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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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven - Hammerklavier Sonata / An die ferne Geliebte Nobuyuki Tsujii (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - due 28/Mar/2025 ] Nobuyuki Tsujii - no stranger to challenges - has chosen this technically and intellectually demanding work, which brought him victory in the prestigious Van Cliburn Competition. |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / ALEXEY SHOR
Prokofiev & Shor: Piano Concertos Behzod Abduraimov, Vasily Petrenko, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 28/Mar/2025 ] Many people have been waiting for Behzod Abduraimov's performance of Prokofiev's second piano concerto - that powerful work which caused a scandal when it was first performed near St Petersburg in 1913 because it was considered too futuristic. |
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Con eleganza Clément Lefebvre [ La Dolce Volta / CD - due 28/Mar/2025 ] Is there a more singular composer than Alexander Nikolayevich Skrjabin (1872-1915)? Light years away from those of his Russian contemporaries, his original trajectory is that of an incandescent comet in the musical firmament of his time, whose thousa |
FRANCESCO GASPARINI
Gasparini: Atalia Emmanuel Resche-Caserta, Ensemble Hemiolia, Camille Poul, Bastien Rimondi, Mélodie Ruvio, Furio Zanasi [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / CD - due 28/Mar/2025 ] The terrible Atalia, having eliminated the entire royal family in order to secure her power, reigns mercilessly over Jerusalem. |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
J.S. Bach: The Complete Violin Concertos James Ehnes, Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra [ Analekta / 2 CD - due 28/Mar/2025 ] On this double album, acclaimed violinist James Ehnes joins forces with Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra, an ensemble he's had a friendship and artistic partnership with for more than three decades, to fulfil his longtime goal of recording... |
HAVERGAL BRIAN
Brian: Agamemnon & Symphonies Nos 6 & 12 John Findon, Eleanor Dennis, Stephanie Wake-Edwards, Robert Murray, Clive Bayley / English National Opera Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins [ Hyperion / CD - due 28/Mar/2025 ] With Havergal Brian's 'Agamemnon' and Symphonies Nos 6 & 12, Martyn Brabbins and his English National Opera forces pay tribute to one of the great mavericks of British music. All three works belong to Brian's immensely productive old age and display... |
ANTONIN DVORAK / FLORENCE PRICE
Dvořák & Price: Piano Quintets Takacs Quartet, Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - due 28/Mar/2025 ] Collaborations between the Takács Quartet and Marc-André Hamelin can always be relied on to deliver rather special results, and their fifth Hyperion album together-Piano Quintets by Antonín Dvořák & Florence Price-is no exception. |
GABRIEL FAURÉ / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Samsara: Schumann & Fauré Kate Lindsey (mezzo-soprano), Éric Le Sage (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 28/Mar/2025 ] For her fourth recital on Alpha Classics, mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey has chosen to record two cycles, Schumann's well-known Frauenliebe und Leben and Fauré's La Chanson d'Ève, a much more unfamiliar work. |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart - Piano Concertos 6, 9, 11-13, 18 & 25 Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) / Freiburger Barockorchester [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD - due 28/Mar/2025 ] "I have no doubt that this cycle is set to become a benchmark. There is nothing fussy or mannered about Bezuidenhout's Mozart, and the tempos provide no surprises." International record Review |
ALBENIZ / BOCCHERINI / de FALLA / RAVEL / TARREGA / TRADITIONAL
Meisinger: The Spanish Album Krzysztof Meisinger (guitar) Patrycja Betley (percussion) Meisinger Soloists [ Chandos / CD - due 28/Mar/2025 ] Born in 1984, Krzysztof Meisinger is one of the most fascinating and charismatic classical guitar players of our time, his artistic development having benefited from the profound influence of such teachers and music authorities as Aniello Desiderio... |
Various Composers
Vox Feminae Les Kapsber'girls [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 28/Mar/2025 ] After their explorations of Italian repertoire in Che fai tù? (MU-037) and French in Vous avez dit brunettes? |
MARIN MARAIS
Voix humaines. Marais: Pièces inédites pour flûte Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, François Lazarevitch, Lucile Boulanger, Éric Bellocq [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 28/Mar/2025 ] While Marin Marais is best known for his works for viola da gamba, he also composed for the flute; Michael Lynn's recent rediscovery of manuscripts containing pieces for flute and basso continuo as well as duets caught the attention of François... |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Johann Sebastian Bach Marco Serino [ Arcana / CD - due 28/Mar/2025 ] Though naturally closely associated with the organ and harpsichord, Bach had a special relationship with the violin, his father's instrument, throughout his life. |
