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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Bach, (C.P.E.) - Instrumental Theatre of Effects cover
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C. P. E. BACH
Bach, (C.P.E.) - Instrumental Theatre of Effects
Arte dei Suonatori, Marcin Świątkiewicz (harpsichord, pianoforte, conductor)
[ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - due 5/Apr/2024 ]
Subversive music by C.P.E. Bach that surprises, moves and speaks to us
La Hèle: Missa Praeter rerum seriem & works by Manchicourt, Payen & Rogier cover
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GEORGE DE LA HELE
La Hèle: Missa Praeter rerum seriem & works by Manchicourt, Payen & Rogier
El León de Oro / Peter Phillips
[ Hyperion / CD - due 5/Apr/2024 ]
A collection of works representative of a school of Flemish composers living in Madrid towards the end of the Renaissance and all employed by Philip II of Spain, who held composers from the Low Countries in particularly high regard. La Hèle's Mass,...
Mozart: Complete Divertimenti & Serenades cover
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Complete Divertimenti & Serenades
Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim, Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Amati Chamber Orchestra
[ Brilliant Classics / 9 CD Box Set - due 5/Apr/2024 ]
A divertimento is defined as music intended for light entertainment, 'to please the ear' rather than arouse the emotions in the phrase of one early-19th-century theorist. The word was used interchangeably at the time with serenade and cassation, and...
Bach: A Life in Music (Vol. 1). Early Cantatas. Arnstadt & Mühlhausen (1703-1708) cover
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J. S. BACH
Bach: A Life in Music (Vol. 1). Early Cantatas. Arnstadt & Mühlhausen (1703-1708)
Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew, Feat. Benjamin Alard
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - due 5/Apr/2024 ]
In this new series, Paul Agnew and Les Arts Florissants invite us to follow the creative itinerary of J. S. Bach through the times and cities in which he lived. The first instalment introduces us to a young master who remained faithful to the north...
Adams: Symphony No. 2 and 3 cover
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JOHN ADAMS
Adams: Symphony No. 2 and 3
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop (conductor)
[ Naxos American Classics / CD - due 5/Apr/2024 ]
John Adams' music has long since captured the admiration of listeners for its inimitable American qualities. City Noir was inspired by the cultural and social history of Los Angeles, with Adams calling it 'an imaginary film score' in its evocation of...
Russian Variations cover
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JOHN FIELD / ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV / PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY / SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Russian Variations
Piers Lane (piano)
[ Hyperion / CD - due 5/Apr/2024 ]
Three substantial sets of variations - by Glazunov, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov - plus a delightful amuse-bouche from John Field, who settled in St Petersburg in the early years of the nineteenth century, make up Piers Lane's attractive and virtuosic...
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto Nos. 2 & 3 cover
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto Nos. 2 & 3
Anna Federova (piano) / Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Laërcio Diniz & Gerard Oskamp
[ Brilliant Classics / CD - due 12/Apr/2024 ]
The Ukrainian pianist Anna Fedorova is renowned for her playing of Rachmaninoff, and in particular the four concertos which she has performed across the world. She made these recordings in 2014, at a relatively early stage in her career.
Magnard: Cello Sonata Op.20 / Piano Trio Op.18 cover
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ALBERIC MAGNARD
Magnard: Cello Sonata Op.20 / Piano Trio Op.18
Camilla Patria (cello) Elena Ballario (piano) Franco Mezzena (violin) Sergio Patria (cello)
[ Brilliant Classics / CD - due 12/Apr/2024 ]
Albéric Magnard, born in Paris in 1865, was a pupil of Dubois, Guiraud, Massenet and D'Indy at the Paris Conservatoire, and he frequented the circle of César Franck. In 1896 he became a teacher at Paris's Schola Cantorum.
Britten: Violin Concerto & Chamber Works cover
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Violin Concerto & Chamber Works
Isabelle Faust, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks , Jakub Hrůša
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - due 12/Apr/2024 ]
After Berg, Schoenberg, Bartók and Stravinsky, Isabelle Faust now tackles Britten with Jakub Hrůša and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, revealing a little-known facet of the British composer. This concerto, highly personal in its language,...
Dussek: Sonatas Op.35 & Op.69 No.3, Vol. 10 cover
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JAN LADISLAV DUSSEK
Dussek: Sonatas Op.35 & Op.69 No.3, Vol. 10
Petra Somlai (piano)
[ Brilliant Classics / CD - due 12/Apr/2024 ]
The latest volume in a critically acclaimed series, presenting modern recordings of Dussek's exhilaratingly diverse cycle of piano sonatas on instruments of his own time.
