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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ERNST von DOHNÁNYI
Dohnányi: Symphony No. 2 in E major, Op. 40 Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie, Rheinland-Pfalz, Michael Francis [ Capriccio / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] Although Hungarian composer Ernst von Dohnányi was one of the most versatile and influential musicians of his time, his works are seldom played nowadays. The Capriccio label is helping to rectify that situation with a series of recordings of his... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: String Quartets Vol.3 Doric String Quartet [ Chandos / 2 CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] The Doric String Quartet continues its cycle of Beethoven quartets with this third volume, featuring a mixture of works from the composer's early, middle, and late periods. Notable for the piano start of each of its four movements, op.18 no.3 also... |
C.P.E. BACH
C. P. E. Bach: Cello Concertos Elinor Frey (cello), Accademia de' Dissonanti [ Channel Classics / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] The Canadian-American cellist Elinor Frey performs and conducts Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's three cello concertos with the Accademia de' Dissonanti. These dramatic works, rich in turbulent exchanges yet also in tender moments, bear witness to C. P.... |
FANNY & FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Nui Esmé Quartet [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] This album - the third to be released on Alpha Classics - is entitled Nui (a Korean word meaning 'sister'). The Esmé Quartet pays tribute to Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, with Fanny's Quartet in E-Flat major, written during the final year of her life,... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART / JOSEPH HAYDN / FABIAN FIORINI
Missa Brevis: Mozart, Haydn & Fiorini Etesiane Orchestra, Gabriel Hollander [ Cypres Records / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] There are projects that spring from a hunch and which, driven by conviction and hard work, eventually come to seem entirely natural. The 'Messes Brèves' project is a bold initiative that brings together works rarely performed together, breathing new... |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: 1610 VESPERS I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth, The English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble [ Coro / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers is the landmark work of early Baroque music. It sits at the crossroads of Renaissance polyphony and the new dramatic style heard in his first opera L'Orfeo. 'The Vespers' redefined what sacred music could sound like -... |
MILOSLAV KABELÁČ
Kabelác: Kinderchöre Kinderchor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Christian Lindhorst (conductor), Kammersymphonie Berlin [ Capriccio / 2 CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] Music for children plays an important role in Miloslav Kabeláč's artistic oeuvre. Especially in the early days after the communist coup in 1948, the composer devoted himself to this genre: "I regard composing for children as a 'touchstone' not only... |
Ludovico Einaudi
The Summer Portraits Live (2Lp) [ Decca / 2 LP - due 4/Sep/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 (Cd) [ Decca / CD - due 4/Sep/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'. |
MODEST MUSSORGSKY / MAURICE RAVEL / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Tableaux Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Joseph Swensen [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] This album centres on Ravel: Ravel the composer with Ma Mère l'Oye - originally a suite for piano four hands composed in 1910, orchestrated the following year to become a ballet… and Ravel the arranger with Mussorgsky's famous Pictures at an... |
Queen Elisabeth Competition: Cello 2026
Belgisches Nationalorchester/Byun, Andrew Ilhoon/Dietlin, Clara/Grolée, Antoine de/Hermus, Antony/Hoppe, Thomas/Kim, Tae-Yeon/Kitamura, Yo/Ko, Leland/ [ Queen Elisabeth Comp / 4 CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] This box set from the third cello session of the Queen Elisabeth Competition brings together the 12 prize-winners who offered audiences exceptional musical moments throughout the competition. It opens with the concertos performed by the first four... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT / CESAR FRANCK / SERGEY RACHMANINOV / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Transcriptions For Two Guitars Bluvenduo (Sebastian Rhodes, Zhanxiang Shi) [ Naxos / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] The prizewinning guitar duo Bluvenduo present a versatile selection of transcriptions for two guitars, several of which have never previously been arranged for this format. The freshness and sense of discovery in Schubert's Sonata in A major is a... |
LEOŠ JANÁČEK / LEO TOLSTOY / VÍTĚZSLAVA KAPRÁLOVÁ
the earth trembled Signum Quartett [ Pentatone / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] Signum Quartett presents the album the earth trembled, recontextualising the visionary string quartets of Leoš Janáček alongside the striking String Quartet Op. 8 by Vítězslava Kaprálová. Janáček's lifelong engagement with folk traditions shaped... |
J.S. BACH
Bach: Köthener Trauermusik Solomon's Knot [ Linn Records / 2 CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] For its first album on Linn, Solomon's Knot performs one of Bach's most fascinating works. Although not a single note of the Köthener Trauermusik survives, almost every other detail of the performance does: we know its date, the first performers, the... |
ROLAND DE LASSUS
Roland de Lassus: Requiem Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier [ Ricercar / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] Roland de Lassus composed more than eighty masses, of which only two are Requiems; it is not possible to link them to the funerals of any particular individuals. The four-part Missa pro defunctis was published in Paris in 1577. The library of an... |
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA
Piazzolla: 4 Seasons of Buenos Aires Xavier Phillips, Lausanne Soloists [ La Dolce Volta / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] Recognisable throughout the world and marked by an unmistakable authenticity, Astor Piazzolla's musical language has achieved a truly universal resonance. Following on from Carlos Gardel, the Argentine bandoneonist and composer reinvented the... |
ROXANNA PANUFNIK
Panufnik: Love Songs & Lullabies Zeynep Ozsuca (piano), Peter Moore (trombone), Mary Bevan (soprano), Matthew Barley (cello), Brodsky Quartet [ Signum / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] Love songs and lullabies from all over the world, composed or reimagined by Roxanna Panufnik. Collaborating on new musical genres but retaining her unique and very personal harmonic and melodic style. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Je chante la nuit Agathe Peyrat, Pierre Cussac [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 11/Sep/2026 ] The soprano (and ukulele player) Agathe Peyrat and the accordionist (and singer) Pierre Cussac form a unique duo, free-spirited and open to blending genres. In this programme, they embrace a classical repertoire, while putting their own spin on... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Intermezzi, Op. 117 - Klavierstücke, Opp. 118 & 119 Anna Fedorova (piano) [ Channel Classics / CD - due 11/Sep/2026 ] Anna Fedorova presents the late keyboard works of Brahms. "These works feel as if he is speaking to us in a more private voice than ever before. The music is deeply personal, full of tenderness, nostalgia, love, and quiet reflection" says Fedorova.... |
ERNEST BLOCH
Bloch: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 'Poème mystique' Spectrum Concerts Berlin, Boris Brovtsyn (violin), Dian Ketler (piano) [ Naxos / CD - due 11/Sep/2026 ] The full range of Ernest Bloch's music for violin and piano can be heard on this album, which journeys from his fiery early works to one of his last compositions. Both violin sonatas explore personal themes: the First, in its barbarism, alludes to... |
