Classical Upcoming Releases
Classical Upcoming Releases
The following classical CD titles are due for release / re-release in the near future.
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MICHAEL FINNISSY
Finnissy: Pious Anthems & Voluntaries Choir of St John's College Cambridge, Andrew Nethsingha [ Signum / 2 CD - due 14/Aug/2020 ] Michael Finnissy was born in Tulse Hill in 1946. He studied at the Royal College of Music with Bernard Stevens and Humphrey Seale, and in Italy with Roman Vlad. Much of his early work was first performed in France and the Netherlands, while he was... |
SILVIUS LEOPOLD WEISS
Weiss: Lute Works (arr. D. Cerović for guitar) Danijel Cerović (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - due 14/Aug/2020 ] Silvius Leopold Weiss was acknowledged as the greatest lutenist of his age, composing over 600 pieces for the instrument organised into suites or sonatas. In these arrangements for guitar, Danijel Cerović has selected the only two of Weiss's sonatas... |
FAZIL SAY
Say: Violin Works Friedemann Eichhorn (violin) Fazil Say (piano) / German Radio Saarbrücken-Kaiserslautern Philharmonic, Christoph Eschenbach [ Naxos / CD - due 14/Aug/2020 ] Fazıl Say is one of the world's most prominent pianists but he is also a much-admired composer with a substantial catalogue of works. |
VALENTIN SILVESTROV
Silvestrov: Ode to a Nightingale / Piano Concertino / Symphony No. 7 Inna Galatenko, Oleg Bezborodko, Marija Grikevičiūtė / Lithuanian National Symphony, Christopher Lyndon-Gee [ Naxos / CD - due 14/Aug/2020 ] Valentin Silvestrov's elusive post-modern style is rich in nostalgia for the lost music of a barely remembered past filled with beauty and spiritual aspiration. |
JAKE RUNESTAD
Runestad: Choral Music (Sing, Wearing the Sky) Kantorei, Jake Runestad, Joel Rinsema [ Naxos American Classics / CD - due 14/Aug/2020 ] The prolific young composer Jake Runestad has won numerous awards for his music, which ranges from opera to works for chamber ensemble. He is particularly valued for his choral compositions which exemplify a desire to write expertly crafted, socially... |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Moïse et Pharaon (1827 Paris version) (complete opera) Baurzhan Anderzhanov, Elisa Balbo, Randall Bills, Alexey Birkus, Albane Carrère, Silvia Dalla Benetta / Virtuosi Brunensis, Fabrizio Maria Carminati [ Naxos / 3 CD - due 14/Aug/2020 ] Following the French theatre tradition for spectacular biblical dramas during Lent, Rossini's Moïse was an incredible success at its Parisian premiere in 1827, and the opera is presented here in its complete form. |
KENNETH FUCHS
Fuchs: Point of Tranquility / Christina's World / Rush / Forever Free The United States Coast Guard Band, Adam Williamson [ Naxos Wind Band Classics / CD - due 14/Aug/2020 ] The exceptional United States Coast Guard Band, in definitive performances of seven works for symphonic winds by one of America's leading composers. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets Vol.3 'Apotheosis' Cuarteto Casals [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD - due 21/Aug/2020 ] "This is a wonderful set which brings the Cuarteto Casals' survey of the complete Beethoven string quartets to a glorious conclusion. " MusicWeb Recommended June 2020 |
BYRD / TALLIS / GERARDE / FERRABOSCO / WILDER
Spem in alium - Vidi aquam ORA Singers, Suzi Digby [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD/DVD - due 21/Aug/2020 ] A musical banquet from the Golden Age. This programme brings together a true choral landmark from the sixteenth century, with its present-day reflection, a commission by Sir James MacMillan. |
MORALES / FRANCO / de VICTORIA / GUERRERO / LOBO / etc
Journeys to the New World: Hispanic Sacred Music from the 16th & 17th Centuries The Queen's Six [ Signum / CD - due 21/Aug/2020 ] This is a musical trip from the mid-sixteenth century to around 1700, involving music in Late Renaissance style, carrying Spanish Catholicism across the Atlantic to supplant an indigenous culture. |
