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 263
IGNAZ PLEYEL
Pleyel: String Quintets, Ben. 271-273 Pettman Ensemble: Curt Thompson, Oksana Murashova Thompson, Wenhong Luo, William Vyvyan Murray, Edith Salzmann [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Jul/2026 ] The name Pleyel is chiefly remembered today as a piano manufacturer, but the company's founding figure Ignaz Pleyel, a former pupil of Haydn, was one of the most acclaimed composers of the late 18th century. The success of Pleyel's finely wrought... |
DOUGLAS MOORE
Moore: Giants In The Earth South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, South Dakota Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Delta David Gier [ Pentatone / 2 CD - released 10/Jul/2026 ] Douglas Moore's opera Giants in the Earth receives its world premiere recording with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra under the music direction of Delta David Gier. Set on the stark, uninhabited Dakota plains, the drama follows Beret and Per... |
KARL GOLDMARK / JEAN SIBELIUS
Goldmark And Sibelius: Works For Violin And Orchestra Sueye Park (violin), Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Valentin Egel [ BIS SACD / CD - released 10/Jul/2026 ] Following her recital dedicated to exiled composers (BIS-2332), Sueye Park joins forces with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, conducted by Valentin Egel, to present concertante works for violin and orchestra by Karl Goldmark and Jean Sibelius.... |
CESAR FRANCK / JOHANNES BRAHMS / EDVARD GRIEG
Trio E.T.A. plays Cesar Franck Trio E.T.A. [ SWRmusic / CD - released 10/Jul/2026 ] Three works, three worlds - yet united by a shared pursuit: the search for that moment when music transcends itself. César Franck's youthful Trio in F sharp minor bursts with creative energy, filled with melodies of immediate emotional force and a... |
EDWARD ELGAR / ANTONIN DVORAK
Elgar & Dvorak: Cello Concertos Alban Gerhardt (cello), WDR Sinfonieorchester, Andrew Manze (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/Jul/2026 ] With the cello concertos by Edward Elgar and Antonín Dvořák, Alban Gerhardt turns to two cornerstones of the repertoire-while presenting, in his first studio recording of these works, a distillation of 35 years of close artistic engagement. Joined... |
Anne Sofie von Otter, Salon Orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin, Adam Benzwi
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! Kabarett Und Exil [ BIS / CD - released 3/Jul/2026 ] Reflecting a society marked by profound upheaval, the music of 1920s-1940s Germany was caught between vitality and despair. The era featured a diverse blend of classical traditions, popular rhythms, and early jazz, yielding everything from energetic... |
TIMOTHY BOWERS
Timothy Bowers: Guitar Music and Songs Saki Kato (guitar), Hugh Millington (guitar), Vanessa Bowers (soprano) [ Toccata Classics / CD - released 3/Jul/2026 ] The guitar is traditionally the preserve of the Spanish. But Timothy Bowers, born near London in 1954, has found a rather more English side to the instrument: understated emotion expressed in an accessible language, unforced elegance, crisp and clean... |
FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Martin Jones Rediscovered - Busoni: Works for Piano Martin Jones (piano) [ Nimbus / CD - released 3/Jul/2026 ] "Martin's early career followed a normal path of recitals and chamber music. He found regular work as pianist of the emerging Nash Ensemble founded in 1964. In 1968 he won the first Myra Hess Award. This propelled him onto the international scene, a... |
CAMILLE EL BACHA / NAGHIB SHANBEHZADEH
Loop Tales Camille El Bacha (piano), Naghib Shanbehzadeh (percussion) [ Fuga Libera / CD - released 3/Jul/2026 ] With Loop Tales, Camille El Bacha and Naghib Shanbehzadeh bring Western classical piano into dialogue with Persian and Middle Eastern percussion. The piano evokes echoes of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Ravel and Steve Reich, while percussion adds a... |
Chad Smith (saxophones), Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Saxophobia: Celebrating The Sax Craze Of The 1920s [ Chandos / CD - released 3/Jul/2026 ] Famously invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s, the saxophone quickly became an established part of French and British military bands, but remained a novelty instrument elsewhere until it gained a foothold in vaudeville and ragtime bands in 1920s... |
