Classical New Releases
Classical New Releases
Below is a list of all classical CD titles released in the last 120 days.
Displaying items 21 to 40 of 296
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Gloses Lucie Chabard (harpsichord) [ Ricercar / CD - released 6/Nov/2026 ] "Glosas, diminutions, passaggi…": so many terms to describe the garlands of ornamentation that keyboard musicians added to the polyphonic vocal works of their peers as they transformed them into true keyboard pieces between the 16th century and the... |
ORLANDUS LASSUS
Lassus: The Alchemist, Vol. 3 Magnificat, The City Musick, Philip Cave [ Linn Records / 2 CD - released 6/Nov/2026 ] This third and final volume of Magnificat's 'Lassus: The Alchemist' series is devoted to Magnificats based on secular chansons. Courtly entertainment, popular song and everything in between, the chanson provided composers with an inexhaustible source... |
Orchestre National de Cannes
Melodies of Provence [ EuroArts / CD - released 6/Nov/2026 ] |
YVONNE LORIOD / OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Loriod & Messiaen Roger Muraro, Florent Boffard [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 6/Nov/2026 ] Yvonne Loriod's creative-turned-romantic partnership with Olivier Messiaen is celebrated as one of twentieth-century music's greatest love stories. Yet the full extent of their artistic relationship is only now coming into focus, thanks to documents... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart, Made in Manchester: Symphonies and Arias Vol.1 Ying Fang (soprano), Manchester Camerata, Gabor Takacs-Nagy [ Chandos / CD - released 6/Nov/2026 ] 'Mozart, Made in Manchester' has become a flagship project for Manchester Camerata, eliciting five-star reviews, national and international radio support, international tours, and more than three million streams online. Since starting the project, in... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Cantà in cumpagnia Camerata Figarella [ Carpe Diem / CD - released 30/Oct/2026 ] In the album "Cantà in cumpagnia", Corsican vocal tradition and the art music of the Italian Renaissance come together in a unique way. Four singers and four wind players combine medieval lauds, madrigals, and motets with the living tradition of... |
GEORGS PELĒCIS / ANDRIUS ŽLABYS / ARVO PÄRT
Pages Of A Biography Gidon Kremer (violin), Kremerata Baltica [ ECM New Series / CD - released 30/Oct/2026 ] Gidon Kremer and his Kremerata Baltica ensemble continue the longstanding relationship with ECM's New Series on Pages of a Biography, bringing together music by Georgs Pelēcis, Andrius Žlabys and Arvo Pärt. Pärt's Passacaglia, written for Kremer's... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony no.2 Jennifer Davis (soprano), Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano), Edinburgh Festival Chorus, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles [ Onyx / CD - released 30/Oct/2026 ] The composition of Mahler's Second Symphony took six years, starting life as a symphonic poem 'Totenfeier' completed in 1888. In 1890 Mahler added additional movements, completing what had become his Second Symphony in 1894. The opening movement,... |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN / EUGENE GOOSSENS / JOHN IRELAND / WILLIAM WALTON
Britten: Serenade; Goossens: By the Tarn; Ireland: Concertino pastorale; Walton: Sonata for Strings Laurence Kilsby (tenor), Sinfonia of London, Christopher Parkes (horn), John Wilson [ Chandos / CD - released 30/Oct/2026 ] For this third album of English music for strings, John Wilson and Sinfonia of London have built a fascinating programme featuring four composers whose lives and works were intertwined. The centrepiece of the programme is Britten's Serenade for... |
JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY / AGOSTINO STEFFANI / JOHN SIGISMOND COUSSER / HENRY PURCELL / ARTEMIO MOTTA / GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Under the Cover Les Muffatti [ Ramée / CD - released 30/Oct/2026 ] Jean-Sigismond Cousser, born Johann Sigismund Kusser in Hungary and died John Sigismond Cousser in Ireland, began his career in Stuttgart, held various positions at several German courts before being appointed director of the famous Opera am... |
MISSY MAZZOLI