CAMARGO GUARNIERI
Guarnieri: Chôros, Vol. 1 Olga Kopylova (piano) Claudia Nascimento (flute) Alexandre Silverio (bassoon)/ São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Isaac Karabtchevsky [ Naxos / CD - due 28/Aug/2020 ] Camargo Guarnieri's catalogue of works represents a legacy of incalculable worth for Brazilian culture, as has his influence as a teacher on several generations of younger composers. |
ALNAR / TÜZÜN / BARAN / BALCI
Turkish Piano Trios Bosphorus Trio [ Naxos / CD - due 28/Aug/2020 ] This album of piano trios by four Turkish composers, the first in a series, covers three generations of composers whose music combines traditional rhythms and modalities with established Western classical sonorities. |
MICHEL PIGNOLET de MONTECLAIR
Monteclair: Beloved and Betrayed - Miniature dramas for Flute and Voice Carrie Henneman Shaw (soprano) Leela Breithaupt (flute) / Les Ordinaires [ Naxos / CD - due 28/Aug/2020 ] Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (1667-1737), a noted basse violon player in Paris, composed a small but exquisite body of innovative works in a variety of forms, including an opera-ballet. He was also an important figure in the composition of music for... |
VASILY KALAFATI
Kalafati: Symphony in A Minor / Légende / Polonaise Choir of the Music Department of the University of Athens, Athens Philharmonia, Byron Fidetzis [ Naxos / CD - due 28/Aug/2020 ] Greek by parentage, Vasily Kalafati settled permanently in St Petersburg where he counted Rimsky-Korsakov among his teachers, and later included Igor Stravinsky among a distinguished roll-call of his own students. |
ALEXANDER KASTALSKY
Kastalsky: Requiem Joseph Charles Beutel (bass-bar), Anna Dennis (sop) Cathedral Choral Society, The Clarion Choir, Chamber Choir of St. Tikhon's Monastery [ Naxos / CD - due 28/Aug/2020 ] Alexander Kastalsky was a student of Tchaikovsky and a mentor to Rachmaninov, becoming director of the Moscow Synodal School until the Bolshevik regime banned all sacred music. |
ERIC WHITACRE
Whitacre: The Sacred Veil Los Angeles Master Chorale, Charles Anthony Silvestri [ Signum / CD - due 28/Aug/2020 ] The Sacred Veil - a project led by Eric Whitacre and Charles Anthony Silvestri - was created following the passing of Charles' wife, Julia in 2005. It represents a journey towards the answer for many questions, including whether departed loved ones... |
EDWARD GREGSON
Gregson: Piano Solo Music (complete) Murray McLachlan, with Edward Gregson & Rose McLachlan [ Naxos / CD - due 28/Aug/2020 ] Murray McLachlan says of Edward Gregson's piano music that 'he knows the importance of restraint and control; nothing is overly stated, repeated or extended. Concentration and craftsmanship permeate every bar that the composer has penned.' |
TOBIAS PICKER
Picker: Opera Without Words / The Encantadas Tobias Picker (narrator) / Nashville Symphony Orchestra / Giancarlo Guerrero [ Naxos American Classics / CD - due 28/Aug/2020 ] Tobias Picker, hailed as "a genuine creator" by The New Yorker, has written extensively for the stage and for symphonic forces, and these two approaches are represented in this album. The Encantadas (an older name for the Galápagos Islands) derives... |
ANTONIO RUIZ-PIPO
Ruiz-Pipo: Guitar Works Vol. 2 Wolfgang Weigel (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - due 28/Aug/2020 ] Antonio Ruiz-Pipó became an essentially Parisian artist, but his music always retained the historical roots and warmth of expression of his Spanish origins. |
CAROLINE SHAW
Caroline Shaw: Orange (LP) Attacca Quartet [ Nonesuch / 2 LP - due 8/Sep/2020 ] Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw's Orange, performed by Attacca Quartet, is out now on New Amsterdam and Nonesuch Records. Orange, which features six of Shaw's pieces for string quartet, is the first full-length album to exclusively... |
