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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JOHANNES BRAHMS / MAX REGER
Brahms & Reger: Clarinet Quintets Michael Collins (clarinet), Escher String Quartet [ BIS / CD - due 28/Aug/2026 ] Having made numerous recordings for BIS both as a clarinetist and as a conductor, Michael Collins had yet to offer us one of the masterpieces of the clarinet chamber repertoire: Johannes Brahms' Clarinet Quintet. Here he performs alongside the Escher... |
NICCOLO MESTRINO
Niccolò Mestrino: Violin Concertos and Chamber Music Plamena Nikitassova (violin, director), Les Élémens [ Ramée / CD - due 28/Aug/2026 ] The art of composition attained a wholly new quality and a totally new aesthetic status with the works of Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, an art that their contemporaries already described as Classical. The standards these two masters set... |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5 'The Egyptian' Simon Trpčeski, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Thomas Søndergård [ Linn Records / CD - due 28/Aug/2026 ] Macedonian pianist Simon Trpčeski continues his critically acclaimed piano concertos series on Linn Records with a 'spectacular' (Bachtrack) live recording of Saint-Saëns' Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5, both performed at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall... |
FROLYAK / HAVRYLETS / KRYVOPUST / POLEVA / PRYDATKEVYCH / SHEVCHENKO / ZALESKY
Music Of Resilience Solomiya Ivakhiv (violin), INSO-Lviv Symphony Orchestra; Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Roma [ Naxos / CD - due 28/Aug/2026 ] Hailed by Fanfare magazine as 'one of the major artists of our time' Ukrainian violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv continues to give voice to her country's rich musical heritage in Music of Resilience. The album explores her homeland's ongoing war and... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN / LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Mendelssohn, Beethoven and Schumann: Piano Sonatas Tianxu An (piano) [ Signum / CD - due 28/Aug/2026 ] This album brings together piano sonatas by Mendelssohn, Beethoven, and Schumann that reflect a specifically German approach to the form, distinct from the Viennese Classical tradition. Pianist Tianxu An explores works composed within a 26-year span,... |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Metanoia - Late Piano Works Yulianna Avdeeva (piano) [ Pentatone / CD - due 28/Aug/2026 ] The internationally renowned pianist Yulianna Avdeeva presents Metanoia, a profound exploration of the late piano works of Franz Liszt, tracing his radical transformation from virtuoso to visionary. Liszt's late works mark a decisive break with... |
OLLE ADOLPHSON
Adolphson: Balladen Torsten Mossberg (tenor) [ Sterling / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] Olle Adolphson (1934-2004) is one of the most important representatives of the Swedish ballad during the second half of the 20th century. He wrote a long series of ballads that are loved by the Swedish people. Many of them have become so well-known... |
ANTONIO CALDERA
48° North. Caldara, from Venice to Vienna The BanXhies, Emmanuel Arakelian [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] In Celtic mythology, the 'Banshee' is a messenger between worlds. The four musicians of The BanXhies have come together around this figure, seeking to use music as a conduit from the outer world to the inner world. For their very first album, Roxana... |
FRANZ LISZT / FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN / GEORGE GERSHWIN / JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH - FERRUCCIO BUSONI / LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Cherkassky: Nimbus Rediscovered Recordings Vol. 3 Shura Cherkassky (piano) [ Nimbus / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] Shura Cherkassky was introduced to Nimbus by Wilfred Stiff, then a director of the London agent Ibbs & Tillett. Wilfred recognised a young label pushing ahead fast at the transition point between LP and CD, one with a fondness for artists whose... |
CHARLOTTE DE ROTHSCHILD / FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
The Chopin Connection Vol. 1 Inbar Rothschild (piano) [ CRD / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] "When celebrating our 50th anniversary in 2025, we reflected on a legacy that is as much personal as it is professional. For us, this volume represents a profound homecoming: we grew up with Chopin's Nocturnes sat enthroned on our family piano, our... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Folías y Glosas. Legacies of the Spanish Golden Age Concerto Scirocco, Giulia Genini [ Arcana / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] "Folías y Glosas", the new recording project of the ensemble Concerto Scirocco, is a musical journey into the Spain of the late 16th/early 17th century, taking in a repertoire rich in colours, rhythm and influences that weaves together folk memory... |
PROSPER SAINTON / RICHARD STRAUSS / HECTOR BERLIOZ
Stranger Sainton Dmitry Smirnov; Kammerorchester Basel; Victor Jacob [ Fuga Libera / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] This album is built around a remarkable instrument: the Guarneri del Gesù "Sainton Betti" violin, once played by Prosper Sainton. More than a solo voice, the violin shapes both the repertoire and the narrative of the project. From this starting... |
ERNST von DOHNÁNYI
Dohnányi: Symphony No. 2 in E major, Op. 40 Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie, Rheinland-Pfalz, Michael Francis [ Capriccio / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] Although Hungarian composer Ernst von Dohnányi was one of the most versatile and influential musicians of his time, his works are seldom played nowadays. The Capriccio label is helping to rectify that situation with a series of recordings of his... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: String Quartets Vol.3 Doric String Quartet [ Chandos / 2 CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] The Doric String Quartet continues its cycle of Beethoven quartets with this third volume, featuring a mixture of works from the composer's early, middle, and late periods. Notable for the piano start of each of its four movements, op.18 no.3 also... |
C.P.E. BACH
C. P. E. Bach: Cello Concertos Elinor Frey (cello), Accademia de' Dissonanti [ Channel Classics / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] The Canadian-American cellist Elinor Frey performs and conducts Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's three cello concertos with the Accademia de' Dissonanti. These dramatic works, rich in turbulent exchanges yet also in tender moments, bear witness to C. P.... |
FANNY & FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Nui Esmé Quartet [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] This album - the third to be released on Alpha Classics - is entitled Nui (a Korean word meaning 'sister'). The Esmé Quartet pays tribute to Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, with Fanny's Quartet in E-Flat major, written during the final year of her life,... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART / JOSEPH HAYDN / FABIAN FIORINI
Missa Brevis: Mozart, Haydn & Fiorini Etesiane Orchestra, Gabriel Hollander [ Cypres Records / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] There are projects that spring from a hunch and which, driven by conviction and hard work, eventually come to seem entirely natural. The 'Messes Brèves' project is a bold initiative that brings together works rarely performed together, breathing new... |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: 1610 VESPERS I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth, The English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble [ Coro / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers is the landmark work of early Baroque music. It sits at the crossroads of Renaissance polyphony and the new dramatic style heard in his first opera L'Orfeo. 'The Vespers' redefined what sacred music could sound like -... |
MILOSLAV KABELÁČ
Kabelác: Kinderchöre Kinderchor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Christian Lindhorst (conductor), Kammersymphonie Berlin [ Capriccio / 2 CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] Music for children plays an important role in Miloslav Kabeláč's artistic oeuvre. Especially in the early days after the communist coup in 1948, the composer devoted himself to this genre: "I regard composing for children as a 'touchstone' not only... |
Ludovico Einaudi
The Summer Portraits Live (2Lp) [ Decca / 2 LP - due 4/Sep/2026 ] Recorded live in London at The Royal Albert Hall in 2025, this new collection includes favourites from The Summer Portraits as well as much-loved classics such as 'I Giorni', 'Nuvole Bianche' and 'Experience'. |
