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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Adams: Symphony No. 2 and 3 cover
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JOHN ADAMS
Adams: Symphony No. 2 and 3
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop (conductor)
[ Naxos American Classics / CD - due 5/Apr/2024 ]
John Adams' music has long since captured the admiration of listeners for its inimitable American qualities. City Noir was inspired by the cultural and social history of Los Angeles, with Adams calling it 'an imaginary film score' in its evocation of...
Alfano: Suite Romantica cover
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FRANCO ALFANO
Alfano: Suite Romantica
Davide Vendramin (accordion) Vittorio Rabagliati (piano) / Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Giuseppe Grazioli
[ Naxos / CD - due 19/Apr/2024 ]
Franco Alfano is remembered today for his completion of Turandot after Puccini's death. His catalogue of works, including operas, orchestral and chamber music, reveals him to be a sophisticated and original composer. Alfano possessed an innate...
Auber: Overtures, Vol. 6 [Incls 'L'Ambassadrice' & 'Le Dieu et la Bayadère' ] cover
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DANIEL-FRANCOIS AUBER
Auber: Overtures, Vol. 6 [Incls 'L'Ambassadrice' & 'Le Dieu et la Bayadère' ]
Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra, Dario Salvi
[ Naxos / CD - due 19/Apr/2024 ]
Auber's overtures were once as popular as those by Rossini and Suppé, with no less a figure than Tchaikovsky commenting on the 'elegant clarity of his harmonisation, his delightful and striking melodies … and beautiful instrumentation.' Full evidence...
Bach: A Life in Music (Vol. 1). Early Cantatas. Arnstadt & Mühlhausen (1703-1708) cover
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J. S. BACH
Bach: A Life in Music (Vol. 1). Early Cantatas. Arnstadt & Mühlhausen (1703-1708)
Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew, Feat. Benjamin Alard
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - due 5/Apr/2024 ]
In this new series, Paul Agnew and Les Arts Florissants invite us to follow the creative itinerary of J. S. Bach through the times and cities in which he lived. The first instalment introduces us to a young master who remained faithful to the north...
Bach, (C.P.E.) - Instrumental Theatre of Effects cover
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C. P. E. BACH
Bach, (C.P.E.) - Instrumental Theatre of Effects
Arte dei Suonatori, Marcin Świątkiewicz (harpsichord, pianoforte, conductor)
[ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - due 5/Apr/2024 ]
Subversive music by C.P.E. Bach that surprises, moves and speaks to us
Bach: Guitar Recital cover
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Guitar Recital
Georgi Dimitrov-Jojo (guitar)
[ Naxos Guitar Laureate Series / CD - due 19/Apr/2024 ]
Georgi Dimitrov-Jojo, winner of the 2022 European Bach Guitar Award, presents a selection of works transcribed for guitar from the rich repertoire of Johann Sebastian Bach. Arrangements made for different instruments were customary during the Baroque...
Britten: Violin Concerto & Chamber Works cover
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Violin Concerto & Chamber Works
Isabelle Faust, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks , Jakub Hrůša
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - due 12/Apr/2024 ]
After Berg, Schoenberg, Bartók and Stravinsky, Isabelle Faust now tackles Britten with Jakub Hrůša and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, revealing a little-known facet of the British composer. This concerto, highly personal in its language,...
Brusa: Requiem Op.25 / Stabat Mater Op.24 cover
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ELISABETTA BRUSA
Brusa: Requiem Op.25 / Stabat Mater Op.24
Réka Kristóf (soprano) Dorottya Láng (alto) István Horváth (tenor) Marcell Bakonyi (bass) / Hungarian radio Symphony and Choir, Riccardo Frizza
[ Naxos / CD - due 19/Apr/2024 ]
Most of Elisabetta Brusa's compositions have been written for orchestral forces, with four volumes currently available on Naxos. The two new choral pieces in this fifth volume offer a revealing look at the composer's response to spirituality and her...
Cimarosa: Overtures - arranged for Mandolin Ensemble cover
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DOMENICO CIMAROSA
Cimarosa: Overtures - arranged for Mandolin Ensemble
Quintetto a Plettro "Giuseppe Anedda"
[ Brilliant Classics / CD - due 12/Apr/2024 ]
New, fun-filled arrangements, with historical authenticity on their side, of bright and breezy curtain-raisers by a once-celebrated contemporary of Mozart.
Donizetti: La Favorite (complete opera recorded in 2022) cover
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: La Favorite (complete opera recorded in 2022)
Annalisa Stroppa (mezzo-soprano) Javier Camarena (tenor) Florian Sempey (baritone) Evgeny Stavinsky (bass) / Orchestra Donizetti Opera, Riccardo Frizz
[ Naxos / 3 CD Box Set - due 19/Apr/2024 ]
Written for the Opéra in Paris, Gaetano Donizetti's La Favorite contains some of his most famously enthralling arias. While its much-reduced Italian version has continued in popularity, this superb production from the Donizetti Opera Festival in...
