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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ORAZIO BENEVOLO
Benevolo: Missa si Deus pro nobis & Magnificat Hervé Niquet; Le Concert Spirituel [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 16/Oct/2026 ] Hervé Niquet possesses two constant character traits: he is an indefatigable excavator of forgotten music, and he loves polyphony and 'large forms'. A few years ago, he caused a sensation by exhuming the monumental music of Striggio. To mark the... |
MAURICE RAVE / GUILLAUME LEKEU / PATRICK LETERME
Vivantes (Live) Katok Ensemble [ B Records / CD - due 16/Oct/2026 ] Vivantes brings together the Katok Ensemble, led by Paul Serri, and the Belgian composer Patrick Leterme for a programme conceived at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Charleroi. Spanning works by Maurice Ravel and Guillaume Lekeu, alongside a new... |
BALDASSARE GALUPPI
Galuppi: L'uomo femina Le Poème Harmonique; Lucile Richardot; Vincent Dumestre; Eva Zaïcik; Victoire Bunel; Anas Séguin; Victor Sicard; François Rougier [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / 2 CD - due 16/Oct/2026 ] Welcome to an island where gender roles are radically reversed! Here, Princess Cretidea reigns as a warrior sovereign over submissive men, condemned to vanity and superficial adornment. The unexpected arrival of Roberto and Giannino, castaways from a... |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / KAROL SZYMANOWSKI / FAZIL SAY / PATRICIA KOPATCHINSKAJA
Patkop & Say Patricia Kopatchinskaja; Fazil Say [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 16/Oct/2026 ] For this second album on Alpha Classics (following ALPHA885), Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Fazıl Say are not only an extraordinary performing duo, but also composers. They have recorded Szymanowski's magnificent Myths and Prokofiev's sonata, written... |
FLORENT SCHMITT
Schmitt: Orchestral Works Peter Donohoe (piano), BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier [ Chandos / CD - due 16/Oct/2026 ] The French composer Florent Schmitt was born in 1870, in Meurthe-et-Moselle, close to the German border. He studied music locally before entering the Paris Conservatoire aged nineteen, where he studied with Gabriel Fauré, Jules Massenet, Théodore... |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH / CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH / JOSEPH BODIN DE BOISMORTIER / GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Duologues Rachel Podger; Lucie Horsch; Jane Rogers; Alex Rolton [ Channel Classics / CD - due 16/Oct/2026 ] Miniatures of musical conversation - inspiration for every hour and every mood. In Duologues, Rachel Podger pairs up with eminent baroque instrumentalists Lucie Horsch, Jane Rogers and Alex Rolton in a delightful programme of duos (and a few trios... |
THOMAS TALLIS
Tallis: Mass "Puer natus est nobis", Responsories & Motets Robert Quinney; Choir of New College Oxford [ Linn Records / CD - due 16/Oct/2026 ] Renaissance English composer Thomas Tallis is deeply embedded in the Choir of New College Oxford's DNA, an ensemble founded in 1379, well before the birth of the composer. Tallis lived to a ripe old age, under four different monarchs, and was praised... |
ZACHARY HATCHER / PER NØRGÅRD / PAUL HINDEMITH / HENRIETTE RENIÉ / MAURICE RAVEL
De la nuit… Zachary Hatcher (harp) [ Fuga Libera / CD - due 16/Oct/2026 ] For his debut solo album, Zachary Hatcher explores the contrasts that define the harp: the shift between ancient and modern and the thin line between dreams and nightmares. The album is built around Zachary's own transcription of Maurice Ravel's... |
GIUSEPPE MARTUCCI
Martucci: Piano Sonata, 4 Piano Pieces Op.31, Mazurka Op.35 Ilaria Sinicropi (piano) [ Piano Classics / CD - due 17/Oct/2026 ] New recordings of neglected but compelling piano works from the spring of Giuseppe Martucci's career. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Die schöne Magelone, Op.33 Simon Bode (tenor), Ulrich Eisenlohr (piano) [ Naxos / CD - due 23/Oct/2026 ] The fifteen romances from Ludwig Tieck's Magelone represent Johannes Brahms' only true song cycle. Renowned as an ideal accompanist, Brahms was deeply familiar with the great cycles of his predecessors-Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann-and was... |
MIGUEL LLOBET
Llobet: Canciones populares catalanas Koki Fujimoto (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - due 23/Oct/2026 ] Japanese guitarist Koki Fujimoto presents a recital of evocative works from France, Spain, and Japan. He opens with his own arrangement of Ravel's Alborada del gracioso, shimmering with Spanish guitar colour, followed by one of Sor's finest... |
BORIS LYATOSHYNSKY
Lyatoshynsky: Chamber Works Vol.1 - String Quartets nos. 1 & 2 NotaBene Chamber Group [ Chandos / CD - due 23/Oct/2026 ] Boris Lyatoshynsky is regarded as one of the leading Ukrainian composers of the twentieth century. He developed and established a distinctive musical style rooted in the traditions of nineteenth-century European romanticism and the modernism of the... |
JOHN ADAMS
Adams: Road Movies I Still Play Roll over Beethoven (two piano arrangement Preben Antonsen) Am I in your light? (from: Dr. Atomic) Consuelo's Dream Ralph van Raat (piano), Laura Bohn (soprano), Rosanne Philippens (violin), Maarten van Veen (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - due 23/Oct/2026 ] John Adams is a composer whose music reflects the full breadth of American sound while remaining deeply rooted in Classical and Romantic traditions that shape his sense of structure, harmony, and expressive line. Works such as... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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,... |
