Classical New Releases
Classical New Releases
Below is a list of all classical CD titles released in the last 120 days.
Displaying items 121 to 140 of 234
J.S. BACH / W.A. MOZART / BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Bach, Mozart, Britten Concerti Howard Griffiths, Martin James Bartlett [ Warner Classics / CD - released 27/Feb/2026 ] Three works for piano and orchestra - by Bach, Mozart and Britten - make up the programme for the latest album from Martin James Bartlett. His Warner Classics release Rhapsody was welcomed by BBC Music Magazine as "a joyful display, full of warmth,... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN / WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Mozart / Mendelssohn / Schumann: Invitation Irish Chamber Orchestra, Jörg Widmann [ Pentatone / CD - released 27/Feb/2026 ] The Irish Chamber Orchestra and Jörg Widmann present the album Invitation, featuring masterworks by Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Schumann. This album celebrates a remarkable ten-year creative partnership between the ICO and Jörg Widmann, who, while now... |
La Grande Chapelle
Delizie di Posillipo, Música para el virrey de Nápoles [ Lauda / CD - released 27/Feb/2026 ] On 1 March 1620, the festa a ballo Delizie di Posillipo was performed at the Royal Palace of Naples to celebrate the recovery of King Philip III. Promoted by the Viceroy Pedro Girón, 3rd Duke of Osuna, the spectacle featured splendid stage designs by... |
FREDERIC CHOPIN / MAX RICHTER / CLAUDE DEBUSSY / EDVARD GRIEG / JOHANNES BRAHMS etc
Piano Lounge Classics (LP) Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Dalal Bruchmann (piano), David Fray (piano), Helene Grimaud (piano), Stephen Kovacevich (piano) [ Warner Classics / LP - released 27/Feb/2026 ] This piano journey reimagines classical masterpieces as the ultimate sophisticated lounge soundtrack, it seamlessly blends the timeless romance of the past with the contemplative calm of the present. From the shimmering moonlight of Debussy's Clair... |
GREGORY FRITZE
Fritze: Overtures and Symphonies London Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Sanz-Espert [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Feb/2026 ] Prize-winning composer Gregory Fritze has written over a hundred compositions for a variety of forces, and is also a greatly admired teacher. The four works on this album share programmatic perspectives. The city of London is evoked in a celebratory... |
C.P.E. BACH / IGOR STRAVINSKY / DARIUS MILHAUD / CHARLOTTE SOHY
Symphonies in 3 Movements Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Bar Avni [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 27/Feb/2026 ] Winner of the 2024 La Maestra competition in Paris and recipient of five additional prizes, conductor Bar Avni is pursuing a very promising career. Born in Israel, she first studied percussion before turning to conducting. She counts Yoav Talmi,... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
"After Dark": A Midnight Fantasia Pierre Gallon [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 27/Feb/2026 ] Pierre Gallon's new programme portrays a night of music, hovering between fantasies and poetic dreams of the English Renaissance. His keyboards - harpsichords, a virginal and a toy piano - create a mosaic of nocturnal visions, interspersed with the... |
BEDRICH SMETANA
Smetana: The Two Widows Prague National Theatre Chorus, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Robert Jindra [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 27/Feb/2026 ] Considered a lesser-known gem of the operatic repertoire, Smetana's Dvě vdovy ('The Two Widows') is set in a Bohemian country estate in which the contrasting personalities of recently widowed cousins Karolína and Anežka are tested by the attentions... |
J.S. BACH
Bach: Köthener Trauermusik Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 27/Feb/2026 ] When Leopold of Anhalt - Cöthen died in 1728, his former Kapellmeister had not forgotten the five brilliant years he had spent in the prince's service. He dedicated to his memory a mourning cantata almost entirely based on the music of two major... |
Quatuor Hermès
Echoes of Vienna [ La Dolce Volta / CD - released 27/Feb/2026 ] Vienna was in the grip of serious political unrest that forced many of its artists into exile when Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) composed his Second String Quartet in 1933, first performed the following year in the Austrian capital. In it he... |
