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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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
A German Spirit - 17th Century Music For the Time of Witsun and Trinitatis Margaretha Consort, Marit Broekroelofs [ Naxos / CD - due 11/Sep/2026 ] With A German Spirit, the Margaretha Consort completes the trilogy following A German Christmas (2018) and A German Passion (2023). This release, too, is more than a historical reconstruction: it is a living musical experience in which sound,... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Complete Sacred Choral Works 1 WDR Radio Choir, Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Christoph Poppen [ Naxos / CD - due 11/Sep/2026 ] Sacred choral music played a critical role in Mendelssohn's life. The steady stream of Psalm settings made throughout his career provided a means through which he could make heartfelt responses to the texts of his faith. This first volume in the... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Symphonies nos. 1 & 2 Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Kent Nagano [ BIS / 2 CD - due 11/Sep/2026 ] Recipient of the prestigious Brahms Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Brahms Society in 2024, Kent Nagano, leads the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra, of which he was principal conductor from 2015 until 2025, in the first two symphonies by the... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 (Live) San Diego Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Payare [ Delos / CD - due 11/Sep/2026 ] The San Diego Symphony Orchestra is one of the United States' leading orchestras. Led by Music and Artistic Director Rafael Payare, the Orchestra has experienced an explosive artistic expansion, transforming its repertoire and forging a distinctive... |
PAQUITO D'RIVERA / OMAR MASSA / YAMANDU COSTA / SÉRGIO ASSAD
Horizons: Live at Festival PAAX GNP Alondra de la Parra; The Impossible Orchestra [ Fuga Libera / CD - due 18/Sep/2026 ] Fuga Latina is a new collection from Outhere Music dedicated to honouring the voice of Latin America in all its richness and complexity; its composers, musicians and creators, its diverse traditions, and the creative dialogues it has with the world,... |
FRANZ LISZT / PETER CORNELIUS
Liszt: Via Crucis Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Peter Dijkstra [ BR Klassik / CD - due 18/Sep/2026 ] The church music Franz Liszt composed in his later years was always innovative, radical and thoroughly idiosyncratic, yet was frequently and unjustly overlooked in the repertoire. Now, the Bavarian Radio Chorus, conducted by Peter Dijkstra, has taken... |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Giulio Cesare The English Concert, Harry Bicket [ Linn Records / 3 CD - due 18/Sep/2026 ] Alexandria, 48 BC: Caesar lands in Egypt and is handed the severed head of his rival Pompey. What follows is an opera of power, revenge and seduction; Cleopatra and her brother Ptolemy at war for the throne, Pompey's widow and son bent on vengeance,... |
CLAUDIO MERULO / CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI / ANONYMOUS / GIOVANNI GABRIELI / GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA PALESTRINA
Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine InAlto, Lambert Colson [ Ricercar / 2 CD - due 18/Sep/2026 ] The 1610 Vespers, composed at a pivotal moment in Claudio Monteverdi's life when he sought not only to establish his new musical language but also to obtain high-placed employment, take on new significance here. Based on a renewed philological... |
CHRISTOPHER SIMPSON
Simpson: The Seasons, The Monthes & other divisions of Time - II Les Lucioles [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 18/Sep/2026 ] Twenty years have passed since the release of The Seasons, The Monthes & other divisions of Time - I (ALPHA1289, also reissued) by the violist Sophie Watillon, who died prematurely a year after the album's release. Lucile Boulanger and the... |
HEINRICH IGNAZ FRANZ BIBER / JOHANN HEINRICH SCHMELZER / JOHANN PAUL VON WESTHOFF / JOHANN JOSEPH VILSMAYR / SAMUEL CAPRICORNUS / JOHANN PHILIPP KRIEG
