Classical Upcoming Releases
Classical Upcoming Releases
The following classical CD titles are due for release / re-release in the near future.
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ANTONIO VIVALDI / ASTOR PIAZZOLLA etc
From Venice to Buenos Aires Andres Gabetta (violin), Veronica Cangemi (soprano), Mario Stefano Pietrodarchi (bandoneon / accordion), Gabetta Consort [ Pentatone / CD - due 29/May/2026 ] Andrés Gabetta (violin and direction), Veronica Cangemi (soprano), Mario Stefano Pietrodarchi (bandoneon and accordion), and the Gabetta Consort present From Venice to Buenos Aires, a remarkable journey from 18th-century Venice to the streets of... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT / FLORENCE PRICE / LILI BOULANGER / WILLIAM GRANT STILL / CARL REINECKE
The Deep Has Always Known Me Brandon Patrick George (flute), Bryan Wagorn (piano) [ Pentatone / CD - due 29/May/2026 ] GRAMMY-winning flutist Brandon Patrick George and pianist Bryan Wagorn present The Deep Has Always Known Me, an album inspired by the myth of Undine - her emergence from the depths, her experience of love, and her transformation into human form. The... |
COLIN MATTHEWS
Matthews: Seascapes Claire Booth (soprano), Marcus Farnsworth (baritone), The Nash Ensemble, Jessica Cottis (conductor) [ Onyx / CD - due 29/May/2026 ] Colin Matthews is one of the UK's leading composers and celebrates his 80th birthday this year. Known for his large-scale orchestral works, chamber works and smaller scale ensemble compositions such as the song cycles on this album, Matthews is also... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Elegance - French Music for Flute and Harp Juliette Hurel (flute), Isabelle Moretti (harp) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - due 29/May/2026 ] Juliette Hurel and Isabelle Moretti present an inspired selection of French music for flute and harp, featuring key masterpieces alongside some rare delights. From the intensely vocal melodic line of Fauré and Debussy's playful exploration of timbres... |
Mikhail Pletnev, Rachmaninoff International Orchestra, EuroArts
Pletnev: Rachmaniana / Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances [ Warner Classics / CD - due 29/May/2026 ] Alongside Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances, this release features the world premiere recording of Mikhail Pletnev's Rachmaniana, which was first performed in January 2026 at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. The eight short pieces of the Rachmaniana... |
GARTH NEUSTADTER
Neustadter: Seaborne The Percussion Collective, Kjell van Sice (conductor) [ Pentatone / CD - due 29/May/2026 ] The Percussion Collective, under the artistic guidance of Robert van Sice, presents the album Seaborne, an extraordinary journey across the ocean where music and imagery converge to reveal the sea in all its wonder. From the soaring aerial vistas of... |
PHILIP GLASS
Glass: Music With Changing Parts (2026 Reissue LP) Philip Glass Ensemble [ Superior Viaduct / LP - due 29/May/2026 ] Philip Glass, the great American composer, was already in his mid-30s before his first album appeared, and then only because he produced the double LP himself. Music With Changing Parts was the inaugural release on his own Chatham Square imprint in... |
ANTONIN DVORAK / JOHAN WAGENAAR
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" + Wagenaar: "Cyrano de Bergerac" Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Lahav Shani [ Warner Classics / CD - due 29/May/2026 ] Dvořák's much-loved Symphony No. 9 'From the New World' now joins the sequence of symphonies, ranging from the dawn of musical Romanticism to the 1930s, recorded for Warner Classics by the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and its Chief Conductor... |
J.S. BACH / VALENTIN SILVESTROV
Bach + Silvestrov Vadim Gluzman (violin), Zachary Carrettin (violin), Mina Gajic (piano), COmpass REsonance (ensemble) [ Onyx / CD - due 29/May/2026 ] Violinist Vadim Gluzman writes that in working with the Boulder, Colorado based ensemble COmpass REsonance, (CORE) he found a group that shared his artistic values, and they now have a close working relationship. 'Combining the music of J. S. Bach... |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas I Alina Ibragimova (violin), Cedric Tiberghien (fortepiano) [ BIS SACD / CD - due 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 - due 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 - due 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 - due 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... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: The Three Violin Sonatas Charles Richard-Hamelin (piano), Andrew Wan (violin) [ Analekta / CD - due 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 - due 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 - due 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 - due 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 - due 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 - due 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... |
GABRIEL FAURE
Fauré: Sonatas for Violin and Piano Transcriptions Kerson Leong (violin), Jonathan Fournel (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 5/Jun/2026 ] Kerson Leong, winner of the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition in 2010, and Jonathan Fournel, winner of the Queen Elisabeth International Grand Prix in 2021, have each recorded several albums for Alpha Classics. Long-time... |
