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
Cantà in cumpagnia Camerata Figarella [ Carpe Diem / CD - due 30/Oct/2026 ] In the album "Cantà in cumpagnia", Corsican vocal tradition and the art music of the Italian Renaissance come together in a unique way. Four singers and four wind players combine medieval lauds, madrigals, and motets with the living tradition of... |
GEORGS PELĒCIS / ANDRIUS ŽLABYS / ARVO PÄRT
Pages Of A Biography Gidon Kremer (violin), Kremerata Baltica [ ECM New Series / CD - due 30/Oct/2026 ] Gidon Kremer and his Kremerata Baltica ensemble continue the longstanding relationship with ECM's New Series on Pages of a Biography, bringing together music by Georgs Pelēcis, Andrius Žlabys and Arvo Pärt. Pärt's Passacaglia, written for Kremer's... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony no.2 Jennifer Davis (soprano), Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano), Edinburgh Festival Chorus, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles [ Onyx / CD - due 30/Oct/2026 ] The composition of Mahler's Second Symphony took six years, starting life as a symphonic poem 'Totenfeier' completed in 1888. In 1890 Mahler added additional movements, completing what had become his Second Symphony in 1894. The opening movement,... |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN / EUGENE GOOSSENS / JOHN IRELAND / WILLIAM WALTON
Britten: Serenade; Goossens: By the Tarn; Ireland: Concertino pastorale; Walton: Sonata for Strings Laurence Kilsby (tenor), Sinfonia of London, Christopher Parkes (horn), John Wilson [ Chandos / CD - due 30/Oct/2026 ] For this third album of English music for strings, John Wilson and Sinfonia of London have built a fascinating programme featuring four composers whose lives and works were intertwined. The centrepiece of the programme is Britten's Serenade for... |
JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY / AGOSTINO STEFFANI / JOHN SIGISMOND COUSSER / HENRY PURCELL / ARTEMIO MOTTA / GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Under the Cover Les Muffatti [ Ramée / CD - due 30/Oct/2026 ] Jean-Sigismond Cousser, born Johann Sigismund Kusser in Hungary and died John Sigismond Cousser in Ireland, began his career in Stuttgart, held various positions at several German courts before being appointed director of the famous Opera am... |
MISSY MAZZOLI
Mazzoli: The Listeners Lyric Opera of Chicago, Enrique Mazzola (conductor) [ Pentatone / 2 CD - due 30/Oct/2026 ] Lyric Opera of Chicago, under the leadership of General Director John Mangum and the baton of Music Director Enrique Mazzola, presents the world-premiere recording of The Listeners, a striking new opera by Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek,... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" Mari Eriksmoen; Anna Lucia Richter; Zürcher Sing-Akademie; Florian Helgath; Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich; Paavo Järvi [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 30/Oct/2026 ] For this fourth volume of their complete recording of Mahler's symphonies, Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich present a monumental work: Symphony No. 2, with its five movements and colossal orchestra, complemented by a choir and soloists:... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" (LP) Mari Eriksmoen; Anna Lucia Richter; Zürcher Sing-Akademie; Florian Helgath; Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich; Paavo Järvi [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - due 30/Oct/2026 ] For this fourth volume of their complete recording of Mahler's symphonies, Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich present a monumental work: Symphony No. 2, with its five movements and colossal orchestra, complemented by a choir and soloists:... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2 Martin Helmchen (piano) [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - due 30/Oct/2026 ] Martin Helmchen continues his complete recording of Schubert's piano sonatas, comprising four double albums to be released between now and 2028, the bicentenary of the composer's death. This volume includes Sonatas D. 568 (1817), D. 845 (1825) and... |
MARCEL DUPRÉ / FRANZ LISZT
Dupré & Liszt Olivier Latry (organ), Kahchun Wong, Dresdner Philharmonie [ La Dolce Volta / CD - due 30/Oct/2026 ] A central figure of the organ in the first half of the twentieth century, Marcel Dupré (1886-1971) brought the French symphonic organ to international prominence and trained several generations of leading organists. In this recording, Olivier Latry... |
GIAN CARLO MENOTTI
