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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MANUEL PONCE
Ponce - Complete Piano Works Vol.4 Alvaro Cendoya (piano) [ Grand Piano / CD - due 23/May/2025 ] A fundamental characteristic of Manuel Ponce's music is the range of styles and techniques he used throughout his career. The expressive Romanza de amor is a sublime example of his Romantic phase. |
GEORGES BIZET
Georges Bizet Edition Barbara Hendricks, Montserrat Caballe, Maria Callas, Dietrich Discher-Dieskau, Nicolai Gedda, Jonas Kaufmann, Magdalena Kozena, Gautier Capucon, etc [ Warner Classics / 16 CD - due 23/May/2025 ] This collection celebrates the genius of one of France's greatest composers, featuring his most beautiful works performed by world-class artists such as Maria Callas, Barbara Hendricks, June Anderson, Magdalena Kožená, Jonas Kaufmann and Simon Rattle |
FREDERICK CHOPIN
Chopin - Piano Sonatas 2 & 3, Ballade no.1, Berceuse, Nocturnes Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) [ Decca / CD - due 23/May/2025 ] Benjamin Grosvenor explores the depths of Chopin with new album featuring Piano Sonatas 2 & 3. Benjamin's ninth album for Decca classics features two of Chopin's most profound and contrasting works. Written nearly a decade apart, these masterpieces... |
ERKKI-SVEN TUUR
Tüür: Aeris Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Olari Elts [ ECM New Series / CD - due 23/May/2025 ] Aeris is the ninth ECM New Series album to feature the vibrant and highly expressive music of Erkki-Sven Tüür. |
VITTORIO RIETI
Rieti - Complete Piano Solo & Duo Works Vol.3 Giorgio Koukl (piano) Virginia Rossetti (piano) [ Grand Piano / CD - due 23/May/2025 ] Vittorio Rieti won esteem for his orchestral music which was conducted by titans such as Toscanini and Stokowski, but the piano remained his greatest musical love. Rieti's vivid freshness can be appreciated in the selections in this volume, which... |
ANTON BRUCKNER / CARLO GESUALDO
Bruckner & Gesualdo - Motets Monteverdi Choir, Jonathan Sells [ SDG / CD - due 23/May/2025 ] Recorded live in concert in October 2024, this release marks the Monteverdi Choir's 60th birthday and the 200th anniversary of Bruckner's birth with an album that combines his celebrated a cappella motets with the sacred motets of Carlo Gesualdo... |
MADELEINE DRING
Dring - Complete Works for Oboe Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Adam Walker (flute), Amy Harman (bassoon), Antonio Oyarzabal (piano) [ Chandos / CD - due 23/May/2025 ] Madeline Dring was born into a musical and theatrical family, and gained an exhibition scholarship to the junior department of the Royal College of Music aged nine. Her focus changed from violin to piano and composition, which she studied with... |
HENRY PURCELL and others
If the Fates allow: Music by Purcell and his Contemporaries Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano), Sounds Baroque [ BIS SACD / CD - due 23/May/2025 ] On her first solo recital for BIS, Gramophone Award-winner Helen Charlston performs a selection of songs by the English composer Henry Purcell, some very well-known, others less so, as well as pieces by other composers of the period such as John... |
MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Weinberg - Complete Music for Cello and Orchestra Nikolay Shugaev (cello), Tyumen Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Medianik [ Naxos / CD - due 23/May/2025 ] Mieczysław Weinberg flourished as a composer despite working amidst political and personal setbacks. He gained the admiration of Shostakovich, and was championed by the leading Soviet musicians of the day. |
ROBERT SAXTON
Saxton - String Quartets 3 & 4, Reflections in Time Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin), Kreutzer Quartet [ Metier / CD - due 23/May/2025 ] Reflections in Time brings together three major works by Robert Saxton which push the expressive and structural boundaries of the string quartet and solo violin. |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart - Piano Transcriptions of Orchestral Dances Tung Nguyen (piano) [ Naxos / CD - due 23/May/2025 ] The music on this recording was written between 1772 and 1782, largely during Mozart's difficult time in Salzburg employed as Konzertmeister under the regime of Prince-Archbishop Colloredo. |
