Classical New Releases
Classical New Releases
Below is a list of all classical CD titles released in the last 120 days.
Displaying items 61 to 80 of 143
CLAUDIO CONSTANTINI / ANNA FEDOROVA / NICOLAS SCHARTZ / ANGELO VERPLOEGEN
Yellow Butterfly. Latin American Favourites Dana Zemtsov, André Groen, Claudio Constantini, Anna Fedorova, Nicolas Schwartz, Angelo Verploegen [ Channel Classics / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] Born in Mexico City, violist Dana Zemtsov has always retained a deep love for the colourful Latin-American culture. |
BRAHMS / MENDELSSOHN / SCHUBERT / SCHUMANN
Fatma Said: Lieder Fatma Said (soprano), with Huw Montague Rendall (baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Joseph Middleton (piano), Yonatan Cohen (piano), Sabine Meyer ( [ Warner Classics / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] While soprano Fatma Said's previous Warner Classics releases crossed cultures and musical genres, this album focuses entirely on German-language songs of the Romantic era: lieder by Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Brahms. |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 2, 7 & 10 Jerusalem Quartet [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] The fifteen string quartets composed by Shostakovich established him as one of the masters of this genre. These works show him at his most concentrated & most intimate. Although each is quite different in form and structure, every bar of them reveals... |
BIBER / MERULA / PLAYFORD / HANDEL / MONTEVERDI / BONOCINO / GASPARINI
Terra Mater Malena Ernman (mezzo-soprano) / L'arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar (directior) [ Erato Classics / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] "This wonderful program is exposed to the four winds, in which you will hear the chirping of the nightingales, sweet birds, cuckoos, frogs and chicken, the whispers of the winds, heavy storms and the rumbling of the seas." |
Maria Callas (soprano), Angelina Jolie (narrator), Pierfrancesco Favino (narrator), Vincent Macaigne (narrator)
Maria (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [ Warner / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack from the movie Maria, directed by Pablo Larraín, written by Steven Knight, which delves into the tumultuous final days of the iconic opera singer in 1970s Paris, interpreted by Angelina Jolie. |
Maria Callas (soprano), Angelina Jolie (narrator), Pierfrancesco Favino (narrator), Vincent Macaigne (narrator)
Maria (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (LP) [ Warner / 2 LP - released 14/Feb/2025 ] The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack from the movie Maria, directed by Pablo Larraín, written by Steven Knight, which delves into the tumultuous final days of the iconic opera singer in 1970s Paris, interpreted by Angelina Jolie. |
GYORGY LIGETI / BELA BARTOK
Ligeti - String Quartets 1 & 2 / Bartok - String Quartet no.4 Marmen Quartet [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] "They seem to have assimilated the music into their cells, performing it with an energetic vitality and colour that is all special effects...The group offers high-pixel definition of character, conveyed with mesmerising intensity." BBC Music Chamber |
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. |
SEBASTIAN FAGERLUND
Fagerlund - Autumn Equinox Niek de Groot (double bass) / Lapland Chamber Orchestra [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] The title of Sebastian Fagerlund's Octet 'Autumn Equinox' derives from its links with his opera Autumn Sonata, based on the Ingmar Bergman film. Some of the moods and musical material of the opera appear in the octet, as a kind of reflection. With... |
JOHANN ADOLF HASSE
Hasse - Serpentes ignei in deserto Philippe Jaroussky, Jakub Józef Orliński (counter-tenors), Julia Lezhneva (soprano), Bruno de Sa (male soprano) David Hansen (countertenor) / Les Acce [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] "The score is demanding for all the singers," continues Thibault Noally. "Every character is very different from the others and each of our soloists has a unique personality and a unique vocal timbre." |
CESAR FRANCK / SERGEI RACHMANINOFF / LEOPOLD GODOWSKY
Chiaroscuro: Godowsky, Franck & Rachmaninoff Roman Borisov [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] In 2022, 19-year-old pianist Roman Borisov became the youngest winner of the prestigious Kissinger KlavierOlymp competition. |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Le Rossignol (The Nightingale) Sabine Devieilhe (soprano) Cyrille Dubois (tenor) Chantal Santon Jeffery (soprano) / Les Siecles Jean-Sebastien Bou (baritone) Laurent Naouri [ Erato Classics / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] Sabine Devieilhe takes the title role of the Nightingale in Stravinsky's miniature three-act opera Le Rossignol, while Francois-Xavier Roth - conducting the cast of leading French soloists, the choral singers of Ensemble Aedes, and the period... |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH / JOHANNES BRAHMS / MAX REGER / FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Inmost Heart: Bach, Brahms, Busoni & Reger Samson Tsoy [ Linn Records / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] In Samson Tsoy's artfully designed solo debut recording, ideas reverberate across the centuries as Brahms's elaborations of works by two past masters are juxtaposed with reworkings of his own music by two later composers. Lauded for his originality... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin K301, K378, K454 Sayaka Shoji, Gianluca Cascioli [ Arcana / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] Boasting a musical partnership of over 15 years, during which they have played in concerts throughout the world (recently at the Wigmore Hall in London and the Suntory Hall in Tokyo), the violinist Sayaka Shoji and the pianist Gianluca Cascioli have... |
BUONAMENTE / CASTELLO / FRESCOBALDI / GIAMBERTI / PASQUINI / etc
Violino over cornetto Seicento Stravagante [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] In the sixteenth century, the quality of a 'civil conversation' was a topic of great interest, both within learned academies and in the verbal games of convivial banquets. As musical virtuosi learned how to 'speak' through their instruments, it was... |
HENRI VIEUXTEMPS / LOUIS VIERNE
Vieuxtemps & Vierne: Sonates pour violon et piano Tatiana Samouil; Johan Schmidt [ Cypres Records / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] The programme presented here is particularly interesting from the point of view of Henri Vieuxtemps's Grande sonate concertante op.12, in four movements, a rare work written during the youth of the Verviers composer. |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann Collection - String Quartets and Piano Quintet Théo Fouchenneret; Quatuor Strada [ B Records / 2 CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] For the Fourth Volume of their Schumann Collection, Pierre and Théo Fouchenneret, along with their fellow musicians in Quatuor Strada, take us through the year 1842. It was a prolific period for the composer being the year of the three String... |
MARK HAGERTY / TWIN POETS
Hagerty: United Sounds of America University of Delaware Symphony Orchestra, James Allen Anderson, Twin Poets, Makeda Hampton, Jonathan Whitney, Oksana Glouchko [ Delos / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] united sounds of america melds the power and rhythms of street poetry with the expressive capacity of the symphony orchestra to bring urgent social questions to the symphonic stage. united sounds is not a traditional musical work, nor is it one... |
PIERRE de MANCHICOURT
Requiem for an Emperor Utopia Ensemble; Jan Van Outryve [ Ramée / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] Charles V was certainly the most powerful and charismatic of the Renaissance rulers. Exhausted and worn down by the challenges of imperial rule, he abdicated towards the end of his life and led a secluded existence in the monastery of Cuacos de Yuste... |
JULES MASSENET / CHARLES GOUNOD / GIUSEPPE VERDI / GIACOMO PUCCINI / FRANCO ALFANO / HENRI TOMASI / ALFREDO CATALINI
Par amour Vannina Santoni, Orchestre National de Lille, Jean-Marie Zeitouni [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] Love is the common thread running through this first recorded recital by soprano Vannina Santoni; it's also an opportunity to look back over her fifteen-year career, through her leading roles, alongside her favourite musicians. With the help of the... |
