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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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 Louise Alder (soprano), Beth Taylor (mezzo-soprano) / Bavarian Radio Chorus, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle [ Br-Klassik / CD - due 16/Oct/2026 ] "A truly special performance of Mahler's Second Symphony, Sir Simon Rattle and his orchestra's vision of the work drawing on deep roots of shared reflection." Gramophone recording of the Month Oct 26 |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Rare Original Solo Piano Transcriptions Alexey Zuev (piano) [ Fuga Libera / 3 CD - due 16/Oct/2026 ] Rarely heard, Sergei Prokofiev's own transcriptions for solo piano reveal a fascinating new perspective on his orchestral imagination. This collection brings together rare piano versions of symphonic and ballet works, including several world premiere... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Songs without Words Bertrand Chamayou (piano) [ Erato / CD - due 16/Oct/2026 ] "Mendelssohn's Songs without Words are very well known, yet little known at the same time," says Bertrand Chamayou. "There are 48 of them in all, but fewer than ten of them feature regularly in concert programmes." With this recording of the... |
MATEO ROMERO / JOSEPH DE SAN JUAN / FRANCISCO HERNÁNDEZ Y LLANA
¡A la fiesta! Cantoría; Jorge Losana [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 16/Oct/2026 ] This recording celebrates the Christmas season and its music, but above all it offers an opportunity to discover a little-known Catalan composer, José de San Juan, one of the most famous of his time in Spain, born in Olot (Girona) in 1687 and who... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: String Quartets, op.59 no.3, op.95 & Grosse Fuge, op.133 Chiaroscuro Quartet [ BIS / CD - due 16/Oct/2026 ] The Chiaroscuro Quartet continues its thrilling journey through Beethoven's string quartets with three works that chart the composer's development in the genre. The 'Razumovsky' Quartets (1806), commissioned by Count Razumovsky for his house... |
ERIC WHITACRE
Whitacre: Eternity in an Hour Eric Whitacre (piano / synthesisers / electronics), Eric Whitacre Singers (choir), Emma Denton (cello), Jess Gillam (saxophone) [ Decca / 2 CD - due 16/Oct/2026 ] The new album by Grammy Award-winning composer and conductor Eric Whitacre is a deeply meditative hour-long work for choir, cello, piano and live electronics, it is one of Whitacre's most ambitious projects to date and the first of his classical... |
ORAZIO BENEVOLO
Benevolo: Missa si Deus pro nobis & Magnificat Hervé Niquet; Le Concert Spirituel [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 16/Oct/2026 ] Hervé Niquet possesses two constant character traits: he is an indefatigable excavator of forgotten music, and he loves polyphony and 'large forms'. A few years ago, he caused a sensation by exhuming the monumental music of Striggio. To mark the... |
GIUSEPPE MARTUCCI
Martucci: Piano Sonata, 4 Piano Pieces Op.31, Mazurka Op.35 Ilaria Sinicropi (piano) [ Piano Classics / CD - due 16/Oct/2026 ] New recordings of neglected but compelling piano works from the spring of Giuseppe Martucci's career. |
MAURICE RAVE / GUILLAUME LEKEU / PATRICK LETERME
Vivantes (Live) Katok Ensemble [ B Records / CD - due 16/Oct/2026 ] Vivantes brings together the Katok Ensemble, led by Paul Serri, and the Belgian composer Patrick Leterme for a programme conceived at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Charleroi. Spanning works by Maurice Ravel and Guillaume Lekeu, alongside a new... |
BALDASSARE GALUPPI
Galuppi: L'uomo femina Le Poème Harmonique; Lucile Richardot; Vincent Dumestre; Eva Zaïcik; Victoire Bunel; Anas Séguin; Victor Sicard; François Rougier [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / 2 CD - due 16/Oct/2026 ] Welcome to an island where gender roles are radically reversed! Here, Princess Cretidea reigns as a warrior sovereign over submissive men, condemned to vanity and superficial adornment. The unexpected arrival of Roberto and Giannino, castaways from a... |
MAX RICHTER
