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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UNSUK CHIN
Unsuk Chin Ensemble Intercontemporain; Pierre Bleuse; Samuel Favre; Dimitri Vassilakis [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 13/Feb/2026 ] The Ensemble Intercontemporain and its musical director Pierre Bleuse continue their monographs on the great figures of contemporary musical composition. After the multi-award-winning Ligeti, it is the composer Unsuk Chin who is celebrated here.... |
Ksenija Sidorova; Paavo Järvi; Estonian Festival Orchestra
Prophecy [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 13/Feb/2026 ] With these works for accordion and orchestra, Ksenija Sidorova and Paavo Järvi pay tribute to the music of the Baltic countries: the Latvian and the Estonian, who have been collaborating for over 10 years, recorded in Pärnu with the festival... |
Le Banquet Céleste
Bach: Mein Geist [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 13/Feb/2026 ] Following the departure (of his own accord) of its founder Damien Guillon, Le Banquet Céleste has reinvented itself as a collective of musicians and singers, all committed to continuing to explore the Baroque repertoire with the stylistic rigour that... |
Lidy Blijdorp (cello), Tobias Borsboom (piano)
Franck, Boulanger, Debussy & Vermeulen: Works for Cello and Piano [ Channel Classics / CD - due 13/Feb/2026 ] Dutch cellist Lidy Blijdorp and pianist Tobias Borsboom delve into the world of the Société Nationale de Musique in this programme of late-romantic and early modern French chamber music. César Franck's Sonata for Violin and Piano was transcribed,... |
Olga Pashchenko; Il Gardellino
Mozart: Piano Concertos 6, 8 & 18 [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 13/Feb/2026 ] Olga Pashchenko and Il Gardellino present a third recording of Mozart's piano concertos, following two volumes (Alpha 726 and 942) that were very well received by the press and the public: 'The most exhilarating "authentic" Mozart I have ever heard,'... |
Ti Frère
Mauritius: Tribute to Ti Frère. Séga, Music of Exile [ Ocora / CD - due 13/Feb/2026 ] The voice of Ti Frère rises up, alone in the silence. A voice with an edge and a hiss, grinning and derisive, shouting, rasping and groaning, it threatens and then becomes very sweet and tender, and with it now come all the manifold voices of the... |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 5 'Spring', 9 'Kreutzer' & 3 Alena Baeva; Vadym Kholodenko [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 27/Feb/2026 ] Alena Baeva and Vadym Kholodenko are starting their recording of Beethoven's complete sonatas for violin and piano. Alena is recognised as a versatile violinist with a magnetic presence and now performs with the greatest orchestras and conductors,... |
J.S. BACH
Bach: Transformations Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya [ Linn Records / CD - due 27/Feb/2026 ] For her debut solo album of music by J. S. Bach's contemporary Gottlieb Muffat, Gramophone praised pianist and harpsichordist Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya as 'an ideal advocate for the music'. Now, for her second solo recording for Linn, she turns to... |
Arvids Jansons, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
Shostakovich: Symphonies 5 & 9 (Live) [ ICA Classics / CD - due 27/Feb/2026 ] Arvids Jansons (1914-1984) was born in Liepāja on Latvia's west coast. He studied violin from 1929 until 1935 at the Conservatory of Liepāja, then composition and conducting (under Leo Blech) at the Conservatory of Riga from 1940 until 1944 while... |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Muses Camerata Salzburg, Giovanni Guzzo [ Channel Classics / CD - due 27/Feb/2026 ] The Camerata Salzburg begins a collaboration with Channel Classics and, with its leader Giovanni Guzzo, presents its first recording entitled Muses. The album includes three neoclassical masterpieces for chamber orchestra by Igor Stravinsky. The... |
Choeur de l'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal; Andrew Megill
New Jewish Music Vol. 5 - Nobles, Bardanashvili, Klartag, Trigos [ Analekta / CD - due 27/Feb/2026 ] The Azrieli Music Prizes unveil their fifth album for Analekta, celebrating excellence in music composition across four world premiere recordings that place a spotlight on the 2024 Laureates. Jordan Nobles kanata is a sonic and restorative reflection... |
Cindy Castillo
Johann Michael Bach: Ein Orgelbüchlein [ Ricercar / CD - due 27/Feb/2026 ] The largest amount of organ music that has survived from earlier members of Johann Sebastian Bach's family was penned by Johann Michael Bach (1648-1694), a cousin of J.S. Bach's father and also the father of Maria Barbara, J.S. Bach's first wife. ... |
Cut Circle; Jesse Rodin
Josquin: Missa L'ami Baudichon - Motets milanais [ Musique en Wallonie / CD - due 27/Feb/2026 ] Sensual - that's undoubtedly the word that best describes the music on this album dedicated to the early works of Josquin des Prez. In his early thirties, the composer was already developing a unique sense of sound and language. He knew how to make... |
Doulce Mémoire; Denis Raisin Dadre
Lasso & Agostini: Lagrime di San Pietro [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 27/Feb/2026 ] This recording, made at Noirlac Abbey in January 2025, is dedicated to Denis Raisin Dadre, who passed away suddenly on September 29 of the same year. With Doulce Mémoire, the ensemble he founded in 1989 and with which he brought Renaissance music to... |
Johann Sebastian Bach; François Couperin; Jean-Baptiste Lully; Johann Fischer; Johann Philipp Krieger
Tranquilles Cœurs Ensemble Théodora [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 27/Feb/2026 ] In 2018, four friends studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London decided to form an ensemble they called Théodora. Mariamielle Lamagat (soprano), Louise Ayrton (baroque violin), Lucie Chabard (harpsichord) and Alice Trocellier (viola da gamba)... |
La Grande Chapelle
Delizie di Posillipo, Música para el virrey de Nápoles [ Lauda / CD - due 27/Feb/2026 ] On 1 March 1620, the festa a ballo Delizie di Posillipo was performed at the Royal Palace of Naples to celebrate the recovery of King Philip III. Promoted by the Viceroy Pedro Girón, 3rd Duke of Osuna, the spectacle featured splendid stage designs by... |
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach; Igor Stravinsky; Darius Milhaud; Charlotte Sohy
Symphonies in 3 Movements Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine; Bar Avni [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 27/Feb/2026 ] Winner of the 2024 La Maestra competition in Paris and recipient of five additional prizes, conductor Bar Avni is pursuing a very promising career. Born in Israel, she first studied percussion before turning to conducting. She counts Yoav Talmi,... |
Quatuor Dutilleux
Triptyque Beethoven, Vol. 1 (Live) [ B Records / CD - due 27/Feb/2026 ] In this first volume of a trilogy dedicated to Beethoven, the Quatuor Dutilleux (Dutilleux Quartet) showcases works of the composer's youth, when he would "receive Mozart's spirit from Haydn's hands," as Count Waldstein phrased it. Haydn's last... |
Quatuor Hermès
Echoes of Vienna [ La Dolce Volta / CD - due 27/Feb/2026 ] Vienna was in the grip of serious political unrest that forced many of its artists into exile when Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) composed his Second String Quartet in 1933, first performed the following year in the Austrian capital. In it he... |
Sheila Dhar
North India: Sheila Dhar, Vol. 1 [ Ocora / CD - due 27/Feb/2026 ] Singer Sheila Dhar, a disciple of Ustad Fayyaz Ahmed Khan (a leading figure in Hindustani classical singing), through the ragas Bhairav and Kaushi Kanhra, traces the many facets of the Kirana gharana musical lineage with sobriety, fidelity and... |
