The following classical CD titles are due for release / re-release in the near future.
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MARK ANDRE / NIKOLAUS BRASS / KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
Musica Viva 52 - Andre, Brass, Stockhausen: Works for Solo Double Bass Frank Reinecke (double bass) [ BR Klassik / CD - due 11/Sep/2026 ] The latest musica viva CD presents three contemporary works for double-bass, performed by the renowned double bassist Frank Reinecke (born 1960), who was a member of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1984 to 2024 and is in great demand at... |
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FRANZ LISZT / RICHARD WAGNER / ALEXANDER VON ZEMLINSKY / WA;TER BRAUNFELS / ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD / HUGO WOLF
Tristan Generation Juliette Journaux (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 11/Sep/2026 ] Following Wanderer Without Words (Alpha 984), which demonstrated her talents as a transcriber and pianist - "we applaud both the skill of the composition and the performance, which alternates between subtle gestures and flashes of passion", wrote... |
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GEROGE ENESCU
Enescu: String Octet, Piano Quintet Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective [ Chandos / CD - due 11/Sep/2026 ] The Romanian composer George Enescu was a child prodigy and in October 1888, aged seven, become the youngest student ever admitted to the Vienna Conservatory (and the first non-Austrian), from which he graduated at the age of twelve. In addition to... |
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CONRADO del CAMPO
Conrado del Campo: String Quartets Nos. 11 & 12 (Live at the Fundación Juan March) Kuss Quartet [ MarchVivo / CD - due 11/Sep/2026 ] This album is a mastering of the concert performed by the Kuss Quartet at the Fundación Juan March in Madrid on April 08, 2026. It features the world premiere recording of Quartets No. 11 and 12 by Conrado del Campo (1878-1953), one of the most... |
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HILDEGARD von BINGEN
Hildegard von Bingen: Divan-e Shohud - The Book of Visions Lieselot De Wilde, Eugénie de Mey, Illuminans Tenebras,Tristan Driessens [ Ramée / CD - due 11/Sep/2026 ] With the present recording Illuminans Tenebras hopes to shed new light on the music of Hildegard von Bingen, one of the most remarkable women of the Middle Ages. The musical approach of the ensemble shows that the monophony in the songs of Hildegard... |
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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,... |
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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... |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Symphonies nos. 1 & 2 Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Kent Nagano [ BIS / 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... |
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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... |
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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,... |
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FRANZ LISZT / JOHN ADAMS
Liszt: Dante Symphony / John Adams: The Black Gondola Choeur Symphonique de Namur, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liege [ 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... |
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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... |
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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,... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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,... |
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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... |
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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... |