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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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Gloses Lucie Chabard (harpsichord) [ Ricercar / CD - due 6/Nov/2026 ] "Glosas, diminutions, passaggi…": so many terms to describe the garlands of ornamentation that keyboard musicians added to the polyphonic vocal works of their peers as they transformed them into true keyboard pieces between the 16th century and the... |
ORLANDUS LASSUS
Lassus: The Alchemist, Vol. 3 Magnificat, The City Musick, Philip Cave [ Linn Records / 2 CD - due 6/Nov/2026 ] This third and final volume of Magnificat's 'Lassus: The Alchemist' series is devoted to Magnificats based on secular chansons. Courtly entertainment, popular song and everything in between, the chanson provided composers with an inexhaustible source... |
YVONNE LORIOD / OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Loriod & Messiaen Roger Muraro, Florent Boffard [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 6/Nov/2026 ] Yvonne Loriod's creative-turned-romantic partnership with Olivier Messiaen is celebrated as one of twentieth-century music's greatest love stories. Yet the full extent of their artistic relationship is only now coming into focus, thanks to documents... |
SERGEY RACHMANINOV / MAURICE RAVEL
Rachmaninov / Ravel: Tableaux en miroirs Catalin Serban [ Naxos / CD - due 13/Nov/2026 ] Rachmaninov's Études‑tableaux, Op. 39 stands as a pinnacle of late Romantic piano writing, a cycle marked by extreme contrasts, vivid imagery and an overwhelming sense of melancholy. In striking complement, Ravel's Miroirs explores a concise and... |
AMALIE OF SAXONY / CARL MARIA VON WEBER / GIOACHINO ROSSINI / WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART / VICENTE MARTÍN Y SOLER / ANTONIO SOLER
Mozart, Rossini, Weber and Amalie of Saxony Coloquio 6 [ Ambronay Éditions / CD - due 13/Nov/2026 ] Tracing the footsteps of Princess Amalie of Saxony, Coloquio 6 revives the spirit of Harmoniemusik, intimate wind ensembles that once brought the most beloved music of the day to audiences everywhere. This musical journey features works by Amalie... |
LEO WEINER
Weiner: Complete Works for Orchestra, Vol. 5 Csaba Klenyán, Júlia Pusker, MÁV Symphony Orchestra, Budapest, Valéria Csányi [ Naxos / CD - due 13/Nov/2026 ] Hungarian composer Leó Weiner forged a distinctive synthesis between German and French Romantic traditions and the emerging Hungarian musical language at the start of the 20th century. His Ballade, long admired for its dreamlike lyricism, became one... |
GYULA DÁVID / FAZIL SAY / BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ / FRANCISCO TÁRREGA
Reverse Directions Dana Zemtsov (violin), Sinfonieorchester St Gallen, Modestas Pitrenas [ Channel Classics / CD - due 13/Nov/2026 ] Violist Dana Zemtsov is joined by Modestas Pitrenas and the Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen on Reverse Directions. This recording brings together two ideas: movement and belonging. For Zemtsov, movement can lead in many directions: outward into the... |
CARL FRÜHLING / FRANZ SCHREKER / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Der Wind Ensemble Kheops [ Cypres Records / CD - due 13/Nov/2026 ] This programme forms a continuity with the album Brahms | Berg | Zemlinsky (released by Cypres - CYP8610), one that was distinguished notably by a Gramophone Choice. It continues the same reflection on the Vienna of the late nineteenth century and... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Partitas BWV 825, 826, 830 Frédérick Haas [ Hitasura / CD - due 13/Nov/2026 ] J.S. Bach's first Clavier-Übung - the Partitas - is an important work which holds a particular status: it is the first major publication by a great musician at the height of his maturity - he was 46 - and already a living legend. A large part of the... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Concerto for 3 Pianos, KV 242, 3 Piano Concertos after J.C. Bach, KV 107 Julia Hamos, Avery Gagliano, Nathalia Milstein, Camerata Schweiz, Howard Griffiths [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 13/Nov/2026 ] This 17th volume in the 'Next Generation Mozart Soloists' series marks the conclusion of this collection which, under the inspired and supportive guidance of Howard Griffiths, has enabled dozens of young soloists to record Mozart's concertos with... |
