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 143
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No.9 "Choral" (studio & Live) / Egmont: incidental music Aase Nordmo-Løvberg, Christa Ludwig, Waldemar Kmentt, Hans Hotter, Birgit Nilsson / Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra, Otto Klemperer [ Warner SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] "…Otto Klemperer's energy and momentum come not from his tempos but from the way the rhythms are articulated. In the first movement and Scherzo the heroic, teeth-gritted determination are physically gripping, In this Ninth combined urgency with... |
GEORGE GERSHWIN / LEONARD BERNSTEIN / XAVIER MONTSALVATGE / JENNY PEÑA CAMPO
Gershwin, Montsalvatge, Bernstein & Jenny Peña Campo Adriana Bignagni Lesca; Philzuid; Duncan Ward [ Fuga Libera / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] Musical fireworks flare and dazzle in this New Year's concert! This live recording of the 2024 New Year's concert is Philzuid's seventh album - and it's a very different New Year's concert with Latin rhythms and American dance in the foreground.... |
CESAR FRANCK / GABRIEL FAURE
Franck: Symphony in D minor / Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande Albrecht Meyer (oboe), Emanuel Pahud (flute), Dominik Wollenweber (cor anglais), Berlin Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 31/Jan/2025 ] "Barenboim, ever the elder statesman, takes [the Franck's 'inherent grandness'] his stride. He also has the Berlin Philharmonic at his bidding and for organ-like sonorities that seem to come up through the bass lines they are the business" Gramophone |
RICHARD STRAUSS / KELLY-MARIE MURPHY / KEVIN LAU
Poema 1. Ad Astra Alexander Shelley, Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra [ Analekta / CD - released 24/Jan/2025 ] Poema 1. Ad Astra is the first in a series of recordings by Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra in which Music Director Alexander Shelley asked Canadian Composers to craft compositions that respond to masterpieces by German Composer, Richard... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / FRANZ SCHUBERT
Alexandre Kantorow plays Brahms and Schubert Alexandre Kantorow (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 29/Nov/2024 ] "First, you can take his peerless technical ability for granted. Next, he is blessed with a remarkable personal sound: it has the quality of a dark, warm roar from deep within the instrument, huge, highly coloured , but never harsh or ugly" BBC Music |
JOHN FIELD
John Field - Complete Nocturnes Alice Sara Ott (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 28/Feb/2025 ] "Ott plays them all with great affection, never attempting to make them seem more profound or expressively complex than they are, and in treating this neglected music simply at face value, she has done it proud." The Guardian |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Violin Sonatas Alina Ibragimova (violin) Cédric Tiberghien (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 21/Feb/2025 ] The critical reception of Schumann's violin sonatas-like that of much of the composer's late output-has vacillated over the course of the intervening centuries. |
CARL ORFF
Orff: Carmina Burana Alina Wunderlin; Max Emanuel Cencic; Russell Braun; Zürcher Sing - Akademie; Zürcher Sängerknaben; Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich; Paavo Järvi [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Jan/2025 ] Carmina Burana, the staged cantata by Carl Orff, is a work unique in musical history, claims conductor Paavo Järvi: 'The convergence of medieval texts with such daringly original orchestral colours creates a soundworld that is both archaic and yet... |
JAN FREIDLIN / ROBERTO SIERRA
21st Century Works for Clarinet & Guitar Andreas Hermanski, Émilie Fend [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Dec/2024 ] Classical guitarist Émilie Fend and clarinettist Andreas Hermanski share an ambitious artistic vision to promote their relatively unusual instrumental combination through the commissioning of new repertoire. Including world premiere recordings,... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / FRANZ SCHUBERT / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Brahms, Schumann & Schubert: Original Transcriptions for Trumpet Andrew Balio, John Wilson [ Delos / CD - released 24/Jan/2025 ] Trumpet was meant to have a bright future after Handel and Bach, but history decided otherwise. Relegated to a military signal role with timpani, it had to wait until the later Romantic period to flourish once again. |
