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 224
Piano Laureate Recital - Jinhyung Park
[ Naxos / CD - released 10/Apr/2026 ] |
GIACOMO SUSANI
Susani: A Screenshot of Now Alexander Chance (countertenor), Tim Mead (countertenor), Daniel Norman (tenor), Chinwe D John (narrator), Giacomo Susani (guitar) [ Linn Records / CD - released 10/Apr/2026 ] The song cycle A Screenshot of Now is a new work by guitarist and composer Giacomo Susani on words by the poet, lyricist, author and physician Chinwe D. John. Receiving its premiere recording on this album, the collection is a series of 14 poems in... |
CELIA MCDOWALL
McDowall: A Tree is a Song - Secular choral works The Rodolfus Choir, Ralph Allwood (Conductor), Elinor Cooper (Conductor) [ Signum / CD - released 10/Apr/2026 ] A Tree is a Song presents first recordings of a collection of recent secular choral works by Cecilia McDowall, performed by The Rodolfus Choir under Ralph Allwood and Elinor Cooper. Written between 2012 and 2024, the programme sets texts by poets... |
GUSTAV MAHLER / MAX REGER
O weh! Aude Extremo (mezzo-soprano), Stephane Degout (baritone), Quatuor Hanson, Ensemble Ouranos, L'Atelier de musique [ B Records / CD - released 10/Apr/2026 ] Following Wendepunkt, Pierre Dumoussaud continues his epic through the twilight of German Romanticism: a seldom-performed three-part work by Max Reger, abundant with nocturnal hues and elfish dances, appears here alongside two of Gustav Mahler's... |
JONATHAN DOVE / GORDON JACOB / EDWARD MCGUIRE
Three British Accordion Concertos: Dove, Jacob, McGuire Owen Murray (accordion), BBC Concert Orchestra, James MacMillan (cond.) [ Toccata Next / CD - released 10/Apr/2026 ] The development of an original classical repertoire for the accordion began with Mogens Ellegaard in his native Denmark and his student, the Scot Owen Murray, in the UK. In 1976 Ellegaard gave the first broadcast performance of Gordon Jacob's... |
Brú, Krishna Nagaraja
Sjungande Danser - Singing Dances from the North [ Glaux Records / CD - released 10/Apr/2026 ] In this recording Brú explores repertoire from the folk dance and song heritage of Sweden, Finland, and Norway. Traditional tunes are blended with musical elements as diverse as baroque, contemporary, and a pinch of heavy metal. Tales about magical... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphonies 1-9 Czech Philharmonic, Semyon Bychkov (conductor) [ Pentatone / 11 CD - released 10/Apr/2026 ] PENTATONE's release of the Czech Philharmonic's complete Mahler cycle under Bychkov brings together one of Europe's most historically resonant orchestras with a conductor internationally recognised for his structural command and interpretive... |
JOHN CORIGLIANO / CHRISTOPHER DIETZ / JENNIFER HIGCON / AARON JAY KERNIS
Switchback: Contemporary American Duos for Violin and Piano Caroline Eva Chin (violin), Laura Melton (piano) [ Toccata Next / CD - released 10/Apr/2026 ] Modern American music has long been characterised by kaleidoscopic variety, reflecting the vigour and optimism of American culture more generally. John Corigliano's early Violin Sonata is a work of the mid-twentieth century. But his own assessment of... |
JOACHIM RAFF
Raff: Dame Kobold Choir of the Theatre of the City of Ústí nad Labem, West Bohemian Symphony Orchestra (Mariánské Lázne), Dario Salvi [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2026 ] Joachim Raff moved in circles that included Franz Liszt and Robert Schumann, and he ultimately became one of the best-known German composers of his day. Of Raff's six stage works Dame Kobold ('The Phantom Lady') was the first of a series of comic... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
So Poétique! Cyrille Dubois (tenor), Pierre Dumoussaud (cond.), Brussels Philharmonic [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 10/Apr/2026 ] After exploring lesser-known works for light lyric tenor from the opéra-comique repertoire with the multi-award-winning So Romantique ! (ALPHA924), this new recording focuses on a unique genre: French mélodie with orchestra. "Deeply attuned to the... |
MATIEGKA
