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 220
MANUEL PONCE
Ponce: Complete Piano Works Vol.4 Alvaro Cendoya (piano) [ Grand Piano / CD - released 23/May/2025 ] A fundamental characteristic of Manuel Ponce's music is the range of styles and techniques he used throughout his career. The expressive Romanza de amor is a sublime example of his Romantic phase. |
GEORGES BIZET
Georges Bizet Edition Barbara Hendricks, Montserrat Caballe, Maria Callas, Dietrich Discher-Dieskau, Nicolai Gedda, Jonas Kaufmann, Magdalena Kozena, Gautier Capucon, etc [ Warner Classics / 16 CD - released 23/May/2025 ] This collection celebrates the genius of one of France's greatest composers, featuring his most beautiful works performed by world-class artists such as Maria Callas, Barbara Hendricks, June Anderson, Magdalena Kožená, Jonas Kaufmann and Simon Rattle |
FREDERICK CHOPIN
Chopin: Piano Sonatas 2 & 3, Ballade no.1, Berceuse, Nocturnes Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 23/May/2025 ] Benjamin Grosvenor explores the depths of Chopin with new album featuring Piano Sonatas 2 & 3. Benjamin's ninth album for Decca classics features two of Chopin's most profound and contrasting works. Written nearly a decade apart, these masterpieces... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor" / Quintet for Piano and Winds Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano), Orchestre Francais des Jeunes, Michael Schonwandt [ Warner Classics / CD - released 23/May/2025 ] Long acknowledged as one of the great pianists of our time, Elisabeth Leonskaja shares her wealth of experience of Beethoven's Piano Concerto no.5, the 'Emperor', with the players of the Orchestre Français des Jeunes, aged between 16 and 25. She... |
ERKKI-SVEN TUUR
Tüür: Aeris Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Olari Elts [ ECM New Series / CD - released 23/May/2025 ] Aeris is the ninth ECM New Series album to feature the vibrant and highly expressive music of Erkki-Sven Tüür. |
VITTORIO RIETI
Rieti: Complete Piano Solo & Duo Works Vol.3 Giorgio Koukl (piano) Virginia Rossetti (piano) [ Grand Piano / CD - released 23/May/2025 ] Vittorio Rieti won esteem for his orchestral music which was conducted by titans such as Toscanini and Stokowski, but the piano remained his greatest musical love. Rieti's vivid freshness can be appreciated in the selections in this volume, which... |
ANTON BRUCKNER / CARLO GESUALDO
Bruckner & Gesualdo: Motets Monteverdi Choir, Jonathan Sells [ SDG / CD - released 23/May/2025 ] Recorded live in concert in October 2024, this release marks the Monteverdi Choir's 60th birthday and the 200th anniversary of Bruckner's birth with an album that combines his celebrated a cappella motets with the sacred motets of Carlo Gesualdo... |
HENRY PURCELL and others
If the Fates allow: Music by Purcell and his Contemporaries Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano), Sounds Baroque [ BIS SACD / CD - released 23/May/2025 ] On her first solo recital for BIS, Gramophone Award-winner Helen Charlston performs a selection of songs by the English composer Henry Purcell, some very well-known, others less so, as well as pieces by other composers of the period such as John... |
MADELEINE DRING
Dring: Complete Works for Oboe Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Adam Walker (flute), Amy Harman (bassoon), Antonio Oyarzabal (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 23/May/2025 ] Madeline Dring was born into a musical and theatrical family, and gained an exhibition scholarship to the junior department of the Royal College of Music aged nine. Her focus changed from violin to piano and composition, which she studied with... |
MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Weinberg - Complete Music for Cello and Orchestra Nikolay Shugaev (cello), Tyumen Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Medianik [ Naxos / CD - released 23/May/2025 ] Mieczysław Weinberg flourished as a composer despite working amidst political and personal setbacks. He gained the admiration of Shostakovich, and was championed by the leading Soviet musicians of the day. |
ROBERT SAXTON
