Classical New Releases
Classical New Releases
Below is a list of all classical CD titles released in the last 120 days.
Displaying items 181 to 200 of 296
Antonín Dvořák, Emmerich Kálmán, Franz Lehár, Franz Liszt etc
La Zingarella: Through Romany Songland Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano), Mark Fewer (violin), Juan-Miguel Hernandez (viola) [ Avie / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian has travelled far and wide, as an international opera star and an Armenian who was born in Lebanon, immigrated to Canada, and is now settled in southern California. Her life is a journey that informs her new recording... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 (LP) Jacqueline du Pre (cello) Daniel Barenboim (piano) [ Warner Classics / LP - released 20/May/2022 ] Renowned as a great interpreter of Brahms, Jacqueline du Pré, here at the peak of her art and technical abilities, delivers the latest version recorded with her husband Daniel Barenboim in May-August 1968. |
James Heather
Invisible Forces [ Ahead of Our Time / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] Pianist and composer James Heather is one of the new artists flourishing in the wake of classically trained artists such as Nils Frahm, Max Richter and Hidden Orchestra instrumentalist Poppy Ackroyd, who have all drawn increasingly broad audiences to... |
James Heather
Invisible Forces (LP) [ Ahead of Our Time / LP - released 20/May/2022 ] Pianist and composer James Heather is one of the new artists flourishing in the wake of classically trained artists such as Nils Frahm, Max Richter and Hidden Orchestra instrumentalist Poppy Ackroyd, who have all drawn increasingly broad audiences to... |
J. S. BACH
Bach Sonatas & Partitas (Re-issue on standard stereo CD) Julia Fischer (violin) [ Pentatone / 2 CD - released 20/May/2022 ] First released in 2005, Julia Fischer's multiple award-winning recording of Johann Sebastian Bach's Sonatas & Partitas has proven to be an evergreen. In 2017, it was re-released as a lavish 3LP boxset, as well as a re-designed 2SACD edition. This... |
ALFVEN / BACH / JENKINS / PURCELL / RAMEAU / SCARLATTI / etc
Martin Fröst - Night Passages Martin Fröst (clarinet), Sebastien Dube (double bass), Roland Pöntinen (piano) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] Martin Fröst's latest album for Sony Classical brings the extraordinary alchemy of a specially formed ensemble to the public with highly original arrangements for the first time on record. |
HANDEL / GIBBONS / PARRY / WALTON / WESLEY / STANFORD / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / etc
The Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II - Music From the Official Record 2nd June 1953 Massed Trumpeters from the Royal Military School of Music, Coronation Choir, Coronation Orchestra, Dr. Osborne Harold Peasgood (organ) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] This recording of the BBC's broadcast of the coronation service from Westminster Abbey was taken by means of a direct line to Abbey Road Studios in St John's Wood, London. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: The fair maid of the mill - Franz Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin in a new English version by Jeremy Sams Nicky Spence (tenor), Christopher Glynn (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] So why a new English version of Die schöne Mullerin? It is often (and rightly) said that the essence of Lieder is in the close marriage of words and music. But it is also in the immediacy of the storytelling. |
JAMES LEE III
Voyages - Orchestral music by James Lee III ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop, conductor [ Avie / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] In Voyages, prolific American composer James Lee III takes the listener on a colourful journey through his endlessly creative orchestral music; painting biblical imagery in Beyond Rivers of Vision and celebrating the joyous Feast of Tabernacles... |
FLORENCE PRICE
Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] "The Philadelphia polish helps to highlight one of Price's most endearing qualities: kaleidoscopic orchestrations, with piquant detailing from all corners, including celesta and slide whistles" |
ERIC TANGUY
Tanguy: In a dream - Chamber Music Quatuor Diotima (string quartet) Suzana Bartal (piano) Pierre Génisson (clarinet), Alexandra Conunova (violin) Edgar Moreau (cello) Lise Berthaud [ Erato Warner Classics / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] The album 'In a Dream' takes it's title from a piece for violin and piano, one of the eight chamber works on its programme. Composed between 1999 and 2019, they are performed here by various soloists and ensembles. |
RACHMANINOV / BARBER / DEBUSSY / CHOPIN / GRIEG
Ruth Slenczynska - My Life In Music Ruth Slenczynska (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] "The greatest piano genius since Mozart" - Oli Downes |
JOHANN JOHANNSSON
Jóhannsson: Drone Mass (LP) Theatre of Voices, American Contemporary Music Ensemble, Paul Hillier [ Deutsche Grammophon / LP - released 20/May/2022 ] The previously unrecorded Drone Mass was described by its composer, the late Jóhann Jóhannsson, as "a contemporary oratorio". Written for voices, string quartet and electronics, it was commissioned and premiered by the American Contemporary Music... |
JOHANN JOHANNSSON
Jóhannsson: Drone Mass Theatre of Voices, American Contemporary Music Ensemble, Paul Hillier [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] 'Perhaps it's the way Drone Mass confounds expectations in unpredictable ways that will remain its most important legacy.' Gramophone Editor's Choice May 2022 |
JOHN WILLIAMS
Yo-Yo Ma - A Gathering of Friends Yo-Yo Ma (cello) / New York Philharmonic Orchestra, John Williams [ Sony Music / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] The 40-year friendship between two musical titans, John Williams & Yo-Yo Ma, reaches a new peak with 'A Gathering of Friends.' The incredible warmth & brilliance of composer/conductor John Williams is felt throughout this album. |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Album for the Young Op.39 / 12 Pieces for Piano of Medium Difficulty, Op.40 Yuan Sheng (piano) [ Piano Classics / CD - released 16/May/2022 ] Tchaikovsky's Children's Album Op. 39, is a collection of twenty-four pieces for children studying the piano. Inspired by Schumann's Album for the Young Op. 68, these pieces are musically satisfying with imaginative titles and settings. . |
FANNY MENDELSSOHN
Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Music Martina Frezzotti (piano) [ Piano Classics / CD - released 15/May/2022 ] Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was born in Hamburg in November 1805, the eldest of four siblings. The Mendelssohn family, of Jewish lineage, and belonging in the upper bourgeois class, gave a brilliant cultural education to their four children. |
CHRISTIAN RUMMEL
Rummel: Chamber Music for Clarinet & Piano Luigi Magistrelli (clarinet) Claudia Bracco (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 14/May/2022 ] Christian Rummel (1787-1849) was born in Gollachostheim, Bavaria. He received his musical instruction in Mannheim under the kapellmeister Karl Jakob Wagner when the latter was living at Wuerzburg and the violinist Heinrich Ritter. |
SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR
Coleridge-Taylor: Symphony in A minor & Hiawatha's Wedding Feast Aaarhus Symphony Orchestra, Douglas Bostock, Royal Choral Society, Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent [ Alto / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] "(His) Symphony is a very likeable discovery. Both middle movements display a disarming melodic felicity and assurance, and admiring glances towards Dvořák, although Stanford (his teacher) was never happy with the finale. It was first played by RCM... |
ERIC SATIE
Satie (LP) Aldo Ciccolini (piano) [ Erato / LP - released 13/May/2022 ] A special re-release for Record Store Day 2016, this LP of Gymnopédies, Gnossiennes and other piano pieces by Erik Satie salutes Aldo Ciccolini, the Italian-born pianist who launched the Satie 'boom' when this album first appeared in 1956. Whether... |
