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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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... |
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... |
FRANZ LISZT / ALEXANDER SCRIABIN / KAIJA SAARIAHO
Passage. A Spiritual Odyssey Salome Jordania [ La Dolce Volta / CD - due 18/Sep/2026 ] With Passage, her debut solo album, the Georgian pianist Salomé Jordania (née 1996) presents a spiritual and vertiginous journey by way of the music of Franz Liszt, Alexander Scriabin and Kaija Saariaho. Moving between mysticism, darkness and the... |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY / MAURICE RAVEL / HUGO WOLF / RICHARD STRAUSS / ALEXANDER VON ZEMLINSKY / MEL BONIS / LOUISE DIDIER / FRANCIS POULENC etc
Contes Sandrine Piau; David Kadouch [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 18/Sep/2026 ] Sandrine Piau and David Kadouch are reuniting for a project that the French soprano conceived as the second part of a diptych begun with Voyage intime (Alpha 911). This time we enter the world of childhood, but even though this album is called... |
FRANK LOESSER
Loesser: Guys and Dolls - A Musical Fable of Broadway Sinfonia of London, John Wilson (conductor) [ Chandos / 2 CD - due 18/Sep/2026 ] John Wilson and Sinfonia of London continue their series of complete recordings of shows from the golden age of Broadway with Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls. The show opened in 1950, ran for 1,200 performances, and won the Tony Award for Best... |
JENNIFER HIGDON / JOHN HARBISON / CHARLES IVES
Storytellers: Higdon, Harbison, Ives Trio Azura [ Delos / CD - due 18/Sep/2026 ] Trio Azura's Storytellers launches the Colburn Collection: an exclusive new recording partnership between Delos and the Colburn School, Los Angeles, whose main design is to be a powerful springboard for the next generation of musicians. Nearly a... |
The Mozartists, Ian Page (conductor)
Sturm und Drang Vol 4 [ Signum / CD - due 19/Sep/2026 ] The fourth instalment in the Mozartists projected seven-volume series conducted by Ian Page pairs two turbulent minor-key symphonies by Kraus and Haydn with operatic scenes featuring soprano Alexandra Lowe. Kraus's rarely heard Symphony in C minor,... |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: The Complete Études Aaron Pilsan (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] Pianist Aaron Pilsan had two dreams in life: to record both books of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and Chopin's Études. These dreams have come true, as the Bach recordings have been released (Alpha 669 & 1034), and he now presents his recording of the... |
LAZARIN / PIERRE WERDIER / LOUIS CONSTANTIN / PHILIPPE DE LA HIRE / GUILLIAUME DUMANOIR / WILLIAM YOUNG / ALESSANDRO STRADELLA / CARLO GESUALDO
Queen Christina Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen [ Fuga Libera / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] Discover the extraordinary life of Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689), one of the 17th century's most unconventional figures. Crowned at the age of six, she then abdicated when she was 28 and travelled from Stockholm to Rome, where she became a... |
JOSE ANTONIO de ALMEIDA PRADO
Almeida Prado: Piano Trios, Cello Sonata, Balada for Cello & Piano Emmanuele Baldini (violin) Rafael Cesario (cello), Sonia Rubinsky (piano) [ Naxos / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] José Antônio de Almeida Prado's music reflects a unique combination of influences, moving through different styles and techniques while always retaining a recognisably strong personal imprint. Chamber music accounts for a large part of Almeida... |
ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
Scarlatti: Il trionfo della Grazia Ensemble Céladon, Paulin Bündgen [ Ricercar / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] Alessandro Scarlatti's Il Trionfo della Grazia was first performed in Rome in 1685 and was such a huge success that the oratorio was regularly revived over a period of more than twenty years. Three manuscripts of it exist, one each in Rome, Modena... |
