Classical New Releases
Classical New Releases
Below is a list of all classical CD titles released in the last 120 days.
Displaying items 161 to 180 of 273
ANTONIO FARINA
Farina: Venere e Marte - Seventeenth-Century Neapolitan Dialogues Valeria La Grotta (soprano), Mauro Borgioni (baritone), I Musici del Gran Principe, Samuele Lastrucci (director) [ Glaux Records / CD - released 13/Mar/2026 ] At the close of the seventeenth century, Farina, Minei, and Netti created some of the most popular pieces of their day. Their dialogues for soprano and bass offer a colorful palette of emotions. This recording presents the first modern performance of... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Dialogos: Francis of Assisi meets Malik al-Kamil Constantinople, Holland Baroque [ Pentatone / CD - released 13/Mar/2026 ] In Dialogos, Holland Baroque and Constantinople embark on a musical journey inspired by one of history's most remarkable encounters: the meeting between Saint Francis of Assisi and Sultan Malik al-Kamil during the Fifth Crusade in 1219. Eight... |
GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Telemann: Ino Cantata and Double Concertos Elizabeth Watts; Rachel Podger; Florilegium; Ashley Solomon [ Channel Classics / CD - released 13/Mar/2026 ] Ashley Solomon and Florilegium are joined by violinist Rachel Podger, soprano Elizabeth Watts and recorder player Hannah Parry on Telemann: Ino Cantata and Double Concertos. Based on a story from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Telemann's Ino is a dramatic... |
CHARLES-VALENTIN ALKAN
The Complete Alkan Organ Works Vol. 1 Joseph Nolan (organ) [ Signum / CD - released 13/Mar/2026 ] This first volume of The Complete Alkan Organ Works presents Joseph Nolan's recording of Charles-Valentin Alkan's major works for organ and pedal-piano, performed on the restored Stahlhuth-Jann organ of St Martin's Church, Dudelange. The release... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Verismo Arias Luciano Pavarotti, Orchestra National Philharmonic [ Decca / CD - released 13/Mar/2026 ] Verismo, meaning "realism," was a late-19th-century movement in Italian opera that shifted the focus from kings and myths to ordinary people living vivid, emotionally charged lives. These operas confront love, jealousy, betrayal, and longing with... |
TOBIAS HUME / GEORG PHILIPP TELEMAN / MARIN MARAIS / J.S. BACH
From Silence Miguel Bonal (viola da gamba) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 13/Mar/2026 ] Born in Zaragoza in 1999, Miguel Bonal began studying the viola da gamba at the age of seven. He continued his higher education at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya, where he obtained the highest distinctions. For his first solo recital,... |
CLEMENCE DE GRANDVAL
Grandval: Mazeppa Tassis Christoyannis, Nicole Car, Julien Dran, Ante Jerkunica, Pawel Trojak, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Munchner Rundfunkorchester [ Bru Zane / 2 CD/Book - released 13/Mar/2026 ] 'The subject of Mazeppa has inspired Mme Clémence de Grandval to write a truly remarkable score, the success of which will cause a stir in the musical world.' It was with these flattering words that the press greeted the premiere of the five-act... |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev Nemanja Radulović (violin), Philharmonia Orchestra, Johan Dalene, Laure Favre-Kahn, Les Trilles du Diable, Santtu-Matias Rouvali [ Warner Classics / CD - released 13/Mar/2026 ] "There is something wondrous in the music of Sergei Prokofiev," says Nemanja Radulović, "as if it constantly moves between light and shadow, searching for truth through contrast, sarcasm, magic, love, irony, and beauty." Now the violinist - praised... |
BIZET / FAURE / MOZART / FALLA / STRAVINSKY / SCRIABIN / WOLF / DENISOV / etc
Barenboim conducts Orchestre de Paris: Complete EMI Classics & Erato Recordings Orchestre de Paris, Daniel Barenboim, with Kathleen Battle, Waltraud Meier, Ann Murray, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Itzhak Perlman & others [ Warner Classics / 15 CD Box Set - released 13/Mar/2026 ] Daniel Barenboim served as the Chief Conductor of the Orchestre de Paris from 1975 to 1989, following Charles Munch, Herbert von Karajan and Georg Solti, starting the role at the age of 33. His tenure was marked by a strong commitment to both the... