Classical New Releases
Classical New Releases
Below is a list of all classical CD titles released in the last 120 days.
Displaying items 81 to 100 of 284
ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG
Schönberg: Piano Works Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 2/Oct/2026 ] The French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, a leading figure in contemporary classical music and an insightful interpreter of the core piano repertoire, has joined Alpha Classics and launches the partnership with an album that has long been close to... |
ANONYMOUS / FRANCESCO GEMINIANI / JAMES OSWALD / TURLOUGH O'CAROLAN / NIEL GOW / THOMAS D'URFEY / WILLIAM THOMSON / THOMAS MOORE / ARCHIE FISHER / JER
Songs from the North Country (LP) Rosemary Standley, François Lazarevitch, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - released 2/Oct/2026 ] As great lovers of traditional music, Rosemary Standley and François Lazarevitch were bound to meet one day. The founding leader of Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien proposed to the iconic singer of the legendary rock band Moriarty - who has already... |
GRANVILLE BANTOCK
Bantock: Orchestral Works Rumon Gamba (conductor), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Oct/2026 ] Granville Bantock was born into a wealthy family (his father was a highly respected gynaecologist) in central London in 1868. Poor health scuppered his parents' plans for a career for him in the Indian civil service, and eventually Bantock gravitated... |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: The Complete Études Aaron Pilsan (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Sep/2026 ] "The Polish musicologist Zdzisław Jachimecki famously called Chopin's Études 'the Gospel of all piano music'. In this context I would describe both Zayas and Pollini as evangelists of Chopin's work, while Aaron Pilsan is a new and convincing exegete" |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Mémoire Alexandre Tharaud (piano) [ Erato / CD - released 25/Sep/2026 ] "A vast range of composers, many represented by short works, but what unites them all is the care and devotion, plus engaging charm, with which Alexandre Tharaud presents them on this joyfully personal album." Gramophone Editor's Choice Oct 26 |
Andrea Bocelli
Romanza (30th Anniversary) [ Verve / CD - released 25/Sep/2026 ] 'Romanza' celebrates its 30th anniversary with never-before-seen photo from the period of the album's recording. The 16 songs include 'Time to Say Goodbye', Bocelli's spine-tingling #1 single with Sarah Brightman and the global hit 'Vivo per Lei... |
Andrea Bocelli
Romanza (30th Anniversary LP) [ Verve / 2 LP - released 25/Sep/2026 ] 'Romanza' celebrates its 30th anniversary with never-before-seen photo from the period of the album's recording. The 16 songs include 'Time to Say Goodbye', Bocelli's spine-tingling #1 single with Sarah Brightman and the global hit 'Vivo per Lei... |
LAZARIN / PIERRE WERDIER / LOUIS CONSTANTIN / PHILIPPE DE LA HIRE / GUILLIAUME DUMANOIR / WILLIAM YOUNG / ALESSANDRO STRADELLA / CARLO GESUALDO
Queen Christina Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen [ Fuga Libera / CD - released 25/Sep/2026 ] Discover the extraordinary life of Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689), one of the 17th century's most unconventional figures. Crowned at the age of six, she then abdicated when she was 28 and travelled from Stockholm to Rome, where she became a... |
Stephen Costello (tenor), Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra
Be My Love - A Tribute to Mario Lanza [ Delos / CD - released 25/Sep/2026 ] "As a tenor raised in Northeast Philadelphia, recording an album dedicated to Mario Lanza felt like coming home in the most profound way." This is how Stephen Costello introduces his second album on Delos, Be My Love. A homage to the great tenor,... |
JOSE ANTONIO de ALMEIDA PRADO
Almeida Prado: Piano Trios, Cello Sonata, Balada for Cello & Piano Emmanuele Baldini (violin) Rafael Cesario (cello), Sonia Rubinsky (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Sep/2026 ] José Antônio de Almeida Prado's music reflects a unique combination of influences, moving through different styles and techniques while always retaining a recognisably strong personal imprint. Chamber music accounts for a large part of Almeida... |
ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
Scarlatti: Il trionfo della Grazia Ensemble Céladon, Paulin Bündgen [ Ricercar / CD - released 25/Sep/2026 ] Alessandro Scarlatti's Il Trionfo della Grazia was first performed in Rome in 1685 and was such a huge success that the oratorio was regularly revived over a period of more than twenty years. Three manuscripts of it exist, one each in Rome, Modena... |
NICOLA ANTONIO PORPORA / GIUSEPPE TORELLI / TOMASO ALBINONI / GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL / GEMINIANO GIACOMELLI / JOHANN ADOLPH HASSE
Addio Amore Jeanine De Bique, Terry Wey, Kammerorchester Basel [ Pentatone / CD - released 25/Sep/2026 ] In Addio Amore, Kammerorchester Basel, soprano Jeanine De Bique and countertenor Terry Wey present a programme of searing intensity and refined expressive beauty, exploring the fragile threshold between love and loss in 18th-century opera. Inspired... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos nos 5, 14 & 20 Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano), Freiburger Barockorchester [Freiburg Baroque Orchestra] [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 25/Sep/2026 ] "Kristian Bezuidenhout continues his fascinating fortepiano journey through Mozart's concertos with another richly exploratory and superbly played album." Editor's Choice Gramophone Oct 26 |
ANONYMOUS / GUIRAUT D'ESPAIGNA / GHERARDELLO DA FIRENZE / GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT / FRANCESO LANDINI / GUILLAUME DU FAY / GUGLIELMO EBREO DA PESARO
Venite alla danza! La Reverdie [ Arcana / CD - released 25/Sep/2026 ] Venite alla danza! is the project with which La Reverdie intends to celebrate its 40th anniversary. Since 1986, the ensemble has explored a wide range of vocal and instrumental repertoires from the 13th to the 15th century but has never attempted a... |
GEORGE GERSHWIN / LUCAS DEBARGUE
Gershwin Variations Lucas Debargue (piano), Orchestre de Paris, Elim Chan [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 25/Sep/2026 ] Internationally acclaimed pianist Lucas Debargue's Gershwin Variations stands as an ambitious and unprecedented project, born from the desire to explore a radically different universe after recording Scarlatti sonatas and the complete solo piano... |
CIPRIANI POTTER
Potter: Piano Works Luke Jones (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Sep/2026 ] Even though Cipriani Potter's desire for lessons with Beethoven did not materialise, he benefitted from the great composer's advice and showed in his own music a thorough understanding of German models. As an admired soloist he also introduced piano... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Neeme Jarvi conducts Shostakovich Lydia Mordkovitch (violin), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / 8 CD Box Set - released 25/Sep/2026 ] Estonian conductor Neeme Järvi was born in 1937 in Tallin, where he studied music before moving to Leningrad to study at the conservatory under Yevgeny Mravinsky. He returned to Tallinn and held posts with the Estonian Radio and Television Symphony... |
EMILIE MAYER
Mayer: Piano Concerto / Symphony no.1 / Overtures Alexander Melnikov. (piano) / Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 25/Sep/2026 ] Emilie Mayer's works bear witness to an indomitable personality, despite having languished for so long in the shadow of her male peers. The musicians of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin have resolved to do her justice with this revelatory symphonic... |
GERALD FINZI
Finzi: The Dance Continued Nick Pritchard (tenor), Ian Tindale (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 25/Sep/2026 ] Marking 70 years since the death of Gerald Finzi, duo partners Nick Pritchard and Ian Tindale reunite for a collection of works for tenor and piano, including 5 new unpublished songs from the Bodleian Library |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / HEITOR VILLA‑LOBOS / FRANCIS POULENC
Prokofiev - Villa-Lobos - Poulenc ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Simone Menezes [ Fuga Libera / CD - released 25/Sep/2026 ] The classicism that emerged in Vienna with Mozart and Haydn was later revisited by Prokofiev in Russia, Poulenc in France, and most unexpectedly, Villa-Lobos in Brazil. Each composer reimagined this tradition through a sparkling, modern, and... |