ALEXY SHORE
Shor: Composer's Notebook, Vol. 1 Anna Ulaieva, Marc Bouchkov Kyiv Virtuosi, Dmitry Yablonsky, John Warner [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Dec/2024 ] Travel Notebook, Suite for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 by Ukrainian composer Alexey Shor is cast in a neo-Classical vein. It offers personal impressions of places he has visited, with music that is harmonically traditional and melodic. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Le Pays de nos Désirs Anni Laukkanen, Joël Terrin, Cole Knutson, Emma Roberts, Emma Cayeux, Jeeyoung Lim, Gyeongtaek Lee, Iida Antola [ B Records / CD - released 28/Feb/2025 ] Under the aegis of Véronique Gens and Susan Manoff, patrons of the 2024 edition of the Académie Orsay-Royaumont, four duos of young singers and pianists have put together a program whose history is woven by the interaction of pictorial and musical... |
RUTH GIPPS
Gipps: Orchestral Works, Volume 3 BBC Philharmonic (orchestra); Rumon Gamba (conductor) [ Chandos / CD - released 3/Jan/2025 ] "Martin Owen's horn playing, nimble and characterful, is a pleasure in itself. The major piece here - a splendid discovery - is the first of her five symphonies, a wartime creation" BBC Music Feb pick 2025 |
ARTHUR MALAWSKI
Malawski: Orchestral Works Beata Bilińska Artur Malawski Podkarpacka Philharmonic, Mariusz Smolij [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Dec/2024 ] Having sustained an injury to his left hand, Artur Malawski had to abandon his career as a virtuoso violinist and went on to become a successful teacher and composer in his native Poland. The Symphonic Études of 1947 brought him international... |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS / IGOR STRAVINSKY / PAUL DUKAS / JOHN WILLIAMS / BEATRICE BERRUT / SHERMAN BROTHERS
Abracadabra Beatrice Berrut [ La Dolce Volta / CD - released 28/Feb/2025 ] Her intensive frequentation of the works of Liszt has nurtured her sense of narrative and her talent as a colourist. |
J. S. BACH
Bach - Keyboard Concertos BWV1052, 1053, 1054, 1056 Beatrice Rana (piano) / Amsterdam Sinfonietta [ Warner Classics / CD - released 21/Mar/2025 ] Exploring the myriad possibilities of Bach on the piano, Beatrice Rana engages in intimate and illuminating dialogue with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta in four of the composer's keyboard concertos: |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / FRANZ SCHUBERT / GYORGY KURTAG
Lines of life: Schubert & Kurtág Benjamin Appl, György Kurtág, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, James Baillieu [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] Benjamin Appl met Hungarian composer György Kurtág in 2019 and has worked with him ever since. 'He has shaped me both as a musician and as a human being, perhaps more than anyone else,' says Appl. |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH / DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE / FRIEDRICH NICOLAUS BRUHNS
Bach, Buxtehude & Bruhns Benoît Mernier [ Cypres Records / CD - released 24/Jan/2025 ] The making of this CD is the result of several wishes. The organist and composer Benoît Mernier has been heavily involved since 2015 in the construction by Manufacture Thomas of this new instrument at Saint-Loup in Namur, one of the special features... |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (complete ballet) (LP) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics LP / 2 CD - released 6/Dec/2024 ] "Some of the tunes are so famous that you even forget that someone had to write them: what could be more perfect than the pas de deux after the Waltz of the Flowers, which is just a G major scale? We fell in love with this music, rehearsing and... |
GEORG MUFFAT
Muffat: Apparatus musico-organisticus Bernard Foccroulle, Marie Rouquié [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] The collection of toccatas Apparatus musico-organisticus, published in 1690, immediately established Georg Muffat as one of the greatest organists of his century. A veritable reference in the organ repertoire, appreciated for its stylistic diversity,... |
