Below is a list of all classical CD titles released in the last 120 days.
Ô-Celli
Ô-Celli fait son cinéma [ Cypres Records / CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] "Exploring the classical repertoire from Bach to Nino Rota, but also venturing into lands less usually frequented by the cello, Ô-Celli transcends the boundaries between classical music and cinema for its third opus at Cypres. |
JAELL / LISZT / SAINT-SAENS
Jaëll, Liszt & Saint-Saëns: Piano à 4 mains Claudine Orloff; Burkard Spinnler [ Cypres Records / CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] "A singular composer, Marie Jaëll (1846-1925) made the piano the perfect confidant of her inspiration. |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Viola Concerto in A / Sinfonia concertante in E flat Diyang Mei (viola), Noah Bendix-Balgley (violin) / Berliner Barock Solisten [ Sony Classical / CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] Ever since violist Diyang Mei's brilliant success at the 2018 ARD International Music Competition, winning first prize in the viola category, the Audience Prize and several special prizes, he has been steadily furthering his international career. |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Transcriptions for Two Pianos Duo Tal & Groethuysen (piano) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] Since 1985 tTal and Andreas have been performing worldwide as piano duo and have appeared at musical centers and renowned festivals. |
BRAHMS / BLOCH / SCHUBERT / BEETHOVEN / MOZART / DOHNANYI / R. STRAUSS / etc
Emanuel Feuermann - The RCA Album Collection Emanuel Feuermann (cello), Arthur Rubinstein (piano), Jascha Heifetz (violin), William Primrose (violin), Franz Rupp (piano), Rudolf Serkin (piano) [ Sony Classical / 7 CD Box Set - released 4/Oct/2024 ] For the first time ever, Sony Classical is issuing a complete collection of the recordings made for RCA Victor by the fabled Austrian cellist Emanuel Feuermann with 11 works for the first time on CD transferred from the original master discs. |
DOMENICO SCARLATTI
Scarlatti: A Man of Genius Francesco Corti [ Arcana / CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] 25 years of La Cetra Basel! To celebrate this anniversary, La Cetra and Arcana are releasing the "greatest musical masterpiece of all time", as the work was called in the 19th century: Bach's Mass in B minor. "It is a dream come true to have recorded... |
MONSIEUR DE SAINTE-COLOMBE
Sainte-Colombe le Fils: Pièces de viole François Joubert-Caillet; L'Achéron [ Ricercar / CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] The Sainte-Colombe family remains a source of mystery to this day: the first name and the origins of the father, who taught Marin Marais and composed numerous pieces for one or two viols, remains hidden in the mists of time. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concertos & Solo Piano Op. 116-119 Igor Levit (piano), Wiener Philharmoniker, Christian Thielemann [ Sony Classical / 3 CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] "..utterly compelling accounts of the late sets are the more impressive element in this collection. He does not put a foot wrong in any of them; each piece is perfectly shaped...It's hard to think of many better recordings of these 20 gems" Guardian |
CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK
Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide Judith van Wanroij; Stéphanie d'Oustrac; Cyrille Dubois; Tassis Christoyannis; Jean-Sébastien Bou; David Witczak; Anne-Sophie Petit; Jehanne Amzal; Ma [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] Since the Baroque revival of the late 1980s, Iphigénie en Aulide is Gluck's only French opera to have remained unrecorded on period instruments. |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
J. S. Bach: Mass in B Minor La Cetra Basel; Miriam Feuersinger; Andrea Marcon; Hana Blažíková; Carlos Mena; Jakob Pilgram; Tobias Berndt [ Arcana / 2 CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] 25 years of La Cetra Basel! To celebrate this anniversary, La Cetra and Arcana are releasing the "greatest musical masterpiece of all time", as the work was called in the 19th century: Bach's Mass in B minor. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Hammerklavier Marc-André Hamelin (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] "it's always when Beethoven is at his most virile when Hamelin most excels, especially with sweeping runs up the keyboard or busy fugal complications - anything that needs flying fingers...there is nothing in Hamelin's latest Hyperion album (there ar |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: The Secret Melody Mathieu Gaudet [ Analekta / CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] For the tenth volume in his series of Schubert's Complete Sonatas and Major Works for Piano, Mathieu Gaudet turns to a work of unabashed Romanticism: Sonata No. 4 in A minor (D. 537), composed in 1817. |
MENDELSSOHN / MOSCHELES / SCHUBERT / LISZT / SCHUBERT
Unplayed Stories … in 40 Fingers MultiPiano Ensemble, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Ivor Bolton [ Hyperion / CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] This truly is an album of 'Unplayed Stories'-a journey of discovery and re-discovery, presenting multiple premiere recordings. The MultiPiano Ensemble here delves into intergenerational musical collaborations that transcend time, culture and... |
CAMILLE ERLANGER
Erlanger: La Sorcière Orchestre et Choeur de la Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève; Guillaume Tourniaire [ B Records / 3 CD/Book - released 4/Oct/2024 ] After the first recording of Saint-Saëns' opera Ascanio, Guillaume Tourniaire returns to b•records' Geneva collection to resurrect a new score… |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: La Vie parisienne (Original Version) Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse; Chœur de l'Opéra national du Capitole de Toulouse; Romain Dumas; Anne-Catherine Gillet; Véronique Gens; Ar [ Bru Zane / 2 CD/Book - released 4/Oct/2024 ] 'The rehearsals for La Vie parisienne are almost driving me insane', wrote librettist Ludovic Halévy a few days before the work's first performance. |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Complete Works for Piano Paolo Giacometti [ Channel Classics / 8 CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] Paolo Giacometti presents the complete piano music of Gioachino Rossini, originally released as eight albums on Channel Classics between 1998-2007. |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Cello Concerto (with works by Ukrainian composers) Raphaela Gromes (cello) / National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Volodymyr Sirenko [ Sony Classical / CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] Following the tremendous success of her album "Femmes" (2023), Raphaela Gromes releases a new album, "Dvorák: Cello Concerto", featuring one of the most renowned cello concertos alongside inspiring and moving pieces by Ukrainian composers. It was... |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Années de pèlerinage Roger Muraro [ Alpha Classics / 3 CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] The great French pianist Roger Muraro joins Alpha Classics for several recording projects. Born in Lyon to Venetian parents, he was a pupil of Yvonne Loriod and is regarded as the leading specialist in the music of Olivier Messiaen, to which he has... |
Sarah Willis; The Sarahbanda
Sarahbanda (Coloured LP Version) [ Alpha Classics / LP - released 4/Oct/2024 ] "Meet the Sarahbanda - the Cuban band with a twist! Formed as part of the popular Mozart y Mambo project by Sarah Willis of the Berlin Philharmonic, the Sarahbanda explores the captivating Cuban dance rhythms in a way never heard before. |
SHIVKUMAR SHARMA
North India. Shivkumar Sharma - Santur Shivkumar Sharma; Kashinath Mishra [ Ocora / CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] "In this recording, one of the very first in the santur master's extensive discography, Shivkumar Sharma already shows the full extent of his talent: a remarkable inspiration made up of melodic subtlety and rhythmic liveliness. |