Mazzoli: The Listeners Lyric Opera of Chicago, Enrique Mazzola (conductor) [ Pentatone / 2 CD - released 30/Oct/2026 ] Lyric Opera of Chicago, under the leadership of General Director John Mangum and the baton of Music Director Enrique Mazzola, presents the world-premiere recording of The Listeners, a striking new opera by Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek,... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" Mari Eriksmoen; Anna Lucia Richter; Zürcher Sing-Akademie; Florian Helgath; Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich; Paavo Järvi [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 30/Oct/2026 ] For this fourth volume of their complete recording of Mahler's symphonies, Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich present a monumental work: Symphony No. 2, with its five movements and colossal orchestra, complemented by a choir and soloists:... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" (LP) Mari Eriksmoen; Anna Lucia Richter; Zürcher Sing-Akademie; Florian Helgath; Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich; Paavo Järvi [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - released 30/Oct/2026 ] For this fourth volume of their complete recording of Mahler's symphonies, Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich present a monumental work: Symphony No. 2, with its five movements and colossal orchestra, complemented by a choir and soloists:... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2 Martin Helmchen (piano) [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 30/Oct/2026 ] Martin Helmchen continues his complete recording of Schubert's piano sonatas, comprising four double albums to be released between now and 2028, the bicentenary of the composer's death. This volume includes Sonatas D. 568 (1817), D. 845 (1825) and... |
MARCEL DUPRÉ / FRANZ LISZT
Dupré & Liszt Olivier Latry (organ), Kahchun Wong, Dresdner Philharmonie [ La Dolce Volta / CD - released 30/Oct/2026 ] A central figure of the organ in the first half of the twentieth century, Marcel Dupré (1886-1971) brought the French symphonic organ to international prominence and trained several generations of leading organists. In this recording, Olivier Latry... |
GIAN CARLO MENOTTI
Menotti: Orchestral Discoveries Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Francesco Cilluffo (conductor) [ Orfeo / CD - released 30/Oct/2026 ] Gian Carlo Menotti was born in Italy in 1911, the sixth of ten children. A child prodigy, he started composing at the age of seven, and was encouraged and supported by his mother, who was a keen and talented amateur musician. Following the unexpected... |
ERNEST GUIRAUD / AUGUSTA HOLMÈS / FLORENT SCHMITT / MARIE JAËLL / CHARLES GOUNOD / GASTON CARRAUD / GUY ROPARTZ / CHARLES SILVER
Phantoms. French Symphonic Poems Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Pierre Dumoussaud [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 30/Oct/2026 ] "A genre of high fantasy, complete with its host of ghosts, demons, spirits and witches, usurped the place of the magical elements of Baroque opera in France during the 19th century," writes Alexandre Dratwicki in the introduction to this programme,... |
MAURICE RAVEL / IGOR STRAVINSKY
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe / Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Rafael Payare [ Pentatone / 2 CD - released 30/Oct/2026 ] Under the direction of Music and Artistic Director Rafael Payare, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal presents two landmark works created for Sergei Diaghilev's legendary Ballets russes: Maurice Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé and Igor Stravinsky's Le... |
CARL MARIA VON WEBER
Weber & The Clarinet: Complete Works Pierre Génisson (clarinet), Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Quartet 212, Frank Braley (piano) [ Erato / 2 CD - released 30/Oct/2026 ] "Weber was the composer who truly established the clarinet as a major virtuoso instrument while revealing its uniquely expressive and poetic qualities," says Pierre Génisson, praised by Gramophone for his "searching eloquence" and the "magical... |
J.S. BACH
Bach: Partitas for Viola da Gamba Teodoro Baù (viola da gamba) [ Arcana / CD - released 30/Oct/2026 ] Johann Sebastian Bach's Partitas for solo violin BWV 1002, 1004, and 1006 are remarkably visionary works. Within the established framework of the dance suite, Bach pushes the expressive and technical possibilities of the instrument to unprecedented... |
