Below is a list of all classical CD titles released in the last 120 days.
Tom Phillips / Gavin Bryars / Fred Orton
Irma LP [ Superior Viaduct / LP - released 20/Jun/2025 ] Between 1975 and 1978, Brian Eno's Obscure imprint produced ten LPs to document the work of virtually unknown composers at the time. These records continue to inspire both practitioners and fans of experimental, ambient and modern classical... |
ERIK SATIE
The Best of Erik Satie (LP) Aldo Ciccolini, Anne Queffelec (piano) / Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse [ Erato / LP - released 13/Jun/2025 ] To celebrate the centenary of the composer's death, this compilation offers a journey through Erik Satie's unusual and distinctive piano works, by three of his greatest performers: Anne Queffélec, Bertrand Chamayou and Aldo Ciccolini. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Wired Resonances Marco Fusi (viola d'amore) [ Huddersfield Contemporary Records / CD - released 13/Jun/2025 ] Wired Resonances is a collection of seven works for viola d'amore, each developed in collaboration with Marco Fusi The viola d'amore's resistance to standardisation makes it a fertile ground for artistic reinvention as each composer approaches the... |
BYRD / GIBBONS / MOODY / MUHLY / NAITO / TAVENER / etc
Sky of my Heart New York Polyphony, LeStrange Viols [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 13/Jun/2025 ] One of the foremost vocal chamber ensembles active today, New York Polyphony is renowned for its innovative programming ranging from Gregorian chant to contemporary commissions. On Sky of my Heart, the selection spans over four hundred years of... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Be Still, My Soul - Hymns from Magdalen Choir of Magdalen College Oxford, Mark Williams [ Coro / CD - released 6/Jun/2025 ] Featuring timeless melodies from Guide me, O thou great redeemer (known to millions as 'Bread of Heaven') to Abide with me, this stunning collection of some of the best-loved hymns of all time from The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, accompanied... |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Symphony no.5 / 2 Serenades / 2 Serious Melodies / Swanwhite Christian Tetzlaff (violin) / Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon [ Ondine / CD - released 6/Jun/2025 ] Conductor Nicholas Collon's second Sibelius album together with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra focuses on works written by Sibelius during or just before World War I, and culminating in the Fifth Symphony. |
GIUSEPPE TARTINI / ANTONIO VIVALDI
Tartini: Violin Sonatas / Vivaldi: Double Violin Concertos David Oistrakh (violin) Igor Oistrakh (violin) Isaac Stern (violin) Lev Oborin (piano) Vladimir Yampolsky (piano), Royal Philharmonic, Philadelphia Or [ Alto / CD - released 6/Jun/2025 ] "the Oistrakh version remains unrivalled … (he) commands a winning sweetness of tone … and is helped by a rounder and richer recorded quality." - Gramophone (Tartini) "the harpsichord comes to life with a vengeance, being especially enterprising... |
Gymanfa Ganu, Rhos Male Voice Choir, Treorchy Male Voice Choir, Cyril Anthony, John Tudor Davies, DJ Rees (organs)
A Nation of Song: Welsh Hymn Festival [ Alto / CD - released 6/Jun/2025 ] Here, indeed, is artistic talent bearing the indelibly engraved hallmark of suffering and heroism translated for all time into song. |
ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV
Glazunov: Symphony no.8, Raymonda (excerpts), Finnish Fantasy, etc Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra USSR TV & Radio Grand Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov [ Alto / CD - released 6/Jun/2025 ] 'Every time I listen to a Glazunov symphony I think, why isn't this more often performed? The sound is gorgeous and we set out with good symphonic material, so that the ear is captured and one's mind engaged" Gramphone |
J. S. BACH
