The following classical CD titles are due for release / re-release in the near future.
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FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Marches Christopher Williams (piano) [ Naxos / CD - due 28/Aug/2026 ] Franz Liszt's lifelong engagement with the March is the focus of this volume. The March form offered a medium laden with public meaning allied to the possibility of reinvention and harmonic adventurousness. The symphonic depth of the... |
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VANNI MORETTO / GIOVANNI SOLLIMA / FRANCESCO ZAPPA / FRANK ZAPPA
Wild Love Giovanni Sollima (cello), Il Pomo d'Oro (orchestra), Vanni Moretto [ Arcana / CD - due 28/Aug/2026 ] Frank and Francesco. It all began with a misunderstanding. In the early 1980s Frank Zappa came across an entry on "Zappa" in the New Grove Dictionary, only to discover it concerned an obscure 18th-century Milanese composer of almost the same name.... |
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ARTHUR FOOTE
Foote: The Complete Cello Works Julian Schwarz (cello), Marika Bournaki (piano), Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra [ Delos / CD - due 28/Aug/2026 ] Cellist Julian Schwarz makes his debut on Delos with a trailblazing album featuring Arthur Foote's complete cello works, including the world-premiere commercial recording of his Cello Concerto. As the only composer of the Boston Six to have been... |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS / EUSEBIUS MANDYCZEWSKI
Melancolie: Brahms, Mandyczewski Konstantin Krimmel (baritone) Ammiel Bushakevitz (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 28/Aug/2026 ] "Having different backgrounds is an asset. Growing up in a multilingual environment fosters cognitive flexibility... I was fortunate enough to live between Romania and Germany," says Konstantin Krimmel. Together with his longtime musical partner... |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (On Period Instruments) Mahler Academy Orchestra, Philipp von Steinaecker [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 28/Aug/2026 ] Following the critical and public success of Mahler's Symphony no.9, Philipp von Steinaecker and the Mahler Academy Orchestra continue their recording of Mahler's symphonies on period instruments with the Fifth Symphony. For this recording, the new... |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS / MAX REGER
Brahms & Reger: Clarinet Quintets Michael Collins (clarinet), Escher String Quartet [ BIS / CD - due 28/Aug/2026 ] Having made numerous recordings for BIS both as a clarinetist and as a conductor, Michael Collins had yet to offer us one of the masterpieces of the clarinet chamber repertoire: Johannes Brahms' Clarinet Quintet. Here he performs alongside the Escher... |
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5 'The Egyptian' Simon Trpčeski, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Thomas Søndergård [ Linn Records / CD - due 28/Aug/2026 ] Macedonian pianist Simon Trpčeski continues his critically acclaimed piano concertos series on Linn Records with a 'spectacular' (Bachtrack) live recording of Saint-Saëns' Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5, both performed at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall... |
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FROLYAK / HAVRYLETS / KRYVOPUST / POLEVA / PRYDATKEVYCH / SHEVCHENKO / ZALESKY
Music Of Resilience Solomiya Ivakhiv (violin), INSO-Lviv Symphony Orchestra; Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Roma [ Naxos / CD - due 28/Aug/2026 ] Hailed by Fanfare magazine as 'one of the major artists of our time' Ukrainian violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv continues to give voice to her country's rich musical heritage in Music of Resilience. The album explores her homeland's ongoing war and... |
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN / LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Mendelssohn, Beethoven and Schumann: Piano Sonatas Tianxu An (piano) [ Signum / CD - due 28/Aug/2026 ] This album brings together piano sonatas by Mendelssohn, Beethoven, and Schumann that reflect a specifically German approach to the form, distinct from the Viennese Classical tradition. Pianist Tianxu An explores works composed within a 26-year span,... |
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FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Metanoia - Late Piano Works Yulianna Avdeeva (piano) [ Pentatone / CD - due 28/Aug/2026 ] The internationally renowned pianist Yulianna Avdeeva presents Metanoia, a profound exploration of the late piano works of Franz Liszt, tracing his radical transformation from virtuoso to visionary. Liszt's late works mark a decisive break with... |
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ANTONIO CALDERA
