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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OLLE ADOLPHSON
Adolphson: Balladen Torsten Mossberg (tenor) [ Sterling / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] Olle Adolphson (1934-2004) is one of the most important representatives of the Swedish ballad during the second half of the 20th century. He wrote a long series of ballads that are loved by the Swedish people. Many of them have become so well-known... |
ANTONIO CALDERA
48° North. Caldara, from Venice to Vienna The BanXhies, Emmanuel Arakelian [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] In Celtic mythology, the 'Banshee' is a messenger between worlds. The four musicians of The BanXhies have come together around this figure, seeking to use music as a conduit from the outer world to the inner world. For their very first album, Roxana... |
FRANZ LISZT / FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN / GEORGE GERSHWIN / JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH - FERRUCCIO BUSONI / LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Cherkassky: Nimbus Rediscovered Recordings Vol. 3 Shura Cherkassky (piano) [ Nimbus / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] Shura Cherkassky was introduced to Nimbus by Wilfred Stiff, then a director of the London agent Ibbs & Tillett. Wilfred recognised a young label pushing ahead fast at the transition point between LP and CD, one with a fondness for artists whose... |
CHARLOTTE DE ROTHSCHILD / FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
The Chopin Connection Vol. 1 Inbar Rothschild (piano) [ CRD / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] "When celebrating our 50th anniversary in 2025, we reflected on a legacy that is as much personal as it is professional. For us, this volume represents a profound homecoming: we grew up with Chopin's Nocturnes sat enthroned on our family piano, our... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Folías y Glosas. Legacies of the Spanish Golden Age Concerto Scirocco, Giulia Genini [ Arcana / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] "Folías y Glosas", the new recording project of the ensemble Concerto Scirocco, is a musical journey into the Spain of the late 16th/early 17th century, taking in a repertoire rich in colours, rhythm and influences that weaves together folk memory... |
PROSPER SAINTON / RICHARD STRAUSS / HECTOR BERLIOZ
Stranger Sainton Dmitry Smirnov; Kammerorchester Basel; Victor Jacob [ Fuga Libera / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] This album is built around a remarkable instrument: the Guarneri del Gesù "Sainton Betti" violin, once played by Prosper Sainton. More than a solo voice, the violin shapes both the repertoire and the narrative of the project. From this starting... |
ERNST von DOHNÁNYI
Dohnányi: Symphony No. 2 in E major, Op. 40 Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie, Rheinland-Pfalz, Michael Francis [ Capriccio / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] Although Hungarian composer Ernst von Dohnányi was one of the most versatile and influential musicians of his time, his works are seldom played nowadays. The Capriccio label is helping to rectify that situation with a series of recordings of his... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: String Quartets Vol.3 Doric String Quartet [ Chandos / 2 CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] The Doric String Quartet continues its cycle of Beethoven quartets with this third volume, featuring a mixture of works from the composer's early, middle, and late periods. Notable for the piano start of each of its four movements, op.18 no.3 also... |
C.P.E. BACH
C. P. E. Bach: Cello Concertos Elinor Frey (cello), Accademia de' Dissonanti [ Channel Classics / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] The Canadian-American cellist Elinor Frey performs and conducts Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's three cello concertos with the Accademia de' Dissonanti. These dramatic works, rich in turbulent exchanges yet also in tender moments, bear witness to C. P.... |
FANNY & FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Nui Esmé Quartet [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] This album - the third to be released on Alpha Classics - is entitled Nui (a Korean word meaning 'sister'). The Esmé Quartet pays tribute to Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, with Fanny's Quartet in E-Flat major, written during the final year of her life,... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART / JOSEPH HAYDN / FABIAN FIORINI
Missa Brevis: Mozart, Haydn & Fiorini Etesiane Orchestra, Gabriel Hollander [ Cypres Records / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] There are projects that spring from a hunch and which, driven by conviction and hard work, eventually come to seem entirely natural. The 'Messes Brèves' project is a bold initiative that brings together works rarely performed together, breathing new... |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: 1610 VESPERS I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth, The English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble [ Coro / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers is the landmark work of early Baroque music. It sits at the crossroads of Renaissance polyphony and the new dramatic style heard in his first opera L'Orfeo. 'The Vespers' redefined what sacred music could sound like -... |
MILOSLAV KABELÁČ
Kabelác: Kinderchöre Kinderchor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Christian Lindhorst (conductor), Kammersymphonie Berlin [ Capriccio / 2 CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] Music for children plays an important role in Miloslav Kabeláč's artistic oeuvre. Especially in the early days after the communist coup in 1948, the composer devoted himself to this genre: "I regard composing for children as a 'touchstone' not only... |
Ludovico Einaudi
The Summer Portraits Live (2Lp) [ Decca / 2 LP - due 4/Sep/2026 ] Recorded live in London at The Royal Albert Hall in 2025, this new collection includes favourites from The Summer Portraits as well as much-loved classics such as 'I Giorni', 'Nuvole Bianche' and 'Experience'. |
Ludovico Einaudi
The Summer Portraits Live (Cd) [ Decca / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] Recorded live in London at The Royal Albert Hall in 2025, this new collection includes favourites from The Summer Portraits as well as much-loved classics such as 'I Giorni', 'Nuvole Bianche' and 'Experience'. |
MODEST MUSSORGSKY / MAURICE RAVEL / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Tableaux Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Joseph Swensen [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] This album centres on Ravel: Ravel the composer with Ma Mère l'Oye - originally a suite for piano four hands composed in 1910, orchestrated the following year to become a ballet… and Ravel the arranger with Mussorgsky's famous Pictures at an... |
Queen Elisabeth Competition: Cello 2026
Belgisches Nationalorchester/Byun, Andrew Ilhoon/Dietlin, Clara/Grolée, Antoine de/Hermus, Antony/Hoppe, Thomas/Kim, Tae-Yeon/Kitamura, Yo/Ko, Leland/ [ Queen Elisabeth Comp / 4 CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] This box set from the third cello session of the Queen Elisabeth Competition brings together the 12 prize-winners who offered audiences exceptional musical moments throughout the competition. It opens with the concertos performed by the first four... |
KAIJA SAARIAHO
Saariaho: Saarikoski Songs, Vista, Three Preludes Anu Komsi (soprano), Marzi Nyman, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo [ Ondine / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS of three works by Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023) from soprano Anu Komsi, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Sakari Oramo. Vista (2019), an expansive orchestral landscape, was the composer's final work for orchestra.... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT / CESAR FRANCK / SERGEY RACHMANINOV / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Transcriptions For Two Guitars Bluvenduo (Sebastian Rhodes, Zhanxiang Shi) [ Naxos / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] The prizewinning guitar duo Bluvenduo present a versatile selection of transcriptions for two guitars, several of which have never previously been arranged for this format. The freshness and sense of discovery in Schubert's Sonata in A major is a... |
LEOŠ JANÁČEK / LEO TOLSTOY / VÍTĚZSLAVA KAPRÁLOVÁ
the earth trembled Signum Quartett [ Pentatone / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] Signum Quartett presents the album the earth trembled, recontextualising the visionary string quartets of Leoš Janáček alongside the striking String Quartet Op. 8 by Vítězslava Kaprálová. Janáček's lifelong engagement with folk traditions shaped... |
