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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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Complete Flute Quartets Anna Besson (flute), A nocte temporis [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 28/Aug/2026 ] It was during his stay in Mannheim between October 1777 and March 1778 that Mozart received commissions for two string quartets with flute (K285 and K285a), an instrument that was in vogue at the time, likely because Prince-Elector Karl Theodor of... |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Marches Christopher Williams (piano) [ Naxos / CD - due 28/Aug/2026 ] Franz Liszt's lifelong engagement with the March is the focus of this volume. The March form offered a medium laden with public meaning allied to the possibility of reinvention and harmonic adventurousness. The symphonic depth of the... |
VANNI MORETTO / GIOVANNI SOLLIMA / FRANCESCO ZAPPA / FRANK ZAPPA
Wild Love Giovanni Sollima (cello), Il Pomo d'Oro (orchestra), Vanni Moretto [ Arcana / CD - due 28/Aug/2026 ] Frank and Francesco. It all began with a misunderstanding. In the early 1980s Frank Zappa came across an entry on "Zappa" in the New Grove Dictionary, only to discover it concerned an obscure 18th-century Milanese composer of almost the same name.... |
ARTHUR FOOTE
Foote: The Complete Cello Works Julian Schwarz (cello), Marika Bournaki (piano), Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra [ Delos / CD - due 28/Aug/2026 ] Cellist Julian Schwarz makes his debut on Delos with a trailblazing album featuring Arthur Foote's complete cello works, including the world-premiere commercial recording of his Cello Concerto. As the only composer of the Boston Six to have been... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / EUSEBIUS MANDYCZEWSKI
Melancolie: Brahms, Mandyczewski Konstantin Krimmel (baritone) Ammiel Bushakevitz (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 28/Aug/2026 ] "Having different backgrounds is an asset. Growing up in a multilingual environment fosters cognitive flexibility... I was fortunate enough to live between Romania and Germany," says Konstantin Krimmel. Together with his longtime musical partner... |
JOHANN MICHAEL NICOLAI / ANONYMOUS
Nicolai: Sonatas & Suites for Viols Francois Joubert-Caillet (bass viol), L'Acheron (viol consort) [ Ricercar / CD - due 28/Aug/2026 ] The viola da gamba enjoyed a degree of popularity in Germany during the 17th century. Not only was it often paired with the violin in compositions in which the two instruments engaged in a dialogue, but it also had its own repertoire. Johann Michael... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Don Giovanni Budapest Festival Orchestra, Andrè Schuen (baritone), Iván Fischer [ Channel Classics / 3 CD - due 28/Aug/2026 ] Iván Fischer and Channel Classics release a recording of Mozart's Don Giovanni with the Budapest Festival Orchestra. Recorded live in October 2025 at the spectacular Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, this is the first volume of a Mozart trilogy, with The... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (On Period Instruments) Mahler Academy Orchestra, Philipp von Steinaecker [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 28/Aug/2026 ] Following the critical and public success of Mahler's Symphony no.9, Philipp von Steinaecker and the Mahler Academy Orchestra continue their recording of Mahler's symphonies on period instruments with the Fifth Symphony. For this recording, the new... |
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... |