Matiegka: Complete Guitar Sonatas, Vol. 1 Dragoş Ilie (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Apr/2026 ] A native of Bohemia, Wenzel Thomas Matiegka was a contemporary of Beethoven and a celebrated guitarist. His reputation was established after settling in Vienna where he became accepted in musical circles that included Schubert. Matiegka's works... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: String Quintet - Arpeggione Sonata - Lieder Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello), Pascal Amoyel (piano), Quatuor Parisii [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2026 ] In this double album, Emmanuelle Bertrand, Pascal Amoyel and the Quatuor Parisii explore the musical world of late Schubert in all its nuanced light and shade. Here with the well-known Arpeggione Sonata, the stupendous String Quintet, and selected... |
CLARA KATHLENN ROGERS / ALBERT STOESSEL / JULIUS CHAJES
Lost American Violin Sonatas Volume 2 Solomia Soroka (violin), Arthur Green (piano), Phillip Silver (piano) [ Toccata Next / CD - released 10/Apr/2026 ] In their second volume exploring lost American violin sonatas, Solomia Soroka, Phillip Silver and Arthur Greene survey a half-century of music-making, from the buoyant High Romanticism of the Bostonian Clara Rogers via the impassioned early... |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto no.3, Works for Solo Piano Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Ryan Bancroft [ Decca / CD - released 10/Apr/2026 ] Isata Kanneh-Mason has a longstanding love for the music of Prokofiev and performed his Third Piano Concerto for her solo debut at the BBC Proms in 2023. Now she explores the music of this great composer further, on this electrifying new album. As... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / FREDERIC CHOPIN / PERCY GRAINGER etc
Postcards from Ukraine Vol.3: Folk Dialogues Markiyan Melnychenko (violin), Steward Kelly (piano) [ Toccata Next / CD - released 10/Apr/2026 ] The first album of Postcards from Ukraine gave a potted history of Ukrainian music in the form of a series of miniatures for piano and violin, and the second presented four outstanding chamber works by important Ukrainian composers. This third... |
Les Pages du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles; Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Fabien Armengaud
Un Bouquet de Myrrhe - 17th-century Music for French Cathedrals [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / CD - released 10/Apr/2026 ] Jewels of the 17th century, the Tours and Deslauriers manuscripts form a corpus of three hundred works born in the fervour of the provinces of the Kingdom. This journey to the very heart of French cathedrals reveals the striking theatricality of... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Mirage Marc André (double bass), Véronique Teruel (piano), Gabriel Bianco (guitar) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 10/Apr/2026 ] Sensitive and talented, Marc André is one of the few musicians to have chosen the double bass as a solo instrument, bringing it out of the orchestra ranks and into the spotlight. One of the few double bassists to embark on a solo career and to sign... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: The Testament Mathieu Gaudet (piano) [ Analekta / CD - released 10/Apr/2026 ] Pianist Mathieu Gaudet presents the final instalment of his Complete Schubert Sonatas and Major Piano Works recording series. This final volume, The Testament, showcases the very last Sonata by Schubert, in B flat major, D960, a work with a unique... |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Theodora Millenium Orchestra; Chœur de Chambre de Namur; Leonardo García-Alarcón [ Ricercar / 3 CD - released 10/Apr/2026 ] The oratorio Theodora was first performed at the Covent Garden Theatre on 16 March 1750 and clearly took Londoners by surprise. Handel had, after all, made a one hundred and eighty degree turn in his choice of subject. The grandiose episodes of the... |
GRAZYNA BACEWICZ / BENJAMIN BRITTEN / MORTON FELDMAN / PAUL MCCARTNEY / SANDOR VERESS
Blackbirds: Music from the 1960s - Bacewicz, Britten, Feldman, Veress Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), Maxim Emelyanychev (piano), Thomas Dunford (lute, voice), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 10/Apr/2026 ] Nicolas Altstaedt's starting point for this recording was the magnificent Second Concerto for Cello and Orchestra by Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969): "On reading through the work for the first time, I immediately thought: why is this... |
