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 273
Baroque Christmas: Sanctus
[ Alto / CD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] "this is a studiously well-curated programme (by Jeffrey Skidmore) of music for the Nativity, almost all from the baroque period. In our view It provides a superior and enjoyable listening experience for Christmas-time" (MusicalMerit) "Recommended... |
Christmas Poetry & Prose: Read by Great Voices
[ Alto / CD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] "Few things capture Christmas as well as poetry, and many have become standard, including ones whose verses became carols too" Readers include: Alec Guinness, Robert Donat, Richard Burton, Dulcie Gray, Dylan Thomas Robert Frost, Annette... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Sonata no.3 & Fantasien op.116 Adam Laloum (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Oct/2021 ] After his recent Schubert album, Adam Laloum pays a visit to Brahms: the young prodigy of the early 1850s immediately established himself as the worthy heir of Beethoven and Schumann with his dazzling Sonata no.3. Almost forty years later, we find... |
BRESCIANELLO
Behind Closed Doors, Brescianello, Vol. 1 Adrian Chandler (director/violin) / La Serenissima [ Signum / CD - released 19/Nov/2021 ] La Serenissima presents a post-lockdown recording of the little-known 18th Century Italian composer, Brescianello. A contemporary of Vivaldi, Brescianello is a composer whose music languishes in relative obscurity. Whilst the mists of time have... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Melancolía - Música Temprana Olalla Alemán (soprano), Adrián Rodríguez Van der Spoel, Luciana Cueto (mezzo-soprano) Adrián Rodríguez Van der Spoel / Música Temprana [ Pentatone / CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] Música Temprana, one of today's most exciting Hispanic early music ensembles, presents its first PENTATONE album Melancolía, on which they present Spanish courtly songs on mourning and unrequited love around 1500 together with the apocalyptic... |
GILLIAN WHITEHEAD / ROSIE LANGABEER / JOHN PSATHAS / GARETH FARR
Silver Stone Wood Bone Al Fraser (ngā taonga pūoro), Bridget Douglas (western flutes) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 17/Dec/2021 ] New works for flute and taonga pūoro by New Zealand composers, Dame Gillian Whitehead, Rosie Langabeer, Briar Prastiti, John Psathas, Josiah Carr, and Gareth Farr. Bridget Douglas (Western flutes) Al Fraser (ngā taonga pūoro) |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: Mass (A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers) Alan Titus (baritone) / The Norman Scribner Choir, The Berkshire Boy Choir, Leonard Bernstein [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] This is a remastered 2-CD edition, which includes a 140-page booklet created in collaboration with The Leonard Bernstein Office with numerous previously unreleased photos and facsimiles, synopsis and libretto, and new liner notes. |
GRAHAM LYNCH
Seria Ludo - Piano music by Graham Lynch Albert Kim & Paul Sánchez (piano) [ Divine Art Records / CD - released 8/Oct/2021 ] English composer Graham Lynch (b. 1957) is a master of his craft, a composer whose writing is exceptionally detailed, with specific articulations and layerings; not designed for show, but for better expressing the subject matter of his works, many of... |
PREVIN / SCHEMMER / GAY
Crossroads: American Violin Sonatas Aleksey Semenenko (violin), Artem Belogurov (piano) [ BIS / CD - released 5/Dec/2021 ] |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Alexandre Kantorow plays Brahms Alexandre Kantorow (piano) [ BIS / CD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] The winner of the Tchaikovsky Competition continues his exploration of Brahms. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: 4 Impromptus, D899 / Moments Musicaux, D780 / Rosamunde transcriptions Alexandre Tharaud (piano) [ Erato / CD - released 22/Oct/2021 ] When Tharaud performed the Impromptus at London's Wigmore Hall in 2014, The Guardian wrote: "He got to the heart of the beauties and abysses of this music." |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
A Minstrel's Christmas: English, German, Czech, French, Austrian Carols from many periods Alfred Deller & Consort [ Alto / CD - released 7/Nov/2021 ] "Opening vivaciously, this collection simulates a visiting village group with pleasing simplicity …Many highlights from Deller himself, on magical form here" - Penguin Guide Alfred Deller, counter-tenor & director Deller Consort / Desmond Dupré,... |
ALBENIZ
Alicia de Larrocha plays Albéniz Piano Favourites Alicia de Larrocha (piano) [ Parnassus / CD - released 7/Nov/2021 ] |
JAN IGNACY PADEREWSKI
Paderewski: Songs and Mélodies / Suite in G major / Nocturne Alina Adamski (Soprano) Agata Schmidt (Mezzo-soprano) / Capella Bydgostiensis, Mariusz Smolij [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] Although Paderewski is more readily associated with his career as a legendary virtuoso pianist, his modest output of 70 orchestral, instrumental and vocal works deserves to be more widely known. |
GUILLAUME DUFAY
Dufay: L'alta bellezza Alta Bellezza; Ann Allen; Hanna Geisel; Nathaniel Wood [ Arcana / CD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] In this debut release, the ensemble ALTA BELLEZZA traces the footsteps of 15th century composer Guillaume Dufay through Italy, Savoy and his Burgundian homeland. Considered the most illustrious composer of his generation, Dufay was employed by... |
FRANZ IGNAZ BECK
Beck: L'Isle deserte, Opéra comique in one acte Ana Maria Labin, Samantha Gaul, Theodore Browne, Fabian Kelly, La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider [ CPO / CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] Franz Ignaz Beck is one of the most fascinating composers of the eighteenth century, a musical visionary as well as a »genuine European« with roots in Mannheim. His opera L'isle déserte, long regarded as lost, has resurfaced in a score manuscript in... |
ANDERS ELIASSSON
Eliasson: Symphonies Nos 3 & 4 Anders Paulsson soprano (saxophone), Christian Lindberg (trombone [ BIS / CD - released 7/Jan/2022 ] The music of Anders Eliasson championed by two of Sweden's finest orchestras. |
BEETHOVEN
Andreas Haefliger plays Beethoven Andreas Haefliger (piano) [ BIS / CD - released 7/Jan/2022 ] An all-Beethoven disc from the Swiss pianist. |
RAVEL / BRITTEN
Images: Organ Of Ely Cathedral Anna Lapwood (organ) [ Signum / CD - released 19/Nov/2021 ] Signum proudly presents Lapwood's debut solo organ recording following her critically-acclaimed debut choral recording, All things are quite silent, with The Choirs of Pembroke College, Cambridge. This luxurious programme, including some of Lapwood's... |
CILEA / PURCELL / TCHAIKOVSKY / VERDI / PUCCINI / WAGNER
Anna Netrebko - Amata dalle tenebre Anna Netrebko (soprano) / Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Chailly [ Deusche Grammophon / CD - released 19/Nov/2021 ] "She's in her element [as Manon Lescaut], as she is with Tchaikovsky's Lisa, where the voice sounds beautiful and the emotional trajectory is wonderfully plotted and detailed." Gramophone |