THEODOR KULLAK
Kullak: Romantic Piano, Vol. 7 Roman Fediurko (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Feb/2026 ] The German pianist and teacher Theodor Kullak, a piano student of Carl Czerny among others, enjoyed a stellar career. His transcriptions, arrangements and studies have proved enduring, while his lesser-known original works contain an abundance of... |
Sheila Dhar
North India: Sheila Dhar, Vol. 1 [ Ocora / CD - released 27/Feb/2026 ] Singer Sheila Dhar, a disciple of Ustad Fayyaz Ahmed Khan (a leading figure in Hindustani classical singing), through the ragas Bhairav and Kaushi Kanhra, traces the many facets of the Kirana gharana musical lineage with sobriety, fidelity and... |
FRANCOIS COUPERIN / ANTONIO VIVALDI
Couperin & Vivaldi: Or (Light) Sonia Wieder-Atherton (cello) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 27/Feb/2026 ] For her new recording, entitled 'Or' (light), cellist Sonia Wieder Atherton has devised a two-part narrative, 'a series of freeze frames, like incursions into time': first, Couperin's Les leçons de ténèbres or the Lamentations of the Prophet... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Spiegel Im Spiegel Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson, Netherlands Chamber Choir, Martina Batič [ Channel Classics / CD - released 20/Feb/2026 ] On Spiegel im Spiegel, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, the Netherlands Chamber Choir, Candida Thompson, Martina Batič, Hülya Keser and Tim Posner perform a program of Baltic and English compositions, wherein space and time blur. The title of this album is... |
HAVERGAL BRIAN / BUSH / RAWSTHORNE / BRIDGE / ORR / FENBY / etc
Overtures from the British Isles: Volume 3 BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Rumon Gamba (conductor) [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Feb/2026 ] Rumon Gamba directs the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra on the third instalment of his exploration of Overtures from the British Isles. As in the case of the previous volumes, the recorded repertoire is rarely played, and the album includes three world... |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Late Works Berit Norbakken (soprano), Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo-soprano), Guy Cutting (tenor), Thomas Walker (tenor), Cappella Amsterdam [ Pentatone / CD - released 20/Feb/2026 ] Cappella Amsterdam, its celebrated chief conductor Daniel Reuss, and the Noord Nederlands Orkest present a recording of Igor Stravinsky's late works, showcasing the composer's remarkable transformation. Embracing the twelve-tone technique in his... |
PIETRO MASCAGNI
Mascagni: Zanetto Zanetto: Yajie Zhang (mezzo-soprano) / Silvia: Narine Yeghiyan (soprano) [ OehmsClassics / CD - released 20/Feb/2026 ] Since its foundation in 2013, the Berlin Opera Group has made a name for itself with Berlin premieres that include Donizetti's Deux hommes et une femme and Betly, together with other operatic rarities. This album is a Deutschlandfunk Kultur recording... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: A Moment in Time - Late Piano Works Christian Blackshaw (piano) [ Pentatone / CD - released 20/Feb/2026 ] Pianist Christian Blackshaw presents A Moment in Time, an intimate exploration of Franz Schubert's late masterworks. The album features the Four Impromptus, D899, written in 1827, in which Schubert transforms the simple Impromptu into "a harmonically... |
JOHANN LUDWIG BACH
Johann Ludwig Bach: The Leipzig Cantatas Capella Sollertia, Johanna Soller [ Ricercar / 3 CD - released 20/Feb/2026 ] Leipzig, 1726. Johann Sebastian Bach had been Cantor at the Thomaskirche for three years, and in February of that year he interrupted his regular production of cantatas to perform eighteen cantatas by his cousin Johann Ludwig Bach in the city's main... |
Cappella Artemisia, Candace Smith
Call for the Wailing Women, Laments and Lamentations in Italian Convents [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Feb/2026 ] World-premiere recordings of motets by a host of unknown names from the early Italian Baroque: the latest result of performing scholarship by a group with a notable track record of success in this repertoire. International critics have praised the... |
