO PÄRT / CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI / GREGORIO ALLEGRI / KOMITAS VARDAPET / ANTONIO LOTTI
Live At Basilica San Marco, Venice The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips [ ECM New Series / 2 CD/Blu-ray Disc - released 23/Oct/2026 ] Here is a singular recording of the Tallis Scholars under Peter Phillips from the glorious Basilica di San Marco in Venice, recorded on July 14th, 2017. Included in the programme, conceived around Monteverdi's 450th anniversary year, are works by... |
Tania Giannouli, Nik Bärtsch
Metakosmos [ Fuga Libera / CD - released 23/Oct/2026 ] Tania Giannouli and Nik Bärtsch have played together as a piano duo since 2023. Whilst they are both open to influences and traditions, their skill and passion are also nourished by chamber music from the classical tradition, by the true spirit of... |
ALEX DE TAEYE / LUCIE VELLERE
Alchemy: Alex De Taeye & Lucie Vellère Trio Spilliaert [ Cypres Records / CD - released 23/Oct/2026 ] In bringing together in the same recording the trios of Alex De Taeye and of Lucie Vellère, we create a dialogue with two contrasting yet profoundly complementary voices of twentieth century Belgian music. They were contemporary, brought up in the... |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Complete Sonatas for Violin and Fortepiano Viktoria Mullova (violin), Alasdair Beatson (fortepiano), Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) [ Signum / 4 CD - released 23/Oct/2026 ] This box set represents the culmination of Viktoria Mullova's celebrated series of Beethoven Violin Sonata recordings - a distinguished body of work produced in collaboration with pianists Kristian Bezuidenhout and Alasdair Beatson that has earned... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 Louise Alder (soprano), Beth Taylor (mezzo-soprano) / Bavarian Radio Chorus, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle [ Br-Klassik / CD - released 16/Oct/2026 ] "A truly special performance of Mahler's Second Symphony, Sir Simon Rattle and his orchestra's vision of the work drawing on deep roots of shared reflection." Gramophone recording of the Month Oct 26 |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Rare Original Solo Piano Transcriptions Alexey Zuev (piano) [ Fuga Libera / 3 CD - released 16/Oct/2026 ] Rarely heard, Sergei Prokofiev's own transcriptions for solo piano reveal a fascinating new perspective on his orchestral imagination. This collection brings together rare piano versions of symphonic and ballet works, including several world premiere... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Songs without Words Bertrand Chamayou (piano) [ Erato / CD - released 16/Oct/2026 ] "Mendelssohn's Songs without Words are very well known, yet little known at the same time," says Bertrand Chamayou. "There are 48 of them in all, but fewer than ten of them feature regularly in concert programmes." With this recording of the... |
MATEO ROMERO / JOSEPH DE SAN JUAN / FRANCISCO HERNÁNDEZ Y LLANA
¡A la fiesta! Cantoría; Jorge Losana [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 16/Oct/2026 ] This recording celebrates the Christmas season and its music, but above all it offers an opportunity to discover a little-known Catalan composer, José de San Juan, one of the most famous of his time in Spain, born in Olot (Girona) in 1687 and who... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: String Quartets, op.59 no.3, op.95 & Grosse Fuge, op.133 Chiaroscuro Quartet [ BIS / CD - released 16/Oct/2026 ] The Chiaroscuro Quartet continues its thrilling journey through Beethoven's string quartets with three works that chart the composer's development in the genre. The 'Razumovsky' Quartets (1806), commissioned by Count Razumovsky for his house... |
ERIC WHITACRE
Whitacre: Eternity in an Hour Eric Whitacre (piano / synthesisers / electronics), Eric Whitacre Singers (choir), Emma Denton (cello), Jess Gillam (saxophone) [ Decca / 2 CD - released 16/Oct/2026 ] The new album by Grammy Award-winning composer and conductor Eric Whitacre is a deeply meditative hour-long work for choir, cello, piano and live electronics, it is one of Whitacre's most ambitious projects to date and the first of his classical... |
ORAZIO BENEVOLO
Benevolo: Missa si Deus pro nobis & Magnificat Hervé Niquet; Le Concert Spirituel [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 16/Oct/2026 ] Hervé Niquet possesses two constant character traits: he is an indefatigable excavator of forgotten music, and he loves polyphony and 'large forms'. A few years ago, he caused a sensation by exhuming the monumental music of Striggio. To mark the... |
GIUSEPPE MARTUCCI
Martucci: Piano Sonata, 4 Piano Pieces Op.31, Mazurka Op.35 Ilaria Sinicropi (piano) [ Piano Classics / CD - released 16/Oct/2026 ] New recordings of neglected but compelling piano works from the spring of Giuseppe Martucci's career. |
MAURICE RAVE / GUILLAUME LEKEU / PATRICK LETERME
Vivantes (Live) Katok Ensemble [ B Records / CD - released 16/Oct/2026 ] Vivantes brings together the Katok Ensemble, led by Paul Serri, and the Belgian composer Patrick Leterme for a programme conceived at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Charleroi. Spanning works by Maurice Ravel and Guillaume Lekeu, alongside a new... |
BALDASSARE GALUPPI
Galuppi: L'uomo femina Le Poème Harmonique; Lucile Richardot; Vincent Dumestre; Eva Zaïcik; Victoire Bunel; Anas Séguin; Victor Sicard; François Rougier [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / 2 CD - released 16/Oct/2026 ] Welcome to an island where gender roles are radically reversed! Here, Princess Cretidea reigns as a warrior sovereign over submissive men, condemned to vanity and superficial adornment. The unexpected arrival of Roberto and Giannino, castaways from a... |
MAX RICHTER
Richter: While The Flood Rages Tenebrae Choir, Max Richter [ Decca / CD - released 16/Oct/2026 ] Oscar-nominated composer Max Richter's upcoming album While The Flood Rages, drawn from Richter's latest collaboration with choreographer Wayne McGregor, MaddAddam, inspired by Margaret Atwood's trilogy. |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Chout / Symphony no.1 NDR Radiophilharmonie (orchestra), Stanislav Kochanovsky [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 16/Oct/2026 ] Chout - a savage farce - is one of Prokofiev's most unbridled, riotous orchestral pieces, crafted with mercurial inventiveness, its abrasive rhythms and brilliant colours pervaded by a sarcastic, dark humour. |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / KAROL SZYMANOWSKI / FAZIL SAY / PATRICIA KOPATCHINSKAJA
Patkop & Say Patricia Kopatchinskaja; Fazil Say [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 16/Oct/2026 ] For this second album on Alpha Classics (following ALPHA885), Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Fazıl Say are not only an extraordinary performing duo, but also composers. They have recorded Szymanowski's magnificent Myths and Prokofiev's sonata, written... |
FLORENT SCHMITT
Schmitt: Orchestral Works Peter Donohoe (piano), BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier [ Chandos / CD - released 16/Oct/2026 ] The French composer Florent Schmitt was born in 1870, in Meurthe-et-Moselle, close to the German border. He studied music locally before entering the Paris Conservatoire aged nineteen, where he studied with Gabriel Fauré, Jules Massenet, Théodore... |
