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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FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: The Complete Études Aaron Pilsan (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] Pianist Aaron Pilsan had two dreams in life: to record both books of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and Chopin's Études. These dreams have come true, as the Bach recordings have been released (Alpha 669 & 1034), and he now presents his recording of the... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Mémoire Alexandre Tharaud (piano) [ Erato / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] The music of Alexandre Tharaud's native France has always held a special place in his repertoire and his Erato discography. His latest album, Mémoire, presents a meticulously conceived programme of 27 short pieces by 27 different French composers.... |
LAZARIN / PIERRE WERDIER / LOUIS CONSTANTIN / PHILIPPE DE LA HIRE / GUILLIAUME DUMANOIR / WILLIAM YOUNG / ALESSANDRO STRADELLA / CARLO GESUALDO
Queen Christina Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen [ Fuga Libera / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] Discover the extraordinary life of Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689), one of the 17th century's most unconventional figures. Crowned at the age of six, she then abdicated when she was 28 and travelled from Stockholm to Rome, where she became a... |
Stephen Costello (tenor), Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra
Be My Love - A Tribute to Mario Lanza [ Delos / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] "As a tenor raised in Northeast Philadelphia, recording an album dedicated to Mario Lanza felt like coming home in the most profound way." This is how Stephen Costello introduces his second album on Delos, Be My Love. A homage to the great tenor,... |
JOSE ANTONIO de ALMEIDA PRADO
Almeida Prado: Piano Trios, Cello Sonata, Balada for Cello & Piano Emmanuele Baldini (violin) Rafael Cesario (cello), Sonia Rubinsky (piano) [ Naxos / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] José Antônio de Almeida Prado's music reflects a unique combination of influences, moving through different styles and techniques while always retaining a recognisably strong personal imprint. Chamber music accounts for a large part of Almeida... |
ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
Scarlatti: Il trionfo della Grazia Ensemble Céladon, Paulin Bündgen [ Ricercar / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] Alessandro Scarlatti's Il Trionfo della Grazia was first performed in Rome in 1685 and was such a huge success that the oratorio was regularly revived over a period of more than twenty years. Three manuscripts of it exist, one each in Rome, Modena... |
NICOLA ANTONIO PORPORA / GIUSEPPE TORELLI / TOMASO ALBINONI / GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL / GEMINIANO GIACOMELLI / JOHANN ADOLPH HASSE
Addio Amore Jeanine De Bique, Terry Wey, Kammerorchester Basel [ Pentatone / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] In Addio Amore, Kammerorchester Basel, soprano Jeanine De Bique and countertenor Terry Wey present a programme of searing intensity and refined expressive beauty, exploring the fragile threshold between love and loss in 18th-century opera. Inspired... |
ANONYMOUS / GUIRAUT D'ESPAIGNA / GHERARDELLO DA FIRENZE / GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT / FRANCESO LANDINI / GUILLAUME DU FAY / GUGLIELMO EBREO DA PESARO
Venite alla danza! La Reverdie [ Arcana / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] Venite alla danza! is the project with which La Reverdie intends to celebrate its 40th anniversary. Since 1986, the ensemble has explored a wide range of vocal and instrumental repertoires from the 13th to the 15th century but has never attempted a... |
CIPRIANI POTTER
Potter: Piano Works Luke Jones (piano) [ Naxos / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] Even though Cipriani Potter's desire for lessons with Beethoven did not materialise, he benefitted from the great composer's advice and showed in his own music a thorough understanding of German models. As an admired soloist he also introduced piano... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Neeme Jarvi conducts Shostakovich Lydia Mordkovitch (violin), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / 8 CD Box Set - due 25/Sep/2026 ] Estonian conductor Neeme Järvi was born in 1937 in Tallin, where he studied music before moving to Leningrad to study at the conservatory under Yevgeny Mravinsky. He returned to Tallinn and held posts with the Estonian Radio and Television Symphony... |
