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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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Operas [incls 'Peter Grimes', 'The Turn of the Screw' & 'Billy Budd'] Various Artists incls Pop Wagner, James Bowman, Ian Bostridge, Angelika Kirchschlager, Elisabeth Comeaux Nelson, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Felicity Lott, [ Erato Classics / 13 CD Box Set - due 20/Oct/2019 ] Gramophone Awards 1988 Winner - Opera |
BEETHOVEN / CHOPIN / DEBUSSY / RAVEL / MOZART / SCHUBERT
Vladimir Ashkenazy: A Personal Selection - Solo & Chamber Recordings Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano), with Itzhak Perlman (violin), Barry Tuckwell (horn), André Previn (piano), Elisabeth Söderström (soprano), Lynn Harrell (c [ Decca / CD - due 20/Oct/2019 ] Signed to Decca in 1963, Vladimir Ashkenazy is to this day the longest-serving artist on the label. Over more than five decades, he has yielded one of the largest and most diverse discographies of any classical artist. In this 56-CD set, he has... |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Complete Orchestral Works Yuja Wang (piano) Ray Chen (violin) Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, Zürcher Sing-Akademie, Lionel Bringuier [ Deutche Grammophon / 4 CD Box Set - due 20/Oct/2019 ] "The full score of Daphnis et Chloé - with wordless chorus - crowns the set, with a Danse générale that leaves you breathless." Sunday Times |
PROKOFIEV / MUSSORGSKY / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Tales From Russia Simon Trpčeski [ Onyx / CD - due 22/Oct/2019 ] Simon Trpčeski presents a fascinating programme of Russian classics, two of which are heard in unfamiliar guises as works for solo piano - Mussorgsky' Night on a Bare Mountain, in the arrangement by Rimsky, and then the latter's Sheherazade. The... |
WEINBERG
Weinberg: Flute Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 Claudia Stein (flute), Elisaveta Blumina (piano) Szczecin Philharmonic Orchestra, David Robert Coleman [ Naxos / CD - due 25/Oct/2019 ] Mieczysław Weinberg's works for flute were mainly conceived for the renowned soloist Alexander Korneyev. The earliest of these is the 12 Pieces from 1947, a playful series of character studies that touch on a variety of moods. Also from 1947, the... |
VERDI / BELLINI / PUCCINI / BIZET / MASSENET / etc
Montserrat Caballe: Diva Eterna Montserrat Caballe (soprano) / Various orchestra & conductors [ Sony Classical / CD - due 25/Oct/2019 ] Sony Classical is pleased to release Diva Eterna-a tribute to the late, great Spanish soprano Montserrat Caballé. Diva Eterna features some of Caballé's most significant and versatile works, including works by Rossini, Puccini and Verdi. Popular... |
BEETHOVEN
Complete Edition (90 CD Box Set) [ Naxos / 90 CD Box Set - due 1/Nov/2019 ] Beethoven's monumental contribution to Western classical music is celebrated here in this definitive collection marking the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth. Surveying the totality of his career and achievement, the Complete Edition spans... |
COPLAND / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / BRITTEN / BARBER etc
Long Time Ago Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff [ Alpha / CD - due 1/Nov/2019 ] The young mezzo-soprano Adèle Charvet joins Alpha for several projects. In 2017 she received the Prize of the Verbier Festival Academy. While she has already attracted attention in the opera house, Adèle Charvet is also passionately interested in the... |
TCHAIKOSVKY
Tchaikovsky: Plus One Barry Douglas (piano) [ Chandos / CD - due 1/Nov/2019 ] Tchaikovsky's Grande Sonate, or 'Grand Sonata' (Bolshaya Sonata), in G major was dedicated to Karl Klindworth, a pupil of Liszt, and first performed at a private hearing, on 21 October 1879, by Nikolay Rubinstein, founder of the Moscow Conservatory.... |
GEORGE ANTHEIL
