The following classical CD titles are due for release / re-release in the near future.
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... |
OLIVER DAVIS
Davis: Life Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Julian Kershaw (conductor) [ Signum / CD - due 9/May/2025 ] The latest installment from composer Oliver Davis, an album inspired by his work Life Cycle for violin and strings, with all the works that followed playing on the theme of life. Featuring works for violin, piano, strings, harp and orchestra, Davis... |
LEPO SUMERA
Sumera: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6 Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Olari Elts [ Ondine / CD - due 2/May/2025 ] |
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... |
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. |
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. |
CECILIA McDOWALL
McDowall - Cantatas Rowan Pierce (soprano), Katie Bennington (oboe), Choir of Royal Holloway, Orchestra Nova [ Resonus / CD - due 25/Apr/2025 ] This album presents a stunning collection of recent cantatas by acclaimed composer Cecilia McDowall, performed by the Choir of Royal Holloway, Orchestra Nova, and conductor George Vass. |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence Symphony No.6 'Pathetique' Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Domingo Hindoyan (conductor) [ ONYX / CD - due 25/Apr/2025 ] 'Italy, Florence - nothing gives me the slightest pleasure so far' Tchaikovsky wrote to his brother. 'I cannot live outside Russia' In the depth of depression, the composer completed his 10th opera, The Queen of Spades, and commenced work on his... |
JOHANN LUDWIG KREBS
Krebs - Keyboard Works Vol.5 Steven Devine (harpsichord) [ Resonus / CD - due 25/Apr/2025 ] This penultimate collection in Steven Devine's critically-acclaimed survey of the complete harpsichord works of Bach's favourite student, Johann Ludwig Krebs, features five of the six 'Galanterie-Suiten' [Galant Suites]. . |
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. |