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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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Symphonies 5-6, 8-9… (Remastered - Hybrid SACD) Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - due 26/Jun/2026 ] The cycle of Franz Schubert's symphonies recorded by Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic in the late 1970s (originally for EMI) remains an essential staple of the catalogue. The recordings capture the Berlin "signature sound" of that era:... |
CARL ORFF
Orff: Carmina Burana Chen Reiss, Reginald Mobley, Andrzej Filończyk, Audivi, Detroit Opera Youth Chorus, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Jader Bignamini [ Pentatone / CD - due 26/Jun/2026 ] The Detroit Symphony Orchestra and its Music Director Jader Bignamini present Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, one of the most electrifying works of the twentieth century. Drawing on thirteenth-century manuscripts from Benediktbeuern Abbey, Orff... |
JOHANN SIMON MAYR
Mayr: Giuseppe Freya Apfelstaedt, Markus Schäfer, Philipp Polhardt, Niklas Mallmann, Matthias Hoffmann, Fang Zhi, Micha Matthäus, Konstantin Igl, Simon Mayr [ Naxos / CD - due 26/Jun/2026 ] Giuseppe was composed by Mayr in 1829 for graduation concerts at the academy of music in Bergamo over which he presided. His inspiration was a Biblical opera that had won great popularity, Méhul's Joseph, which had premiered in Paris in 1807,... |
FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Music for Two Pianos Antony Gray (piano), Rob Hao (piano) [ Divine Art / CD - due 26/Jun/2026 ] Divine Art is delighted to present Francis Poulenc: Music for Two Pianos performed by pianists Antony Gray and Rob Hao. Among the highlights of this superb new release are the first commercial audio recording of Antony Gray's own transcription for... |
CAMARGO GUARNIERI
Guarnieri: Pedro Malazarte Juliana Taino [ Naxos / CD - due 26/Jun/2026 ] Camargo Guarnieri loved writing for the human voice, composing hundreds of vocal works over the course of his long and distinguished career. The works in this programme all use texts byMário de Andrade - a hugely influential writer who was... |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: The Bells, Symphonic Dances Kristina Mkhitaryan (soprano), Dmytro Popov (tenor), Alexander Vinogradov (bass), Netherlands Radio Choir, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra [ Pentatone / CD - due 26/Jun/2026 ] The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Netherlands Radio Choir, under Chief Conductor Karina Canellakis, present Rachmaninov: The Bells and Symphonic Dances, a powerful and deeply expressive interpretation of these late masterpieces by... |
LUDOVICO EINAUDI
The Summer Portraits Live (LP) Ludovico Einaudi [ Decca / 2 LP - due 26/Jun/2026 ] Recorded live in London at The Royal Albert Hall in 2025, this new collection includes favourites from The Summer Portraits as well as much-loved classics such as 'I Giorni', 'Nuvole Bianche' and 'Experience'. |
LUDOVICO EINAUDI
The Summer Portraits Live Ludovico Einaudi [ Decca / CD - due 26/Jun/2026 ] Recorded live in London at The Royal Albert Hall in 2025, this new collection includes favourites from The Summer Portraits as well as much-loved classics such as 'I Giorni', 'Nuvole Bianche' and 'Experience'. |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Opus 2 Nos 1, 2 & 3 Marios Papadopoulos (piano) [ Signum / CD - due 26/Jun/2026 ] This album features Marios Papadopoulos performing Beethoven's three Piano Sonatas, Op. 2 Nos. 1-3, first published in 1796 and dedicated to Joseph Haydn. Marking the beginning of Beethoven's celebrated cycle of 32 sonatas, these works demonstrate... |
CARL TEIKE
Teike: Marches Volume 3 The Royal Swedish Navy Band, Alexander Hanson [ Naxos / CD - due 26/Jun/2026 ] Famous for composing one of the world's greatest marches, Alte Kameraden (available on Volume 1 in this series, 8.574317), CarlTeike wrote a body of works that have enriched the German concertmarch repertoire. They imbue the medium with both... |
FELIX DRAESEKE
Draeseke: Piano Works Vladimir Aćimović (piano) [ Naxos / CD - due 26/Jun/2026 ] Felix Draeseke's early affiliation with the music of Liszt and Wagner permeated his own compositions of the period, not least his Sonata quasi fantasia in C sharp minor, a work of sumptuous Wagnerian candour as well as balletic lightness. It also... |
EDWARD ELGAR / ANTONIN DVORAK
Elgar & Dvorak: Cello Concertos Alban Gerhardt (cello), WDR Sinfonieorchester, Andrew Manze (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - due 3/Jul/2026 ] With the cello concertos by Edward Elgar and Antonín Dvořák, Alban Gerhardt turns to two cornerstones of the repertoire-while presenting, in his first studio recording of these works, a distillation of 35 years of close artistic engagement. Joined... |
Anne Sofie von Otter, Salon Orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin, Adam Benzwi
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! Kabarett Und Exil [ BIS / CD - due 3/Jul/2026 ] Reflecting a society marked by profound upheaval, the music of 1920s-1940s Germany was caught between vitality and despair. The era featured a diverse blend of classical traditions, popular rhythms, and early jazz, yielding everything from energetic... |
TIMOTHY BOWERS