Menotti: Orchestral Discoveries Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Francesco Cilluffo (conductor) [ Orfeo / CD - due 30/Oct/2026 ] Gian Carlo Menotti was born in Italy in 1911, the sixth of ten children. A child prodigy, he started composing at the age of seven, and was encouraged and supported by his mother, who was a keen and talented amateur musician. Following the unexpected... |
ERNEST GUIRAUD / AUGUSTA HOLMÈS / FLORENT SCHMITT / MARIE JAËLL / CHARLES GOUNOD / GASTON CARRAUD / GUY ROPARTZ / CHARLES SILVER
Phantoms. French Symphonic Poems Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Pierre Dumoussaud [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 30/Oct/2026 ] "A genre of high fantasy, complete with its host of ghosts, demons, spirits and witches, usurped the place of the magical elements of Baroque opera in France during the 19th century," writes Alexandre Dratwicki in the introduction to this programme,... |
MAURICE RAVEL / IGOR STRAVINSKY
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe / Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Rafael Payare [ Pentatone / 2 CD - due 30/Oct/2026 ] Under the direction of Music and Artistic Director Rafael Payare, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal presents two landmark works created for Sergei Diaghilev's legendary Ballets russes: Maurice Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé and Igor Stravinsky's Le... |
CARL MARIA VON WEBER
Weber & The Clarinet: Complete Works Pierre Génisson (clarinet), Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Quartet 212, Frank Braley (piano) [ Erato / 2 CD - due 30/Oct/2026 ] "Weber was the composer who truly established the clarinet as a major virtuoso instrument while revealing its uniquely expressive and poetic qualities," says Pierre Génisson, praised by Gramophone for his "searching eloquence" and the "magical... |
J.S. BACH
Bach: Partitas for Viola da Gamba Teodoro Baù (viola da gamba) [ Arcana / CD - due 30/Oct/2026 ] Johann Sebastian Bach's Partitas for solo violin BWV 1002, 1004, and 1006 are remarkably visionary works. Within the established framework of the dance suite, Bach pushes the expressive and technical possibilities of the instrument to unprecedented... |
IGOR STRAVINSKY / ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV / REINHOLD GLIÈRE / BORIS ASAFIEV / NIKOLAI TCHEREPNIN / VALERY GAVRILIN / DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH etc
Anthology of Russian Ballet Music Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra, Dmitry Filatov [ Fuga Libera / CD - due 30/Oct/2026 ] The music on this album reflects the rich tradition of Russian ballet, from 19th-century classics such as Swan Lake to the innovations of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and the ballets of the Soviet era. While ballet music had long been treated as... |
HANS NEWSIDLER / JOHANNES BACH / HEINRICH BACH / JOHANN MICHAEL BACH / JOHANN CHRISTOPH BACH / GEORG CHRISTOPH BACH / C. BACHŸ / JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Ancestors of J. S. Bach Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier, Cindy Castillo, Clematis [ Ricercar / 6 CD - due 30/Oct/2026 ] The rich patrimony of works by the ancestors of Johann Sebastian Bach has been a focus of Ricercar's work since its founding in the early 1980s, with recordings made by Philippe Herreweghe's Collegium Vocale and the Ricercar Consort. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Piano Trios, Vol. 3 Busch Trio [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 6/Nov/2026 ] For this third volume of their complete recording of Beethoven's piano trios, the Busch Trio presents the famous Trio in D Major, known as the 'Ghost' - a title which, according to Czerny, is likely a reference to Shakespeare and, in the slow... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Canto da Saudade Cármelo de los Santos, Ney Fialkow [ Fuga Libera / CD - due 6/Nov/2026 ] "Cármelo de los Santos and Ney Fialkow follow their award-winning album ""Sonatas Brasileiras"" with a colorful exploration of unjustly neglected works for violin and piano by Brazilian composers. ""Canto da Saudade"" delineates a sonic map that... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 Czech Philharmonic, Semyon Bychkov [ Pentatone / 2 CD - due 6/Nov/2026 ] Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic present two of Dmitri Shostakovich's most powerful symphonic statements: the Fifth and Seventh Symphonies. For Bychkov, no music is more essential or closer to the bone than that of Shostakovich. He and the... |
