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. |
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. |
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MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Weinberg: String Quartets Volume 5 [Nos 3, 9 & 14] Arcadia Quartet [ Chandos / CD - due 30/May/2025 ] The Arcadia Quartet reaches the penultimate release in its acclaimed complete Weinberg string quartets series with this volume, featuring Quartets nos 3, 9, and 14. As in previous volumes, the works are taken from contrasting periods of Weinberg's... |
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. |
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. |
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 |
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. |
LEPO SUMERA
Sumera: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6 Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Olari Elts [ Ondine / CD - due 2/May/2025 ] |
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. |
VIKTOR KALABIS
Kalabis: Duettina, Chamber music & Diptych Gidon Kremer (violin & conductor) / The Kremerata Baltica [ Hyperion / CD - due 2/May/2025 ] Composer and works may be unfamiliar, but Viktor Kalabis's Duettina, Chamber music & Diptych are very much the sort of repertoire in which Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica (to both of whom Hyperion extends the warmest of welcomes) specialize. All... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
1612 Italian Vespers I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth [ Coro / CD - due 2/May/2025 ] On this 2012 recording, previously available on Decca, Robert Hollingworth leads his celebrated ensemble, I Fagiolini, on a journey unearthing incredible lost works from the late Renaissance and early Baroque, adding to their acclaimed 'Colossal... |
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... |
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. |
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. |
