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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FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Late Symphonies Nos. 84, 85 Danish Chamber Orchestra, Adam Fischer [ Naxos / CD - due 12/Jun/2026 ] Haydn composed the three symphonies in this volume during the mid- 1780s in a spirit of triumph. Though still employed by the Esterházy family, he had recently been allowed to publish his music himself and to accept outside commissions. A number of... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss: Intermezzo Deutsche Oper Berlin, Sir Donald Runnicles [ Naxos / 2 CD - due 12/Jun/2026 ] Richard Strauss summed up his two-act opera Intermezzo as a 'bourgeois comedy with symphonic interludes'. The soprano role of Christine with its shimmering cantilenas represents Strauss's wife Pauline, while the successful Kapellmeister Robert Storch... |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Choral Transcriptions Michael Kaykov (piano) [ Naxos / CD - due 12/Jun/2026 ] A central expression of Franz Liszt's multifaceted creativity was his lifelong engagement with transcription and transformation, using the piano as a medium capable of absorbing the sonorities, gestures and emotional weight of voices and orchestras... |
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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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... |
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,... |
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... |
CARL TEIKE
Teike: Marches Volume 3 The Royal Swedish Navy Band, Alexander Hanson [ Naxos / CD - due 26/Jun/2026 ] Famous for composing one of the world's greatest marches, Alte Kameraden (available on Volume 1 in this series, 8.574317), CarlTeike wrote a body of works that have enriched the German concertmarch repertoire. They imbue the medium with both... |
FELIX DRAESEKE
Draeseke: Piano Works Vladimir Aćimović (piano) [ Naxos / CD - due 26/Jun/2026 ] Felix Draeseke's early affiliation with the music of Liszt and Wagner permeated his own compositions of the period, not least his Sonata quasi fantasia in C sharp minor, a work of sumptuous Wagnerian candour as well as balletic lightness. It also... |
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