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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HAYDN
Haydn: Keyboard Works Vol. 2 Peter Donohoe (piano) [ Signum / 2 CD - due 12/Jun/2026 ] This second volume of Peter Donohoe's Haydn Keyboard Works series brings together a wide-ranging selection of sonatas, partitas, capriccios and fantasias spanning almost the composer's entire career. From the early Partita in G major to the dramatic... |
JOSEF GABRIEL RHEINBERGER / FRANK MARTIN
Double Choir Masses SWR Vokalensemble, Yuval Weinberg (conductor) [ SWR / CD - due 12/Jun/2026 ] Rheinberger composed his Cantus Missae in 1878, during his tenure as director of chapel music at the court of King Ludwig II. The work embodies a successful reconciliation of the conflicting artistic currents of his time, and it is precisely this... |
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ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 7 (Remastered - Hybrid SACD) Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan [ Warner Classics / CD - due 19/Jun/2026 ] These recordings exemplify Karajan's mastery of the expansive forms and extensive forces of late Romanticism. The two Bruckner symphonies recorded in 1970 and 1971 show just how much the orchestra's musical signature had changed since the recordings... |
JAN CRAS / EUGENE YSAYE / JEAN FRANCAIX
Conversations A Trois (Cras, Ysaye & Francaix) Boccherini Trio [ BIS SACD / CD - due 19/Jun/2026 ] Following a first release devoted to string trios by Hungarian composers (BIS-2107), the Trio Boccherini now presents a programme dedicated to works composed in France and Belgium during the first half of the 20th century. In a culture that so... |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Sonatas Denis Kozhukhin (piano) [ Pentatone / CD - due 19/Jun/2026 ] Denis Kozhukhin presents a new album of Haydn: Sonatas, offering a fresh and illuminating journey through the composer's keyboard repertoire. Haydn's keyboard sonatas brim with invention, drama, and wit, matching the brilliance of his symphonies and... |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Works for Piano Duet and Two Pianos, Volume 2 Hélène Mercier (piano), Louis Lortie (piano) [ Chandos / CD - due 19/Jun/2026 ] Alongside their respective solo careers, Hélène Mercier and Louis Lortie regularly meet to perform as a highly sought-after piano duo. Both born and raised in Montreal, they have formed a musical partnership that goes back to the 1980s, developing... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT / PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Schubert / Liszt: Wanderer Fantasy - Tchaikovsky: Concert Fantasy Lukas Geniušas (piano), Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen, Modestas Pitr?nas [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 19/Jun/2026 ] Pianist Lukas Geniušas pays tribute to the fantasy, a form synonymous with freedom, dear to the Romantics. Schubert sets the figure of the wanderer to music in his Lied Der Wanderer, which, a few years later, would give rise to a large-scale... |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Inexorable amour. Haendel: Cantates virtuoses Marie Lys (soprano),Gaétan Jarry, Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / CD - due 19/Jun/2026 ] Under Italian skies, the young Handel chiselled the human soul into music, providing Roman palaces with secular cantatas of incandescent virtuosity. This theatre of passions explores the thousand faces of love: from the torments of the dizzying Il... |
IVAN WYSCHNEGRADSKY
Wyschnegradsky: Works for Solo Piano Martine Joste (piano) [ Shiiin / CD - due 19/Jun/2026 ] Now recognised as one of the pioneers of microtonal music and performed throughout the world, Ivan Wyschnegradsky nevertheless composed pieces for solo piano, an instrument he particularly loved, throughout his life. This recording is unique: it... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 KV 37 & 27 KV 595, Clarinet Concerto KV 622 Mishka Rushdie Momen (piano), Blaz Sparovec (clarinet),, ORF Radio Symphonieorchester Wien, Howard Griffiths [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 19/Jun/2026 ] This new volume in the 'Next Generation Mozart Soloists' series features Mozart's very first piano concerto (K. 37), composed when he was just 11 years old, and his very last, the Concerto K. 595, finished on 5 January 1791, exactly 11 months before... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Journey with Beethoven Naruhiko Kawaguchi (fortepiano) [ Signum / CD - due 19/Jun/2026 ] Naruhiko Kawaguchi's A Journey with Beethoven presents a thoughtfully curated selection of shorter piano works and arrangements that reveal the composer's diverse character beyond the sonatas. Performed on three historical fortepianos from the... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Complete Violin Concertos Ning Feng (violin), Kammerakademie Potsdam, Suyeon Kang, Susanne Von Gutzeit [ Channel Classics / 2 CD - due 19/Jun/2026 ] Violinist Ning Feng performs the Complete Mozart Violin Concertos with the Kammerakademie Potsdam on Channel Classics Records. These 5 concertos were written because Mozart's father Leopold was frustrated at the thought of Wolfgang on his travels... |
CARL ORFF
Orff: Carmina Burana Chen Reiss, Reginald Mobley, Andrzej Filończyk, Audivi, Detroit Opera Youth Chorus, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Jader Bignamini [ Pentatone / CD - due 26/Jun/2026 ] The Detroit Symphony Orchestra and its Music Director Jader Bignamini present Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, one of the most electrifying works of the twentieth century. Drawing on thirteenth-century manuscripts from Benediktbeuern Abbey, Orff... |
JOHANN SIMON MAYR
Mayr: Giuseppe Freya Apfelstaedt, Markus Schäfer, Philipp Polhardt, Niklas Mallmann, Matthias Hoffmann, Fang Zhi, Micha Matthäus, Konstantin Igl, Simon Mayr [ Naxos / CD - due 26/Jun/2026 ] Giuseppe was composed by Mayr in 1829 for graduation concerts at the academy of music in Bergamo over which he presided. His inspiration was a Biblical opera that had won great popularity, Méhul's Joseph, which had premiered in Paris in 1807,... |
FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Music for Two Pianos Antony Gray (piano), Rob Hao (piano) [ Divine Art / CD - due 26/Jun/2026 ] Divine Art is delighted to present Francis Poulenc: Music for Two Pianos performed by pianists Antony Gray and Rob Hao. Among the highlights of this superb new release are the first commercial audio recording of Antony Gray's own transcription for... |
CAMARGO GUARNIERI
Guarnieri: Pedro Malazarte Juliana Taino [ Naxos / CD - due 26/Jun/2026 ] Camargo Guarnieri loved writing for the human voice, composing hundreds of vocal works over the course of his long and distinguished career. The works in this programme all use texts byMário de Andrade - a hugely influential writer who was... |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: The Bells, Symphonic Dances Kristina Mkhitaryan (soprano), Dmytro Popov (tenor), Alexander Vinogradov (bass), Netherlands Radio Choir, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra [ Pentatone / CD - due 26/Jun/2026 ] The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Netherlands Radio Choir, under Chief Conductor Karina Canellakis, present Rachmaninov: The Bells and Symphonic Dances, a powerful and deeply expressive interpretation of these late masterpieces by... |
LUDOVICO EINAUDI
The Summer Portraits Live (LP) Ludovico Einaudi [ Decca / 2 LP - due 26/Jun/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'. |
LUDOVICO EINAUDI
The Summer Portraits Live Ludovico Einaudi [ Decca / CD - due 26/Jun/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'. |