Dussek: Sonatas Op.35 & Op.69 No.3, Vol. 10 cover
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JAN LADISLAV DUSSEK
Dussek: Sonatas Op.35 & Op.69 No.3, Vol. 10
Petra Somlai (piano)
[ Brilliant Classics / CD - due 12/Apr/2024 ]
The latest volume in a critically acclaimed series, presenting modern recordings of Dussek's exhilaratingly diverse cycle of piano sonatas on instruments of his own time.
Folk Tales Vol 2 - British and Irish Miniatures cover
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FRANK BRIDGE / JOHN IRELAND / REBECCA CLARKE / RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / etc
Folk Tales Vol 2 - British and Irish Miniatures
Gerald Peregrine (cello) Antony Ingham (piano) Lynda O'Connor (violin)
[ Naxos / CD - due 24/May/2024 ]
Following the success of the first volume of Folk Tales (8.574035), Gerald Peregrine and Antony Ingham go further into their explorations of British and Irish music. These include rarely recorded works and new interpretations of traditional Irish...
Rossini: Armida (complet opera recorded in 2022) cover
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GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Armida (complet opera recorded in 2022)
Moisés Marín, Michele Angelini, Jusung Gabriel Park, Ruth Iniesta / Krakow Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra, Jose Miguel Perez-Sierra
[ Naxos Rossini in Wildbad / 2 CD - due 24/May/2024 ]
The story of Armida had already inspired around 70 composers by the time Rossini took it on both as an opportunity to measure himself against his colleagues, and as a special role for soprano Isabella Colbran with whom he had recently started a...
Foss: Ode / Renaissance Concerto / Three American Pieces / Symphony No. 1 in G major cover
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LUKAS FOSS
Foss: Ode / Renaissance Concerto / Three American Pieces / Symphony No. 1 in G major
Amy Porter (flute) Nikki Chooi (violin) / Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta
[ Naxos American Classics / CD - due 24/May/2024 ]
Berlin-born Lukas Foss studied music in Paris before settling in Philadelphia in 1937. Though he freely explored diverse compositional styles, three of the works in this recording fall into his early neo-Classical period and exemplify his dictum that...
Fuchs: Violin Sonatas Nos 4 - 6 cover
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ROBERT FUCHS
Fuchs: Violin Sonatas Nos 4 - 6
Hyejin Chung (violin), Warren Lee (piano)
[ Naxos / CD - due 24/May/2024 ]
Eminent composer and revered teacher, Robert Fuchs, was an established part of Vienna's musical landscape. His six violin sonatas fuse lyricism with conversational ease and chro matic harmonies with folk-derived melodies. This second volume of the...
Grieg: Holberg Suite, Ballade & Lyric Pieces cover
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EDVARD GRIEG
Grieg: Holberg Suite, Ballade & Lyric Pieces
Andrey Gugnin (piano)
[ Hyperion / CD - due 3/May/2024 ]
Andrey Gugnin presents a wonderful all-Grieg recital, the elegant neo-classicism of 'From Holberg's time' (a rare and welcome opportunity to hear the original version for solo piano) contrasting with the brooding magnificence of the 'Ballade'.
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites / Holberg Suite / Norwegian Dances / etc cover
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EDVARD GRIEG
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites / Holberg Suite / Norwegian Dances / etc
Utah Symphony Orchestra, Maurice Abravane
[ Vox Classics / CD - due 17/May/2024 ]
The Elite Recordings for VOX by legendary producers Marc Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz are considered by audiophiles to be amongst the finest sounding examples of orchestral recordings
Grieg: Symphonic Dances / Lyric Suite / Sigurd Jorsalfar / etc cover
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EDVARD GRIEG
Grieg: Symphonic Dances / Lyric Suite / Sigurd Jorsalfar / etc
Utah Symphony Orchestra, Maurice Abravane
[ Vox Classics / CD - due 19/Apr/2024 ]
The Elite Recordings for VOX by legendary producers Marc Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz are considered by audiophiles to be amongst the finest sounding examples of orchestral recordings
Hagen: Heike Quinto cover
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DARON HAGEN
Hagen: Heike Quinto
Duo YUMENO / Yoko Reikano Kimura (voice)
[ Naxos American Classics / CD - due 24/May/2024 ]
Daron Hagen is a multi-award-winning creative polymath whose work is internationally acclaimed for its impeccable craftsmanship, social conscience and emotional accessibility. Embracing the Japanese medieval text The Tale of the Heike, Hagen has...
Hungarian String Trios cover
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LEO & LASZLO WEINER / ZOLTAN KODALY / ERNO DOHNANY
Hungarian String Trios
Trio Boccherini
[ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - due 12/Apr/2024 ]
Early 20th-century chamber music with a Hungarian touch.