Classical New Releases
Classical New Releases
Below is a list of all classical CD titles released in the last 120 days.
Displaying items 141 to 160 of 239
J.S. BACH
Bach: The Complete Keyboard Concertos Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord), Britten Sinfonia (ensemble) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 12/Jun/2026 ] Mahan Esfahani's mammoth project to record the complete keyboard works of Bach reaches its zenith with The Complete Keyboard Concertos. At every stage in the series Esfahani has sought to challenge long-held assumptions about the composer we seek to... |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Choral Transcriptions Michael Kaykov (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Jun/2026 ] A central expression of Franz Liszt's multifaceted creativity was his lifelong engagement with transcription and transformation, using the piano as a medium capable of absorbing the sonorities, gestures and emotional weight of voices and orchestras... |
HAYDN
Haydn: Keyboard Works Vol. 2 Peter Donohoe (piano) [ Signum / 2 CD - released 12/Jun/2026 ] This second volume of Peter Donohoe's Haydn Keyboard Works series brings together a wide-ranging selection of sonatas, partitas, capriccios and fantasias spanning almost the composer's entire career. From the early Partita in G major to the dramatic... |
Rheinberger / Martin: Doppelchörige Messen
SWR Vokalensemble/Weinberg, Yuval [ SWRmusic / CD - released 12/Jun/2026 ] Rheinberger composed his Cantus Missae in 1878, during his tenure as director of chapel music at the court of King Ludwig II. The work embodies a successful reconciliation of the conflicting artistic currents of his time, and it is precisely this... |
DOMENICO SCARLATTI / DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE / FELIX MENDELSSOHN / NICHOLAS MAW / DUSAN BOGDANOVIC
Guitar Laureate Recital Virgile Barthe (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Jun/2026 ] |
JESSICA ULUSOY-HORSLEY
in between - Choral Works by Jessica Ulusoy-Horsley Tenebrae, Nigel Short (director) [ Signum / CD - released 6/Jun/2026 ] This recording brings together recent choral works by British-Swiss composer Jessica Ulusoy-Horsley exploring sound, silence, and the spaces between them, performed by Tenebrae under Nigel Short. The programme includes the work Engelsmusik, inspired... |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas I Alina Ibragimova (violin), Cedric Tiberghien (fortepiano) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] For her first solo album with BIS Records, Alina Ibragimova, together with Cedric Tiberghien, embarks on recording Beethoven's entire violin sonatas. As one might expect, the first violinist of the Chiaroscuro Quartet presents these chamber music... |
MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Weinberg String Quartets, Volume 6 Arcadia Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] With this sixth volume, the Arcadia Quartet completes its series of recordings of Weinberg's string quartets. The ensemble comments: 'Although from time to time we encounter music that we have never heard before, rarely is that music something we... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT / J.S. BACH
In deinen süßen Händen. Musik für verlorene Seelen Aurelia Visovan, Coline Dutilleul [ Fuga Libera / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] Schöne Welt, wo bist du? These words by Friedrich Schiller are the first of this new project, an exploration of existence, wandering and mourning. Coline Dutilleul has conceived a programme in which keyboard works by Johann Sebastian Bach and... |
J.S. BACH / HEINRICH IGNAZ FRANZ BIBER / MATTHEW LOCKE / ANDREAS OSWALD
Erbarme dich! Ayres Extemporae [ Linn Records / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] Winner of the 2024 York Early Music International Young Artists Competition, the trio Ayres Extemporae make its recording debut on Linn Records with a programme that explores various colours and textures made available by the group's unusual... |
J.S. BACH
Bach: The Cello Suites / Guitar Transcriptions Eliot Fisk (guitar) [ IBS Classical / 2 CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] Johann Sebastian Bach's Six Suites for Solo Cello, BWV 1007-1012, stand among the most revered monuments of the Western musical canon. Written most likely during Bach's years in Köthen between 1717 and 1723, these works transformed the possibilities... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: The Three Violin Sonatas Charles Richard-Hamelin (piano), Andrew Wan (violin) [ Analekta / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] Andrew Wan, Concertmaster of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, and Charles Richard-Hamelin, internationally acclaimed pianist and silver medalist at the Chopin Competition, unite their artistic chemistry in a pinnacle of the Romantic... |
ENRIQUE GOYESCAS
Granados: Goyescas Charlotte Hu (piano) [ Pentatone / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] Pianist Charlotte Hu presents Goyescas, an album featuring Granados's monumental Goyescas alongside two Spanish Dances. A cornerstone of Spanish piano literature, Goyescas was inspired by the paintings of Francisco Goya and unfolds as a richly poetic... |
LUIGI BOCCHERINI / FRANCESCO GEMINIANI / J.S. BACH / ANTONIO VIVALDI
Echoes Of My Childhood Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), Irina Zahharenkova (harpsichord), Anderson Fiorelli (basso continuo) [ Orfeo / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] In this remarkable recording, Daniel Müller-Schott blends masterful cello artistry with a deeply personal musical journey. Together with Irina Zahharenkova and Anderson Fiorelli, they bring works by Bach, Vivaldi, Geminiani and Boccherini to life -... |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN / FREDERIC CHOPIN / FRANZ LISZT / ROBERT SCHUMANN / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Great 20th-Century Spanish Pianists (Live) Esteban Sánchez, Cristina Bruno, Joaquín Soriano, Manuel Carra, Pedro Espinosa [ MarchVivo / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] In 1975, coinciding with the inauguration of their new headquarters in Madrid, the Fundación Juan March launched their Young Performers recitals, a series of presenter-led concerts for secondary-school students, performed by leading Spanish... |
GUSTAV HOLST / VAINO RAITIO
Holst: The Planets / Raitio: Moonlight on Jupiter Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Chamber Choir, Nicholas Collon [ Ondine / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] This album by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Nicholas Collon joins together two impressive cosmic visions: Gustav Holst's iconic orchestral masterpiece The Planets together with a gem from Finnish orchestral literature, Väinö Raitio's... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Wishing Tree The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] For their 11th album on Hyperion, award-winning vocal outfit The Gesualdo Six return to some of the repertoire that they spent their first year performing and touring together some 11 years ago, in 2015, recording this music for the first... |
HEINER GOEBBELS
Goebbels: Walden Bob Rutman, Ensemble Modern, Peter Eötvös [ ECM New Series / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] "Walden consists of a series of musical sketches inspired by the 1854 novel of the same name by Henry David Thoreau", thus reads the short description of this project by Heiner Goebbels. But those familiar with the oeuvre of the German trans-media... |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius & Saraste: The 7 Symphonies Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste [ Ondine / 3 CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] Conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste has been conducting the symphonies of Sibelius all over the world throughout his conducting career. 35 years after his first recording of the complete cycle, Saraste returns to the symphonies of Sibelius with the... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Il fior della Cecilia: Images of Women between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Anonima Frottolisti [ Tactus / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] The production by the Anonima Frottolisti ensemble, which needs no introduction thanks to its specialisation in the interpretation of medieval and Renaissance music, focuses in this work on the theme of the female figure that has been handed down to... |
