The following classical CD titles are due for release / re-release in the near future.
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J.S. BACH
Bach: Partitas for Viola da Gamba Teodoro Baù (viola da gamba) [ Arcana / CD - due 30/Oct/2026 ] Johann Sebastian Bach's Partitas for solo violin BWV 1002, 1004, and 1006 are remarkably visionary works. Within the established framework of the dance suite, Bach pushes the expressive and technical possibilities of the instrument to unprecedented... |
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IGOR STRAVINSKY / ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV / REINHOLD GLIÈRE / BORIS ASAFIEV / NIKOLAI TCHEREPNIN / VALERY GAVRILIN / DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH etc
Anthology of Russian Ballet Music Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra, Dmitry Filatov [ Fuga Libera / CD - due 30/Oct/2026 ] The music on this album reflects the rich tradition of Russian ballet, from 19th-century classics such as Swan Lake to the innovations of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and the ballets of the Soviet era. While ballet music had long been treated as... |
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HANS NEWSIDLER / JOHANNES BACH / HEINRICH BACH / JOHANN MICHAEL BACH / JOHANN CHRISTOPH BACH / GEORG CHRISTOPH BACH / C. BACHŸ / JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Ancestors of J. S. Bach Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier, Cindy Castillo, Clematis [ Ricercar / 6 CD - due 30/Oct/2026 ] The rich patrimony of works by the ancestors of Johann Sebastian Bach has been a focus of Ricercar's work since its founding in the early 1980s, with recordings made by Philippe Herreweghe's Collegium Vocale and the Ricercar Consort. |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Piano Trios, Vol. 3 Busch Trio [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 6/Nov/2026 ] For this third volume of their complete recording of Beethoven's piano trios, the Busch Trio presents the famous Trio in D Major, known as the 'Ghost' - a title which, according to Czerny, is likely a reference to Shakespeare and, in the slow... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Canto da Saudade Cármelo de los Santos, Ney Fialkow [ Fuga Libera / CD - due 6/Nov/2026 ] "Cármelo de los Santos and Ney Fialkow follow their award-winning album ""Sonatas Brasileiras"" with a colorful exploration of unjustly neglected works for violin and piano by Brazilian composers. ""Canto da Saudade"" delineates a sonic map that... |
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RUDOLPH GANZ / CHRISTIAN SINDING / FERRUCCIO BUSONI / MAURICE RAVEL
Rudolph Ganz & The Last Romantics Dominic Chamot [ Fuga Libera / CD - due 6/Nov/2026 ] Pianist, conductor, composer, close friend of Busoni and champion of Ravel in the United States, Rudolph Ganz remains one of the great forgotten figures of early twentieth-century music. Through eleven works, including five world premiere... |
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JOSEPH JONGEN
Jongen: Couleurs retrouvées - Autour des œuvres pour orgue et harmonium Edward Vanmarsenille (organ) [ Musique en Wallonie / CD - due 6/Nov/2026 ] This recording highlights the early organ works of Joseph Jongen, a major figure in Belgian music at the turn of the 20th century. Composed during a period of profound transformation in the aesthetics of organ music, these pieces demonstrate the... |
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GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL / ANTONIO CALDARA
Handel / Caldara: Basso furioso José Coca Loza; La Cetra Basel; Andrea Marcon [ Arcana / CD - due 6/Nov/2026 ] While there is no proof of any direct interaction between Handel and Caldara, it seems likely that their paths crossed in Italy between 1706 and 1710. Their careers then diverged, with Handel settling in London and Caldara becoming... |
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GASPAR FERNÁNDEZ / GIL DE ÁVILA / FRANCISCO GUERRERO
Cantando en la Ciudad de los Ángeles La Boz Galana, Concerto Scirocco [ Fuga Libera / CD - due 6/Nov/2026 ] Cantando en la Ciudad de los Ángeles - Christmas Villancicos by Gaspar Fernández in Viceregal Mexico offers a vibrant re-creation of the Christmas villancico tradition as heard in early seventeenth-century Puebla Cathedral, where Fernández served as... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Naulet Nau: Nöels anciens et musique baroque Louise Tixier, Alban Tixier [ EnPhases / CD - due 6/Nov/2026 ] This album does not set out to provide an exhaustive overview of the rich heritage of traditional Christmas carols, but offers a programme that combines Nau's carols with instrumental pieces from the 16th and 17th centuries. Louise and Alban Tixier... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Gloses Lucie Chabard (harpsichord) [ Ricercar / CD - due 6/Nov/2026 ] "Glosas, diminutions, passaggi…": so many terms to describe the garlands of ornamentation that keyboard musicians added to the polyphonic vocal works of their peers as they transformed them into true keyboard pieces between the 16th century and the... |
