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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BELA BARTOK
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra / Susanna Mälkki (conductor) [ BIS SACD / SACD - due 1/Oct/2021 ] The final disc in an acclaimed Bartók trilogy. The Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the first professional symphony orchestra to be founded in the Nordic countries (1882), has been operating without a break for over 135 years. It has grown from a... |
GEORG BENDA
Benda: Piano Concertos Howard Shelley, London Mozart Players / Howard Shelley [ Hyperion / CD - due 1/Oct/2021 ] Of the same generation as Mozart's father and Bach's children, Georg Anton Benda was highly regarded in his day (not least by Mozart himself). Howard Shelley brings his customary probing, intelligent musicianship to this selection of four early... |
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts [Requiem] Javier Camarena (tenor) / Chorus Santa Cecilia, Concertgebouworkest, Antonio Pappano [ RCO Live / CD - due 1/Oct/2021 ] "A splendid performance with, as expected by Antonio Pappano, intense text interpretation" - Lucrèce Maeckelberg, Klassiek Centraal |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Klingzeug Barockensemble: Memento mori Klingzeug Barockensemble [ BIS SACD / SACD - due 1/Oct/2021 ] Five centuries of laments from the Austrian ensemble Klingzeug. KLINGZEUG BAROCKENSEMBLE Claudia Delago-Norz & Lukas Praxmarer, violin Nadine Henrichs, viola; Anna Tausch, cello / recorder Johannes Ötzbrugger, theorbo; Martin Riccabona,... |
VIVALDI / CAVALI / PROVENZALE / COUPERIN / RAMEAU / etc
Lea Desandre - Amazone Lea Desandre (mezzo) / Jupiter, Thomas Dunford, with Cecilia Bartoli & Véronique Gens [ Erato / CD - due 1/Oct/2021 ] The original concept of Lea Desandre's Amazone is based on music of the Baroque period written specifically on the subject of the Amazons, the mythical race of female warriors Amazone has been recorded with the magnificent ensemble Jupiter and... |
SEBASTIAN FAGERLUND
Oceano: Chamber Music by Sebastian Fagerlund Meta4 String Quartet / Christoffer Sundqvist (clarinet), Paavali Jumppanen (piano), Hervé Joulain (horn) [ BIS SACD / SACD - due 1/Oct/2021 ] Strings, winds and piano in a varied chamber programme |
MOZART / MEHUL / OFFENBACH / LEONCAVALLO / LEHAR / WAGNER / RAVEL / etc
Michael Spyres - BariTenor Michael Spyres (baritone/tenor) / Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg, Marko Letonja, Choeur d'hommes de l'Opéra national du Rhine [ Erato Classics / CD - due 1/Oct/2021 ] An album with a mission to defy classification, BariTenor is a tour de force for Michael Spyres. It ranges wide, encompassing repertoire normally assigned to both tenors and baritones. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
British solo cello music Steven Isserlis [ Hyperion / CD - due 1/Oct/2021 ] If Britten's Cello Suite No 3 is the undisputed masterpiece here, the other works are no less deserving of attention, Frank Merrick's 'Suite in the eighteenth-century style' being a particular delight. As ever, Steven Isserlis's booklet notes offer... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Octet The Wigmore Soloists [ BIS SACD / SACD - due 1/Oct/2021 ] The first recording from a new, exciting ensemble: the Wigmore Soloists. |
GRAHAM LYNCH
Seria Ludo - Piano music by Graham Lynch Albert Kim & Paul Sánchez (piano) [ Divine Art Records / CD - due 8/Oct/2021 ] English composer Graham Lynch (b. 1957) is a master of his craft, a composer whose writing is exceptionally detailed, with specific articulations and layerings; not designed for show, but for better expressing the subject matter of his works, many of... |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto, Bacchanale & Symphony No. 1 Astrig Siranossian (cello), Philharmonie Südwestfalen; Nabil Shehata [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 8/Oct/2021 ] The year 2021 marks the centenary of the death of Camille Saint-Saëns, the French pianist, organist, critic and great Romantic composer. The cellist Astrig Siranossian, whose tribute album to Nadia Boulanger (Dear Mademoiselle, ALPHA635) recently... |