Richter: While The Flood Rages Tenebrae Choir, Max Richter [ Decca / CD - due 16/Oct/2026 ] Oscar-nominated composer Max Richter's upcoming album While The Flood Rages, drawn from Richter's latest collaboration with choreographer Wayne McGregor, MaddAddam, inspired by Margaret Atwood's trilogy. |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Chout / Symphony no.1 NDR Radiophilharmonie (orchestra), Stanislav Kochanovsky [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - due 16/Oct/2026 ] Chout - a savage farce - is one of Prokofiev's most unbridled, riotous orchestral pieces, crafted with mercurial inventiveness, its abrasive rhythms and brilliant colours pervaded by a sarcastic, dark humour. |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / KAROL SZYMANOWSKI / FAZIL SAY / PATRICIA KOPATCHINSKAJA
Patkop & Say Patricia Kopatchinskaja; Fazil Say [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 16/Oct/2026 ] For this second album on Alpha Classics (following ALPHA885), Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Fazıl Say are not only an extraordinary performing duo, but also composers. They have recorded Szymanowski's magnificent Myths and Prokofiev's sonata, written... |
FLORENT SCHMITT
Schmitt: Orchestral Works Peter Donohoe (piano), BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier [ Chandos / CD - due 16/Oct/2026 ] The French composer Florent Schmitt was born in 1870, in Meurthe-et-Moselle, close to the German border. He studied music locally before entering the Paris Conservatoire aged nineteen, where he studied with Gabriel Fauré, Jules Massenet, Théodore... |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH / CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH / JOSEPH BODIN DE BOISMORTIER / GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Duologues Rachel Podger; Lucie Horsch; Jane Rogers; Alex Rolton [ Channel Classics / CD - due 16/Oct/2026 ] Miniatures of musical conversation - inspiration for every hour and every mood. In Duologues, Rachel Podger pairs up with eminent baroque instrumentalists Lucie Horsch, Jane Rogers and Alex Rolton in a delightful programme of duos (and a few trios... |
THOMAS TALLIS
Tallis: Mass "Puer natus est nobis", Responsories & Motets Robert Quinney; Choir of New College Oxford [ Linn Records / CD - due 16/Oct/2026 ] Renaissance English composer Thomas Tallis is deeply embedded in the Choir of New College Oxford's DNA, an ensemble founded in 1379, well before the birth of the composer. Tallis lived to a ripe old age, under four different monarchs, and was praised... |
ZACHARY HATCHER / PER NØRGÅRD / PAUL HINDEMITH / HENRIETTE RENIÉ / MAURICE RAVEL
De la nuit… Zachary Hatcher (harp) [ Fuga Libera / CD - due 16/Oct/2026 ] For his debut solo album, Zachary Hatcher explores the contrasts that define the harp: the shift between ancient and modern and the thin line between dreams and nightmares. The album is built around Zachary's own transcription of Maurice Ravel's... |
Amel Brahim-Djelloul (soprano), Dahmane Khalfa (percussion), Orchestre national de Cannes, Benjamin Levy (conductor)
Les Chemins qui montent (Live) [ B Records / CD - due 23/Oct/2026 ] Les Chemins qui montent builds on Amel Brahim-Djelloul's first album dedicated to the Kabyle repertoire, giving it a new orchestral dimension. Thomas Keck has arranged songs by Idir, Djamel Allam, Djurdjura and Taos Amrouche, and set the poems of... |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY / LOUIS VIERNE / JACQUES IBERT / MAURICE RAVEL / JOSEPH JONGEN
French Trios Anneleen Lenaerts (harp), Timothy Ridout (viola), Adam Walker (flute) [ Warner Classics / CD - due 23/Oct/2026 ] Anneleen Lenaerts presents French Trios, the captivating new album also featuring the acclaimed Timothy Ridout (viola) and Adam Walker (flute). This album is the first in a triptyque dedicated to French music. Through the unique combination of harp,... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Die schöne Magelone, Op.33 Simon Bode (tenor), Ulrich Eisenlohr (piano) [ Naxos / CD - due 23/Oct/2026 ] The fifteen romances from Ludwig Tieck's Magelone represent Johannes Brahms' only true song cycle. Renowned as an ideal accompanist, Brahms was deeply familiar with the great cycles of his predecessors-Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann-and was... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Reaching Farther: Clare College, Cambridge (1326-2026) Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Graham Ross (conductor) [ Signum / CD - due 23/Oct/2026 ] Reaching Farther: Clare College 1326-2026 marks the 700th anniversary of Clare College, Cambridge, with a programme of choral music commissioned for and closely associated with the Choir, performed under Director of Music Graham Ross. The recording... |
