Below is a list of all classical CD titles released in the last 120 days.
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No.9 "Choral" (studio & Live) / Egmont: incidental music Aase Nordmo-Løvberg, Christa Ludwig, Waldemar Kmentt, Hans Hotter, Birgit Nilsson / Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra, Otto Klemperer [ Warner SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] "…Otto Klemperer's energy and momentum come not from his tempos but from the way the rhythms are articulated. In the first movement and Scherzo the heroic, teeth-gritted determination are physically gripping, In this Ninth combined urgency with... |
GEORGE GERSHWIN / LEONARD BERNSTEIN / XAVIER MONTSALVATGE / JENNY PEÑA CAMPO
Gershwin, Montsalvatge, Bernstein & Jenny Peña Campo Adriana Bignagni Lesca; Philzuid; Duncan Ward [ Fuga Libera / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] Musical fireworks flare and dazzle in this New Year's concert! This live recording of the 2024 New Year's concert is Philzuid's seventh album - and it's a very different New Year's concert with Latin rhythms and American dance in the foreground.... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / FRANZ SCHUBERT / GYORGY KURTAG
Lines of life: Schubert & Kurtág Benjamin Appl, György Kurtág, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, James Baillieu [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] Benjamin Appl met Hungarian composer György Kurtág in 2019 and has worked with him ever since. 'He has shaped me both as a musician and as a human being, perhaps more than anyone else,' says Appl. |
GEORG MUFFAT
Muffat: Apparatus musico-organisticus Bernard Foccroulle, Marie Rouquié [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] The collection of toccatas Apparatus musico-organisticus, published in 1690, immediately established Georg Muffat as one of the greatest organists of his century. A veritable reference in the organ repertoire, appreciated for its stylistic diversity,... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT / JAN Vaclav VOISECK / FREDERIC CHOPIN / ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Schubert/Vorisek/Chopin/Scriabin - Impromptus Can Çakmur (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] For the fourth instalment of his Schubert+ series, Can Çakmur focuses on the genre of the impromptu, aiming to identify historical predecessors for Schubert's piano writing as well as gain an insight into the evolution of free-standing poetic... |
Charles Richard-Hamelin
Échos: Chopin, Granados & Albéniz [ Analekta / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] Charles Richard-Hamelin continues his exploration of the works of Chopin, combining them with rare Spanish works composed at the turn of the 19th century. Frédéric Chopin, Isaac Albéniz and Enrique Granados were all virtuoso pianists whose music is... |
CLAUDIO CONSTANTINI / ANNA FEDOROVA / NICOLAS SCHARTZ / ANGELO VERPLOEGEN
Yellow Butterfly. Latin American Favourites Dana Zemtsov, André Groen, Claudio Constantini, Anna Fedorova, Nicolas Schwartz, Angelo Verploegen [ Channel Classics / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] Born in Mexico City, violist Dana Zemtsov has always retained a deep love for the colourful Latin-American culture. |
BRAHMS / MENDELSSOHN / SCHUBERT / SCHUMANN
Fatma Said: Lieder Fatma Said (soprano), with Huw Montague Rendall (baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Joseph Middleton (piano), Yonatan Cohen (piano), Sabine Meyer ( [ Warner Classics / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] While soprano Fatma Said's previous Warner Classics releases crossed cultures and musical genres, this album focuses entirely on German-language songs of the Romantic era: lieder by Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Brahms. |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 2, 7 & 10 Jerusalem Quartet [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] The fifteen string quartets composed by Shostakovich established him as one of the masters of this genre. These works show him at his most concentrated & most intimate. Although each is quite different in form and structure, every bar of them reveals... |
BIBER / MERULA / PLAYFORD / HANDEL / MONTEVERDI / BONOCINO / GASPARINI
Terra Mater Malena Ernman (mezzo-soprano) / L'arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar (directior) [ Erato Classics / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] "This wonderful program is exposed to the four winds, in which you will hear the chirping of the nightingales, sweet birds, cuckoos, frogs and chicken, the whispers of the winds, heavy storms and the rumbling of the seas." |
Maria Callas (soprano), Angelina Jolie (narrator), Pierfrancesco Favino (narrator), Vincent Macaigne (narrator)
Maria (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [ Warner / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack from the movie Maria, directed by Pablo Larraín, written by Steven Knight, which delves into the tumultuous final days of the iconic opera singer in 1970s Paris, interpreted by Angelina Jolie. |
Maria Callas (soprano), Angelina Jolie (narrator), Pierfrancesco Favino (narrator), Vincent Macaigne (narrator)
Maria (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (LP) [ Warner / 2 LP - released 14/Feb/2025 ] The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack from the movie Maria, directed by Pablo Larraín, written by Steven Knight, which delves into the tumultuous final days of the iconic opera singer in 1970s Paris, interpreted by Angelina Jolie. |
GYORGY- LIGETI / BELA BARTOK
Ligeti - String Quartets 1 & 2 / Bartok - String Quartet no.4 Marmen Quartet [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] For its first recording for BIS Records, the Marmen Quartet tackles three major works from the twentieth-century string quartet literature. The two quartets by György Ligeti belong to two different periods in the composer's output. Written before... |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach: Goldberg Variations Nevermind [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] A genuine masterpiece inspires musicians to adopt, adapt, or transcribe it without losing any of its greatness. |
SEBASTIAN FAGERLUND
Fagerlund - Autumn Equinox Niek de Groot (double bass) / Lapland Chamber Orchestra [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] The title of Sebastian Fagerlund's Octet 'Autumn Equinox' derives from its links with his opera Autumn Sonata, based on the Ingmar Bergman film. Some of the moods and musical material of the opera appear in the octet, as a kind of reflection. With... |
JOHANN ADOLF HASSE
Hasse - Serpentes ignei in deserto Philippe Jaroussky, Jakub Józef OrliĆski (counter-tenors), Julia Lezhneva (soprano), Bruno de Sa (male soprano) David Hansen (countertenor) / Les Acce [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] "The score is demanding for all the singers," continues Thibault Noally. "Every character is very different from the others and each of our soloists has a unique personality and a unique vocal timbre." |
CESAR FRANCK / SERGEI RACHMANINOFF / LEOPOLD GODOWSKY
Chiaroscuro: Godowsky, Franck & Rachmaninoff Roman Borisov [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] In 2022, 19-year-old pianist Roman Borisov became the youngest winner of the prestigious Kissinger KlavierOlymp competition. |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Le Rossignol (The Nightingale) Sabine Devieilhe (soprano) Cyrille Dubois (tenor) Chantal Santon Jeffery (soprano) / Les Siecles Jean-Sebastien Bou (baritone) Laurent Naouri (bass-ba [ Erato Classics / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] Sabine Devieilhe takes the title role of the Nightingale in Stravinsky's miniature three-act opera Le Rossignol, while Francois-Xavier Roth - conducting the cast of leading French soloists, the choral singers of Ensemble Aedes, and the period... |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH / JOHANNES BRAHMS / MAX REGER / FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Inmost Heart: Bach, Brahms, Busoni & Reger Samson Tsoy [ Linn Records / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] In Samson Tsoy's artfully designed solo debut recording, ideas reverberate across the centuries as Brahms's elaborations of works by two past masters are juxtaposed with reworkings of his own music by two later composers. Lauded for his originality... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin K301, K378, K454 Sayaka Shoji, Gianluca Cascioli [ Arcana / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] Boasting a musical partnership of over 15 years, during which they have played in concerts throughout the world (recently at the Wigmore Hall in London and the Suntory Hall in Tokyo), the violinist Sayaka Shoji and the pianist Gianluca Cascioli have... |