48° North. Caldara, from Venice to Vienna The BanXhies, Emmanuel Arakelian [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] In Celtic mythology, the 'Banshee' is a messenger between worlds. The four musicians of The BanXhies have come together around this figure, seeking to use music as a conduit from the outer world to the inner world. For their very first album, Roxana... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Folías y Glosas. Legacies of the Spanish Golden Age Concerto Scirocco, Giulia Genini [ Arcana / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] "Folías y Glosas", the new recording project of the ensemble Concerto Scirocco, is a musical journey into the Spain of the late 16th/early 17th century, taking in a repertoire rich in colours, rhythm and influences that weaves together folk memory... |
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PROSPER SAINTON / RICHARD STRAUSS / HECTOR BERLIOZ
Stranger Sainton Dmitry Smirnov; Kammerorchester Basel; Victor Jacob [ Fuga Libera / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] This album is built around a remarkable instrument: the Guarneri del Gesù "Sainton Betti" violin, once played by Prosper Sainton. More than a solo voice, the violin shapes both the repertoire and the narrative of the project. From this starting... |
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ERNST von DOHNÁNYI
Dohnányi: Symphony No. 2 in E major, Op. 40 Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie, Rheinland-Pfalz, Michael Francis [ Capriccio / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] Although Hungarian composer Ernst von Dohnányi was one of the most versatile and influential musicians of his time, his works are seldom played nowadays. The Capriccio label is helping to rectify that situation with a series of recordings of his... |
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C.P.E. BACH
C. P. E. Bach: Cello Concertos Elinor Frey (cello), Accademia de' Dissonanti [ Channel Classics / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] The Canadian-American cellist Elinor Frey performs and conducts Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's three cello concertos with the Accademia de' Dissonanti. These dramatic works, rich in turbulent exchanges yet also in tender moments, bear witness to C. P.... |
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FANNY & FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Nui Esmé Quartet [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] This album - the third to be released on Alpha Classics - is entitled Nui (a Korean word meaning 'sister'). The Esmé Quartet pays tribute to Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, with Fanny's Quartet in E-Flat major, written during the final year of her life,... |
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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART / JOSEPH HAYDN / FABIAN FIORINI
Missa Brevis: Mozart, Haydn & Fiorini Etesiane Orchestra, Gabriel Hollander [ Cypres Records / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] There are projects that spring from a hunch and which, driven by conviction and hard work, eventually come to seem entirely natural. The 'Messes Brèves' project is a bold initiative that brings together works rarely performed together, breathing new... |
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MILOSLAV KABELÁČ
Kabelác: Kinderchöre Kinderchor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Christian Lindhorst (conductor), Kammersymphonie Berlin [ Capriccio / 2 CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] Music for children plays an important role in Miloslav Kabeláč's artistic oeuvre. Especially in the early days after the communist coup in 1948, the composer devoted himself to this genre: "I regard composing for children as a 'touchstone' not only... |
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MODEST MUSSORGSKY / MAURICE RAVEL / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Tableaux Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Joseph Swensen [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] This album centres on Ravel: Ravel the composer with Ma Mère l'Oye - originally a suite for piano four hands composed in 1910, orchestrated the following year to become a ballet… and Ravel the arranger with Mussorgsky's famous Pictures at an... |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT / CESAR FRANCK / SERGEY RACHMANINOV / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Transcriptions For Two Guitars Bluvenduo (Sebastian Rhodes, Zhanxiang Shi) [ Naxos / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] The prizewinning guitar duo Bluvenduo present a versatile selection of transcriptions for two guitars, several of which have never previously been arranged for this format. The freshness and sense of discovery in Schubert's Sonata in A major is a... |