Cimarosa: Overtures - arranged for Mandolin Ensemble cover
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DOMENICO CIMAROSA
Cimarosa: Overtures - arranged for Mandolin Ensemble
Quintetto a Plettro "Giuseppe Anedda"
[ Brilliant Classics / CD - due 12/Apr/2024 ]
New, fun-filled arrangements, with historical authenticity on their side, of bright and breezy curtain-raisers by a once-celebrated contemporary of Mozart.
Hungarian String Trios cover
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LEO & LASZLO WEINER / ZOLTAN KODALY / ERNO DOHNANY
Hungarian String Trios
Trio Boccherini
[ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - due 12/Apr/2024 ]
Early 20th-century chamber music with a Hungarian touch.
Walker: Complete Piano Works Vol 1 cover
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GEORGE WALKER
Walker: Complete Piano Works Vol 1
Alexandre Dossin (piano)
[ Naxos American Classics / CD - due 19/Apr/2024 ]
George Walker's unique collection of piano music ranges across his long career. The three sonatas heard here, in this the first of two volumes of Walker's complete piano works, offer compelling contrasts. Sonata No. 1 is his longest and utilizes folk...
Donizetti: La Favorite (complete opera recorded in 2022) cover
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: La Favorite (complete opera recorded in 2022)
Annalisa Stroppa (mezzo-soprano) Javier Camarena (tenor) Florian Sempey (baritone) Evgeny Stavinsky (bass) / Orchestra Donizetti Opera, Riccardo Frizz
[ Naxos / 3 CD Box Set - due 19/Apr/2024 ]
Written for the Opéra in Paris, Gaetano Donizetti's La Favorite contains some of his most famously enthralling arias. While its much-reduced Italian version has continued in popularity, this superb production from the Donizetti Opera Festival in...
Marcelle de Manziarly - Chamber Works cover
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Piazzolla: Buenos Aires - arrangements for Violin and String Orchestra cover
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ASTOR PIAZZOLLA
Piazzolla: Buenos Aires - arrangements for Violin and String Orchestra
Tomás Cotik (violin) / Martingale Ensemble, Ken Selden
[ Naxos / CD - due 19/Apr/2024 ]
Astor Piazzolla's Nuevo tango transcends categories and represents an amalgam of international influences. All the arrangements in this album are of instrumental works that Piazzolla composed for his Quinteto Nuevo Tango.
Turina: Works For Strings cover
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JOAQUIN TURINA
Turina: Works For Strings
Concerto Málaga, Gil de Gálvez
[ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - due 19/Apr/2024 ]
To commemorate the 75th anniversary year of Turina's death, this album presents some of the composer's most admired works heard in arrangements for strings that honour the colour, richness and vivacity of the originals. Two of his best-known works -...
Wolff: Complete Songs Vol 1 cover
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ERICH J. WOLFF
Wolff: Complete Songs Vol 1
Daniel Johannsen (tenor), Samantha Gaul (soprano), Klaus Simon (piano)
[ Naxos / CD - due 19/Apr/2024 ]
Erich J. Wolff's name will be unfamiliar to many but in the 1920s an authoritative reference book on popular art song ranked his compositions fourth, behind Hugo Wolf, Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler. The first volume in this series of Wolff's...
Alfano: Suite Romantica cover
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FRANCO ALFANO
Alfano: Suite Romantica
Davide Vendramin (accordion) Vittorio Rabagliati (piano) / Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Giuseppe Grazioli
[ Naxos / CD - due 19/Apr/2024 ]
Franco Alfano is remembered today for his completion of Turandot after Puccini's death. His catalogue of works, including operas, orchestral and chamber music, reveals him to be a sophisticated and original composer. Alfano possessed an innate...
Bach: Guitar Recital cover
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Guitar Recital
Georgi Dimitrov-Jojo (guitar)
[ Naxos Guitar Laureate Series / CD - due 19/Apr/2024 ]
Georgi Dimitrov-Jojo, winner of the 2022 European Bach Guitar Award, presents a selection of works transcribed for guitar from the rich repertoire of Johann Sebastian Bach. Arrangements made for different instruments were customary during the Baroque...
Auber: Overtures, Vol. 6 [Incls 'L'Ambassadrice' & 'Le Dieu et la Bayadère' ] cover
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DANIEL-FRANCOIS AUBER
Auber: Overtures, Vol. 6 [Incls 'L'Ambassadrice' & 'Le Dieu et la Bayadère' ]
Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra, Dario Salvi
[ Naxos / CD - due 19/Apr/2024 ]
Auber's overtures were once as popular as those by Rossini and Suppé, with no less a figure than Tchaikovsky commenting on the 'elegant clarity of his harmonisation, his delightful and striking melodies … and beautiful instrumentation.' Full evidence...
