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
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,... |
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. |
CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH / WILHELM FRIEDEMANN BACH / GEORG BRENDA
The Age of Extremes - W.F. Bach | G. Benda | C.P.E. Bach Francesco Corti, Il Pomo d'Oro [ Arcana / CD - released 24/Jan/2025 ] This recording combines three of the most significant musicians belonging to the generation of the empfindsame or "sentimental" style. As reaction to the late baroque of J.S. |
TRADITIONAL / VIVALDI / SOLLINA / TARTINI
Al-Bunduqiyya: The Lost Concerto Il Pomo d'Oro, Federico Glielmo, with Giovanni Sollima (cello) [ Erato Classics / CD - released 21/Feb/2025 ] "The most interesting offering is Vivaldi's Concerto for cello in E minor 'per Teresa', RV787. The team have nicknamed it the 'lost concerto', for it survives only in its viola part." Gramophone |
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 |
Cantus
Alone Together [ Signum / CD - released 31/Jan/2025 ] Their fourth release on Signum Classics, the "engaging" (New Yorker) men's vocal ensemble Cantus present a collection of songs conveying the connectedness and isolation created through the use of technology both during and beyond the Covid pandemic,... |
BELA BARTOK / ZOLTAN KODALY / OTTORINO RESPIGHI / JOSEPH HAYDN / etc
Antal Dorati - The Philharmonia Hungarica - The Mercury Masters Philharmonia Hungarica, Antal Dorati, with Steven Isserlis, Olli Mustonen, Michael Collins, Takács String Quartet, Andrew Litton [ Mercury Living Presence / 8 CD Box Set - released 7/Feb/2025 ] Driving intensity, rhythmic flair and demonstration-quality sound are brought to the fore in a new anthology of Antal Dorati's early recordings with the Philharmonia Hungarica on Mercury and Philips. |
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... |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach: Goldberg Variations Nevermind [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] A genuine masterpiece inspires musicians to adopt, adapt, or transcribe it without losing any of its greatness. |
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: |
J.S. BACH
Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier (Books One and Two) Michael Houstoun (piano) [ Rattle / 4 CD - released 20/Dec/2024 ] Michael Houstoun has been among the most acclaimed and respected pianists for over 50 years. After working abroad for some years, he returned to New Zealand in 1981 to build an impressive career from his Manawatū home with a large repertoire that... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: 12 Piano Sonatas / 5 Piano Concertos Claudio Arrau (piano) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Alceo Galliera [ Warner Classics / 12 CD - released 14/Mar/2025 ] The pianist Claudio Arrau fully deserves the epithet "legendary": a sovereign technical command, a deep patience and a gravitation towards weighty matters, enriched by his study with 'philosopher pianists' such as Busoni and Martin Krause. |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies / Overtures - The Remastered Stereo Recordings [7 CD set] The Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell [ Sony Classical / 5 CD Box Set - released 31/Jan/2025 ] Sony Masterworks proudly presents a special remastered recording of Beethoven, conducted by the legendary George Szell. This remarkable 7-CD collection is housed in an elegant clamshell box and accompanied by an informative booklet. |
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... |
SIR RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT
Bennett: Orchestral Works, Vol. 5 - Concerto For Orchestra; Sonnets To Orpheus; Diversions Jonathan Aasgaard, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, John Wilson [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 31/Jan/2025 ] John Wilson's series of orchestral works by his mentor and friend Sir Richard Rodney Bennett reaches Vol. 5, featuring three works composed between 1973 1989. |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Harold en Italie / Nuits d'été / Symphonie fantastique Stéphane Degou (baritone) Tabea Zimmermann (viola) / Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 6/Dec/2024 ] Berlioz the pioneer. A new aesthetic calls for new forms: such is the challenge the composer set for himself in the two works presented here. In Les Nuits d'été, Berlioz pioneered, well before Mahler and Ravel, a song cycle for voice and orchestra.... |
JOSEPH BODIN de BOISMORTIER
Boismortier: Les Quatre Saisons Chloé de Guillebon; Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal; Enguerrand de Hys; Lili Aymonino; Marc Mauillon; Sarah Charles [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / CD - released 24/Jan/2025 ] Although it is not known to which mysterious figures they were dedicated, Joseph de Boismortier's cantatas Les Quatre Saisons, published in 1724, resonate with the splendour of court festivities and the eloquence of the salons de conversation. The... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Complete Songs, Vol. 6 Esther Valentin-Fieguth, Konstantin Ingenpaß, Ulrich Eisenlohr [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Dec/2024 ] Brahms'lifelong preoccupation with the solo voice can be heard to great effect in this sixth volume of his complete songs. The ghostly and dreamlike opening of the Four Duets, Op. 28 and moods of desolation and loss in the Nine Songs, Op. 69 are... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem Johanna Wallroth (soprano), Brian Mulligan (baritone), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Choirs, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 31/Jan/2025 ] Composed between 1865 and 1868, Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem has become a repertoire staple for choirs around the world, amateur and professional alike, possibly because it relies so much more on the choir than its soloists to convey the texts than... |
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. |
