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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VIVALDI / ALBINONI / HANDEL / MARCELLO / TELEMANN
Baroque Concertos Alison Balsom (trumpet) / Pinnock's Players, Trevor Pinnock [ Warner Classics / CD - due 18/Oct/2024 ] "Having worked extensively with period instrument ensembles throughout my career, I was intrigued and fascinated about the possibility on this album of a delicious colliding of the two worlds." Alison Balsom |
BEETHOVEN / SZYMANOWSKY / SHOSTAKOVICH / FRANCK / MOZART / BRAHMS / etc
David Oistrakh - The Warner Remastered Edition David Oistrakh (violin), with Lev Oborin , Vladimir Yampolsky (piano), Yehudi Menuhin (violin), Borodin Quartet, various orchestras & conductors [ Warner Classics / 61 CD/DVD Box Set - due 18/Oct/2024 ] "For many, Oistrakh remains the violinistic ideal...his winning combination of tonal sumptuousness, clear interpretative focus, musical humility and effortless technical poise across a broad repertoire remains unmatched to this day." The Strad |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: String Quartets, Vol. 2 (op. 18, Nos. 2 and 5; Op. 59, No. 2; Op. 130; Op. 133) Doric String Quartet [ Chandos / 2 CD - due 18/Oct/2024 ] For this second volume of Beethoven's string quartets, the Doric String Quartet has combined one middle period, one late, and two early quartets to create a programme that works on its own terms, as well as forming part of the complete cycle. |
CHARLES IVES
Charles Ives - The Anniversary Edition Helen Boatwright (soprano), Charles Ives (piano), Gregg Smith Singers, Thomas Stewart (baritone), American Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski, etc [ Sony Classical / 5 CD Box Set - due 18/Oct/2024 ] On the 150th anniversary of the birth of Charles Ives - acclaimed by his champion Leonard Bernstein as the "first great American composer", who, "all alone in his Connecticut barn, created his own private musical revolution". |
DALE KAVANAGH
Dale Kavanagh & Friends Amadeus Guitar Duo (guitar duo), Dale Kavanagh (guitar), Aniello Desiderio, Zoran Dukic, Margarita Escarpa, Frank Gerstmeier, Sümeyye Ergün, Laura You [ Naxos / CD - due 25/Oct/2024 ] Renowned as a soloist and as a member of the Amadeus Guitar Duo, Dale Kavanagh is one of the most prominent classical guitarists of her generation. With this album she not only plays solo works composed for leading guitarists all over the world, but... |
FREDERICK BLOCK
Block: Chamber Works ARC Ensemble [ Chandos / CD - due 25/Oct/2024 ] Friedrich Bloch (Frederick Block once he arrived in America) was born in Vienna in 1899. His father, Sigmund, supported music as a pastime, but opposed it as a career. His heart was changed when his son returned home unscathed at the end of World War... |
BERLIOZ / HAYDN / MUSSORGSY-RAVEL / DVORAK / STRAVINSKY / BEETHOVEN
Colin Davis: The Concertgebouw Legacy Arthur Grumiaux, Salvatore Accardo (violin) Heinrich Schiff (cello) / Concertgebouw Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis [ Decca Eloquence / 18 CD Box Set - due 25/Oct/2024 ] Colin Davis's complete Concertgebouworkest recordings for Philips, collected together for the first time CD premieres of Haydn's Symphonies Nos. 84, 86, 87, 88 (on Decca), and the Dvořák Romance with Accardo (first international CD release). |
GUNTER GOCHAN / SIEGFRIED MATTHUS / GISBERT NATHER
East German Flute Concertos Claudia Stein (flute), Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, David Robert Coleman [ Naxos / CD - due 25/Oct/2024 ] The three concertante works for flute and orchestra on this album are by composers who lived and worked in East Germany during the four decades of its existence. Günter Kochan, best known for his symphonic compositions, wrote an admired Concertino in... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Dances for Piano Dominic Cheli (piano) [ Naxos / CD - due 25/Oct/2024 ] Although it is known that Schubert did not often dance, he willingly played the piano for dances and parties, being only too keen to provide examples that fuelled the Viennese Waltz craze of the time. These light dances - including Waltzes and... |
GIOVANNI PAISIELLO
Paisiello: La finta amante Elena Tsvetkova, Daniele De Prosperi, Antoine Bernheim, Stefano Parisse Estrin Orchestra, Stefano Parisse [ Naxos / 2 CD - due 25/Oct/2024 ] Giovanni Paisiello enjoyed a considerable international reputation during much of his career, with 80 or more operas that presented a challenge to those of Mozart in Vienna. La finta amante was composed during Paisiello's time at the Russian court of... |