Brusa: Requiem Op.25 / Stabat Mater Op.24 cover
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ELISABETTA BRUSA
Brusa: Requiem Op.25 / Stabat Mater Op.24
Réka Kristóf (soprano) Dorottya Láng (alto) István Horváth (tenor) Marcell Bakonyi (bass) / Hungarian radio Symphony and Choir, Riccardo Frizza
[ Naxos / CD - due 19/Apr/2024 ]
Most of Elisabetta Brusa's compositions have been written for orchestral forces, with four volumes currently available on Naxos. The two new choral pieces in this fifth volume offer a revealing look at the composer's response to spirituality and her...
Smetana: Má vlast cover
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BEDRICH SMETANA
Smetana: Má vlast
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Walter Susskind (Conductor)
[ Vox Classics / CD - due 19/Apr/2024 ]
This acclaimed recording has now been given a new lease of life in our Naxos edition by going back to the original Elite Recordings master tapes, which have been newly transferred to disc in 192 kHz/24-bit high definition sound.
Grieg: Symphonic Dances / Lyric Suite / Sigurd Jorsalfar / etc cover
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EDVARD GRIEG
Grieg: Symphonic Dances / Lyric Suite / Sigurd Jorsalfar / etc
Utah Symphony Orchestra, Maurice Abravane
[ Vox Classics / CD - due 19/Apr/2024 ]
The Elite Recordings for VOX by legendary producers Marc Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz are considered by audiophiles to be amongst the finest sounding examples of orchestral recordings
Martin: Lim Fantasy of Companionship Suite for Piano Flute and Strings Octet cover
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MANU MARTIN
Martin: Lim Fantasy of Companionship Suite for Piano Flute and Strings Octet
Mark Bebbington (piano) / Royal Philahrmonic Orchestra
[ Signum / CD - due 26/Apr/2024 ]
Following the full orchestral release back in 2021, Dr Susan Lim and Manu Martin bring you the Lim Fantasy of Companionship Chamber Suite. Society currently finds itself at an intersection of technology and humanity: as physical forms embedded with...
Grieg: Holberg Suite, Ballade & Lyric Pieces cover
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EDVARD GRIEG
Grieg: Holberg Suite, Ballade & Lyric Pieces
Andrey Gugnin (piano)
[ Hyperion / CD - due 3/May/2024 ]
Andrey Gugnin presents a wonderful all-Grieg recital, the elegant neo-classicism of 'From Holberg's time' (a rare and welcome opportunity to hear the original version for solo piano) contrasting with the brooding magnificence of the 'Ballade'.
Padovano: Missa A la dolc' ombra & Missa Domine a lingua dolosa cover
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ANNIBALE PADOVANO
Padovano: Missa A la dolc' ombra & Missa Domine a lingua dolosa
Cinquecento
[ Hyperion / CD - due 3/May/2024 ]
Celebrated in his time as a 'man of great worth', who 'really knew how to play well and compose well', Annibale Padovano's modern-day neglect doesn't reflect the high regard in which he was held. Cinquecento deliver flawless accounts of two major...
Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances / The Ise of the Dead / etc cover
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances / The Ise of the Dead / etc
Utah Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
[ Vox Classics / CD - due 17/May/2024 ]
Rachmaninov's final work - and the only one composed fully in the United States - was the Symphonic Dances. It embraces jazz elements and ecstatic expressiveness and is both a valediction and a summation of his creativity. The Isle of the Dead is a...
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites / Holberg Suite / Norwegian Dances / etc cover
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EDVARD GRIEG
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites / Holberg Suite / Norwegian Dances / etc
Utah Symphony Orchestra, Maurice Abravane
[ Vox Classics / CD - due 17/May/2024 ]
The Elite Recordings for VOX by legendary producers Marc Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz are considered by audiophiles to be amongst the finest sounding examples of orchestral recordings
Foss: Ode / Renaissance Concerto / Three American Pieces / Symphony No. 1 in G major cover
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LUKAS FOSS
Foss: Ode / Renaissance Concerto / Three American Pieces / Symphony No. 1 in G major
Amy Porter (flute) Nikki Chooi (violin) / Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta
[ Naxos American Classics / CD - due 24/May/2024 ]
Berlin-born Lukas Foss studied music in Paris before settling in Philadelphia in 1937. Though he freely explored diverse compositional styles, three of the works in this recording fall into his early neo-Classical period and exemplify his dictum that...