Aurora Germanica Louise Ayrton (violin) [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / CD - due 18/Sep/2026 ] Long before Bach's genius came to the fore, a line of intrepid minds patiently paved the way for the dawn of the Baroque violin in the Holy Roman Empire, lifting it out of the shadow of the voice to establish it as a commanding solo instrument. From... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 KV 466 & 22 KV 482 Marie-Ange Nguci (piano), Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Howard Griffiths [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 18/Sep/2026 ] The sixteenth volume of the 'Next Generation Mozart Soloists' series - the penultimate instalment in this collection dedicated to the younger generation of performers, produced in collaboration with the Orpheum Foundation - is fast becoming... |
FERDINAND HEROLD
Hérold: Zampa ou La Fiancée de marbre (CD & Book) Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Erik Nielsen; Julien Henric; Hélène Carpentier; Cyrille Dubois; Héloïse Mas; François Roug [ Bru Zane / 2 CD/Book - due 18/Sep/2026 ] Zampa enjoyed a triumph at the Opéra-Comique on 3 May 1831. This was probably because Mélesville's libretto displayed some resemblances to Mozart's Don Giovanni: a godless and lawless protagonist, the pirate Zampa, attempts to force Camille,... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN / EDVARD GRIEG
Mendelssohn & Grieg: String Quartets Opus13 [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 18/Sep/2026 ] The Opus13 Quartet was formed in 2014 and takes its name from the String Quartet in A minor, Op. 13, by Felix Mendelssohn, a passionate early work and the first piece they ever played together. Comprising two Norwegians (violinists Sonoko Miriam... |
FRANZ LISZT / JOHN ADAMS
Liszt: Dante-Sinfonie / Adams: The Black Gondola Choeur Symphonique de Namur, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liege, Gergely Madaras (cond.) [ BIS / CD - due 18/Sep/2026 ] Following their critically acclaimed recording of the Faust Symphony (BIS2510), the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, conducted by Gergely Madaras and joined by the Choeur Symphonique de Namur, now presents Liszt's Dante Symphony - a work... |
AFTAB DARVISHI / ANNELIES VAN PARYS / CALLIOPE TSOUPAKI / AÏDA SHIRAZI / SASKIA VENEGAS
They Have Waited Long Enough Ragazze Quartet; Katharine Dain; Osama Abdulrasol; Elif Canfezâ Gündüz; Agate Kruszewska; Anna voor de Wind [ Channel Classics / CD - due 18/Sep/2026 ] The music on this album grew from the idea for a new song cycle in which women - so often silent in history and mythology - were to speak for themselves and in which all material would be created and performed by women. The Ragazze Quartet found a... |
FRANZ LISZT / ALEXANDER SCRIABIN / KAIJA SAARIAHO
Passage. A Spiritual Odyssey Salome Jordania [ La Dolce Volta / CD - due 18/Sep/2026 ] With Passage, her debut solo album, the Georgian pianist Salomé Jordania (née 1996) presents a spiritual and vertiginous journey by way of the music of Franz Liszt, Alexander Scriabin and Kaija Saariaho. Moving between mysticism, darkness and the... |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY / MAURICE RAVEL / HUGO WOLF / RICHARD STRAUSS / ALEXANDER VON ZEMLINSKY / MEL BONIS / LOUISE DIDIER / FRANCIS POULENC etc
Contes Sandrine Piau; David Kadouch [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 18/Sep/2026 ] Sandrine Piau and David Kadouch are reuniting for a project that the French soprano conceived as the second part of a diptych begun with Voyage intime (Alpha 911). This time we enter the world of childhood, but even though this album is called... |
FRANK LOESSER
Loesser: Guys and Dolls - A Musical Fable of Broadway Sinfonia of London, John Wilson (conductor) [ Chandos / 2 CD - due 18/Sep/2026 ] John Wilson and Sinfonia of London continue their series of complete recordings of shows from the golden age of Broadway with Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls. The show opened in 1950, ran for 1,200 performances, and won the Tony Award for Best... |
Trio Azura
Higdon / Harbison / Ives: Storytellers [ Delos / CD - due 18/Sep/2026 ] Trio Azura's Storytellers launches the Colburn Collection: an exclusive new recording partnership between Delos and the Colburn School, Los Angeles, whose main design is to be a powerful springboard for the next generation of musicians. Nearly a... |
The Mozartists, Ian Page (conductor)
Sturm und Drang Vol 4 [ Signum / CD - due 19/Sep/2026 ] The fourth instalment in the Mozartists projected seven-volume series conducted by Ian Page pairs two turbulent minor-key symphonies by Kraus and Haydn with operatic scenes featuring soprano Alexandra Lowe. Kraus's rarely heard Symphony in C minor,... |