BERNSTEIN / GRIEG / HADJIDAKIS / ISOLANI / RAVEL
Parole in Musica: Music for Guitar Trio The Volterra Project Trio [ Naxos / CD - due 23/May/2025 ] This diverse programme of works for guitar trio is bound by the common thread of music inspired by stories from literature, stage or screen. With its rhythmic exuberance and tragic beauty, Bernstein's West Side Story has never lost its freshness and... |
JIA DAQUN
Jia - Impressions of Liyuan: Symphonic Concerto Cycle Zhang Jiajing (Chinese percussion), Wang Junkan (dizi), Lu Yiwen (erhu), Liu Wenwen (suona), Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, Lin Daye [ Naxos / CD - due 23/May/2025 ] Jia Daqun, one of China's most prolific and respected composers, has written in many forms, including symphonies, concertos, chamber music and song cycles. |
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MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Weinberg: String Quartets Volume 5 [Nos 3, 9 & 14] Arcadia Quartet [ Chandos / CD - due 30/May/2025 ] The Arcadia Quartet reaches the penultimate release in its acclaimed complete Weinberg string quartets series with this volume, featuring Quartets nos 3, 9, and 14. As in previous volumes, the works are taken from contrasting periods of Weinberg's... |
GYORGY LIGETI
Ligeti - Violin & Piano Concertos, Concert Romanesc Isabelle Faust (violin) Jean-Frederic Neuburger (piano) / Les Siecles [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - due 30/May/2025 ] The poetics of space and the art of time, high-precision mechanism, rhythmic exhilaration ... Ligeti's music defies criteria and codes. This recording provides an opportunity to assess the evolution of the musical language of one of the twentieth... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Complete Symphonies Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner [ Deutsche Grammophon / 3 CD Box Set - due 30/May/2025 ] "The Brahms project with the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique in 2007 was a thrilling undertaking - a thorough reappraisal of Brahms's sound world, both in terms of period instruments and a study of the surviving evidence of performance... |
Various Artists
Eyes Wide Shut (Music From The Motion Picture) (Ltd Green LP) [ Rhino / 2 LP - due 30/May/2025 ] Released in 1999, the Eyes Wide Shut soundtrack features a unique tracklist of hits like ""Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing"" by Chris Isaak, alongside original compositions by Jocelyn Pook that perfectly complement the film's eerie and suspenseful tone. A... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Be Still, My Soul - Hymns from Magdalen Choir of Magdalen College Oxford, Mark Williams [ Coro / CD - due 6/Jun/2025 ] Featuring timeless melodies from Guide me, O thou great redeemer (known to millions as 'Bread of Heaven') to Abide with me, this stunning collection of some of the best-loved hymns of all time from The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, accompanied... |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Symphony no.5 / 2 Serenades / 2 Serious Melodies / Swanwhite Christian Tetzlaff (violin) / Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon [ Ondine / CD - due 6/Jun/2025 ] Conductor Nicholas Collon's second Sibelius album together with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra focuses on works written by Sibelius during or just before World War I, and culminating in the Fifth Symphony. |
GIUSEPPE TARTINI / ANTONIO VIVALDI
Tartini: Violin Sonatas / Vivaldi: Double Violin Concertos David Oistrakh (violin) Igor Oistrakh (violin) Isaac Stern (violin) Lev Oborin (piano) Vladimir Yampolsky (piano), Royal Philharmonic, Philadelphia Or [ Alto / CD - due 6/Jun/2025 ] "the Oistrakh version remains unrivalled … (he) commands a winning sweetness of tone … and is helped by a rounder and richer recorded quality." - Gramophone (Tartini) "the harpsichord comes to life with a vengeance, being especially enterprising... |
