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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ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
Scarlatti: Il trionfo della Grazia Ensemble Céladon, Paulin Bündgen [ Ricercar / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] Alessandro Scarlatti's Il Trionfo della Grazia was first performed in Rome in 1685 and was such a huge success that the oratorio was regularly revived over a period of more than twenty years. Three manuscripts of it exist, one each in Rome, Modena... |
NICOLA ANTONIO PORPORA / GIUSEPPE TORELLI / TOMASO ALBINONI / GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL / GEMINIANO GIACOMELLI / JOHANN ADOLPH HASSE
Addio Amore Jeanine De Bique, Terry Wey, Kammerorchester Basel [ Pentatone / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] In Addio Amore, Kammerorchester Basel, soprano Jeanine De Bique and countertenor Terry Wey present a programme of searing intensity and refined expressive beauty, exploring the fragile threshold between love and loss in 18th-century opera. Inspired... |
ANONYMOUS / GUIRAUT D'ESPAIGNA / GHERARDELLO DA FIRENZE / GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT / FRANCESO LANDINI / GUILLAUME DU FAY / GUGLIELMO EBREO DA PESARO
Venite alla danza! La Reverdie [ Arcana / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] Venite alla danza! is the project with which La Reverdie intends to celebrate its 40th anniversary. Since 1986, the ensemble has explored a wide range of vocal and instrumental repertoires from the 13th to the 15th century but has never attempted a... |
CIPRIANI POTTER
Potter: Piano Works Luke Jones (piano) [ Naxos / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] Even though Cipriani Potter's desire for lessons with Beethoven did not materialise, he benefitted from the great composer's advice and showed in his own music a thorough understanding of German models. As an admired soloist he also introduced piano... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Neeme Jarvi conducts Shostakovich Lydia Mordkovitch (violin), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / 8 CD Box Set - due 25/Sep/2026 ] Estonian conductor Neeme Järvi was born in 1937 in Tallin, where he studied music before moving to Leningrad to study at the conservatory under Yevgeny Mravinsky. He returned to Tallinn and held posts with the Estonian Radio and Television Symphony... |
GERALD FINZI
Finzi: The Dance Continued Nick Pritchard (tenor), Ian Tindale (piano) [ Signum / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] Marking 70 years since the death of Gerald Finzi, duo partners Nick Pritchard and Ian Tindale reunite for a collection of works for tenor and piano, including 5 new unpublished songs from the Bodleian Library |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / HEITOR VILLA‑LOBOS / FRANCIS POULENC
Prokofiev - Villa-Lobos - Poulenc ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Simone Menezes [ Fuga Libera / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] The classicism that emerged in Vienna with Mozart and Haydn was later revisited by Prokofiev in Russia, Poulenc in France, and most unexpectedly, Villa-Lobos in Brazil. Each composer reimagined this tradition through a sparkling, modern, and... |
ANONYMOUS / ARCHIE FISHER / JERRY HOLLAND / JAMES OSWALD / NIEL GOW / THOMAS D'URFEY / WILLIAM THOMSON / FRANCESCO GEMINIANI / THOMAS RAVENCROFT etc
Songs from the North Country Rosemary Standley, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, François Lazarevitch [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] As great lovers of traditional music, Rosemary Standley and François Lazarevitch were bound to meet one day. The founding leader of Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien proposed collaborating on a programme of English ballads with the iconic singer from the... |
VINCENT YOUMANS / RICHARD RODGERS / SIGMUND ROMBERG / GUY D'HARDELOT / FRANZ LEHÁR / NICHOLAS BRODSZKY / ALBERT HAY MALOTTE / AGUSTÍN LARA
Be My Love Stephen Costello (tenor) / Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra, Constantine Orbelian [ Delos / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] "As a tenor raised in Northeast Philadelphia, recording an album dedicated to Mario Lanza felt like coming home in the most profound way." This is how Stephen Costello introduces his second album on Delos, Be My Love. A homage to the great tenor,... |
FEDERICO MOMPOU / DÉODAT DE SÉVERAC / ISAAC ALBÉNIZ
