Classical New Releases
Classical New Releases
Below is a list of all classical CD titles released in the last 120 days.
Displaying items 101 to 120 of 143
ANONYMOUS / ALFONSO X EL SABIO
Reliquiae Capella de Ministrers, Carles Magraner [ Capella de Ministrers / CD - released 24/Jan/2025 ] The Christian tradition's liturgical repertoire prominently features Masses and Offices commemorating the life of Christ and feast days of saints. Alongside this, another significant repertoire revolves around Christ and the saints through their... |
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... |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
J.S. Bach: Musikalisches Opfer Cindy Castillo [ Ricercar / CD - released 24/Jan/2025 ] Although it has been clearly established for which instruments the Musical Offering and the Art of Fugue were intended, the Musical Offering has continued to be the object of realisations for other instruments, such as Anton Webern's orchestrated... |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY / MAURICE RAVEL / MANUEL DE FALLA
Debussy, Ravel & Falla (Live) Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Constantin Silvestri [ ICA Classics / CD - released 24/Jan/2025 ] The Romanian conductor Constantin Silvestri (1913-1969) began his distinguished career in 1930 with the Bucharest Radio Symphony Orchestra, leading to the directorship of the Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra in 1945. |
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. |
François Couturier, Dominique Pifarély
Preludes And Songs [ ECM New Series / CD - released 24/Jan/2025 ] Pianist François Couturier and violinist Dominique Pifarély, major figures in French improvisation, have played together in many projects over the last 30 years, including their duo, which made its recording debut for ECM with the remarkable Poros in... |
CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH
Flute Concertos Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt; Ariel Zuckermann [ Fuga Libera / CD - released 24/Jan/2025 ] Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) was regarded as one of the greatest theoretical and practical musicians of his time even during his lifetime; arguably the most famous son of Johann Sebastian Bach, he broke new ground in the concerto genre... |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS / FREDERICK DELIUS
Saint-Saens/Delius: Cello Concertos Jacqueline du Pré (cello), The Philadelphia Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent [ Warner Classics LP / LP - released 24/Jan/2025 ] In this important live recording, Jacqueline Du Pré's rendition of Camille Saint-Saëns' famous 1st Cello Concerto is made all the more sentimental with her husband Daniel Barenboim conducting The Philadelphia Orchestra behind her. |
MAURICE RAVEL / JEHAN ALAIN / FABIEN WAKSMAN / TOMAS LACÔTE / LUCILE DOLLAT
Night Windows: Ravel, Lacôte, Waksman & Alain Lucile Dollat [ Tempéraments / CD - released 24/Jan/2025 ] Night Windows, the title of Fabien Waksman's work, is the general theme of Lucile Dollat's recital, playing out the many sonorous possibilities of the Grenzing organ in the Maison de la Radio et de la Musique Auditorium. |
Various Composers
Diminutions Maximilian Ehrhardt (harp) [ Carpe Diem / CD - released 24/Jan/2025 ] The second album of German harpist Maximilian Ehrhardt on Carpe Diem Records is a unique concept album of music for the rare Italian "Arpa Doppia", a chromatic harp from the 17th Century. |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Joseph Haydn: String Quartets Op. 77 & Folk Music from Scotland Maxwell Quartet [ Linn Records / CD - released 24/Jan/2025 ] Following two highly acclaimed albums, the Maxwell Quartet rounds off its Haydn mini-series with the composer's two Op. 77 string quartets, juxtaposed with its signature pairing of Scottish folk music. The quartet, which has become known for its... |
EDWARD ELGAR / FREDERICK DELIUS
Elgar: Violin Concerto & Salut d'amour - Delius: Suite Nicolas Dautricourt; Frédéric Chaslin; BBC National Orchestra of Wales; Capriccio Quartet [ Channel Classics / CD - released 24/Jan/2025 ] 'If you want to know who, for me, is the greatest living composer, I'll tell you without hesitation - it's Elgar, whom I place on the same level as my idols Beethoven and Brahms!' So said the great virtuoso Kreisler.' Nicolas Dautricourt continues:... |
JULES MASSENET
Jules Massenet: Grisélidis Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie, Jean-Marie Zeitouni, Thomas Dolié, Vannina Santoni, Julien Dran, Adrien Fournaison, Thibault de Damas, Chœur [ Bru Zane / 2 CD - released 24/Jan/2025 ] Paris discovered Massenet's Grisélidis at the Opéra-Comique on 20 November 1901. The work is based on a medieval folktale retold by Boccaccio and Perrault, among others, and already set to music several times in the Baroque era. It gave Massenet the... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT / EUGÈNE YSAŸE / IVAN WYSCHNEGRADSKY / ANDRZEY PANUFNIK
Exile Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Thomas Kaufmann, Camerata Bern [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Jan/2025 ] This programme brings together composers who, for the most part, were compelled to flee their homeland. |
FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Busoni: Fantasia Contrappuntistica, etc Peter Donohoe (Solo Piano), Karl Lutchmayer (Fantasia contrappuntistica) [ Chandos / CD - released 24/Jan/2025 ] Peter Donohoe's first album devoted to Busoni was enthusiastically received by the critics, and nominated for a BBC Music Magazine award. This second volume offers playing and musicality of the same high standards. |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Concert Arias Reinoud Van Mechelen, A Nocte Temporis [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Jan/2025 ] Fresh from his triumphant onstage success in Paris, Berlin and Brussels singing leading roles in the operas of Rameau and Mozart, tenor Reinoud Van Mechelen presents his long-awaited first Mozart recording. Together with his ensemble A Nocte... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 7 Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sir Simon Rattle [ BR Klassik / CD - released 24/Jan/2025 ] "The engineering abets the peerless attention to detail, always his greatest asset; every dynamic, every sonority is in place...the best way possible to celebrate what is, unbelievably, Rattle's 70th birthday" BBC Music Five Stars |
ANDRÉ CAMPRA / HENRY DESMAREST
Desmarets & Campra : Iphigénie en Tauride Véronique Gens, Reinoud Van Mechelen, Thomas Dolié, David Witczak, Olivia Doray, Floriane Hasler; Tomislav Lavoie; Le Concert Spirituel; Hervé Niquet [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 24/Jan/2025 ] Nearly a century before Gluck, another opera called Iphigénie en Tauride - same plot, same protagonists - had immense success on the opera stage. This 'first' Iphigénie has rather a curious history. |
GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA PALESTRINA / WILLIAM BYRD / ROBERT WHITE / WILLIAM MUNDY
Palestrina Revealed - Byrd, White, Mundy Choir of Clare College, Graham Ross [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Jan/2025 ] A visionary synthesis of the art of a composer who, here more than anywhere else, gives meaning to the world in which he lives, and reveals to us something of what lies beyond, the Mass in B minor is one of the supreme peaks of Bach's music. |
Various Composers
Harpsichord Music from the Reign of Louis XIV Sophie Yates (early keyboard instruments) [ Chandos / CD - released 10/Jan/2025 ] One of the leading keyboard players of her generation, Sophie Yates is renowned as a performer, educator, and broadcaster. She writes of this programme: 'The Versailles of the seventeenth century was very different from the huge, opulent palace we... |