Anthiel: Symphony No. 1, etc BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds [ Chandos / CD - due 1/Nov/2019 ] In this their third volume of orchestral works of Antheil, John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic present a collection of scores spanning the whole of Antheil's compositional life. Written in the early 1920s, the First Symphony is full of Antheil's... |
AVET RUBENI TERTERIAN
Terterian: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits [ Chandos / CD - due 1/Nov/2019 ] In his homeland, Avet Terterian is regarded, alongside Aram Khachaturian, as the other giant of twentieth-century Armenian music, and as the founder of his nation's progressive school of composers. Born in July 1929, Terterian began his musical... |
PALESTRINA
Palestrina: Lamentations Cinquecento [ Hyperion / CD - due 1/Nov/2019 ] The members of Cinquecento turn to perhaps the pre-eminent composer of the sixteenth century: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah would have been integral to the liturgical rites of Holy Week: here is one of the... |
SIR ARTHUR BLISS
Bliss: Mary of Magdala Dame Sarah Connolly (Mezzo-soprano), James Platt (Bass), BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos / CD - due 1/Nov/2019 ] Bliss composed The Enchantress in 1951, the year of his sixtieth birthday, for Kathleen Ferrier. The text is a free adaptation of the Second Idyll of Theocritus, made by Henry Reed, and well suited to Bliss's love of classical Greek... |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / GREGSON / MEALOR / BALL
The Symphonic Euphonium David Childs (euphonium), BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon [ Chandos / CD - due 1/Nov/2019 ] Unlocking the full potential of the euphonium as a concerto instrument with symphony orchestra has been an ambition for David Childs since he premiered the orchestral version of Philip Wilby's Euphonium Concerto in the BBC Young Musician of the Year... |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Samson Dunedin Consort, John Butt [ Linn / 3 CD - due 1/Nov/2019 ] In this pioneering recording Dunedin Consort presents a brand new performing version of one of Handel's greatest dramatic works, Samson. For the first time listeners can enjoy an authentic Handelian chorus, comprising both solo sopranos and boy... |
TALLIS / RUTTER / PRAETORIUS / HOLST/ HANDEL etc
Christmas The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park [ Hyperion / CD - due 1/Nov/2019 ] From the timeless plainchant 'Veni Emmanuel' via Jonathan Harvey to a riotous 'Jingle bells': Owain Park presents a programme of Christmas treats which effortlessly spans the centuries. |
ARAM KHACHATURIAN
Khachaturian: Piano Works Iyad Sughayer (piano) [ BIS SACD / CD - due 1/Nov/2019 ] Born in 1903, Aram Khachaturian became the most significant twentieth-century musical figure in the then Soviet Republic of Armenia. Many of his most important works date from the first half of his career. The expressive immediacy of his music,... |
ALFVEN / BINGHAM / GJEILO / MAHLER / STANFORD etc
Like To The Lark Jennifer Pike (violin), Maria Forsström (mezzo-soprano), The Swedish Chamber Choir, Simon Phipps [ Chandos / CD - due 1/Nov/2019 ] The Swedish Chamber Choir makes its debut on Chandos with this fascinating programme of works for choir, choir and solo voice, and for choir and violin. The founder and conductor, Simon Phipps, leads the choir in unaccompanied works by Swedish and... |
CORELLI / VIVALDI/ LOCATELLI / PAGANINI
Carnival - a violin and guitar recital Karen Gomyo (violin), Ismo Eskelinen (guitar) [ BIS SACD / CD - due 1/Nov/2019 ] For her début album, Karen Gomyo has joined forces with guitarist Ismo Eskelinen in a programme offering fireworks as well as graceful tenderness. A violin virtuoso as well as an expert guitar player, Niccolò Paganini wrote a number of works for the... |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Fables de La Fontaine Karine Deshayes / Orchestre de l'opéra de Rouen Normandie / Jean-Pierre Haeck [ Alpha / CD - due 1/Nov/2019 ] A grasshopper, a milkmaid's pail, a shepherd, a fox, a country mouse, a cobbler... These are just some of the diverse and varied characters from the famous Fables that Jacques Offenbach decided to set to music in 1842, some 150 years after they were... |