BÉLA BARTÓK / LUCIANO BERIO
Bartók & Berio: Duos for Two Violins Maria Milstein, Mathieu van Bellen [ Channel Classics / 2 CD - due 28/Mar/2025 ] Celebrated violinists Maria Milstein and Mathieu van Bellen pair Béla Bartók's 44 Duos for Two Violins with Luciano Berio's 34 Duetti per Due Violini. Bartók's miniature masterpieces have inspired and delighted countless young musicians. |
Various Composers
Roots Pierre Fontenelle [ Cypres Records / CD - due 28/Mar/2025 ] Does the passport reflect cultural identity or nationality? Belgian by birth, but raised in Seattle in the United States, the question of identity has been a constant in the life of young cellist |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Balbulus: Liber ymnorum Schola Antiqua of Chicago, Michael Alan Anderson [ Naxos / CD - due 28/Mar/2025 ] Notker Balbulus, also known as Notker of St Gall or Notker the Stammerer, was a renowned Benedictine monk at the Abbey of St Gall in Switzerland who made substantial contributions to both the music and literature of his time. |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Brockes Passion Robert Sellier, Vanessa Waldhart, Yulia Sokolik, Romelia Lichtenstein, Michael Zehe / Oper Halle Chorus, Handelfestspielorchester Halle, Michael Hofst [ Naxos / 2 CD - due 28/Mar/2025 ] Barthold Heinrich Brockes was an influential German poet who added reflective and descriptive poetry into the texture of his Passion. Among several musical settings, the most famous is the one by Handel. |
ERROLLYN WALLEN
Wallen - Orchestral Works Ruby Hughes (mezzo-soprano), Idunnu Munch (mezzo-soprano), Miwa Rosso (cello), BBC Concert Orchestra, John Andrews [ Resonus / CD - due 28/Mar/2025 ] This new album of orchestral works by Errollyn Wallen, performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra under the direction of John Andrews, offers a rich journey through over two decades of the composer's diverse and innovative music. |
NED ROREM
Rorem - Choral Works St Martin's Voices, Piatti String Quartet, Andrew Earis [ Resonus / CD - due 28/Mar/2025 ] Ned Rorem, renowned for his vivid art songs and unapologetic diaries, also composed a vast and underappreciated body of choral works. This album, featuring St Martin's Voices, showcases selections from his impressive choral output spanning seven... |
ORLANDO GIBBONS
Gibbons - Keyboard Works Stephen Farr (organ, harpsichord) [ Resonus / CD - due 28/Mar/2025 ] To mark the 400th anniversary of Orlando Gibbons's death, organist and harpsichordist Stephen Farr presents a stunning tribute to one of England's greatest composers of the early seventeenth century. |
WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI / KAROL SZYMANOWSKI / GRAŻYNA BACEWICZ / IAIN FARRINGTON
Bacewicz, Lutosławski & Szymanowski Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Thomas Søndergård [ Linn Records / CD - due 28/Mar/2025 ] Music Director Thomas Søndergård conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in a programme showcasing three leading composers from twentieth-century Poland. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Comic Muse - The Theatrical World of Kitty Clive Apollo's Cabinet [ Prima Classics / CD - due 4/Apr/2025 ] A Celebration of 18th-Century theatrical brilliance, "The Comic Muse" delves into the vibrant and often overlooked world of 18th-century theatre, celebrating the extraordinary talent and influence of Kitty Clive. |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Complete music for solo piano Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano) [ Chandos Classics / 2 CD - due 4/Apr/2025 ] Born in 1875, Ravel was fêted during the 1920s and '30s as France's greatest living composer - a remarkable achievement considering the obstacles placed in his path by the ultra-conservative Parisian musical elite of his time. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Echoes of Latvia Laura Zarina [ SKANI / CD - due 4/Apr/2025 ] Lucija Garuta's miniatures are like the vertebrae in the backbone of this album by Laura Zarina and Agnese Eglina, and, between them are works by women composers of the modern era, three of which were commissioned by Laura Zarina |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach: Easter Oratorio Magnificat Cantata Collective, Nicholas McGegean [ AVIE / CD - due 11/Apr/2025 ] San Francisco-based Cantata Collective continues its exploration of J.S. Bach's major choral masterworks with a third in the ongoing series, pairing the composer's Easter Oratorio and Magnificat. |
CHRISTOPHER TYLER NICKEL
Nickel: Mass; Te Deum Catherine Redding (soprano), Vancouver Chamber Choir, Kari Turunen, Vancouver Contemporary Orchestra, Clyde Mitchell (conductor) [ AVIE / CD - due 11/Apr/2025 ] Award-winning Canadian composer Christopher Tyler Nickel adds to his impressive catalogue of large-scale liturgical works with a double-bill featuring his Mass and Te Deum, composed concurrently and completed in 2022 |