Timothy Bowers: Guitar Music and Songs Saki Kato (guitar), Hugh Millington (guitar), Vanessa Bowers (soprano) [ Toccata Classics / CD - due 3/Jul/2026 ] The guitar is traditionally the preserve of the Spanish. But Timothy Bowers, born near London in 1954, has found a rather more English side to the instrument: understated emotion expressed in an accessible language, unforced elegance, crisp and clean... |
FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Martin Jones Rediscovered - Busoni: Works for Piano Martin Jones (piano) [ Nimbus / CD - due 3/Jul/2026 ] "Martin's early career followed a normal path of recitals and chamber music. He found regular work as pianist of the emerging Nash Ensemble founded in 1964. In 1968 he won the first Myra Hess Award. This propelled him onto the international scene, a... |
CAMILLE EL BACHA / NAGHIB SHANBEHZADEH
Loop Tales Camille El Bacha (piano), Naghib Shanbehzadeh (percussion) [ Fuga Libera / CD - due 3/Jul/2026 ] With Loop Tales, Camille El Bacha and Naghib Shanbehzadeh bring Western classical piano into dialogue with Persian and Middle Eastern percussion. The piano evokes echoes of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Ravel and Steve Reich, while percussion adds a... |
Chad Smith (saxophones), Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Saxophobia: Celebrating The Sax Craze Of The 1920s [ Chandos / CD - due 3/Jul/2026 ] Famously invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s, the saxophone quickly became an established part of French and British military bands, but remained a novelty instrument elsewhere until it gained a foothold in vaudeville and ragtime bands in 1920s... |
J.S. BACH / IGOR STRAVINSKY / MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG / KAIJA SAARIAHO / JOAN TOWER / JEFFREY MUMFORD
Recollection(s) Christine Wu [ Channel Classics / CD - due 3/Jul/2026 ] Violinist and violist Christine Wu, winner of the Outhere Music Recording Prize at the inaugural Berlin Prize for Young Artists, explores the relationship between time and memory in her new album Recollection(s) for Channel Classics. On violin, she... |
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN / GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Haydn 2032, Vol. 16: The Surprise (LP) Il Giardino Armonico, Basel Chamber Orchestra, Giovanni Antonini [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - due 3/Jul/2026 ] "Joseph Haydn not only liked surprising his audiences, he also enjoyed a laugh", writes Christian Moritz-Bauer in the introduction to this sixteenth volume of the Haydn2032 complete recording of the symphonies. Take, for instance, the false... |
LINDA KOUVARAS
Kouvaras: Piano Music, Chamber Works And Songs Vol. 3 Antoinette Halloran (soprano), Coady Green (piano), Lyrebird Brass [ Toccata Classics / CD - due 3/Jul/2026 ] The Australian Linda Kouvaras (b. 1960) - pianist and musicologist as well as composer - adopts an explicitly feminist viewpoint in her work. She describes She, Who Should Have Been a Queen as a song-cycle, but in fact the text, by Antoinette... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Carré d'As - Portraits musicaux Les Timbres, Myriam Rignol, Yoko Kawakubo, Julien Wolfs [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / CD - due 3/Jul/2026 ] Four eminent figures - François Couperin, Antoine Forqueray, Marin Marais and Jean-Philippe Rameau - gather here like the four aces in an exceptional deck of cards. Through a gallery of musical portraits, Myriam Rignol, Yoko Kawakubo and Julien Wolfs... |
Mozzani: Sämtliche Gitarrenwerke
Zanetti, Walter [ Tactus / CD - due 3/Jul/2026 ] Luigi Mozzani stands as a prominent figure in the history of classical guitar and Italian lutherie. A musician and guitarist of remarkable talent, he distinguished himself as a concert performer, composer, teacher, and innovative luthier. Born in... |
JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY / MARIN MARAIS / JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU etc
Clavecins concertants Olivier Fortin, Emmanuel Frankenberg (harpsichords) [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 3/Jul/2026 ] Olivier Fortin and Emmanuel Frankenberg present a programme of transcriptions of French orchestral works for two harpsichords: "This was common practice in the 17th and 18th centuries, as it allowed people to play the popular tunes they heard at the... |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: Actéon Scherzi Musicali, Nicolas Achten [ Ricercar / CD - due 3/Jul/2026 ] Marc-Antoine Charpentier's drama in miniature Actéon retells the myth of the hunter who was punished by Diana for having surprised the goddess while she was bathing. Actéon was originally composed for a countertenor, but Charpentier reworked the... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Stephen Hough's Piano Postcards Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - due 3/Jul/2026 ] Sir Stephen Hough's new solo piano album 'Stephen Hough's Piano Postcards' explores the world from the perspective of the itinerant pianist sending home musical messages from his voyages. Stephen picks beloved songs and tunes from around the world... |
ROBIN STEVENS