Cataluña Wilhem Latchoumia [ La Dolce Volta / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] "Musical sound waves circulate through space. From which is derived that seductive, yet also elusive, unstable, phenomenon, known as music." Thus wrote Vladimir Jankélévitch in his essay La Présence lointaine (Distant Presence), exploring the... |
TRADITIONAL / HEDWIGE CHRÉTIEN / FRANZ SCHUBERT / CAMERON BILES‑LIDDELL / ALMA MAHLER‑WERFEL / ETHEL SMYTH / EDWARD ELGAR / HAMILTON HARTY
The Deeps Have Music Beth Taylor; Hamish Brown [ Linn Records / CD - due 2/Oct/2026 ] Mezzo-soprano Beth Taylor and pianist Hamish Brown make their debut recital album with Linn Records. A rising vocal star, Taylor came to international prominence as a finalist of the 2023 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, and has since... |
ADRIAN WILLAERT / CIPRIANO DE RORE / FRANCESCO BENDUSI / COSTANZO ANTEGNATI / GIOVANNI BASSANO / ANDREA GABRIELI / GIOVANNI CROCE / GIOVANNI GABRIELI
Sulla piazza Consort La Capriola [ Ricercar / CD - due 2/Oct/2026 ] A consort of violins makes its way through the Venetian night beneath the arcades of St Mark's Square. From the basilica to aristocratic salons, from the streets to the taverns, the violinists follow the rhythms of daily life; the violin, a... |
JEAN‑SÉBASTIEN BACH / HEITOR VILLA‑LOBOS / JEAN‑PHILIPPE RAMEAU / ANTONIO VIVALDI / ANONYME
Polaris Duo Kiasma, Pierre Fontenelle, Frin Wolter [ Cypres Records / CD - due 2/Oct/2026 ] Since its inception in 2016, the Duo Kiasma has shared a common delight: to surprise audiences through the unexpected pairing of the cello and the accordion. Indeed, what could be more unusual than the combination of the 'little prince' of classical... |
SAMUEL BARBER / JOHN ZORN / PHILIP GLASS
Barber & Glass: Violin Concertos - Zorn: Partita for the Firebird Geneva Lewis (violin), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Gemma New [ Delos / CD - due 2/Oct/2026 ] A BBC New Generation Artist in 2022-24, violinist Geneva Lewis is also the recipient of a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant, a 2022 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award, and has been Musical America's New Artist of the Month. For her recording debut on Delos,... |
J.S. BACH
Bach: Goldberg Variations Geoffroy Couteau (piano) [ La Dolce Volta / CD - due 2/Oct/2026 ] How do you give new impetus to your artistic life after completing a project as intense as recording Johannes Brahms' complete piano works? Geoffroy Couteau's answer was to climb an Everest. For to perform Bach's Goldberg Variations is to undergo... |
FRANZ LISZT / LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN / SAMUEL BARBER
Das Lebewohl Jiaxin Min (piano) [ Fuga Libera / CD - due 2/Oct/2026 ] Introducing Jiaxin Min in her debut album, this recording marks the arrival of a compelling new voice on the international piano scene. Emerging as an audience favourite from the Queen Elisabeth Competition she combines expressive intensity, clarity... |
MICHEL‑RICHARD DE LALANDE
Lalande: Suites pour les soupers du Roy Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 2/Oct/2026 ] Hervé Niquet and Le Concert Spirituel are paying tribute to Michel-Richard de Lalande, who died 300 years ago: "Louis XIV's master of music, renowned for his sacred music and numerous divertissements, was also a remarkable composer of symphonies,"... |
MAREN GAMPER
Erdenschwere Maren Gamper (piano) [ Carpe Diem / CD - due 2/Oct/2026 ] Swiss-French pianist and theatre artist Maren Gamper presents her first solo album dedicated to the work of Swiss writer, journalist and poet Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908-1942). The album is an improvised reflection on Schwarzenbach's text... |
NICOLAS WORMS
Worms: L'Enquête Nicolas Worms (keyboards) [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 2/Oct/2026 ] The music of composer and pianist Nicolas Worms (born in 1993 in Paris) is a space where contradictory times and places converge. He develops the concept of 'music-fiction', as in the series FLOT, released by Alpha Classics in 2024. This new album... |
NICOLAS WORMS
Worms: L'Enquête (LP) Nicolas Worms (keyboards) [ Alpha Classics / LP - due 2/Oct/2026 ] The music of composer and pianist Nicolas Worms (born in 1993 in Paris) is a space where contradictory times and places converge. He develops the concept of 'music-fiction', as in the series FLOT, released by Alpha Classics in 2024. This new album... |