Saxton - String Quartets 3 & 4, Reflections in Time Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin), Kreutzer Quartet [ Metier / CD - released 23/May/2025 ] Reflections in Time brings together three major works by Robert Saxton which push the expressive and structural boundaries of the string quartet and solo violin. |
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Cello Concertos [with Britten: Cello sonata Op.65] Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello) / Sinfonia of London, John Wilson, with Isata Kanneh-Mason [ Decca Records / CD - released 23/May/2025 ] "The uniqueness of the present coupling is hardly the least of its assets. With sound of unfailing definition and focus, it demonstrably takes Kanneh-Mason's standing on to a whole new level." Gramophone |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart - Piano Transcriptions of Orchestral Dances Tung Nguyen (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 23/May/2025 ] The music on this recording was written between 1772 and 1782, largely during Mozart's difficult time in Salzburg employed as Konzertmeister under the regime of Prince-Archbishop Colloredo. |
BERNSTEIN / GRIEG / HADJIDAKIS / ISOLANI / RAVEL
Parole in Musica: Music for Guitar Trio The Volterra Project Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 23/May/2025 ] This diverse programme of works for guitar trio is bound by the common thread of music inspired by stories from literature, stage or screen. With its rhythmic exuberance and tragic beauty, Bernstein's West Side Story has never lost its freshness and... |
JIA DAQUN
Jia - Impressions of Liyuan: Symphonic Concerto Cycle Zhang Jiajing (Chinese percussion), Wang Junkan (dizi), Lu Yiwen (erhu), Liu Wenwen (suona), Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, Lin Daye [ Naxos / CD - released 23/May/2025 ] Jia Daqun, one of China's most prolific and respected composers, has written in many forms, including symphonies, concertos, chamber music and song cycles. |
KAIJA SAARIAHO
Saariaho: Adriana Mater San Francisco Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Esa-Pekka Salonen [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 19/May/2025 ] Winner - Best Opera Recording Grammy Awards 67th Awards (2025) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Lieder Album Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Gerold Huber (piano) [ Sony Classics / CD - released 16/May/2025 ] For their latest album, recorded live at the Reitstadel in Neumarkt, Christian Gerhaher and his long-time duo-partner, Gerold Huber, have revisited the songs of the great Romantic composer Johannes Brahms (1833-1897). Yet it is not their first time:... |
SCHUBERT / BEETHOVEN / LOEWE / BRAHMS / GRIEG / MAHLER / WPLF / R. STRAUSS / etc
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: Lieder & Songs on Warner Classics Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano), Karl Engel (piano), etc [ Emi Classics Signature Collection / 79 CD Box Set - released 16/May/2025 ] One of the 20th century's most questing and influential singers, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is celebrated above all for his extraordinary skill and insight in lieder. This complete collection of lieder and songs recorded for HMV, EMI Electrola, Teldec... |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar - The Kingdom Francesca Chiejina (sop) Sarah Connolly (contralto) Benjamin Hulett (tenor) Ashley Riches (bass) / Crouch End Festival Chorus, London Mozart Players [ Signum / CD - released 16/May/2025 ] Elgar's unjustly neglected 'greatest choral masterpiece' (Jeremy Dibble) is given an outstanding new recording by conductor David Temple, Crouch End Festival Chorus, London Mozart Players, and soloists Francesca Chiejina, Dame Sarah Connolly,... |
BYRON ADAMS / SAMUEL BARBER / DAVID CONTE
Chopin - A Portrait of Chopin: Piano Concertos 1 & 2 (arr. for piano & string quartet) Jack Liebeck (violin), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Poll [ Orchid / CD - released 16/May/2025 ] Pianist Lara Melda and the acclaimed Carducci Quartet present A Portrait of Chopin, a striking reimagining of Chopin's First and Second Piano Concerti, arranged for piano and string quartet. The project offers an intimate perspective on these... |
