Classical New Releases
Classical New Releases
Below is a list of all classical CD titles released in the last 120 days.
Displaying items 1 to 20 of 177
RICHARD WAGNER
Erkoreka: Cello & Piano Concertos / Tres Sonetos de Michelangelo Asier Polo (cello) Carlos Mena (countertenor) Alfonso Gómez (piano) / Basque National Orchestra, Juanjo Mena [ Ondine / CD - released 26/Jul/2024 ] Award-winning composer Gabriel Erkoreka (b. 1969) is one of the leading composers of contemporary music from the Iberian Peninsula. This new album by the Basque National Orchestra conducted by Juanjo Mena is dedicated to his orchestral works.... |
FRANCISCO MIGNONE
Mignone: Concertos Emmanuele Baldini (violin) Fabio Zanon (guitar) Ovanir Buosi (clarinet) Alexandre Silvério (bassoon) / São Paulo Symphony Orchestra [ Naxos The Music of Brazil / CD - released 26/Jul/2024 ] Sentimental, dynamic, exuberant, multi-talented and extremely eclectic, Francisco Mignone, whose Italian background brought a sense of universality to his musical nationalism, was a leading figure in the Brazilian music scene during the 20th century.... |
MARCO ENRICO BOSSI
Bossi: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2 Emmanuele Baldini (violin), Luca Delle Donne (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jul/2024 ] Marco Enrico Bossi gained fame as one of the most influential Italian organ virtuosos of his day, and as a composer who helped lay the foundations for a new tradition of instrumental music in a country dominated by opera. Bossi's First Violin Sonata... |
ZOLTAN KODALY / ERNO DOHNANYI / BEDRICH WIEDERMANN / etc
Kodály: Organ Works Iain Quinn (Chancel Organ, Peachtree Road United Methodist Church, Atlanta) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jul/2024 ] "The Dohnányi is a first recording, and as he spent his last years at Florida State University where I now work, this piece has a special relevance as his only organ work. It's a window into his compositional style at a young age, and there's no... |
GRANADOS / MOMPOU / CASSADO / MONTSALVATGE / CERVELLO
Catalan Violin Works Janna Gandelman (violin) Laia Martín (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jul/2024 ] The versatility of Catalan songs has seen them much in use in arrangements for violin and piano, with Fritz Kreisler and Joseph Szigeti enthusiastic champions of their virtuoso potential and melodic charm. In addition to arrangements, this programme... |
VYTAUTAS BACEVIČIUS
Bacevicius: Orchestral Works Vol 2 Gabrielius Alekna (piano) / Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Lyndon-Gee [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jul/2024 ] Vytautas Bacevičius's life was defined by exile and migration during the turbulent first half of the 20th century, but his impressive catalogue represents a remarkable creative spirit undimmed by adversity. Composed while studying in Paris, the... |
GRACE WILLIAMS
Grace Williams: Songs Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone) Wendy Hiscocks (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jul/2024 ] Grace Williams' lifelong interest in vocal writing no doubt owed something to her upbringing in Wales. The original works heard here in their premiere recordings span the entirety of her career, ranging from her earliest surviving composition in any... |
ALBERT DIETRICH
Dietrich: Violin Concerto, Op. 30 / Symphony in D minor, Op. 20 Klaidi Sahatçi (violin) / Solistes Européens, Luxembourg, Christoph König [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jul/2024 ] Albert Hermann Dietrich is best known through his association with the Schumanns and his friendship with Brahms, but as this recording shows, his contribution to this circle's artistic activities went further than promoting their works as music... |
JOHN CORIGLIANO / VINCENT HO
Corigliano: Mr. Tamourine Man / Ho: Gryphon Realms Laura Hynes (amplified soprano) Mary Sullivan (flutes) Cédric Blary (clarinets) Kyle Eustace (percussion) / Land's End Ensemble, Karl Hirzer [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jul/2024 ] John Corigliano is one of America's most distinguished composers whose music, as Leonard Slatkin writes, 'belongs to the world'. Corigliano originally conceived his setting of Bob Dylan songs Mr. Tambourine Man for voice and piano, then orchestrated... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT / AIRAT ICHMOURATOV
