The following classical CD titles are due for release / re-release in the near future.
RUTH GIPPS
Gipps: Orchestral Works, Volume 3 BBC Philharmonic (orchestra); Rumon Gamba (conductor) [ Chandos / CD - due 3/Jan/2025 ] |
RICHARD STRAUSS / KELLY-MARIE MURPHY / KEVIN LAU
Poema 1. Ad Astra Alexander Shelley, Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra [ Analekta / CD - due 24/Jan/2025 ] Poema 1. Ad Astra is the first in a series of recordings by Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra in which Music Director Alexander Shelley asked Canadian Composers to craft compositions that respond to masterpieces by German Composer, Richard... |
CARL ORFF
Orff: Carmina Burana Alina Wunderlin; Max Emanuel Cencic; Russell Braun; Zürcher Sing - Akademie; Zürcher Sängerknaben; Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich; Paavo Järvi [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 24/Jan/2025 ] Carmina Burana, the staged cantata by Carl Orff, is a work unique in musical history, claims conductor Paavo Järvi: 'The convergence of medieval texts with such daringly original orchestral colours creates a soundworld that is both archaic and yet... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / FRANZ SCHUBERT / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Brahms, Schumann & Schubert: Original Transcriptions for Trumpet Andrew Balio, John Wilson [ Delos / CD - due 24/Jan/2025 ] Trumpet was meant to have a bright future after Handel and Bach, but history decided otherwise. Relegated to a military signal role with timpani, it had to wait until the later Romantic period to flourish once again. |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH / DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE / FRIEDRICH NICOLAUS BRUHNS
Bach, Buxtehude & Bruhns Benoît Mernier [ Cypres Records / CD - due 24/Jan/2025 ] The making of this CD is the result of several wishes. The organist and composer Benoît Mernier has been heavily involved since 2015 in the construction by Manufacture Thomas of this new instrument at Saint-Loup in Namur, one of the special features... |
ANONYMOUS / ALFONSO X EL SABIO
Reliquiae Capella de Ministrers, Carles Magraner [ Capella de Ministrers / CD - due 24/Jan/2025 ] The Christian tradition's liturgical repertoire prominently features Masses and Offices commemorating the life of Christ and feast days of saints. Alongside this, another significant repertoire revolves around Christ and the saints through their... |
JOSEPH BODIN de BOISMORTIER
Boismortier: Les Quatre Saisons Chloé de Guillebon; Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal; Enguerrand de Hys; Lili Aymonino; Marc Mauillon; Sarah Charles [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / CD - due 24/Jan/2025 ] Although it is not known to which mysterious figures they were dedicated, Joseph de Boismortier's cantatas Les Quatre Saisons, published in 1724, resonate with the splendour of court festivities and the eloquence of the salons de conversation. The... |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
J.S. Bach: Musikalisches Opfer Cindy Castillo [ Ricercar / CD - due 24/Jan/2025 ] Although it has been clearly established for which instruments the Musical Offering and the Art of Fugue were intended, the Musical Offering has continued to be the object of realisations for other instruments, such as Anton Webern's orchestrated... |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY / MAURICE RAVEL / MANUEL DE FALLA
Debussy, Ravel & Falla (Live) Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Constantin Silvestri [ ICA Classics / CD - due 24/Jan/2025 ] The Romanian conductor Constantin Silvestri (1913-1969) began his distinguished career in 1930 with the Bucharest Radio Symphony Orchestra, leading to the directorship of the Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra in 1945. |
CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH / WILHELM FRIEDEMANN BACH / GEORG BRENDA
The Age of Extremes - W.F. Bach | G. Benda | C.P.E. Bach Francesco Corti, Il Pomo d'Oro [ Arcana / CD - due 24/Jan/2025 ] This recording combines three of the most significant musicians belonging to the generation of the empfindsame or "sentimental" style. As reaction to the late baroque of J.S. |