Classical New Releases
Classical New Releases
Below is a list of all classical CD titles released in the last 120 days.
Displaying items 41 to 60 of 273
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Piano Trios, Vol. 2 Busch Trio [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/May/2026 ] For this second volume of their complete Beethoven piano trios, the Busch Trio illustrates the great variety that the composer was able to draw from an ensemble of just three instruments. The Trio in G Major, begun in 1793, is the second of three... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Venezuela: Music of the Orinoco Cheo Hurtado (cuatro, bandola guayanesa) [ Ocora / CD - released 8/May/2026 ] Cheo Hurtado, virtuoso of the cuatro and bandola guayanesa, presents part of the vast traditional Venezuelan repertoire, mainly derived from pre-baroque and baroque Hispanic music: melodic richness and rhythmic vigour. The Spanish conquest... |
J. S. BACH
Bach on the Edge. A Selection of Harpsichord Works Cristiano Gaudio (harpsichord) [ Arcana / CD - released 8/May/2026 ] A vocation for experimentation was unquestionably an essential component of Bach's mindset. It was a desire to surpass, in every possible respect, whatever had been achieved up until then in a given genre or musical form, while extending to the... |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations Gabriel Schwabe, Sinfonieorchester Aachen, Christopher Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 8/May/2026 ] Tchaikovsky composed the Variations on a Rococo Theme for cellist Wilhelm Fitzenhagen who re-ordered the variations, infuriating the composer. The cello part for the virtuosic Pezzo capriccioso was also altered by its dedicatee, Anatoly Brandukov. In... |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn 2032, Vol.19: Trauer Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/May/2026 ] This 19th volume of Haydn's complete symphonies coincides with the 40th anniversary of Il Giardino Armonico, the ensemble created and conducted by Giovanni Antonini, artistic director of the Haydn 2032 series. Il Giardino has made its mark on the... |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn 2032, Vol.15 : La Reine (LP) Giovanni Antonini, Kammerorchester Basel [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - released 8/May/2026 ] The fifteenth volume of the Haydn2032 cycle is entitled 'La Reine'. One might think that this nickname refers to Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, queen of numerous territories, but in fact the monarch honoured by the popular title of Symphony no.85... |
GUSTAV MAHLER / JOCELYN MIENNIEL
Le Chant de la Terre - Pour Mahler Jocelyn Mienniel; Jean-Christophe Quenon; Fiona Monbet; Marielou Jacquard; Shao-Huan Hung; Yaping Wang; Roberto Negro; Simon Drappier; Sylvain Lemêtre [ B Records / CD - released 8/May/2026 ] This new b•records album sees the unclassifiable Jocelyn Mienniel (composer) and Fiona Monbet (musical director) collaborate on a resolutely hybrid reinterpretation of Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, created during a residency at the Royaumont... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / DORA PEJACEVIC
Brahms & Contemporaries Vol.3 Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective (ensemble) [ Chandos / CD - released 8/May/2026 ] 'We can imagine some eyebrows being raised at the description of Dora Pejačević as a contemporary of Brahms; the two composers were born more than fifty years apart, and their lives only overlapped by twelve years. Yet both works by Pejačević are... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN / G.F. HANDEL / ADOLF SCHULZ-EVLER
Schumann, Handel, Strauss & Schulz-Evler Nelson Goerner (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/May/2026 ] For his tenth solo recording for Alpha Classics and Outhere Music, Nelson Goerner returns to a composer he particularly cherishes: Schumann, here with the Davidsbündler, his imaginary music society created to combat the Philistines, musicians... |
OLIVIER MESSIAEN / FRANCIS POULENC / KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI / JEAN YVES DANIEL-LESUR / CAROLINE MARCOT
Dialogue NFM Choir, Lionel Sow [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/May/2026 ] The NFM choir from Wrocław juxtaposes Penderecki and French composers, creating a dialogue between Polish and French music of the 20th century, between the singers from Wrocław, where the choir is based, and Frenchman Lionel Sow, its conductor since... |
