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 40 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 -... |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN / FREDERIC CHOPIN / FRANZ LISZT / ROBERT SCHUMANN / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Great 20th-Century Spanish Pianists (Live) Esteban Sánchez, Cristina Bruno, Joaquín Soriano, Manuel Carra, Pedro Espinosa [ MarchVivo / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] In 1975, coinciding with the inauguration of their new headquarters in Madrid, the Fundación Juan March launched their Young Performers recitals, a series of presenter-led concerts for secondary-school students, performed by leading Spanish... |
GUSTAV HOLST / VAINO RAITIO
Holst: The Planets / Raitio: Moonlight on Jupiter Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Chamber Choir, Nicholas Collon [ Ondine / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] This album by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Nicholas Collon joins together two impressive cosmic visions: Gustav Holst's iconic orchestral masterpiece The Planets together with a gem from Finnish orchestral literature, Väinö Raitio's... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Wishing Tree The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] For their 11th album on Hyperion, award-winning vocal outfit The Gesualdo Six return to some of the repertoire that they spent their first year performing and touring together some 11 years ago, in 2015, recording this music for the first... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Il fior della Cecilia: Images of Women between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Anonima Frottolisti [ Tactus / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] The production by the Anonima Frottolisti ensemble, which needs no introduction thanks to its specialisation in the interpretation of medieval and Renaissance music, focuses in this work on the theme of the female figure that has been handed down to... |
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MARC ANTONIO INGEGNERI
Ingegneri: Missa Kyrie / Motetten [The Teacher and His Disciples] Choir of Girton College, Cambridge, The Western Wydnes, Gabriel Kennedy (organ), Ben Nolan (organ) [ Toccata Classics / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] In this sixth album the Choir of Girton College, Cambridge, continues its pioneering exploration of the music of the Italian Renaissance master Marc'Antonio Ingegneri (c. 1535/36-92) with a programme exploring in music Christ's relationship with his... |
DAVID HACKBRIDGE JOHNSON
Johnson: Orchestral Music Vol.4 Jonathan Powell (piano), Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra [ Toccata Classics / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] David Hackbridge Johnson, born near London in 1963, is an all-round musician - not only a prolific composer but also a conductor, violinist, singer, pianist, jazz drummer and poet. Both works recorded here, under the baton of the composer, have... |
GABRIEL FAURE
Fauré: Sonatas for Violin and Piano Transcriptions Kerson Leong (violin), Jonathan Fournel (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] Kerson Leong, winner of the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition in 2010, and Jonathan Fournel, winner of the Queen Elisabeth International Grand Prix in 2021, have each recorded several albums for Alpha Classics. Long-time... |
NADIA BOULANGER / ASTOR PIAZZOLLA / ALBERTO GINASTERA / LILI BOULANGER etc
Soleils de Septembre L'Achéron, François Joubert-Caillet [ Fuga Libera / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] Astor Piazzolla was in his early thirties when he travelled to France to study composition with Nadia Boulanger at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau. Her guidance profoundly shaped his music. While Piazzolla sought to refine his classical... |
PETERIS VASKS
Vasks: Songs of My Heart Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Klava [ Ondine / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] Pēteris Vasks (b. 1946) is considered among the leading Baltic composers of today and is known for his profound musical language. The award-winning Latvian Radio Choir conducted by Sigvards Kļava are dedicating their new album to Pēteris Vasks' 80th... |
C.P.E. BACH / J.S. BACH / W.F. BACH
Bach Family: A musical offering Le Caravansérail, Frank Theuns, Sophie Gent, Bertrand Cuiller [ Ramée / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] It was in 1747 that Johann Sebastian Bach received an invitation from King Frederic II of Prussia. Bach travelled with Wilhelm Friedmann - his eldest son - to Potsdam, where Carl Philipp Emanuel, his second eldest son, was accompanist to the king's... |
ARTUR LEMBA
Lemba: Chamber Music Vol.2 Sten Lassmann (piano), M4gnet String Quartet [ Toccata Classics / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] The music of Artur Lemba has been strangely neglected, even in his native Estonia - although during his lifetime (1885-1963) he was held in high regard as pianist and teacher. That oversight is all the more surprising in view of the expansive,... |
AARON COPLAND / GEORGE WALKER
Copland: Symphony No. 3 / Walker: Sinfonia No. 5 London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano [ LSO Live / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] Aaron Copland's third symphony is a vast and beautiful work depicting sprawling landscapes, forceful intensity and the power of human resilience. Composed in the final days of World War II, it channels the spirit of a nation looking toward brighter... |
MAURICE RAVEL / ROBERT SCHUMANN / RICHARD STRAUSS / AMY BEACH etc
Deep River Miclen LaiPang (violin), Nigel Yandell (piano) [ Delos / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] "A force to be reckoned with" (The New York Times), violinist Miclen LaiPang makes his solo recording debut on Delos with a very personal recital. Featuring music that has accompanied him over time, "Deep River" traces a path through styles and... |
MOHAMMAD KARIMI / MOHAMMAD MUSAVI
Iran: The Masters of Music, Vol. 2 Mohammad Karimi (chant), Mohammad Musavi (ney / flute) [ Ocora / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] Karimi, master of singing, drew on the most authentic source of the radif (classical repertoire) to create an intimate expression far removed from any artifice, in perfect harmony with Mohammad Musavi's ney flute -a simple reed with immense... |
OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Respighi: Sinfonia drammatica Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Robert Treviño [ Ondine / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] Conductor Robert Trevino's second album release of orchestral music by Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) together with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI features Respighi's massive orchestral masterpiece, the Sinfonia drammatica. Respighi's... |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Presumed Beethoven: The Six String Quartets, Anh. 2 Quartetto Alla Maniera Italiana [ Arcana / 2 CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] In 1927, at the time of the first Beethoven centenary, the celebrated French musicologist Saint-Foix drew attention to an anonymous manuscript collection of six quartets that once belonged to the publisher Domenico (III) Artaria and is today... |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Late String Quartets Quatuor Diotima [ Pentatone / 3 CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] Quatuor Diotima presents an album of Beethoven's late string quartets, bringing renewed clarity and passion to some of the most profound works in the chamber repertoire. Written in the final years of his life, these late quartets unfold as deeply... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Santtu conducts Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 and Moscow, Cheryomushki Santtu-Matias Rouvali (conductor), Philharmonia Orchestra [ Signum / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] Santtu conducts Shostakovich: Moscow Cheryomushki and Symphony No. 1 is the seventh album from Philharmonia Records. Led by Santtu-Matias Rouvali, these performances were recorded live at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall, where they are... |
BELA BARTOK / FREDERIC CHOPIN / / FRANZ LISZT / MAURICE RAVEL / CARL MARIA VON WEBER / ALEXI STANCHINSKY
Debut Sasha Stychkina (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] Greek-Russian pianist Sasha Stychkina, born in December 2003 in Moscow into a family of musicians and filmmakers, is the youngest finalist and winner in the history of the Marguerite Long International Piano Competition in Paris in November... |
JOHN FIELD
Field: Piano Sonatas, Variations, Rondo, Waltz Tyler Hay (piano) [ Piano Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2026 ] The Irish-born composer John Field is still celebrated today as 'the father of the nocturne' for his creation of a genre which went on to inspire Chopin and generations of Romantic-era composers for the piano. |
