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 81
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64 / Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti [ BR Klassik / 2 CD - released 15/Nov/2025 ] Founded in Munich in 1949 under Eugen Jochum, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra quickly won an international reputation, collaborating with leading conductors and contemporary composers, the latter notably under the Musica Viva programme. Jochum... |
DONNACHA DENNEHY
Dennehy: Land of Winter Alarm Will Sound and Alan Pierson [ Nonesuch Records / CD - released 14/Nov/2025 ] Donnacha Dennehy's Land of Winter is out now on Nonesuch Records. The piece, performed by the composer's longtime collaborators Alarm Will Sound and conductor Alan Pierson, explores the subtleties of Ireland's seasons via twelve connected sections... |
ERNEST KANITZ
Music In Exile: Chamber Works by Ernest Kanitz ARC Ensemble, with Anna Štube & Marie Bérard (Violin) [ Chandos Music in Exile / CD - released 14/Nov/2025 ] he ARC Ensemble's Music in Exile series continues with this exploration of chamber works by Ernest Kanitz. |
WILLIAM WALTON
Walton - Orchestral Works Vol.2: Cello Concerto / Symphony No. 1 / Scapino Jonathan Aasgaard (cello), Sinfonia of London, John Wilson [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 14/Nov/2025 ] '...a perfect example of how conductor John Wilson's vital, yet penetrating, approach combines with the orchestra's trademark lustre to fit this composer's music like a glove. It's evident from the outset in a rumbustious reading of Scapino" Guardian |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Louis Lortie Plays Chopin, Vol. 8 Louis Lortie (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 14/Nov/2025 ] Louis Lortie's programme for this eighth and final volume of Chopin spans the composer's entire career, from the teenage Rondo, Op. 1 through to his final published piece, the Cello Sonata, Op. 65. |
EDWARD GREGSON
Gresson: A Vision in a Dream Ross Knight (tuba) Edward Gregson (piano) Rachel Roberts (viola) Jennifer Galloway (oboe) / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Ben Gernon [ Chandos / CD - released 14/Nov/2025 ] An award-winning English composer of international standing, and one of the leading composers of his generation, whose music has been performed, recorded, and broadcast in many countries, Edward Gregson celebrates his eightieth birthday in 2025. |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Goldberg Variations Thibaut Garcia & Antoine Moriniere (guitars) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 14/Nov/2025 ] Thibaut Garcia is one of the most acclaimed classical guitarists of his generation, praised for his playing that combines virtuosity and poetic sensitivity. Born from a deep artistic friendship with guitarist Antoine Morinère, this album offers a... |
Michael Norris
Rerenga [ Rattle Records / CD - released 13/Nov/2025 ] Composed between 2015 and 2022, this collection of orchestral and ensemble works is unified by a concern for colour and gesture, timbre and texture. It reflects the influence of textural and spectral composition, the modernist impulse to organise and... |
JANACEK / DVORAK / STRAVINSKY / MOZART / ELGAR / SULLIVAN / BRIAN / etc
Sir Charles Mackerras - The Complete Warner Classics Edition Various orchestras conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras, with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Janet Baker, and more [ Warner Classics / 63 CD Box Set - released 7/Nov/2025 ] Sir Charles Mackerras (1925-2010) 100th Anniversary of Birth on November 17th The Complete Recordings on HMV, Pye, Columbia Graphophone, Classics for Pleasure, EMI Classics, Virgin Classics & Erato |
THIERRY ESCAICH
Escaich: Te Deum pour Notre-Dame Alain Altinoglu; Thierry Escaich; Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris; NFM Choir; Frankfurt Radio Symphony [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 31/Oct/2025 ] The French composer and organist Thierry Escaich composed his Te Deum pour Notre-Dame for the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris; a hymn to the Cathedral's resurrection, it is a large-scale work for children's choir, two mixed choirs and... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Le Clavecin de Louis XIV. La Gloire du Soleil Brice Sailly [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / CD - released 31/Oct/2025 ] Amid the pomp of the court, the ear of the young Louis XIV was awakened to the charms of the harpsichord. Surrounded by the most illustrious harpsichordists, he explored a world where music was still a treasure passed from hand to hand. While French... |
CHABRIER / DEBUSSY / RAVEL
Iberia Domingo Hindoyan, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra [ Onyx / CD - released 31/Oct/2025 ] As France recovered from the shock of defeat to Prussian forces in 1870, the country began to boast again of its status as the centre of the world. Paris was the place to be for anyone interested in contemporary culture and the advance of modernity,... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Feminine Voices at Christmas Ensemble Altera, Christopher Lowrey [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 31/Oct/2025 ] Feminine Voices celebrates the female voice and the Christmas season, with a kaleidoscopic selection made up of the Magnificat, Ave Maria and carols, each of which is more wonderful than the last. Eight female composers feature in the programme that... |
AMBROISE THOMAS
Thomas: Psyché Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra; Hungarian National Choir; György Vashegyi; Hélène Guilmette; Antoinette Dennefeld; Tassis Christoyannis [ Bru Zane / 2 CD - released 31/Oct/2025 ] Premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 26 January 1857, Ambroise Thomas's Psyché tells the story of the ill-starred love between Eros and Psyche, who are manipulated by the cynical Mercury and envied by Daphne and Berenice, the heroine's own... |
FRANCESCO CAVALLI / CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI / GIOVANNI GABRIELI / HEINRICH SCHUTZ
Natale veneziano Il Pomo d'Oro; Giuseppe Maletto [ Arcana / CD - released 31/Oct/2025 ] This anthology of sacred works - all of which could be used in the liturgies of the Christmas festivities - features some of the leading musicians active in Venice in the 16th and 17th centuries. They range from the earliest, Andrea Gabrieli, who... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Hommage à Jodie Devos Jodie Devos [ Alpha Classics / 7 CD - released 31/Oct/2025 ] Jodie Devos is sorely missed. Aged just thirty-five, she died on 16 June 2024. Wishing to perpetuate her memory and her art, we have decided to publish this boxed set containing all of the recordings she made for Alpha Classics over a period of ten... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 (LP) Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - released 31/Oct/2025 ] Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich present the second volume of their complete Mahler Symphonies, with his First Symphony, known as the "Titan" in reference to the eponymous novel by the poet Jean-Paul that Mahler greatly admired. Although... |
Latin Connections
[ Chandos / CD - released 24/Oct/2025 ] 'A project some six years in the making, Latin Connections was originally conceived as a collaborative project with the multi-instrumentalist, singer, and composer Clarice Assad. Global Covid restrictions forced us to postpone the recording, by which... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart Piano Concertos etc. Volume 11 Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano) / Manchester Camerata, Gábor Takács-Nagy [ Chandos / CD - released 24/Oct/2025 ] This eleventh volume adds the three juvenile concertos which Mozart composed in 1771 - 72, all re-writes of keyboard sonatas by J.C. Bach. Bach had been something of a mentor to Mozart whilst he was living in London (1764 - 65) and these concertos... |
J. S. BACH
Martin Fröst - B.A.C.H. Martin Fröst (clarinet), Sebastien Dube (double bass), Anastasia Kobekina (cello), Jonas Nordberg (lute), Göran Fröst (viola), Benny Andersson (piano) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 24/Oct/2025 ] "there are extraordinary moments. Indeed, the final few seconds of that Prelude [Suite No. 2] are exquisite: shaped in strength, vulnerability, resonance and decay, this is paradoxical playing at its most beguiling." Gramophone Awards Issue 2025 |
