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 299
C.P.E. BACH
Bach: Berlin Symphonies Arte dei Suonatori, Marcin Swiatkiewicz [ BIS SACD / CD - released 12/Jun/2026 ] Two years ago, the Arte dei Suonatori ensemble and its dynamic conductor and harpsichordist Marcin Swiatkiewicz presented C.P.E. Bach's 'Hamburg' Symphonies (BIS-2459)- highly expressive and personal works. Nervous, full of unexpected twists and... |
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Late Symphonies Nos. 84, 85 Danish Chamber Orchestra, Adam Fischer [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Jun/2026 ] Haydn composed the three symphonies in this volume during the mid- 1780s in a spirit of triumph. Though still employed by the Esterházy family, he had recently been allowed to publish his music himself and to accept outside commissions. A number of... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss: Intermezzo Deutsche Oper Berlin, Sir Donald Runnicles [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 12/Jun/2026 ] Richard Strauss summed up his two-act opera Intermezzo as a 'bourgeois comedy with symphonic interludes'. The soprano role of Christine with its shimmering cantilenas represents Strauss's wife Pauline, while the successful Kapellmeister Robert Storch... |
MEL BONIS
Bonis: Orchestral Works Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Rumon Gamba (conductor), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra [ Chandos / CD - released 12/Jun/2026 ] Mel (Mélanie Hélène) Bonis was born in Paris in 1858, and showed a prodigious talent for music from an early age, attending the Paris Conservatoire from the age of sixteen, studying alongside Debussy and Pierné under César Franck. Her passionate... |
Farrenc: Sämtliche Klavierwerke Vol. 4
Stratigou, Maria [ Grand Piano / CD - released 12/Jun/2026 ] Louise Farrenc was one of the most respected pianists, composers and pedagogues in the Parisian musical scene of her day, gaining the admiration of Robert Schumann. Her Theme and Variations sets are regarded as some of the most significant pieces she... |
DAVID SISCO
Sisco: Infrastructure - The Songs of David Sisco David Fung (piano), Michael Kelly (baritone), Elizabeth Mondragon (mezzo-soprano), Laura Strickling (soprano), David Sisco (baritone) [ Metier / CD - released 12/Jun/2026 ] Metier Records is proud to present "Infrastructure: The Songs of David Sisco" from the award-winning US composer, featuring over 25 years of his output of art song, performed by pianist David Fung, singers Laura Strickling, Elizabeth Mondragon,... |
J.S. BACH
Bach: The Complete Keyboard Concertos Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord), Britten Sinfonia (ensemble) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 12/Jun/2026 ] Mahan Esfahani's mammoth project to record the complete keyboard works of Bach reaches its zenith with The Complete Keyboard Concertos. At every stage in the series Esfahani has sought to challenge long-held assumptions about the composer we seek to... |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Choral Transcriptions Michael Kaykov (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Jun/2026 ] A central expression of Franz Liszt's multifaceted creativity was his lifelong engagement with transcription and transformation, using the piano as a medium capable of absorbing the sonorities, gestures and emotional weight of voices and orchestras... |
HAYDN
Haydn: Keyboard Works Vol. 2 Peter Donohoe (piano) [ Signum / 2 CD - released 12/Jun/2026 ] This second volume of Peter Donohoe's Haydn Keyboard Works series brings together a wide-ranging selection of sonatas, partitas, capriccios and fantasias spanning almost the composer's entire career. From the early Partita in G major to the dramatic... |
Rheinberger / Martin: Doppelchörige Messen
SWR Vokalensemble/Weinberg, Yuval [ SWRmusic / CD - released 12/Jun/2026 ] Rheinberger composed his Cantus Missae in 1878, during his tenure as director of chapel music at the court of King Ludwig II. The work embodies a successful reconciliation of the conflicting artistic currents of his time, and it is precisely this... |
DOMENICO SCARLATTI / DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE / FELIX MENDELSSOHN / NICHOLAS MAW / DUSAN BOGDANOVIC
Guitar Laureate Recital Virgile Barthe (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Jun/2026 ] |
JESSICA ULUSOY-HORSLEY
in between - Choral Works by Jessica Ulusoy-Horsley Tenebrae, Nigel Short (director) [ Signum / CD - released 6/Jun/2026 ] This recording brings together recent choral works by British-Swiss composer Jessica Ulusoy-Horsley exploring sound, silence, and the spaces between them, performed by Tenebrae under Nigel Short. The programme includes the work Engelsmusik, inspired... |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas I Alina Ibragimova (violin), Cedric Tiberghien (fortepiano) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] For her first solo album with BIS Records, Alina Ibragimova, together with Cedric Tiberghien, embarks on recording Beethoven's entire violin sonatas. As one might expect, the first violinist of the Chiaroscuro Quartet presents these chamber music... |
MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Weinberg String Quartets, Volume 6 Arcadia Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] With this sixth volume, the Arcadia Quartet completes its series of recordings of Weinberg's string quartets. The ensemble comments: 'Although from time to time we encounter music that we have never heard before, rarely is that music something we... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT / J.S. BACH
In deinen süßen Händen. Musik für verlorene Seelen Aurelia Visovan, Coline Dutilleul [ Fuga Libera / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] Schöne Welt, wo bist du? These words by Friedrich Schiller are the first of this new project, an exploration of existence, wandering and mourning. Coline Dutilleul has conceived a programme in which keyboard works by Johann Sebastian Bach and... |
J.S. BACH / HEINRICH IGNAZ FRANZ BIBER / MATTHEW LOCKE / ANDREAS OSWALD
Erbarme dich! Ayres Extemporae [ Linn Records / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] Winner of the 2024 York Early Music International Young Artists Competition, the trio Ayres Extemporae make its recording debut on Linn Records with a programme that explores various colours and textures made available by the group's unusual... |
J.S. BACH
J.S. Bach: The Cello Suites / Guitar Transcriptions Eliot Fisk (guitar) [ IBS Classical / 2 CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] Johann Sebastian Bach's Six Suites for Solo Cello, BWV 1007-1012, stand among the most revered monuments of the Western musical canon. Written most likely during Bach's years in Köthen between 1717 and 1723, these works transformed the possibilities... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: The Three Violin Sonatas Charles Richard-Hamelin (piano), Andrew Wan (violin) [ Analekta / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] Andrew Wan, Concertmaster of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, and Charles Richard-Hamelin, internationally acclaimed pianist and silver medalist at the Chopin Competition, unite their artistic chemistry in a pinnacle of the Romantic... |
ENRIQUE GOYESCAS
Granados: Goyescas Charlotte Hu (piano) [ Pentatone / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] Pianist Charlotte Hu presents Goyescas, an album featuring Granados's monumental Goyescas alongside two Spanish Dances. A cornerstone of Spanish piano literature, Goyescas was inspired by the paintings of Francisco Goya and unfolds as a richly poetic... |
LUIGI BOCCHERINI / FRANCESCO GEMINIANI / J.S. BACH / ANTONIO VIVALDI
Echoes Of My Childhood Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), Irina Zahharenkova (harpsichord), Anderson Fiorelli (basso continuo) [ Orfeo / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] In this remarkable recording, Daniel Müller-Schott blends masterful cello artistry with a deeply personal musical journey. Together with Irina Zahharenkova and Anderson Fiorelli, they bring works by Bach, Vivaldi, Geminiani and Boccherini to life -... |