NICOLA ANTONIO PORPORA / GIUSEPPE TORELLI / TOMASO ALBINONI / GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL / GEMINIANO GIACOMELLI / JOHANN ADOLPH HASSE
Addio Amore Jeanine De Bique, Terry Wey, Kammerorchester Basel [ Pentatone / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] In Addio Amore, Kammerorchester Basel, soprano Jeanine De Bique and countertenor Terry Wey present a programme of searing intensity and refined expressive beauty, exploring the fragile threshold between love and loss in 18th-century opera. Inspired... |
ANONYMOUS / GUIRAUT D'ESPAIGNA / GHERARDELLO DA FIRENZE / GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT / FRANCESO LANDINI / GUILLAUME DU FAY / GUGLIELMO EBREO DA PESARO
Venite alla danza! La Reverdie [ Arcana / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] Venite alla danza! is the project with which La Reverdie intends to celebrate its 40th anniversary. Since 1986, the ensemble has explored a wide range of vocal and instrumental repertoires from the 13th to the 15th century but has never attempted a... |
CIPRIANI POTTER
Potter: Piano Works Luke Jones (piano) [ Naxos / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] Even though Cipriani Potter's desire for lessons with Beethoven did not materialise, he benefitted from the great composer's advice and showed in his own music a thorough understanding of German models. As an admired soloist he also introduced piano... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Neeme Jarvi conducts Shostakovich Lydia Mordkovitch (violin), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / 8 CD Box Set - due 25/Sep/2026 ] Estonian conductor Neeme Järvi was born in 1937 in Tallin, where he studied music before moving to Leningrad to study at the conservatory under Yevgeny Mravinsky. He returned to Tallinn and held posts with the Estonian Radio and Television Symphony... |
GERALD FINZI
Finzi: The Dance Continued Nick Pritchard (tenor), Ian Tindale (piano) [ Signum / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] Marking 70 years since the death of Gerald Finzi, duo partners Nick Pritchard and Ian Tindale reunite for a collection of works for tenor and piano, including 5 new unpublished songs from the Bodleian Library |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / HEITOR VILLA‑LOBOS / FRANCIS POULENC
Prokofiev - Villa-Lobos - Poulenc ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Simone Menezes [ Fuga Libera / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] The classicism that emerged in Vienna with Mozart and Haydn was later revisited by Prokofiev in Russia, Poulenc in France, and most unexpectedly, Villa-Lobos in Brazil. Each composer reimagined this tradition through a sparkling, modern, and... |
ANONYMOUS / ARCHIE FISHER / JERRY HOLLAND / JAMES OSWALD / NIEL GOW / THOMAS D'URFEY / WILLIAM THOMSON / FRANCESCO GEMINIANI / THOMAS RAVENCROFT etc
Songs from the North Country Rosemary Standley, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, François Lazarevitch [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] As great lovers of traditional music, Rosemary Standley and François Lazarevitch were bound to meet one day. The founding leader of Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien proposed collaborating on a programme of English ballads with the iconic singer from the... |
VINCENT YOUMANS / RICHARD RODGERS / SIGMUND ROMBERG / GUY D'HARDELOT / FRANZ LEHÁR / NICHOLAS BRODSZKY / ALBERT HAY MALOTTE / AGUSTÍN LARA
Be My Love Stephen Costello (tenor) / Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra, Constantine Orbelian [ Delos / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] "As a tenor raised in Northeast Philadelphia, recording an album dedicated to Mario Lanza felt like coming home in the most profound way." This is how Stephen Costello introduces his second album on Delos, Be My Love. A homage to the great tenor,... |
FEDERICO MOMPOU / DÉODAT DE SÉVERAC / ISAAC ALBÉNIZ
Cataluña Wilhem Latchoumia [ La Dolce Volta / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] "Musical sound waves circulate through space. From which is derived that seductive, yet also elusive, unstable, phenomenon, known as music." Thus wrote Vladimir Jankélévitch in his essay La Présence lointaine (Distant Presence), exploring the... |
