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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The Leipzig Collegium Musicum
Volume 1: Music before Bach [ Pentatone / CD - due 31/Jul/2026 ] The Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum (NBCM) and its artistic director Reinhard Goebel launch a new series with The Leipzig Collegium Musicum Vol. 1: Music before Bach, offering a vivid glimpse into Leipzig's rich musical life at the beginning of... |
DMYTRO BORTNIANSKY
Bortniansky: Creonte National Choir of Ukraine 'Dumka', National Presidential Orchestra, Herman Makarenko (conductor) [ Toccata Classics / 2 CD - due 7/Aug/2026 ] In 1776, during a spell in Italy early in his career, the Ukrainian composer Dmytro Bortniansky (1751-1825) wrote Creonte, an opera seria based on Sophocles' tragedy Antigone and poised, like early Mozart, on the cusp between Baroque and Classical... |
MARK ADAMO
Adamo: Lysistrata Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Odyssey Opera, Gil Rose [ Pentatone / 2 CD - due 7/Aug/2026 ] Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Gil Rose present the world premiere recording of Lysistrata, or The Nude Goddess, an opera by Mark Adamo. Far removed from the familiar outlines of Aristophanes' ancient comedy, this daring reimagining reshapes a... |
Bruce Liu
Lunaris (Cd) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - due 7/Aug/2026 ] Bruce Liu, whose career has surged to worldwide fame and recognition since winning the 2021 International Chopin Piano Competition, is hailed for his "elf-like virtuosity" (Le Monde) and "elegance and lightness of touch" (The Guardian). Liu now... |
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CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR
Widor: Piano Music Daniel Grimwood (piano) [ Danacord / CD - due 7/Aug/2026 ] Widor composed for stage, voice, orchestra, chamber ensemble and, most famously, organ. When a composer's primary mode of expression is the king of instruments, a certain austerity can attach itself to their reputation and this is arguably the case... |
BARBARA / ÁNGEL CABRAL / DUŠAN BOGDANOVIĆ / DINOS CONSTANTINIDES / EDDIE McGUIRE / PETER MAXWELL DAVIES / RENE EESPERE / KOSTAS GRIGOREAS / CHARLES TR
The European Guitar Eleftheria Kotzia (guitar) [ Toccata Next / CD - due 7/Aug/2026 ] Most guitar recitals emphasise the vigorous Spanish and Latin American heritage of the instrument. This album takes a different approach, travelling round the fringes of Europe, with music from Albania, Estonia, France, Serbia, Greece and the British... |
FERDINAND HILLER / IGNAZ MOSCHELES
Four Hands On Stage - Opera And Symphony Conceived For The Keyboard Stephanie McCallum, Erin Helyard (1832 Erard piano) [ Toccata Next / CD - due 7/Aug/2026 ] In the days before recorded sound, people usually learned their orchestral music at home, playing it in piano transcriptions for two or four hands. Two German-Jewish composers took that idea a stage further: Ignaz Moscheles, protege of Beethoven,... |
MORTIZ MOSZKOWSKI
Moszkowski: Orchestral Music, Vol. 4 Ian Hobson, Sinfonia Varsovia [ Toccata / CD - due 7/Aug/2026 ] The Polish composer Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925) is best remembered for a handful of virtuoso piano pieces, but he also produced a substantial body of orchestral music, most of it unperformed for a century or more. This fourth volume presents his... |
JOSEPH HAAS
Haas: The Violin Works Ludmila Pavlova (violin), Alissa Firsova (piano) [ Ars Produktion / CD - due 7/Aug/2026 ] Joseph Haas (1879-1960) was a German composer and student of Max Reger, whose works for violin and piano (1905-1912) clearly show the development from an early style strongly influenced by Reger to greater independence. While the early sonatinas... |
ANNA CLYNE / RUTH GIPPS / CARL MARIA VON WEBER