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Divine Impresario: Nicolini on Stage Randall Scotting (countertenor), Mary Bevan (soprano), Academy of Ancient Music [ Signum / CD - released 13/Mar/2026 ] Divine Impresario is countertenor Randall Scotting's portrait of the celebrated castrato Nicolò Grimaldi ("Nicolini"), performed with the Academy of Ancient Music and Laurence Cummings. Drawing on arias and duets written for Nicolini by Handel,... |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Orchestral Music Sinfonia of London, John Wilson [ Chandos / CD - released 13/Mar/2026 ] Puccini is renowned as one of the greatest opera composers of all time and his early works - before Manon Lescaut catapulted him to international fame - offer a fascinating insight into his development as a composer. John Wilson and Sinfonia of... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Trio op.114; Robert & Clara Schumann: 3 Romances Op.22 & 94; Joseph Joachim: Hebrew Melodies Tabea Zimmermann, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Javier Perianes [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 13/Mar/2026 ] The empathy between Robert and Clara Schumann, Joseph Joachim and Johannes Brahms engendered one of Romanticism's most fruitful artistic friendships. With the aim of mining the precious jewels of that unique intimacy, three great artists have devised... |
NICO MUHLY
Muhly: No Resting Place The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips [ Linn Records / CD - released 13/Mar/2026 ] Nico Muhly and The Tallis Scholars present 'No Resting Place', a collection of world premiere recordings of works that Muhly wrote for The Tallis Scholars over the last 10 years, by invitation of their director Peter Phillips. Phillips says that... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 7 Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 13/Mar/2026 ] Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich continue their complete cycle of Mahler symphonies with the Seventh, considered one of his most complex and challenging symphonies: "The Mahler we encounter in Symphony No. 7 is more complex, darker and... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No.7 (LP) Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - released 13/Mar/2026 ] Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich continue their complete cycle of Mahler symphonies with the Seventh, considered one of his most complex and challenging symphonies: "The Mahler we encounter in Symphony No. 7 is more complex, darker and... |
GIACOMO CARISSIMI / DOMENICO MAZZOCCHI
Carissimi: Historia di Jephte / Motets Voces Suaves, Michele Vannelli [ Arcana / CD - released 13/Mar/2026 ] "For its sixth album on the Arcana label, Voces Suaves presents a programme dedicated to one of the most influential composers of the seventeenth century, the great Giacomo Carissimi. The album features Carissimi's most famous work, the masterful... |
JOHANN JOHANNSSON
Johannsson: Piano Works Alice Sara Ott (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 6/Mar/2026 ] Alice Sara Ott presents world premiere recordings of piano transcriptions of late Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson's most famous works. It includes some of Jóhannsson's iconic works from different films as well as from his studio albums,... |
CLARA SCHUMANN / ROBERT SCHUMANN
R & C Schumann: Violin Concerto, Works for Violin and Piano Midori (violin), Ozgur Aydin (piano), Festival Strings Lucerne [ Pentatone / CD - released 6/Mar/2026 ] Violinist Midori, Festival Strings Lucerne under the direction of Daniel Dodds, and pianist Özgür Aydin present an album of Schumann: Violin Concerto & Works for Violin and Piano by Clara and Robert Schumann, highlighting two deeply connected... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss: Elektra Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Choir, Edward Gardner [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 6/Mar/2026 ] First performed in Dresden in 1909, Elektra was Strauss's first collaboration (of many) with the librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and is the most modernist of all of his operas. Based on the (heavily reworked) play by Sophocles, Hofmannsthal's... |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: String Quartets, op.59 nos. 1 & 2 Chiaroscuro Quartet [ BIS / CD - released 6/Mar/2026 ] The Chiaroscuro Quartet is now offering us the fourth instalment of their ongoing complete recording of Beethoven's string quartets. This latest release spotlights the first two of the three Opus 59 quartets known as the 'Razumovsky', named for their... |
