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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BARBARA STROZZI
Strozzi: Virtuosissima Sirena Laura Catrani (soprano) Accademia dell'Annunciata, Riccardo Doni (conductor) [ Arcana / CD - due 30/Jan/2026 ] Barbara Strozzi, a Venetian singer and composer who lived between 1619 and 1677, stands out as a rare jewel in the musical landscape of the Italian Seicento. The adoptive (and perhaps natural) daughter of Giulio Strozzi, a man of letters belonging to... |
MICHEL CORRETTE
Corrette: Premier Livre de Pièces de Clavecin Agustín Álvarez (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - due 23/Jan/2026 ] Michel Corrette (1707-1795) was born in a musical family, his father was organist, his grandfather dancing master. He was a famous composer, teacher and organist, his long lifetime seeing the cultural change from the Baroque to the Classical... |
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,... |
MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Piano Quintets Alessandro Marangoni, Quartetto Adorno [ Naxos / CD - due 27/Feb/2026 ] Castelnuovo-Tedesco's chamber works were composed early and late in his career. He considered the Piano Quintet No. 1 in F major from 1932 to be the best of all his chamber works from that period. It exudes Romantic candour and contrapuntal richness,... |
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... |
JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY
Lully: Atys Les Ambassadeurs, Baroque de Versailles, Les Pages et les Chantres du Centre de Musique [ Alpha Classics / 3 CD - due 30/Jan/2026 ] This new recording from March 2024 of Jean-Baptiste Lully's musical tragedy, premiered in Saint-Germain-en-Laye 348 years earlier, is the result of the most recent historical, musicological and organological research. The instructions in the 1676... |
CLARA SCHUMANN / CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS / ROBERT SCHUMANN / JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH / SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR / HENRI DUTILLEUX / JEROME KERN
The Bassoonist's Songbook Amy Harman (Solo Bassoon), Tom Poster ( Solo Piano) [ Chandos / CD - due 23/Jan/2026 ] A passionate advocate for the bassoon, Amy Harman is much sought after as a soloist, chamber musician, teacher, and communicator. Appointed solo bassoon of the Philharmonia Orchestra aged twenty-three, she is currently principal bassoon of the Aurora... |
FRANK BRIDGE / SIR EDWARD ELGAR / JOHN IRELAND
Bridge, Elgar, Ireland: English Cello Works Andreas Brantelid, Bengt Forsberg, The Royal Danish Orchestra, Thomas Søndergård [ Naxos / CD - due 27/Feb/2026 ] Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor is a cornerstone of the cello repertoire, a product of the composer's summer seclusion in the English countryside in 1919. A masterpiece of moods, it encompasses the world-weary and poignant but also the... |
Andy Pavlov (piano)
Children - Musical Portraits for Piano Solo (LP) [ Neo Classics / 2 LP - due 23/Jan/2026 ] Children: Musical Portraits for Piano Solo is the second solo piano album by internationally renowned artist, pianist, and composer Andy Pavlov. The album consists of 24 compositions in all tonalities, with each piece representing a musical portrait.... |
AFTAB DARVISHI / UNSUK CHIN / JORG WIDMANN / THOMAS ADES
East Meets West Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 27/Mar/2026 ] An inspiration to entire generations of musicians and an indefatigable icon of classical music, Anne-Sophie Mutter remains an artist in motion: curious, bold, and open to what music can be today and tomorrow. For decades, she has been commissioning... |
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... |
GIUSEPPE MARTUCCI / SERGEI RACHMANINOV / OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Italian Perspectives: Martucci, Rachmaninov, Respighi Bamberger Symphoniker, Riccardo Frizza [ Pentatone / CD - due 6/Feb/2026 ] On Italian Perspectives, the Bamberger Symphoniker and Riccardo Frizza trace the revival and evolution of Italian instrumental music. Giuseppe Martucci's Symphony no.1 in D minor, completed in 1895, illuminates the Italian symphonic tradition often... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Overtures from the British Isles: Volume 3 BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Rumon Gamba (conductor) [ Chandos / CD - due 30/Jan/2026 ] Rumon Gamba directs the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra on the third instalment of his exploration of Overtures from the British Isles. As in the case of the previous volumes, the recorded repertoire is rarely played, and the album includes three world... |
RICHARD STRAUSS / LUDWIG Van BEETHOVEN
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben / Beethoven: Sinfonie Nr. 8 Thomas Beecham, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra [ SOMM Recordings / CD - due 6/Feb/2026 ] Sir Thomas Beecham had a long association with the works of Richard Strauss, to the extent that Strauss once told him "what you have done for my works in England cannot be sufficiently appreciated." SOMM Recordings pays tribute to this collaboration... |
PIETRO MASCAGNI
Mascagni: Zanetto Zanetto: Yajie Zhang (mezzo-soprano) / Silvia: Narine Yeghiyan (soprano) [ OehmsClassics / CD - due 20/Feb/2026 ] Since its foundation in 2013, the Berlin Opera Group has made a name for itself with Berlin premieres that include Donizetti's Deux hommes et une femme and Betly, together with other operatic rarities. This album is a Deutschlandfunk Kultur recording... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: A Moment in Time - Late Piano Works Christian Blackshaw (piano) [ Pentatone / CD - due 20/Feb/2026 ] Pianist Christian Blackshaw presents A Moment in Time, an intimate exploration of Franz Schubert's late masterworks. The album features the Four Impromptus, D899, written in 1827, in which Schubert transforms the simple Impromptu into "a harmonically... |
SERGEY RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Morceaux de Fantaisie Boris Giltburg (piano) [ Naxos / CD - due 27/Feb/2026 ] Composed at the age of 19, Rachmaninov's earliest published cycle of piano pieces, the Morceaux de Fantaisie, contains the Prélude in C sharp minor, destined to become his signature work, and the Mélodie in E major, much loved by Tchaikovsky. The... |
NIKOLAY ROSLAVETS / DMITRY SHOSTAKOVICH
History of the Russian Piano Trio, Vol. 10 The Brahms Trio [ Naxos / CD - due 27/Feb/2026 ] Nikolay Roslavets was one of the great musical innovators of the 1920s, described by Stravinsky as 'the most interesting Russian composer of the 20th century,' but vilified by the Soviet regime on account of his constant experimentation. His Piano... |
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... |
Cappella Artemisia, Candace Smith
Call for the Wailing Women, Laments and Lamentations in Italian Convents [ Brilliant Classics / CD - due 20/Feb/2026 ] World-premiere recordings of motets by a host of unknown names from the early Italian Baroque: the latest result of performing scholarship by a group with a notable track record of success in this repertoire. International critics have praised the... |
