The following classical CD titles are due for release / re-release in the near future.
GEORGE GERSHWIN / LEONARD BERNSTEIN / XAVIER MONTSALVATGE / JENNY PEÑA CAMPO
Gershwin, Montsalvatge, Bernstein & Jenny Peña Campo Adriana Bignagni Lesca; Philzuid; Duncan Ward [ Fuga Libera / CD - due 14/Feb/2025 ] Musical fireworks flare and dazzle in this New Year's concert! This live recording of the 2024 New Year's concert is Philzuid's seventh album - and it's a very different New Year's concert with Latin rhythms and American dance in the foreground.... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / FRANZ SCHUBERT / GYORGY KURTAG
Lines of life: Schubert & Kurtág Benjamin Appl, György Kurtág, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, James Baillieu [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 14/Feb/2025 ] Benjamin Appl met Hungarian composer György Kurtág in 2019 and has worked with him ever since. 'He has shaped me both as a musician and as a human being, perhaps more than anyone else,' says Appl. |
GEORG MUFFAT
Muffat: Apparatus musico-organisticus Bernard Foccroulle, Marie Rouquié [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / CD - due 14/Feb/2025 ] The collection of toccatas Apparatus musico-organisticus, published in 1690, immediately established Georg Muffat as one of the greatest organists of his century. A veritable reference in the organ repertoire, appreciated for its stylistic diversity,... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT / JAN Vaclav VOISECK / FREDERIC CHOPIN / ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Schubert/Vorisek/Chopin/Scriabin - Impromptus Can Çakmur (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - due 14/Feb/2025 ] For the fourth instalment of his Schubert+ series, Can Çakmur focuses on the genre of the impromptu, aiming to identify historical predecessors for Schubert's piano writing as well as gain an insight into the evolution of free-standing poetic... |
Charles Richard-Hamelin
Échos: Chopin, Granados & Albéniz [ Analekta / CD - due 14/Feb/2025 ] Charles Richard-Hamelin continues his exploration of the works of Chopin, combining them with rare Spanish works composed at the turn of the 19th century. Frédéric Chopin, Isaac Albéniz and Enrique Granados were all virtuoso pianists whose music is... |
CLAUDIO CONSTANTINI / ANNA FEDOROVA / NICOLAS SCHARTZ / ANGELO VERPLOEGEN
Yellow Butterfly. Latin American Favourites Dana Zemtsov, André Groen, Claudio Constantini, Anna Fedorova, Nicolas Schwartz, Angelo Verploegen [ Channel Classics / CD - due 14/Feb/2025 ] Born in Mexico City, violist Dana Zemtsov has always retained a deep love for the colourful Latin-American culture. |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 2, 7 & 10 Jerusalem Quartet [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - due 14/Feb/2025 ] The fifteen string quartets composed by Shostakovich established him as one of the masters of this genre. These works show him at his most concentrated & most intimate. Although each is quite different in form and structure, every bar of them reveals... |
Maria Callas (soprano), Angelina Jolie (narrator), Pierfrancesco Favino (narrator), Vincent Macaigne (narrator)
Maria (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [ Warner / CD - due 14/Feb/2025 ] The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack from the movie Maria, directed by Pablo Larraín, written by Steven Knight, which delves into the tumultuous final days of the iconic opera singer in 1970s Paris, interpreted by Angelina Jolie. |
Maria Callas (soprano), Angelina Jolie (narrator), Pierfrancesco Favino (narrator), Vincent Macaigne (narrator)
Maria (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (LP) [ Warner / 2 LP - due 14/Feb/2025 ] The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack from the movie Maria, directed by Pablo Larraín, written by Steven Knight, which delves into the tumultuous final days of the iconic opera singer in 1970s Paris, interpreted by Angelina Jolie. |
GYORGY- LIGETI / BELA BARTOK
