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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JOHANN JOHANNSSON
Johannsson: Piano Works Alice Sara Ott (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - due 6/Mar/2026 ] Alice Sara Ott presents world premiere recordings of piano transcriptions of late Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson's most famous works. It includes some of Jóhannsson's iconic works from different films as well as from his studio albums,... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss: Elektra Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Choir, Edward Gardner [ Chandos / 2 CD - due 6/Mar/2026 ] First performed in Dresden in 1909, Elektra was Strauss's first collaboration (of many) with the librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and is the most modernist of all of his operas. Based on the (heavily reworked) play by Sophocles, Hofmannsthal's... |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: String Quartets, op.59 nos. 1 & 2 Chiaroscuro Quartet [ BIS / CD - due 6/Mar/2026 ] The Chiaroscuro Quartet is now offering us the fourth instalment of their ongoing complete recording of Beethoven's string quartets. This latest release spotlights the first two of the three Opus 59 quartets known as the 'Razumovsky', named for their... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Crown of Life Choir of the Queen's College, Oxford, Owen Rees [ Signum / CD - due 6/Mar/2026 ] The Crown of Life continues the Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford's exploration of overlooked treasures in twentieth-century English choral music under Owen Rees. At its centre is the first recording of Kenneth Leighton's Missa Christi (1988), the... |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY / GABRIEL FAURE / GUSTAV MAHLER / KURT WEILL etc
Lost to the World Daniel Lozakovich (violin), Hélène Mercier (piano) [ Warner Classics / CD - due 6/Mar/2026 ] A profoundly personal and curated new recording by violinist Daniel Lozakovich, joined by pianist Hélène Mercier, inspired by his own reflections on childhood and the redemptive power of music. It combines cornerstones of the Romantic repertoire... |
HUW WATKINS
Watkins:Fanfare, Symphony no.2, Concerto for Orchestra Hallé Orchestra, Mark Elder [ Hallé / CD - due 6/Mar/2026 ] This album celebrates a warm and close musical relationship between composer, conductor and orchestra - and the extraordinary impact the Covid pandemic had on British cultural life. Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé commissioned and premiered the works on... |
SEBASTIAN de VIVANCO / CHRISTOBAL de MORALES
Lead, Kindly Light Harry Christophers & The Sixteen [ Coro / CD - due 6/Mar/2026 ] Spain's Siglo de Oro, the Age of Gold, gave rise to some of the greatest sacred choral music of the Renaissance. Lead, Kindly Light is devoted to the music of two outstanding Spanish composers exploring majestic works by Cristóbal de Morales, famed... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Cinema Hauser (cello), London Symphony Orchestra, Robert Ziegler (conductor) [ Sony Classical / CD - due 6/Mar/2026 ] With his unmistakable artistry and passion, HAUSER breathes new life into cinema's most iconic music. This collection, recorded with the prestigious London Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Robert Ziegler, spans decades of cinematic history,... |
MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos Volume 12 Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano) [ Chandos / CD - due 6/Mar/2026 ] Jean-Efflam Bovouzet's acclaimed cycle of Mozart's piano concertos reaches its conclusion with this twelfth volume. The programme offers a suitably celebratory mood: the Overtures to Idomeneo and La finta semplice frame the A major and D major Rondos... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Symphony no.2 'Lobgesang' Jone Martinez (soprano), Eri Sawae (soprano), Benjamin Bruns (tenor), Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS / CD - due 6/Mar/2026 ] Masaaki Suzuki and the Bach Collegium Japan, renowned for their definitive interpretations of Bach's vocal music, have also garnered critical acclaim for their recordings of major choral and orchestral works, including Mozart's Requiem and the Mass... |
Los Angeles Film Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
Pictures at an Exhibition: The Paintings of Bob Peak [ Warner Classics / CD - due 6/Mar/2026 ] |
LEOKADIYA KASHPEROVA
Kashperova: Piano Concerto · Symphony Oliver Triendl (soloist) Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Anna Skryleva [ Capriccio / CD - due 6/Mar/2026 ] Leokadiya Kashperova was Igor Stravinsky's piano teacher, having herself been a student of Anton Rubinstein. To this day, however, her compositions remain in the shadow of the male Russian masters, a fate shared by many other women of this era.... |
JOHANN BAPTIST VANHAL / ANTON ZIMMERMANN
Zimmermann & Vanhal - Duality: Bassoon Concertos Ondrej Sindelar (bassoon), Sergio Azzolini (bassoon), Risonanza Praga [ Supraphon / CD - due 6/Mar/2026 ] The bassoon as a solo instrument does not appear all that often in the concerto literature, but a concerto for two bassoons is truly rare, being something that could arise only in the environment of an ensemble that possessed two soloists on that... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Arise, Shine Sebastian Blount (tenor), Sophia Membery (organ, harp), Molly Hord (organ), The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, Anna Lapwood (conductor) [ Sony Classical / CD - due 6/Mar/2026 ] Anna Lapwood releases her brand-new choral album, Arise, Shine, conducting the Chapel Choir of Pembroke College and marking the conclusion of her tenure as Director of Music at Pembroke College, Cambridge. The album is a deeply personal project,... |
EMIL TABAKOV
Tabakov: Complete Symphonies, Vol. 8 Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, Emil Tabakov [ Toccata Classics / CD - due 6/Mar/2026 ] The symphonies of the Bulgarian composer-conductor Emil Tabakov (b. 1947) explore the darker side of the human spirit in monumental scores as austere as they are powerful, his language sitting somewhere between Shostakovich, Varèse, Pettersson and... |
MICHEL FOURGON
Fourgon: De proche en proche Alain Pire (trombone), Chœur de Chambre de Namur; Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège [ Cypres Records / CD - due 13/Mar/2026 ] An album entirely devoted to the trombone - that's rather unusual! De proche en proche, Belgian composer Michel Fourgon's second monographic disc on Cypres, features the instrument in a variety of configurations, in stages spanning some twenty years:... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
On Modes Anthony Romaniuk [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 13/Mar/2026 ] For his third solo album for Alpha, keyboard polyglot Anthony Romaniuk returns to the piano, exploring the seven modes: derived from the major scale, the basis of ancient Greek music but nowadays endemic in folk, jazz and beyond, each one containing... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
On modes (LP) Anthony Romaniuk [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - due 13/Mar/2026 ] For his third solo album for Alpha, keyboard polyglot Anthony Romaniuk returns to the piano, exploring the seven modes: derived from the major scale, the basis of ancient Greek music but nowadays endemic in folk, jazz and beyond, each one containing... |
JOSÉ ANTONIO BOTTIROLI
Bottiroli: Complete Piano Works Vol. 4, Mementos Anton & Maite Piano Duo, Fabio Banegas, Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, Duo Du Rêve, Francisco Varela [ Grand Piano / CD - due 13/Mar/2026 ] JOSÉ ANTONIO BOTTIROLI's protégé and greatest champion, Fabio Banegas, presents this fourth volume of his mentor's complete piano works. In this wide-ranging collection we hear works with orchestra and with chamber ensemble, as well as pieces for... |
C. P. E. BACH
C. P. E. Bach: Empfindsamkeit Arnaud De Pasquale, Anne Thivierge [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / CD - due 13/Mar/2026 ] Son of the famous Johann Sebastian, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was a renowned keyboard virtuoso in the 18th century. A prolific composer and theorist of keyboard instruments, he forged the aesthetic of Empfindsamkeit, a style in which emotion is... |