Roussel: Violin Sonatas Nos 1 and 2 / String Trio cover
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ALBERT ROUSSEL
Roussel: Violin Sonatas Nos 1 and 2 / String Trio
David Bowlin (violin), Tony Cho (piano), with Kirsten Docter (viola), Dmitry Kouzov (cello)
[ Naxos / CD - due 24/May/2024 ]
Although he is best remembered for his highly regarded stage and orchestral works, Roussel also composed a significant body of masterful yet relatively unknown chamber music. The Romantic early First Violin Sonata is an epic journey of soaring...
Hagen: Heike Quinto cover
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DARON HAGEN
Hagen: Heike Quinto
Duo YUMENO / Yoko Reikano Kimura (voice)
[ Naxos American Classics / CD - due 24/May/2024 ]
Daron Hagen is a multi-award-winning creative polymath whose work is internationally acclaimed for its impeccable craftsmanship, social conscience and emotional accessibility. Embracing the Japanese medieval text The Tale of the Heike, Hagen has...
Rossini: Armida (complet opera recorded in 2022) cover
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GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Armida (complet opera recorded in 2022)
Moisés Marín, Michele Angelini, Jusung Gabriel Park, Ruth Iniesta / Krakow Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra, Jose Miguel Perez-Sierra
[ Naxos Rossini in Wildbad / 2 CD - due 24/May/2024 ]
The story of Armida had already inspired around 70 composers by the time Rossini took it on both as an opportunity to measure himself against his colleagues, and as a special role for soprano Isabella Colbran with whom he had recently started a...
Folk Tales Vol 2 - British and Irish Miniatures cover
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FRANK BRIDGE / JOHN IRELAND / REBECCA CLARKE / RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / etc
Folk Tales Vol 2 - British and Irish Miniatures
Gerald Peregrine (cello) Antony Ingham (piano) Lynda O'Connor (violin)
[ Naxos / CD - due 24/May/2024 ]
Following the success of the first volume of Folk Tales (8.574035), Gerald Peregrine and Antony Ingham go further into their explorations of British and Irish music. These include rarely recorded works and new interpretations of traditional Irish...
Fuchs: Violin Sonatas Nos 4 - 6 cover
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ROBERT FUCHS
Fuchs: Violin Sonatas Nos 4 - 6
Hyejin Chung (violin), Warren Lee (piano)
[ Naxos / CD - due 24/May/2024 ]
Eminent composer and revered teacher, Robert Fuchs, was an established part of Vienna's musical landscape. His six violin sonatas fuse lyricism with conversational ease and chro matic harmonies with folk-derived melodies. This second volume of the...
Silvestrov: Symphony for Violin and Orchestra / Postludium for Piano and Orchestra cover
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VALENTIN SILVESTROV
Silvestrov: Symphony for Violin and Orchestra / Postludium for Piano and Orchestra
Janusz Wawrowski (violin) Jurgis Karnavičius (piano) / Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Lyndon-Gee/
[ Naxos / CD - due 24/May/2024 ]
Berlin-born Lukas Foss studied music in Paris before settling in Philadelphia in 1937. Though he freely explored diverse compositional styles, three of the works in this recording fall into his early neo-Classical period and exemplify his dictum that...
Liszt: Transcriptions of Religious Works cover
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FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Transcriptions of Religious Works
Martin Cousin (piano)
[ Naxos Liszt Complete Piano Music Vol 62 / CD - due 24/May/2024 ]
'These transcriptions of religious works hold a special place in Liszt's output and show a different side to this often misunderstood composer. An especially effective example of this is his setting of the Ave verum corpus by Mozart, which is a...
Reinecke & Sauer: Piano Concertos cover
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CARL REINECKE / EMIL VON SAUER
Reinecke & Sauer: Piano Concertos
Simon Callaghan, Sinfonieorchester St Gallen / Modestas Pitrėnas
[ Hyperion / CD - due 31/May/2024 ]
This is the fourth Romantic Piano Concerto album from Simon Callaghan, and that combination of talents which made his first three so successful - not least a flair for exploring the neglected byways of the Romantic repertoire, and the technique and...
Schubert: String Quartets D112 & 887 cover
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: String Quartets D112 & 887
Takács Quartet
[ Hyperion / CD - due 31/May/2024 ]
The 'heavenly lengths' Schumann loved in late Schubert are as much in evidence in the sublime G major quartet as in the other large-scale works of Schubert's final years. The Takács Quartet's earlier Hyperion recordings of Schubert were hailed as...
Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor / etc cover
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FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor / etc
Emmanuel Despax, piano
[ Signum / CD - due 7/Jun/2024 ]
Emmanuel Despax's eighth release for Signum Classics delves into the dramatic and visionary world of Franz Liszt, from the great Sonata in B minor to the celestail Benediction de Deur dans la solitude.