BELA BARTOK
Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin & Concerto for Orchestra WDR Sinfonieorchester, Cristian Macelaru (conductor) [ Linn Records / CD - due 23/Oct/2026 ] Béla Bartók's Miraculous Mandarin was premiered 100 years ago, on 27 November 1926. The evening ended in chaos and is regarded as one of the most high-profile theatre scandals, certainly the biggest since the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of... |
Dialogos, Katarina Livljanic
Nexus Winchester. A Coup in the Cathedral around the Year 1000 [ Arcana / CD - due 23/Oct/2026 ] What happens when music becomes an act of rebellion? Step into Winchester Cathedral on a February morning in 964, a day which sparked a silent coup and forever changed the sound of worship. Nexus Winchester invites you into this charged moment,... |
CHRISTOPH GRAUPNER
Graupner: Christmas Cantatas Fieri Consort; Camerata Øresund [ Ramée / CD - due 23/Oct/2026 ] Christoph Graupner had spent five years as an opera composer in Hamburg before the Landgrave Ernst-Ludwig called upon him to take up the position of Hofkapellmeister in Darmstadt in 1709. He became the best-paid music director of his time and would... |
LEO DELIBES
Delibes: Jean de Nivelle Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Cyrille Dubois (tenor), Melissa Petit (soprano), Marie-Andree Bouchard-Lesieur (mezzo-soprano) [ Bru Zane / 3 CD/Book - due 23/Oct/2026 ] Among Léo Delibes's output of some twenty operas, Jean de Nivelle falls within his mature period, between Le Roi l'a dit and Lakmé. The work's premiere at the Opéra-Comique on 8 March 1880 was a resounding success. The press praised the charm of the... |
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Cello Concertos Julie Sevilla-Fraysse (cello), Paris Virtuosi Orchestra, Eric Zorgniotti (conductor) [ EnPhases / CD - due 23/Oct/2026 ] "These two concertos by Joseph Haydn are cornerstones of the cello repertoire. For me, they belong to those works that accompany a cellist through the different stages and moments of life. I have always taken immense pleasure in performing them. This... |
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn 2032, Vol. 17: Per il Luigi (LP) Kammerorchester Basel, Giovanni Antonini [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - due 23/Oct/2026 ] Per il Luigi is the 17th volume of the complete Haydn 2032 collection and presents a number of Haydn's earliest symphonies; these had been composed to display the talent of the musicians who had joined the Esterházy court orchestra during the same... |
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn 2032, Vol. 20: For English Gentlemen Kammerorchester Basel, Giovanni Antonini [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 23/Oct/2026 ] This twentieth volume of the complete Haydn symphonies, conducted by Giovanni Antonini, highlights the popularity of Haydn's music in England during the 1790s. Although Haydn was unable to travel to London himself, he sent his music there instead, as... |
MIGUEL LLOBET
Llobet: Canciones populares catalanas Koki Fujimoto (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - due 23/Oct/2026 ] Japanese guitarist Koki Fujimoto presents a recital of evocative works from France, Spain, and Japan. He opens with his own arrangement of Ravel's Alborada del gracioso, shimmering with Spanish guitar colour, followed by one of Sor's finest... |
DOMENICO SCARLATTI / JOSE de NEBRA
Domenico Scarlatti & José de Nebra: Stabat Mater & Salve Regina La Grande Chapelle [ Lauda / CD - due 23/Oct/2026 ] Two composers, two works devoted to Our Lady, and two ways of expressing sorrow and supplication through music. This recording brings together Domenico Scarlatti and José de Nebra around two of the great texts of Marian devotion. Scarlatti's Stabat... |
FRANZ KROMMER