J.S. BACH / IGOR STRAVINSKY / MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG / KAIJA SAARIAHO / JOAN TOWER / JEFFREY MUMFORD
Recollection(s) Christine Wu [ Channel Classics / CD - released 3/Jul/2026 ] Violinist and violist Christine Wu, winner of the Outhere Music Recording Prize at the inaugural Berlin Prize for Young Artists, explores the relationship between time and memory in her new album Recollection(s) for Channel Classics. On violin, she... |
RICHARD FLURY
Flury: Orchestral Music, Vol. 6 BBC Symphony Orchestra, Paul Mann [ Toccata Classics / CD - released 3/Jul/2026 ] The Swiss composer Richard Flury (1896-1967) completed the last of his five symphonies in 1956, when its unashamedly melodic, tonal style - with elements absorbed from Bruckner, Richard Strauss, Joseph Marx and other such late Romantics - made it a... |
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN / GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Haydn 2032, Vol. 16: The Surprise (LP) Il Giardino Armonico, Basel Chamber Orchestra, Giovanni Antonini [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - released 3/Jul/2026 ] "Joseph Haydn not only liked surprising his audiences, he also enjoyed a laugh", writes Christian Moritz-Bauer in the introduction to this sixteenth volume of the Haydn2032 complete recording of the symphonies. Take, for instance, the false... |
LINDA KOUVARAS
Kouvaras: Piano Music, Chamber Works And Songs Vol. 3 Antoinette Halloran (soprano), Coady Green (piano), Lyrebird Brass [ Toccata Classics / CD - released 3/Jul/2026 ] The Australian Linda Kouvaras (b. 1960) - pianist and musicologist as well as composer - adopts an explicitly feminist viewpoint in her work. She describes She, Who Should Have Been a Queen as a song-cycle, but in fact the text, by Antoinette... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Carré d'As - Portraits musicaux Les Timbres, Myriam Rignol, Yoko Kawakubo, Julien Wolfs [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / CD - released 3/Jul/2026 ] Four eminent figures - François Couperin, Antoine Forqueray, Marin Marais and Jean-Philippe Rameau - gather here like the four aces in an exceptional deck of cards. Through a gallery of musical portraits, Myriam Rignol, Yoko Kawakubo and Julien Wolfs... |
Mozzani: Sämtliche Gitarrenwerke
Zanetti, Walter [ Tactus / CD - released 3/Jul/2026 ] Luigi Mozzani stands as a prominent figure in the history of classical guitar and Italian lutherie. A musician and guitarist of remarkable talent, he distinguished himself as a concert performer, composer, teacher, and innovative luthier. Born in... |
JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY / MARIN MARAIS / JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU etc
Clavecins concertants Olivier Fortin, Emmanuel Frankenberg (harpsichords) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 3/Jul/2026 ] Olivier Fortin and Emmanuel Frankenberg present a programme of transcriptions of French orchestral works for two harpsichords: "This was common practice in the 17th and 18th centuries, as it allowed people to play the popular tunes they heard at the... |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: Actéon Scherzi Musicali, Nicolas Achten [ Ricercar / CD - released 3/Jul/2026 ] Marc-Antoine Charpentier's drama in miniature Actéon retells the myth of the hunter who was punished by Diana for having surprised the goddess while she was bathing. Actéon was originally composed for a countertenor, but Charpentier reworked the... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / FRANZ SCHUBERT
Imogen Cooper Rediscovered - Schubert & Beethoven Imogen Cooper (piano) [ Nimbus / CD - released 3/Jul/2026 ] "This release is part of a short series of recordings sitting on the shelves of the Nimbus archive that were 'rediscovered' during the 2020 COVID shutdowns. In those quiet days idle hands and minds posed the question: 'So, do we have anything... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Stephen Hough's Piano Postcards Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/Jul/2026 ] Sir Stephen Hough's new solo piano album 'Stephen Hough's Piano Postcards' explores the world from the perspective of the itinerant pianist sending home musical messages from his voyages. Stephen picks beloved songs and tunes from around the world... |