Strange Loops: Clarinet Quintets Mark van de Wiel (clarinet), Zsolt-Tihamer Visontay & Fiona Cornall (violins), Nicholas Bootiman (viola), Karen Stephenson (cello) [ Signum / CD - due 7/Aug/2026 ] Strange Loops presents clarinettist Mark van de Wiel with colleagues from the Philharmonia Orchestra in three works spanning over two centuries of chamber music. The album centres on the first recording of Anna Clyne's Strange Loops, written in 2020... |
GAO PING
Ping: Outside The Window Michael Houstoun (piano) [ Rattle / CD - due 7/Aug/2026 ] On this beautifully produced album, Michael Houstoun performs a selection of works by the renowned composer, Gao Ping. The two central four-movement works, Outside the Window and Wanderings, are complemented by three delicate miniature waltzes,... |
EINAR ENGLUND / JEAN SIBELIUS / SELIM PALMGREN / KALERVO TUUKKANEN
Scenes from Finland Oulu Sinfonia, Rumon Gamba [ Chandos / CD - due 7/Aug/2026 ] Sibelius's Scaramouche, a ballet-pantomime commissioned in 1912 by his publishers, for a play by Poul Knudsen. His story line reflects the immense early twentieth-century interest in clowns and the commedia dell'arte, and in erotic desire, death, and... |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN / RICHARD STRAUSS
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 / Strauss: A Hero's Life Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Seiji Ozawa [ Br-Klassik / CD - due 7/Aug/2026 ] The Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa (1935-2024) conducted the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich only twice - yet on both occasions, nothing less than musical history was made. In July 1983, Ozawa conducted Stravinsky's Le sacre du printemps... |
FRIEDRICH SCHWINDL
Schwindl: Symphonies Op. 10; La Pastorale, Op. 3 l'arte del mondo orchestra, Werner Ehrhardt [ Capriccio / CD - due 7/Aug/2026 ] Completely forgotten today, Friedrich Schwindl (1737-1786) was a highly esteemed violinist and composer in his time. Although his name appears repeatedly in the writings of Leopold Mozart, Charles Burney and Daniel Schubart, the construction of his... |
YEVHEN STANKOVYCH
Stankovych: Complete Chamber Symphonies, Volume One Natalia Kozhushko-Maksymiv (flute), Eva Rabchevska (violin), Dmytro Tavanets (keyboards), Kyiv Chamber Orchestra, Natalia Ponomarchuk (cond) [ Toccata Classics / CD - due 7/Aug/2026 ] Between 1972 and 2018 the Ukrainian composer Yevhen Stankovych - born in 1942 and now the senior figure in Ukrainian music - produced a series of seventeen Chamber Symphonies, many of them doubling as concertos. This substantial body of music has... |
FRANCESCO WEBER
Weber: Sonatas For Mandolin And Continuo Davide Rebuffa, Luca Guglielmi, Nicola Brovelli [ Tactus / CD - due 7/Aug/2026 ] The 12 Sonatas for mandolino and continuo by Francesco Weber represent one of the most interesting collections of compositions for the baroque mandolino that have come down to us. Despite his German surname clearly suggesting German ancestry,... |
DOUGLAS GORDON WEILAND
Weiland: Chamber Music, Vol. 1 - Works For Violin and Piano Markiyan Melnichenko (violin), Rhodri Clarke (piano) [ Toccata Classics / CD - due 7/Aug/2026 ] The music of Douglas Gordon Weiland - born, like Elgar, in Worcestershire, in 1954 - is one of the better-kept secrets of British musical life: very little of his substantial catalogue of orchestral, chamber and choral works has been recorded. This... |
BEDRICH SMETANA
Smetana: Romantic Piano, Vol. 11 Bogang Hwang (piano) [ Naxos / CD - due 14/Aug/2026 ] Regarded as the father of Czech music Bedřich Smetana was a pioneer in developing a national style that culminated in his popular symphonic cycle Má vlast. Composed after he had become deaf the Czech Dances are Smetana's last major piano works.... |
Cantus
The Secret Letter [ Signum / CD - due 14/Aug/2026 ] The Secret Letter re-imagines a program of the same name performed by Cantus in the spring of 2025, weaving music together with excerpts from letters by Marcus Aurelius, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and others. These interludes offer... |