Krommer: Complete Clarinet Concertos Marek Svejkar (clarinet), Paul Meyer (clarinet), Hradec Kralove Philharmonic Orchestra, Jiri Habart (cond.) [ Supraphon / 2 CD - due 23/Oct/2026 ] This historic first complete recording of the clarinet concertos by František Vincenc Kramář (1759-1831), known to the European musical world as Franz Krommer, offers a comprehensive picture of the composer's music for an instrument undergoing rapid... |
BORIS LYATOSHYNSKY
Lyatoshynsky: Chamber Works Vol.1 - String Quartets nos. 1 & 2 NotaBene Chamber Group [ Chandos / CD - due 23/Oct/2026 ] Boris Lyatoshynsky is regarded as one of the leading Ukrainian composers of the twentieth century. He developed and established a distinctive musical style rooted in the traditions of nineteenth-century European romanticism and the modernism of the... |
ANTONIN DVORAK / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Dvorák: The Wild Dove / Brahms: Symphony No. 1 Philzuid, Duncan Ward [ Fuga Libera / CD - due 23/Oct/2026 ] Philzuid's eighth album is a live recording of Antonín Dvořák's The Wild Dove and Johannes Brahms's Symphony no.1. Dvořák was deeply fond of the poetry of his compatriot Karel Erben. The Wild Dove is one of four compositions in which Dvořák drew... |
JOHN ADAMS
Adams: Road Movies / Roll over Beethoven / Am I in your light? / Consuelo's Dream / Short Ride in a Fast Machine / etc Ralph van Raat (piano), Laura Bohn (soprano), Rosanne Philippens (violin), Maarten van Veen (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - due 23/Oct/2026 ] John Adams is a composer whose music reflects the full breadth of American sound while remaining deeply rooted in Classical and Romantic traditions that shape his sense of structure, harmony, and expressive line. Works such as... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / GABRIEL FAURÉ / CLARA SCHUMANN / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Loving Schumann Éric Le Sage (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 23/Oct/2026 ] A recognised specialist in the music of Robert Schumann (he recorded the complete works for solo piano between 2000 and 2010 for Alpha Classics), the French pianist Éric Le Sage has devised this programme as a tribute to those who loved Schumann and... |
BÉLA BARTÓK / ERNŐ DOHNÁNYI / FRANZ LISZT
Ruralia Hungarica Suzana Bartal (piano) [ Channel Classics / CD - due 23/Oct/2026 ] Following her first recording of concertos for Channel Classics (CCS47825), the Franco-Hungarian pianist Suzana Bartal pays tribute to her Hungarian roots with a programme that showcases a variety of styles, from Liszt and his Gypsy influences to... |
GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA PALESTRINA / ARVO PÄRT / CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI / GREGORIO ALLEGRI / KOMITAS VARDAPET / ANTONIO LOTTI
Live At Basilica San Marco, Venice The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips [ ECM New Series / 2 CD/Blu-ray Disc - due 23/Oct/2026 ] Here is a singular recording of the Tallis Scholars under Peter Phillips from the glorious Basilica di San Marco in Venice, recorded on July 14th, 2017. Included in the programme, conceived around Monteverdi's 450th anniversary year, are works by... |
Tania Giannouli, Nik Bärtsch
Metakosmos [ Fuga Libera / CD - due 23/Oct/2026 ] Tania Giannouli and Nik Bärtsch have played together as a piano duo since 2023. Whilst they are both open to influences and traditions, their skill and passion are also nourished by chamber music from the classical tradition, by the true spirit of... |
ALEX DE TAEYE / LUCIE VELLERE
Alchemy: Alex De Taeye & Lucie Vellère Trio Spilliaert [ Cypres Records / CD - due 23/Oct/2026 ] In bringing together in the same recording the trios of Alex De Taeye and of Lucie Vellère, we create a dialogue with two contrasting yet profoundly complementary voices of twentieth century Belgian music. They were contemporary, brought up in the... |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Complete Sonatas for Violin and Fortepiano Viktoria Mullova (violin), Alasdair Beatson (fortepiano), Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) [ Signum / 4 CD - due 23/Oct/2026 ] This box set represents the culmination of Viktoria Mullova's celebrated series of Beethoven Violin Sonata recordings - a distinguished body of work produced in collaboration with pianists Kristian Bezuidenhout and Alasdair Beatson that has earned... |