Bach, (J.S.): Organ Favourites from Liverpool Cathedral Noel Rawsthorne (Willis organ) [ Alto / CD - released 6/Jun/2025 ] "...I still hold my breath for the final pedal-reed entry in the 'St Anne Fugue'. The glorious majesty of the Willis organ is here encapsulated in all its splendour." - Gramophone |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Richter plays Brahms: Piano Concerto no.2, Piano Sonata no.2, etc Sviatoslav Richter (piano) Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf [ Alto / CD - released 6/Jun/2025 ] "Richter's performance has all the intensity of a live occasion and finds him in splendid form. ... the basic structure is always kept in sight: there is impressive weight and authority as well as a warm Brahmsian feeling and it is far more dashing... |
FERDINAND RIES
Ries: Symphony in E flat major, Symphony no.3 Tapiola Sinfonietta, Janne Nisonen [ Ondine / CD - released 6/Jun/2025 ] "Passionately played by the Tapiola Sinfonietta, under Janne Nisonen's direction, these skillfully-crafted works emerge as noble rediscoveries," wrote the BBC Music Magazine on the second volume in the ongoing Ferdinand Ries (1784-1838) complete... |
KAIJA SAARIAHO
Saariaho: Touches: Complete Works for Piano and Harpsichord Tuija Hakkila (piano, harpsichord), Anssi Karttunen (cello) [ Ondine / CD - released 6/Jun/2025 ] Pianist Tuija Hakkila enjoyed a close friendship with composer Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023) that lasted for over 40 years until the composer's death in 2023. Tuija Hakkila played a pivotal role in Saariaho's creations for the solo piano and... |
JUDITH WEIR / AMY BEACH
Weir: In the Land of Uz / Beach: The Canticle of the Sun Yale Schola Cantorum, David Hill [ Hyperion / CD - released 6/Jun/2025 ] David Hill conducted the premiere of Judith Weir's In the Land of Uz at a BBC Prom in 2017; here he directs Yale Schola Cantorum in an authoritative recording of the work alongside an equally committed account of Amy Beach's ambitious cantata set to... |
GJEILO / ZIMMER / PORTMAN / ANTOGNINI / DYLAN / DURUFLE / etc
Anna Lapwood - Firedove Anna Lapwood (organ), with Jess Gillam (saxophone), The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge [ Sony Classical / CD - released 30/May/2025 ] Anna Lapwood, renowned for introducing the organ to new fans through viral TikTok videos, high-profile collaborations and sold-out live concerts, takes flight with a remarkable new album. On Firedove, audiences will hear her spread her wings in a... |
MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Weinberg: String Quartets Volume 5 [Nos 3, 9 & 14] Arcadia Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 30/May/2025 ] The Arcadia Quartet reaches the penultimate release in its acclaimed complete Weinberg string quartets series with this volume, featuring Quartets nos 3, 9, and 14. As in previous volumes, the works are taken from contrasting periods of Weinberg's... |
GYORGY LIGETI
Ligeti: Violin & Piano Concertos, Concert Romanesc Isabelle Faust (violin) Jean-Frederic Neuburger (piano) / Les Siecles [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 30/May/2025 ] The poetics of space and the art of time, high-precision mechanism, rhythmic exhilaration ... Ligeti's music defies criteria and codes. This recording provides an opportunity to assess the evolution of the musical language of one of the twentieth... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Complete Symphonies Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner [ Deutsche Grammophon / 3 CD Box Set - released 30/May/2025 ] "The Brahms project with the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique in 2007 was a thrilling undertaking - a thorough reappraisal of Brahms's sound world, both in terms of period instruments and a study of the surviving evidence of performance... |
MANUEL PONCE
Ponce: Complete Piano Works Vol.4 Alvaro Cendoya (piano) [ Grand Piano / CD - released 23/May/2025 ] A fundamental characteristic of Manuel Ponce's music is the range of styles and techniques he used throughout his career. The expressive Romanza de amor is a sublime example of his Romantic phase. |
GEORGES BIZET
Georges Bizet Edition Barbara Hendricks, Montserrat Caballe, Maria Callas, Dietrich Discher-Dieskau, Nicolai Gedda, Jonas Kaufmann, Magdalena Kozena, Gautier Capucon, etc [ Warner Classics / 16 CD - released 23/May/2025 ] This collection celebrates the genius of one of France's greatest composers, featuring his most beautiful works performed by world-class artists such as Maria Callas, Barbara Hendricks, June Anderson, Magdalena Kožená, Jonas Kaufmann and Simon Rattle |