FREYA WALEY-COHEN
Waley-Cohen: Spell Book Freya Waley-Cohen, Manchester Collective, Heloise Werner, Katie Bray, Fleur Barron, Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Anne Beilby, Nathaniel Boyd [ NMC RECORDINGS / CD - due 25/Oct/2024 ] NMC Recordings releases the debut album from composer Freya Waley-Cohen, whose distinctive voice in contemporary classical music draws inspiration from literature, folklore, and the natural world, and is characterized by its vivid imagery and... |
GABRIEL FAURE
Gabriel Faure - The Complete Works Gautier Capuçon, Jacqueline du Pré, Sabine Devieilhe, Nicholai Gedda, Ian Bostridge, Victoria de los Ángeles, Thomas Beecham, Michel Corboz, Michel Pl [ Erato / Warner Classics / 26 CD Box Set - due 25/Oct/2024 ] Warner Classics brings to you the Complete works of Gabriel Fauré, included are many popular and historical recordings for solo harp and piano, chamber, lyrical and orchestral works. |
Ingibjorg Azima
Logn [ ODRADEK RECORDS / CD - due 25/Oct/2024 ] In an album of world-premiere recordings, composer Ingibjorg Azima unveils her unique settings of Icelandic poetry.Logn is one of 16 Icelandic words for 'calm', a theme that is explored in multifaceted detail in Azima's songs, which reflect the... |
Irvine Arditti, Gianluca Pirisi, Roberta Pandolfi
Fremde Szenen [ ODRADEK RECORDS / CD - due 25/Oct/2024 ] In this extraordinary release, violinist Irvine Arditti pays tribute to his late friend, the great composer Wolfgang Rihm, who died in July 2024, in the company of two exceptional musicians: cellist Gianluca Pirisi and pianist Roberta... |
FRANZ ANTON HOFFMEISTER / LEOPOLD MOZART / FRIEDRICH WITT
The Golden Age of the Horn - Concertos for 2 Horns Jacek Muzyk (horn primo), Daniel Kerdelewicz (horn secondo), Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos / CD - due 25/Oct/2024 ] Ivor Gurney was a poet as well as a composer and was accomplished in a number of musical genres including song. With his intuitive approach to poetry he selected texts widely, from contemporaries to ballads, Elizabethan and Jacobean poets, and even... |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Works for Violin & Orchestra James Ehnes (violin) / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - due 25/Oct/2024 ] Sibelius studied the violin in his youth, and actively entertained the prospect of a career as a professional violinist for much of his student life. After graduating from the Helsinki Music Institute, in 1890, he went to Vienna to continue his... |
DEBUSSY / FELDMAN / DAHL / BERNSTEIN / TCHAIKOVSKY / COSTELLO / GRIEG / SCHUMANN
Michael Tilson Thomas - Complete Deutsche Grammophon & Argo Recordings Jean-Marc Luisada (piano), Paul Zukofsky (violin), Frederica von Stade; Thomas Hampson / London Symphony, Boston Symphony, etc, Michael Tilson Thomas [ Deutsche Grammophon Eloquence / 14 CD Box Set - due 25/Oct/2024 ] Michael Tilson Thomas's complete recordings for Deutsche Grammophon (1970-2003) and Argo (1992-1995) encapsulate the conductor's restlessly exploratory nature and masterful handling of the modern orchestra. The recordings in this collection... |
CLAUDIO SANTORO
Santoro: Complete Piano Sonatas Alessandro Santoro [ Naxos / CD - due 1/Nov/2024 ] Written over a 46-year period, Claudio Santoro's six piano sonatas document the evolution of his creative and formal skills - together they present a survey of the composer's entire aesthetic development. Always radiating a forceful inner power and... |
BEETHOVEN / BENJAMIN / DOWNLAND / JOSQUIN
Resonance Benjamin Hochman [ AVIE / CD - due 1/Nov/2024 ] In his late piano sonatas, Beethoven created music of extraordinary originality, simultaneously looking far into the future and far into the past Pianist Benjamin Hochman pays homage to this Janus-faced aspect with the inclusion of two works from... |
DE LASSUS / ERBACH / KLINGENSTEIN / DE RORE / REGNART / etc
A monk's life The Brabant Ensemble / Stephen Rice [ Hyperion / CD - due 1/Nov/2024 ] For a monk resident in one of post-Reformation Germany's religious institutions, music would have served as a focus of spiritual discipline as well as a source of joy. Some real discoveries await the listener who joins The Brabant Ensemble on this... |