RUTH GIPPS
Gipps: Orchestral Works Vol.4 Charlie Lovell-Jones (violin) Bill Anderson (contrabassoon), BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba (conductor) [ Chandos / CD - due 11/Apr/2025 ] Rumon Gamba's exploration of the music of Ruth Gipps continues with these world-première recordings of the Fifth Symphony, Violin Concerto, and Leviathan, performed by the BBC Philharmonic. |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt - Via Crucis & Solo Piano Works Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Grete Pedersen [ Sony Classical / CD - due 11/Apr/2025 ] On his latest album 'Liszt - Via Crucis & Solo Piano Works' for Sony Classical, Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes unveils the often-forgotten side of the famed virtuoso Franz Liszt - the sacred music that offers a more intimate picture of the man... |
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FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: The Complete Waltzes Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - due 11/Apr/2025 ] Stephen Hough's 2011 album of Chopin's waltzes once more regains its 'complete' status with the inclusion of the 'Valse' found in a New York library in 2024. Yet further incentive to acquire some Chopin of 'authority and panache … understanding and... |
KORNGOLD / ZEMLINSKY / WINTER / MAHLER / GRÜNFELD
Jewish Vienna Chen Reiss (soprano), Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich, Daniel Grossmann (conductor) [ ONYX / CD - due 25/Apr/2025 ] Vienna at the turn of the 20th century was a at the cutting edge of artistic and musical creativity. The Vienna Secessionist movement, led by Gustav Klimt had, in equal measure, shocked and fascinated the art world. Composers such as Schoenberg, Berg... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Light Flowing Clare O'Connell (cello) [ NMC Recordings / CD - due 25/Apr/2025 ] Light Flowing is an album of works for cello performed by Clare O'Connell as part of NMC's Artist Series |
ARVO PART
Pärt: Tractus (LP) Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor) [ ECM New Series / 2 LP - due 25/Apr/2025 ] Tractus emphasizes Arvo Pärt compositions that blend the timbres of string orchestra and choir. New versions predominate, with focused performances from the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir under Tõnu Kaljuste's... |
Various Composers
Tales of the Jazz Age Florian Noack [ La Dolce Volta / CD - due 25/Apr/2025 ] Can we go back a hundred years in time? Pianist Florian Noack's new album pushes back the gates of time to rediscover the lifeblood of the Roaring Twenties, which saw twentieth-century music trace a path between partying and war. |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn 2032, Vol. 12: Les Jeux et les Plaisirs (LP version) Giovanni Antonini, Kammerorchester Basel [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - due 25/Apr/2025 ] This programme focuses on fantasy and pleasure, with three symphonies punctuated by lightness and wit. |
RAMEAU / RAVEL / PÉREZ-VILLEGAS / URQUIZA
Unraveled: Homage to Maurice Ravel Kebyart [ Linn Records / CD - due 25/Apr/2025 ] To celebrate Maurice Ravel's 150th anniversary in 2025, Kebyart sets out to explore his unique compositional legacy, despite the composer never having written for saxophone quartet. |
J. S. BACH
Ancient Modernity: New Music for Solo Cello Louise McMonagle (cello) [ DELPHIAN / CD - due 25/Apr/2025 ] Known for her work as a member of the award-winning Riot Ensemble, Scottish cellist Louise McMonagle's first solo album showcases her deep commitment to collaboration with the composers of our own time. From John Maxwell Geddes, one of her early... |
ADAMS / STRAVINSKY / GERSHWIN / BERN
Hallelujah Junction Lukas Geniušas, Anna Geniushene [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 25/Apr/2025 ] Anna Geniushene and Lukas Geniušas both have brilliant careers as soloists: Anna won the silver medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2022 and now records for Fuga Libera, while Lukas' two Rachmaninov recordings, a recital of... |
ANDRÉ DANICAN PHILIDOR
Philidor: Ernelinde, princesse de Norvège Orkester Nord, Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Martin Wåhlberg [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / 2 CD - due 25/Apr/2025 ] Torn between her love for the King of Denmark, Sandomir, and her duty to her father, Rodoald, King of Norway, Princess Ernelinde finds herself caught up in a political whirlwind in the heart of medieval Scandinavia. Beyond the exotic setting of this... |
ANTÔNIO MARINHO / LUCAS DOS PRAZERES / CÉSAR MICHILES / BRENO LIRA
Brazil: Music of the Nordeste Pernambuco Quartet [ Ocora / CD - due 25/Apr/2025 ] The Pernambuco Quartet owes its creation to luck, chance and passion, when four musicians emblematic of their culture came together around the rich traditions of the Pernambuco region - a unique alchemy of poetry, rhythms and music. |