GERALD FINZI
Finzi: The Dance Continued Nick Pritchard (tenor), Ian Tindale (piano) [ Signum / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] Marking 70 years since the death of Gerald Finzi, duo partners Nick Pritchard and Ian Tindale reunite for a collection of works for tenor and piano, including 5 new unpublished songs from the Bodleian Library |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / HEITOR VILLA‑LOBOS / FRANCIS POULENC
Prokofiev - Villa-Lobos - Poulenc ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Simone Menezes [ Fuga Libera / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] The classicism that emerged in Vienna with Mozart and Haydn was later revisited by Prokofiev in Russia, Poulenc in France, and most unexpectedly, Villa-Lobos in Brazil. Each composer reimagined this tradition through a sparkling, modern, and... |
ANONYMOUS / ARCHIE FISHER / JERRY HOLLAND / JAMES OSWALD / NIEL GOW / THOMAS D'URFEY / WILLIAM THOMSON / FRANCESCO GEMINIANI / THOMAS RAVENCROFT etc
Songs from the North Country Rosemary Standley, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, François Lazarevitch [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] As great lovers of traditional music, Rosemary Standley and François Lazarevitch were bound to meet one day. The founding leader of Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien proposed collaborating on a programme of English ballads with the iconic singer from the... |
FEDERICO MOMPOU / DÉODAT DE SÉVERAC / ISAAC ALBÉNIZ
Cataluña Wilhem Latchoumia [ La Dolce Volta / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] "Musical sound waves circulate through space. From which is derived that seductive, yet also elusive, unstable, phenomenon, known as music." Thus wrote Vladimir Jankélévitch in his essay La Présence lointaine (Distant Presence), exploring the... |
SAMUEL BARBER / JOHN ZORN / PHILIP GLASS
Barber & Glass: Violinkonzerte / Zorn: Partita for the Firebird Geneva Lewis (violin), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Gemma New [ Delos / CD - due 2/Oct/2026 ] A BBC New Generation Artist in 2022-24, violinist Geneva Lewis is also the recipient of a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant, a 2022 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award, and has been Musical America's New Artist of the Month. For her recording debut on Delos,... |
TRADITIONAL / HEDWIGE CHRÉTIEN / FRANZ SCHUBERT / CAMERON BILES‑LIDDELL / ALMA MAHLER‑WERFEL / ETHEL SMYTH / EDWARD ELGAR / HAMILTON HARTY
The Deeps Have Music Beth Taylor; Hamish Brown [ Linn Records / CD - due 2/Oct/2026 ] Mezzo-soprano Beth Taylor and pianist Hamish Brown make their debut recital album with Linn Records. A rising vocal star, Taylor came to international prominence as a finalist of the 2023 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, and has since... |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH / DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE
Buxtehude: Northern Dawn - Lute Transcriptions Elias Conrad (lute) [ Antarctica / CD - due 2/Oct/2026 ] Northern Dawn reveals the music of Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707) through the intimate voice of the Baroque lute. In his transcriptions of keyboard and instrumental music, Elias Conrad traces a five-part, cantata-like journey of seeking, longing,... |
ADRIAN WILLAERT / CIPRIANO DE RORE / FRANCESCO BENDUSI / COSTANZO ANTEGNATI / GIOVANNI BASSANO / ANDREA GABRIELI / GIOVANNI CROCE / GIOVANNI GABRIELI
Sulla piazza Consort La Capriola [ Ricercar / CD - due 2/Oct/2026 ] A consort of violins makes its way through the Venetian night beneath the arcades of St Mark's Square. From the basilica to aristocratic salons, from the streets to the taverns, the violinists follow the rhythms of daily life; the violin, a... |
JEAN‑SÉBASTIEN BACH / HEITOR VILLA‑LOBOS / JEAN‑PHILIPPE RAMEAU / ANTONIO VIVALDI / ANONYME
Polaris Duo Kiasma, Pierre Fontenelle, Frin Wolter [ Cypres Records / CD - due 2/Oct/2026 ] Since its inception in 2016, the Duo Kiasma has shared a common delight: to surprise audiences through the unexpected pairing of the cello and the accordion. Indeed, what could be more unusual than the combination of the 'little prince' of classical... |
Gamper, Maren
Erdenschwere [ Carpe Diem / CD - due 2/Oct/2026 ] Swiss-French pianist and theatre artist Maren Gamper presents her first solo album dedicated to the work of Swiss writer, journalist and poet Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908-1942). The album is an improvised reflection on Schwarzenbach's text... |