Schubert: Death and the Maiden / Ichmouratov: Concerto Grosso No. 3 'Liechtenstein' LGT Young Soloists / Alexander Gilman (leader and artistic director) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jul/2024 ] Gustav Mahler arranged Schubert's String Quartet No. 14 'Death and the Maiden' by expanding it into a grand orchestral spectacle. It reveals his admiration for Schubert and serves to intensify the quartet's journey through life, death and human... |
CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH
C.P.E. Bach: The Solo Keyboard Music Vol. 41: Keyboard Transcriptions II Miklós Spányi (tangent piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 26/Jul/2024 ] |
JANET JENNINGS / MODEST MUSSORGSKY
Pictures at an Exhibition Somi Kim (piano) [ Atoll / CD - released 26/Jul/2024 ] Somi Kim in her debut solo album gives sparkling performances of two compositions inspired by visual art - the great 19th century work by Mussorgsky "Pictures at an Exhibition", which remains a challenge to pianists 150 years later, is preceded by... |
JOHN PSATHAS
Psathas: Leviation Somi Kim (piano) [ Atoll / 2 CD - released 26/Jul/2024 ] John Psathas - 4 modern concertos, spectacularly recorded in a production supervised by the composer. Psathas presents four new compositions, for marimba, tenor sax and percussion, with an emphasis on rhythm and colour. This is genre defying modern... |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Preludes and Overtures St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Semkow [ Vox Classics / CD - released 26/Jul/2024 ] This sequence of Wagner's preludes and overtures ranges across his compositional output, from Rienzi, his first distinctive opera, through the stirring Prelude to Act I of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and the Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre,... |
MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Weinberg: String Quartets Volume 4 Arcadia Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 19/Jul/2024 ] John Wilson's fourth volume devoted to music by Eric Coates opens with Music Everywhere, a rousing march that was commissioned by Britain's first independent TV and radio service, Rediffusion, for use as its signature tune. The concert waltz... |
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ERIC COATES
Coates: Orchestral Works Vol.4 [Incls 'The Three Bears' & 'From Meadow to Mayfair'] BBC Philharmonic (orchestra); John Wilson, with Alex Jakeman (flute) [ Chandos / CD - released 19/Jul/2024 ] John Wilson's fourth volume devoted to music by Eric Coates opens with Music Everywhere, a rousing march that was commissioned by Britain's first independent TV and radio service, Rediffusion, for use as its signature tune. The concert waltz... |
HANDEL / BEETHOVEN / BACH / VERDI / ROSSINI / DELIBES / GOUNOD / etc/
Joan Sutherland: Oratorios & Recitals Dame Joan Sutherland, with Sir Peter Pears, Marilyn Horne, Kenneth McKellar, Barry Tuckwell, Richard Bonynge and others [ Decca / 37 CD Box Set - released 19/Jul/2024 ] The first set comprises Sutherland's complete Recitals and Oratorio recordings for Decca, ranging from the 1959 operatic recital recorded in Paris, with Nello Santi (has Verdi's "Santo di patria" ever rung out with greater thrill?). |
ROGER QUILTER
Quilter: Songs James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tibrook (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 19/Jul/2024 ] Born in Sussex in 1877, Roger Quilter was a fellow-student of Percy Grainger, Cyril Scott, and H. Balfour Gardiner at the Hoch Conservatory, in Frankfurt, where he studied for almost five years under the guidance of the German professor of... |
JOHN ADAMS
Adams: Girls of the Golden West (Complete Opera) Julia Bullock, Ryan McKinny, Davone Tines, Hye Jung Lee, Daniela Mack / Los Angeles Master Chorale, Los Angeles Philharmonic, John Adams [ Nonesuch Records / 2 CD - released 19/Jul/2024 ] "The influence of Ives can be heard in the shifting layers; once a funeral march, now a Fourth of July celebration. As Dame Shirley, Julia Bullocks is on scintillating form, particularly as she acts out the part of Lady MacBeth in Act II." BBC Music |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni & Concerti d'Ll Cimento Dell'armonia E Dell'invenzione Les Musiciennes Du Concert Des Nations, Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox / 2 CD - released 19/Jul/2024 ] For this new recording of Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Jordi Savall conducts an all-female orchestra, as Vivaldi did in his time at the Ospedale della Pieta in Venice. The soloist Alfia Bakieva is a violinist of Tatar origin currently living in Salzburg,... |
