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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Andre Rieu
My Music, My World The Very Best Of [ Universal Music / 2 CD - due 23/Aug/2019 ] To celebrate his 70th birthday in October this year, André Rieu, the King of Waltz and one of the most famous violinists of our time, presents his first ever greatest hits collection. This 2CD extravaganza includes André's greatest hits, waltzes,... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
The Very Best Of Beethoven London Classical Player, Roger Norrington / François-René Duchâble / Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste / Dmitry Sitkovetsky / etc [ Virgin / Warner Classics / 2 CD - due 25/Aug/2019 ] "This reissue is greatly to be welcomed as it usefully collects together some very thought-provoking performances at an affordable price and in good, clear recorded sound." (MusicWeb) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Violin Sonatas Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien [ Hyperion / CD - due 30/Aug/2019 ] Matchless accounts of Brahms at his most lyrically reflective, plus a benedictory encore by Clara Schumann: this is another outstanding release from today's pre-eminent violin and piano partnership. |
NICOLA MATTEIS
Matteis: False Consonances of Melancholy Amandine Beyer (violin) / Gli Incogniti [ Alpha / CD - due 30/Aug/2019 ] "Amandine Beyer is a wonderfully expressive and sensitive violinist with a secure technique, clear and sonorous tone and discreet approach to ornamentation... " The Strad Magazine |
BBC Philharmonic (orchestra); Rumon Gamba (conductor)
British Tone Poems Vol.2 [ Chandos / CD - due 30/Aug/2019 ] This is the eagerly anticipated second volume of Rumon Gamba's fascinating survey of lesser-known British musical gems. Two works (Cowen's Rêverie and Hadley's Kinder Scout) are world premiere recordings, and the entire repertoire is very rarely... |
Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon, cond.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Libertà! [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - due 30/Aug/2019 ] Between Die Entführung aus dem Serail and the advent of the famous 'Da Ponte trilogy', Mozart threw himself frantically into the search for the right libretto, capable of taking the spectator to lands still unexplored where the drama and the... |
BRAHMS
Brahms: The Complete Songs, Vol. 8Harriet Burns Harriet Burns, Graham Johnson [ Hyperion / CD - due 30/Aug/2019 ] |
MOMPOU / DEBUSSY / ALBENIZ / RAVEL / FALLA
Iberia y Francia Imogen Cooper (piano) [ Chandos / CD - due 30/Aug/2019 ] The internationally renowned pianist Imogen Cooper is best known for her interpretations of composers of the classical and romantic eras, as reflected in her existing discography for Chandos, featuring works by Liszt, Wagner, Brahms, Chopin,... |
TERRY RILEY
Riley: Sun Rings Kronos Quartet [ Nonesuch / Warner / CD - due 30/Aug/2019 ] Kronos Quartet's groundbreaking 2002 collaboration with composer Terry Riley, Sun Rings, is available in full for the first time. Riley incorporates into his composition "space sounds" (plasma waves) that NASA had collected from the Voyager probes,... |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea - Live in Salzburg Festpiele (Aug. 2018) Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD/Blu-ray Disc - due 30/Aug/2019 ] Limited edition triple CD and Blu-Ray edition. "Some of the most wonderful music in the world" is how William Christie describes Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea, noting in particular the opera's overriding humanism and interest in questions of... |
Mathias Lévy
Unis Vers: Le violon de Stéphane Grappelli [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - due 30/Aug/2019 ] 'From the unanimity acquired by the trio in terms of its sonority, with everyone even breathing together as one, to its elegant counterpoint, via an intricate blending of timbres, Mathias Lévy allows us to hear a group that has indeed found its... |
BELA BARTOK
Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle Michelle De Young (mezzo); John Relyea (bass); Pál Mácsai (actor); Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra; Edward Gardner (conductor) [ Chandos / CD - due 30/Aug/2019 ] Following outstanding reviews for his interpretation of Duke Bluebeard around the world, notably at the Paris Opéra and then in Philadelphia and New York with Michelle DeYoung, John Relyea stars in the first studio SACD Surround Sound recording of... |
PFITZNER / BRAUNFELS
Pfitzner & Braunfels: Piano Concertos Markus Becker, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Constantin Trinks [ Hyperion / CD - due 30/Aug/2019 ] |
REINHARD KEISER
Keiser: Croesus René Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD - due 30/Aug/2019 ] Money doesn't make one happy… … but the re-discovery of this extraordinary Croesus certainly does! Keiser is one of the most astonishing early German composers to have been brought to light in recent years. The composer of a good sixty operas, all... |
ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD
Korngold: Symphony in F Sharp / Straussiana / Theme & Variations Sinfonia of London, John Wilson (conductor) [ Chandos / CD - due 30/Aug/2019 ] Best known as a composer of film music, Korngold was born in Brünn, Austria-Hungary (present-dayBrno, Czech Republic) and - as both a pianist and composer - was a child prodigy. Mahler and Strauss were impressed by the young musician, and recommended... |
ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: The Nine Symphonies Wiener Philharmoniker [Vienna Philharmonic] / Sir Georg Solti, Claudio Abbado; Karl Böhm; Lorin Maazel; Zubin Mehta; Horst Stein [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 9 CD Box Set - due 1/Sep/2019 ] In the 1960s and 70s, Decca carried out a monumental project, recording all the Bruckner symphonies with an orchestra he was closely associated with - the Vienna Philharmonic - under a galaxy of great conductors. |
Michael Haydn Collection
[ Brilliant Classics / 28 CD Box Set - due 2/Sep/2019 ] Johann Michael Haydn (1737-1806), younger brother of Joseph, was born in Rohrau Austria, on 14th September 1737. Aged eight, he joined Joseph among the choirboys at St. Stephen's in Vienna, while he studied singing, violin and organ. Aged... |
Izhar Elias, Channa Malkin
Songs of Love & Exile: A Sephardic Journey [ Brilliant Classics / CD - due 2/Sep/2019 ] The debut album of an exciting young Dutch soprano: an anthology of popular Sephardic songs completed with excerpts from a rare song collection by Mario Castelnuovo- Tedesco. Having made her operatic debut at the age of 16, singing Barbarina with the... |
MODEST MUSSORGSKY
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov, opera in seven scenes (1869 version) Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Maxim Paster, Mika Kares, Sergei Skorokhodov, Göteborg Opera Chorus [ BIS SACD / 2 CD - due 6/Sep/2019 ] Modest Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov stands out among the major works of the opera repertoire in having an extremely complex creative history. The original libretto, by the composer himself, was based closely on Pushkin's Shakespeare-inspired drama... |
TRADITIONAL
Kalinka: The loveliest Russian folk songs Red Star Red Army Chorus, Anatoly N. Bazhalkin [ Warner Classics Inspiration / CD - due 6/Sep/2019 ] "Kalinka" beautifully captures the brash power and deep emotions of the Red Star Red Army Chorus. |