Ligeti - String Quartets 1 & 2 / Bartok - String Quartet no.4 Marmen Quartet [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - due 14/Feb/2025 ] For its first recording for BIS Records, the Marmen Quartet tackles three major works from the twentieth-century string quartet literature. The two quartets by György Ligeti belong to two different periods in the composer's output. Written before... |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach: Goldberg Variations Nevermind [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - due 14/Feb/2025 ] A genuine masterpiece inspires musicians to adopt, adapt, or transcribe it without losing any of its greatness. |
SEBASTIAN FAGERLUND
Fagerlund - Autumn Equinox Niek de Groot (double bass) / Lapland Chamber Orchestra [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - due 14/Feb/2025 ] The title of Sebastian Fagerlund's Octet 'Autumn Equinox' derives from its links with his opera Autumn Sonata, based on the Ingmar Bergman film. Some of the moods and musical material of the opera appear in the octet, as a kind of reflection. With... |
CESAR FRANCK / SERGEI RACHMANINOFF / LEOPOLD GODOWSKY
Chiaroscuro: Godowsky, Franck & Rachmaninoff Roman Borisov [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 14/Feb/2025 ] In 2022, 19-year-old pianist Roman Borisov became the youngest winner of the prestigious Kissinger KlavierOlymp competition. |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH / JOHANNES BRAHMS / MAX REGER / FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Inmost Heart: Bach, Brahms, Busoni & Reger Samson Tsoy [ Linn Records / CD - due 14/Feb/2025 ] In Samson Tsoy's artfully designed solo debut recording, ideas reverberate across the centuries as Brahms's elaborations of works by two past masters are juxtaposed with reworkings of his own music by two later composers. Lauded for his originality... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin K301, K378, K454 Sayaka Shoji, Gianluca Cascioli [ Arcana / CD - due 14/Feb/2025 ] Boasting a musical partnership of over 15 years, during which they have played in concerts throughout the world (recently at the Wigmore Hall in London and the Suntory Hall in Tokyo), the violinist Sayaka Shoji and the pianist Gianluca Cascioli have... |
BUONAMENTE / CASTELLO / FRESCOBALDI / GIAMBERTI / PASQUINI / etc
Violino over cornetto Seicento Stravagante [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - due 14/Feb/2025 ] In the sixteenth century, the quality of a 'civil conversation' was a topic of great interest, both within learned academies and in the verbal games of convivial banquets. As musical virtuosi learned how to 'speak' through their instruments, it was... |
HENRI VIEUXTEMPS / LOUIS VIERNE
Vieuxtemps & Vierne: Sonates pour violon et piano Tatiana Samouil; Johan Schmidt [ Cypres Records / CD - due 14/Feb/2025 ] The programme presented here is particularly interesting from the point of view of Henri Vieuxtemps's Grande sonate concertante op.12, in four movements, a rare work written during the youth of the Verviers composer. |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann Collection - String Quartets and Piano Quintet Théo Fouchenneret; Quatuor Strada [ B Records / 2 CD - due 14/Feb/2025 ] For the Fourth Volume of their Schumann Collection, Pierre and Théo Fouchenneret, along with their fellow musicians in Quatuor Strada, take us through the year 1842. It was a prolific period for the composer being the year of the three String... |
MARK HAGERTY / TWIN POETS
Hagerty: United Sounds of America University of Delaware Symphony Orchestra, James Allen Anderson, Twin Poets, Makeda Hampton, Jonathan Whitney, Oksana Glouchko [ Delos / CD - due 14/Feb/2025 ] united sounds of america melds the power and rhythms of street poetry with the expressive capacity of the symphony orchestra to bring urgent social questions to the symphonic stage. united sounds is not a traditional musical work, nor is it one... |
PIERRE de MANCHICOURT
Requiem for an Emperor Utopia Ensemble; Jan Van Outryve [ Ramée / CD - due 14/Feb/2025 ] Charles V was certainly the most powerful and charismatic of the Renaissance rulers. Exhausted and worn down by the challenges of imperial rule, he abdicated towards the end of his life and led a secluded existence in the monastery of Cuacos de Yuste... |