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ORLANDUS LASSUS
Lassus: The Alchemist, Vol. 3 Magnificat, The City Musick, Philip Cave [ Linn Records / 2 CD - due 6/Nov/2026 ] This third and final volume of Magnificat's 'Lassus: The Alchemist' series is devoted to Magnificats based on secular chansons. Courtly entertainment, popular song and everything in between, the chanson provided composers with an inexhaustible source... |
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YVONNE LORIOD / OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Loriod & Messiaen Roger Muraro, Florent Boffard [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 6/Nov/2026 ] Yvonne Loriod's creative-turned-romantic partnership with Olivier Messiaen is celebrated as one of twentieth-century music's greatest love stories. Yet the full extent of their artistic relationship is only now coming into focus, thanks to documents... |
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SERGEY RACHMANINOV / MAURICE RAVEL
Rachmaninov / Ravel: Tableaux en miroirs Catalin Serban [ Naxos / CD - due 13/Nov/2026 ] Rachmaninov's Études‑tableaux, Op. 39 stands as a pinnacle of late Romantic piano writing, a cycle marked by extreme contrasts, vivid imagery and an overwhelming sense of melancholy. In striking complement, Ravel's Miroirs explores a concise and... |
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AMALIE OF SAXONY / CARL MARIA VON WEBER / GIOACHINO ROSSINI / WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART / VICENTE MARTÍN Y SOLER / ANTONIO SOLER
Mozart, Rossini, Weber and Amalie of Saxony Coloquio 6 [ Ambronay Éditions / CD - due 13/Nov/2026 ] Tracing the footsteps of Princess Amalie of Saxony, Coloquio 6 revives the spirit of Harmoniemusik, intimate wind ensembles that once brought the most beloved music of the day to audiences everywhere. This musical journey features works by Amalie... |
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LEO WEINER
Weiner: Complete Works for Orchestra, Vol. 5 Csaba Klenyán, Júlia Pusker, MÁV Symphony Orchestra, Budapest, Valéria Csányi [ Naxos / CD - due 13/Nov/2026 ] Hungarian composer Leó Weiner forged a distinctive synthesis between German and French Romantic traditions and the emerging Hungarian musical language at the start of the 20th century. His Ballade, long admired for its dreamlike lyricism, became one... |
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GYULA DÁVID / FAZIL SAY / BOHUSLAV MARTINÅ® / FRANCISCO TÁRREGA
Reverse Directions Dana Zemtsov (violin), Sinfonieorchester St Gallen, Modestas Pitrenas [ Channel Classics / CD - due 13/Nov/2026 ] Violist Dana Zemtsov is joined by Modestas Pitrenas and the Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen on Reverse Directions. This recording brings together two ideas: movement and belonging. For Zemtsov, movement can lead in many directions: outward into the... |
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CARL FRÜHLING / FRANZ SCHREKER / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Der Wind Ensemble Kheops [ Cypres Records / CD - due 13/Nov/2026 ] This programme forms a continuity with the album Brahms | Berg | Zemlinsky (released by Cypres - CYP8610), one that was distinguished notably by a Gramophone Choice. It continues the same reflection on the Vienna of the late nineteenth century and... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Partitas BWV 825, 826, 830 Frédérick Haas [ Hitasura / CD - due 13/Nov/2026 ] J.S. Bach's first Clavier-Übung - the Partitas - is an important work which holds a particular status: it is the first major publication by a great musician at the height of his maturity - he was 46 - and already a living legend. A large part of the... |
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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Concerto for 3 Pianos, KV 242, 3 Piano Concertos after J.C. Bach, KV 107 Julia Hamos, Avery Gagliano, Nathalia Milstein, Camerata Schweiz, Howard Griffiths [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 13/Nov/2026 ] This 17th volume in the 'Next Generation Mozart Soloists' series marks the conclusion of this collection which, under the inspired and supportive guidance of Howard Griffiths, has enabled dozens of young soloists to record Mozart's concertos with... |