Stevens: Orchestral Music Vol. 3 Katherine Bryan (flute), Paul Silverthorne (viola), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Paul Mann (conductor) [ Toccata Classics / CD - due 3/Jul/2026 ] The compositional career of Robin Stevens (1958-2026), Welsh-born and Manchester-based, was divided into two periods, separated by a period of illness. The first produced mainly chamber music and works for the church that employed him; restored to... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony no. 4 Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bernard Haitink (conductor) [ BR Klassik / CD - due 3/Jul/2026 ] The Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra enjoyed a long and intensive artistic collaboration, which came to an abrupt end with Haitink's death in October 2021. BR-KLASSIK now presents outstanding and previously... |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Sonatas 4, 5 & 7 Viktoria Mullova (violin), Alasdair Beatson (fortepiano) [ Signum / CD - due 3/Jul/2026 ] This re-release of Beethoven: Violin Sonatas 4, 5 & 7 continues Viktoria Mullova and Alasdair Beatson's acclaimed exploration of Beethoven's violin sonatas on period instruments. Recorded in 2020, the album pairs Mullova's 1750 Guadagnini violin,... |
CARL MARIA von WEBER
Weber: Der Freischütz arrangirt in Harmoniemusik Wolf, Jean-Philippe Poncin [ Ricercar / CD - due 3/Jul/2026 ] Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz has enjoyed continuous success since its premiere in June 1821 and rapidly became one of the models for German Romantic opera. In accordance with a tradition that goes back to Mozart's time and which was still... |
LARRY LIPKIS
Lipkis: Pierrot and Friends Andriy Tkachuk, Oksana Hretchyn, Mykhailo Sosnovsky, Luke Sieve, Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra [ Naxos / CD - due 10/Jul/2026 ] Internationally acclaimed performer, professor and composer Larry Lipkis has written over 100 works for a variety of vocal and instrumental ensembles. Lipkis's love of commedia dell'arte stems from his career as a performer of Renaissance music, and... |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Il Floridante Cembaless [ Naxos / CD - due 10/Jul/2026 ] An opera reimagined - with courage, wit, and poetic resonance. In this bold and intimate interpretation of Händel's Il Floridante, Cembaless and Poetry Slam artist Florian Wintels merge baroque virtuosity with the language of today. The result: a... |
FROMENTAL HALÉVY
Halevy: La Juive Chor der Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester, Henrik Nánási (conductor) [ Naxos / 3 CD - due 10/Jul/2026 ] Fromental Halévy's five-act grand opera La Juive charts the forbidden love between a Christian man and a Jewish woman, and the tragedy that ensues. The work's pageantry, opulence and thrilling music made it one of the most enduringly successful... |
JOSEPH GABRIEL RHEINBERGER
Rheinberger: Romantic Piano, Vol. 10 Dmytro Semykras (piano) [ Naxos / CD - due 10/Jul/2026 ] Joseph Gabriel Rheinberger's musical legacy can be found in his reputation as a renowned organist and professor as well as in his extraordinary facility and productivity as a composer in all forms, including a considerable amount of solo piano music.... |
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IGNAZ PLEYEL
Pleyel: String Quintets, Ben. 271-273 Pettman Ensemble: Curt Thompson, Oksana Murashova Thompson, Wenhong Luo, William Vyvyan Murray, Edith Salzmann [ Naxos / CD - due 10/Jul/2026 ] The name Pleyel is chiefly remembered today as a piano manufacturer, but the company's founding figure Ignaz Pleyel, a former pupil of Haydn, was one of the most acclaimed composers of the late 18th century. The success of Pleyel's finely wrought... |
DOUGLAS MOORE
Moore: Giants In The Earth South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, South Dakota Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Delta David Gier [ Pentatone / 2 CD - due 10/Jul/2026 ] Douglas Moore's opera Giants in the Earth receives its world premiere recording with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra under the music direction of Delta David Gier. Set on the stark, uninhabited Dakota plains, the drama follows Beret and Per... |
KARL GOLDMARK / JEAN SIBELIUS
Goldmark And Sibelius: Works For Violin And Orchestra Sueye Park (violin), Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Valentin Egel [ BIS SACD / CD - due 10/Jul/2026 ] Following her recital dedicated to exiled composers (BIS-2332), Sueye Park joins forces with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, conducted by Valentin Egel, to present concertante works for violin and orchestra by Karl Goldmark and Jean Sibelius.... |
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI
Pergolesi: L'Olimpiade Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani; Carlotta Colombo; Silvia Frigato; José Maria Lo Monaco; Theodora Raftis; Matteo Straffi; Francesca Ascioti; Orchestra Ghisli [ Arcana / 2 CD - due 17/Jul/2026 ] More than 60 composers have set Metastasio's libretto to music, including Caldara, Vivaldi, Hasse, Leo, Scarlatti, Piccinni, Paisiello, Cherubini and, of course, Pergolesi, who presented his Olimpiade at the Teatro Tordinona in Rome for the Carnival... |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
The Chopin I Love Peter Donohoe (piano) [ SOMM Recordings / CD - due 17/Jul/2026 ] A joint winner of the 1982 International Tchaikovsky Competition, Peter Donohoe has performed with all the major London orchestras and multiple European and American orchestras, as well as at the BBC Proms no less than 18 times. His impressive... |
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