J. S. BACH
The Imaginary Music Book of J.S Bach Café Zimmermann [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 8/Oct/2021 ] Johann Sebastian Bach has made the reputation of Café Zimmermann ever since the ensemble was formed in 1999. This new recording presents the music of the Leipzig Kantor from a different angle, that of the notebooks in which musicians wrote down... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Ich habe genug. Cantatas BWV 32, 82 & 106 Dunedin Consort, John Butt [ Linn Records / CD - due 8/Oct/2021 ] John Butt directs Dunedin Consort, one of the world's leading Baroque ensembles, in this collection of three of Bach's finest cantatas. Together, they explore the timely themes of consolation and salvation. Having previously received exceptional... |
MUFFAT / TELEMANN / FISCHER
Lully's Followers in Germany El Gran Teatro del Mundo [ Ambronay Éditions / CD - due 8/Oct/2021 ] The musicians of El Gran Teatro del Mundo venture into the very heart of this German Baroque repertoire, deeply inspired by the French style typical of the reign of Louis XIV. This programme offers the opportunity to discover, through the prism of... |
ROSSINI
Rossini: Petite messe solennelle Giulio Prandi; Sandrine Piau; Coro Ghislieri [ Arcana / CD - due 8/Oct/2021 ] This is the third recording to represent Giulio Prandi's interpretative research on the great Italian choral repertory, after the special and successful releases of works by Jommelli and Pergolesi, cornerstones of the golden age of the Neapolitan... |
DAN DEDIU
Hybrids, Hints & Hooks: Violin Music by Dan Dediu Irina Muresanu (Violin), Valentina Sandu-dediu (Piano) [ Divine Art Records / CD - due 8/Oct/2021 ] Dan Dediu (b. 1967) is a Romanian composer whose genius and imagination remain to be fully acknowledged outside his homeland. As violinist Muresanu says, "Dan Dediu is a musical wizard who conjures styles and ideas from different eras, molding them... |
ZELENKA / FUX / de ALMEIDA / HANDEL / NUCCI / MANNA / PEREZ
Jakub Józef Orliński: Anima Aeterna Jakub Józef Orliński (countertenor), with Fatma Said (soprano), Il Pomo D'oro , Francesco Corti [ Warner Classics / CD - due 8/Oct/2021 ] Anima Aeterna, an adventurous album of sacred arias and motets from the 18th century, follows in the vein of Anima Sacra, which in 2018 decisively announced Jakub Józef Orliński's arrival as a recording artist. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Ghost Songs: Contemporary Music and Words from Ireland Laetare Vocal Ensemble; Róisín Blunnie (conductor), Síle Denvir (vocals, harp); Marina Carr, Paula Meehan, Carl Corcoran, Dairena Ní Chinnéide (reader [ Divine Art Records / CD - due 8/Oct/2021 ] This is a most unique collection of words and music by mainly contemporary poets, authors and composers from Ireland revealing the rich and deeply meaningful musical and literary traditions of Ireland inspired by folk tales, fantasy and the reality... |
ERIC CRAVEN
Eric Craven: Pieces for Pianists, Volume 2 Mary Dullea (piano) [ Divine Art Records / CD - due 8/Oct/2021 ] For most of his life Eric Craven has kept a very low profile, concentrating on his teaching career and quietly developing his 'non-prescriptive' composing method, a sort of aleatory style but which allows the performer varying degrees of freedom. His... |
CLAUDE LEDOUX
Ledoux: Japanese E-mails Nao Momitani [ Cypres Records / CD - due 8/Oct/2021 ] Here is a perfect opportunity to celebrate a double anniversary, firstly the 60th birthday of composer Claude Ledoux, and secondly the 30th anniversary of Cypres! This album offers us a selection of works composed between 1994 and 2017 and chosen... |