LILI BOULANGER / BARBARA STROZZI / PAULINE LANGLOIS DE SWARTE / MANON COUSIN CIPRIANI / EVA UGALDE / ÉLODIE PONT / HILDEGARD VON BINGEN
HYSTERÆ Les Itinérantes [ Pentatone / CD - due 13/Nov/2026 ] Les Itinérantes, the acclaimed female vocal trio, make their PENTATONE debut with HYSTERÆ, an imaginative and deeply personal exploration of the many faces of the Feminine. Mothers, queens, witches, workers, saints, fairies and enchantresses appear... |
CHRISTIAN SINDING
Sinding: Romantic Piano, Vol. 13 Yanfeng Tony Bai (piano) [ Naxos / CD - due 13/Nov/2026 ] Norwegian composer Christian Sinding benefitted from the finest musical training available in Oslo before continuing his studies in Leipzig, where he encountered Ferruccio Busoni. Possessing a rich melodic gift, Sinding was long regarded as Grieg's... |
RICHARD STRAUSS / JOHN ESTACIO / ALEXINA LOUIE
Poema 3. Comœdia Alexander Shelley, Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra [ Analekta / CD - due 20/Nov/2026 ] The third installment in the Poema series by Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra, Comœdia brings together two masterpieces by Richard Strauss alongside two newly commissioned Canadian works by John Estacio and Alexina Louie. Under the direction... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Abysses. French Arias for Contralto Aude Extrémo; Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra; György Vashegyi [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 20/Nov/2026 ] The contralto voice range did not emerge in French opera until around 1850, largely thanks to the singer Rosine Stoltz, who made her debut at the Paris Opera in 1837. The low female voice then gained prominence on all the Parisian opera stages, with... |
JOHN DOWLAND
John Dowland: A Fancy (LP) Bor Zuljan (lute) [ Ricercar / 2 LP - due 20/Nov/2026 ] The first notes of the descending chromatic theme break the silence and it seems as if time has stopped. The listener is drawn into the world of John Dowland, the greatest lutenist of all, in a journey through multiple shades of melancholy and lucent... |
MICHAEL TIPPETT
Tippett: Unaccompanied choral works The Carice Singers, George Parris [ Signum / CD - due 20/Nov/2026 ] This release from The Carice Singers, conducted by George Parris, brings together the unaccompanied choral works of Michael Tippett (1905-1998), marking the ensemble's debut recording with Signum Classics. Composed across the first twenty-five years... |
ALESSANDRO STRADELLA
Stradella: San Giovanni Battista Ensemble Mare Nostrum [ Arcana / CD - due 20/Nov/2026 ] Composed for the Jubilee of 1675, San Giovanni Battista is the masterpiece that contributed more than any other to Stradella's fame during his lifetime and to the shaping of his legend after his death: a score rooted in the great contrapuntal... |
DANNY ELFMAN
Danny Elfman: Cello Concerto & Film Music Gautier Capuçon (cello), Danny Elfman, Jérôme Ducros (piano), BBC Concert Orchestra, Lionel Bringuie [ Erato / CD - due 20/Nov/2026 ] Gautier Capuçon enters the musical world of composer Danny Elfman with the premiere recording of his sensational Cello Concerto, written expressly for the French cellist in a uniquely collaborative and interpersonal process not unlike that of the... |
WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI / EDWARD ELGAR
Lutosławski: Cello Concerto - Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor Hayoung Choi (cello), Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Tomáš Netopil (cond.) [ Fuga Libera / CD - due 20/Nov/2026 ] First Prize winner of the 2022 Queen Elisabeth Competition, Hayoung Choi quickly established herself as one of the most compelling cellists of her generation. Joined by the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra and conductor Tomáš Netopil, she explores two... |
STEFANO LANDI
Landi: La morte d'Orfeo Les Épopées [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / 2 CD - due 20/Nov/2026 ] La morte d'Orfeo (1619), Stefano Landi's first opera, marks a pivotal moment in the history of Italian opera. Drawing on the myth of Orpheus, it focuses not on his descent into the Underworld but on his final moments and ultimate apotheosis. Rooted... |
