The following classical CD titles are due for release / re-release in the near future.
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... |
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. |
HENRI SAUGUET / GORDON JACOB / MICHAEL HEAD / THOMAS SIMAKU / RUTH GIPPS, etc
Honey-coloured cow Laurence Perkins (bassoon), Carducci String Quartet, John Flinders (piano), Amy Thompson, Matthew Kitteringham (bassoons) [ Hyperion / CD - due 2/May/2025 ] Laurence Perkins is not only an extremely accomplished bassoonist; he also has the enviable talent of devising memorable and attractive programmes (and album titles) for his instrument. |
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... |
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. |
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... |
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... |
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. |
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... |
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. |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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 |