FRANZ LISZT / WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART / ANA SOKOLOVIC
Live at the Queen Elisabeth Competition Nikola Meeuwsen [ Fuga Libera / CD - released 8/May/2026 ] The award-winning performances of Dutch pianist Nikola Meeuwsen, who claimed First Prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2025, are captured on this live recording. His artistic maturity is revealed in Mendelssohn's deeply felt Variations... |
BENOIT MERNIER
Mernier: Ustica Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège; Sturm und Klang; Tatiana Samouil; David Lively; Gergely Madaras, Sarah Laulan, Musiques Nouvelles, Jean-Paul [ Cypres Records / CD - released 8/May/2026 ] This album, Ustica, marks a further stage in the firmly established relationship between Benoît Mernier and the record label Cypres, which over the course of 25 years has traced the evolution of the composer's musical language and the affirmation of... |
ERNEST CHAUSSON
Chausson Renaud Capucon (violin), Nicholas Angelich (piano), Quatuor Ebene (string quartet), Brussels Philharmonic [ Erato / CD - released 8/May/2026 ] Dedicated to Ernest Chausson, this album gathers some of the finest French interpreters of today, a rare collaboration between violinist Renaud Capuçon, Quatuor Ébène and late pianist Nicholas Angelich. The program offers a comprehensive look at... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Sonatas for Piano and Cello Alessio Bax (piano), Paul Watkins (cello) [ Signum / 2 CD - released 1/May/2026 ] This two-album Signum Classics release presents Ludwig van Beethoven's five cello sonatas, performed by cellist Paul Watkins and pianist Alessio Bax. The works were composed over a wide period and illustrate Beethoven's early, middle and late styles,... |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY / ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio / Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht Amsterdam Piano Trio [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/May/2026 ] This album pairs two works separated by only 17 years but whose composers seem at first glance to be worlds apart. The coupling of Tchaikovsky's monumental Piano Trio in A minor (1882) with Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht (1899 in its original scoring... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Spiritillo Mediterraneo Cristina Prats Costa (violin) [ Pentatone / CD - released 1/May/2026 ] Violinist Cristina Prats Costa makes her solo recording debut with Spiritillo Mediterraneo, a vibrant portrait of the sound world of 17th- and early 18th-century music shaped by the cultures of the Mediterranean. Inspired by Andrea Falconieri's Il... |
Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano), Sholto Kynoch (piano)
A Poet´s Love [ BIS / CD - released 1/May/2026 ] British mezzo-soprano and BBC New Generation Artist Helen Charlston and pianist Sholto Kynoch present their take on Robert Schumann's famous song cycle Dichterliebe (A Poet's Love), based on poems by early-19th-century German poet Heinrich Heine. The... |
CRISTÓBAL DE MORALES
Morales: L'homme armé Masses / Magnificat secundi toni De Profundis, Robert Hollingworth (conductor), Eamonn Dougan (conductor) [ Coro / CD - released 1/May/2026 ] The anonymous L'homme armé tune was widely used in 15th- and 16th-century Europe as structural and melodic inspiration for composers to base their masses on. The reason for its enduring appeal is not really understood but its catchy melody and the... |
GEORGES BIZET / CLAUDE DEBUSSY / PAUL DUKAS / MAURICE RAVEL etc
French Orchestral Favourites Sinfonia of London (orchestra), John Wilson [ Chandos / CD - released 1/May/2026 ] Opera and ballet were the dominant musical genres in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century France, and French orchestral music was much more poetic and narrative than the contrasting German symphonic tradition. Master-orchestrators such as Debussy... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / J.S. BACH / FRANZ SCHUBERT
Opus 109: Beethoven, JS Bach, Schubert Vikingur Olafsson (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/May/2026 ] Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson is one of the most listened-to classical artists of our time. Following his recording of the Goldberg Variations, which earned Ólafsson a Grammy Award, the title of Instrumentalist of the Year from Musical... |
