Classical New Releases
Classical New Releases
Below is a list of all classical CD titles released in the last 120 days.
Displaying items 61 to 80 of 172
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Transcriptions from Operas Martin Cousin (piano) [ Naxos Liszt Edition Vol 61 / CD - released 22/Mar/2024 ] Nearly half of Franz Liszt's early output consisted of transcriptions and arrangements, filling out his virtuoso concert programmes with some of the grandest and most popular operas of the day. |
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J. S. BACH
Bach - Die Kunst der Fuge [The Art of Fugue] Masato Suzuki (harpsichord), with Masato Suzuki (harpsichord) [ BIS SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 22/Mar/2024 ] Masaaki Suzuki performs Bach's ultimate masterpiece |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Cello Concertos in D & C (LP) Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) / Academy St Martin in the Fields, Iona Brown [ Warner Classics / LP - released 22/Mar/2024 ] "A quite extraordinary achievement. Marvellously expressive cello playing. The orchestra gives splendid support and the sound is warm and ingratiating" (Gramophone) |
J. S. BACH
The Best of Antonio Vivaldi (LP) Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) Lorenzo Cavasanti (recorder) Christopher Warren-Green (violin), Il Giardino Armonico, Europa Galante [ Warner Classics Vinyl / LP - released 22/Mar/2024 ] Warner Classics is excited to introduce another new vinyl compilation of recordings of the works of the renowned genius red-haired priest: Antonio Vivaldi. On his death in 1741, he fell into total oblivion. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / MAX REGER
Brahms / Reger: Song transcriptions Rudolf Buchbinder (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 22/Mar/2024 ] Rudolf Buchbinder, the doyen of Austrian pianists, plays Max Reger's rarely heard, lovingly crafted transcriptions of his idol Johannes Brahms's most beautiful lieder, about which Reger said: "In the case of such masterpieces, any embellishment and... |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe - Suites / Ma mère lʼOye / Valses nobles et sentimentales The St. Olaf Choir & Minnesota Orchestra, Stanisław Skrowaczewski [ Vox Classics / CD - released 22/Mar/2024 ] "marvellous playing by the Minnesota Orchestra, beguiling singing by the St. Olaf Choir (with especially audible inner detail in the men's parts), and probing conducting by Skrowaczewski, who paints the music's colours in broad, vibrant strokes." |
Timothy Ridout, James Baillieu, Frank Dupree
A Lionel Tertis Celebration [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 22/Mar/2024 ] Lionel Tertis (1876-1975), a great genius of the viola, is little known to today's public. Timothy Ridout pays tribute to this key figure in his instrument's history with a flamboyant programme featuring music by Tertis's friends, teachers and... |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: Médée Véronique Gens, Cyrille Dubois, Judith van Wanroij, Thomas Dolié, David Witczak Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet [ Alpha Classics / 3 CD - released 22/Mar/2024 ] Médée, a tragedy in a prologue and five acts on a libretto by Thomas Corneille, was Marc-Antoine Charpentier's first and last collaboration with the Académie Royale de Musique. The work was premiered on 4 December 1693, when Charpentier was exactly... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 Op. 67 (LP) Wiener Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics Vinyl / LP - released 22/Mar/2024 ] The nine Beethoven Symphonies are considered to be one of the greatest musical testaments of all time and are a key staple in every conductor's repertoire. Simon Rattle performed the complete cycle with the Wiener Philharmoniker in live concerts,... |
ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: The Nine Symphonies Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti, Horst Stein, Karl Böhm, Lorin Maazel, Claudio Abbado [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 9 CD Box Set - released 22/Mar/2024 ] The Vienna Philharmonic's distinguished Bruckner tradition, documented through a series of superb Decca recordings from the 1960s and 70s on a Limited Edition 9-CD box set, with Original Jackets. |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Overtures, Vol.2 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Alpesh Chauhan [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Mar/2024 ] Alpesh Chauhan's début recording for Chandos - Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 (CHSA 5300) - met with widespread critical acclaim and awards, including recording of the week for both The Times and Presto Music, and the BBC Music magazine's... |
MAURICE DURUFLE / FRANCIS POULENC
Duruflé: Requiem / Poulenc: Lenten Motets The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, Stephen Layton [ Hyperion / CD - released 15/Mar/2024 ] The balance [in the Duruflé] puts you in the building in the most extraordinary way … that wonderful envelope of sound that just surrounds you as you listen to it. A shout-out for Harrison Cole-he's done an extremely good job as a young organ schola. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Elina Garanca - When Night Falls ... Elina Garanca (Mezzo), Orquesta Filarmonica de Gran Canaria, with Raphaël Feuillâtre (guitar), Raimonds Pauls (piano), Albrecht Mayer (oboe) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 15/Mar/2024 ] This intimate album, says Elīna Garanča, is meant for "that time of day when you withdraw to your own private life". The celebrated mezzo has selected songs to help her listeners "tune out the world for two or three minutes and immerse themselves in... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN / EDVARD GRIEG
Schumann & Grieg: Piano Concertos Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano), Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Michael Sanderling [ Warner Classics / CD - released 15/Mar/2024 ] "Leonskaja's live performances of the Schumann and Grieg piano concertos have been cause for wonder...There are other ways of performing these works, but these interpretations are utterly consistent and totally enlightening." BBC Music February 2024 |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: All-night Vigil [Vespers], Op. 37 Evgeny Kachurovsky (baritone) Igor Morozov (tenor) / PaTRAM Institute Male Choir, Ekaterina Antonenko [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Mar/2024 ] In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Serge Rachmaninoff, PaTRAM* Institute Male Choir invites you to experience the extraordinary beauty of his choral tour de force, the All-night Vigil, composed in 1915. The Vigil is a traditional... |
FERRUCCIO BUSONI / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Busoni/Brahms: Violin Concerto Francesca Dego (violin) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Dalia Stasevska [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Mar/2024 ] The celebrated violinist Francesca Dego is joined by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and her regular collaborator Dalia Stasevska for this recording of the violin concertos by Brahms and Busoni. A cornerstone of the repertoire, Brahms's Concerto dates... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 11, 12 & 13 Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano) / Manchester Camerata, Gábor Takács-Nagy [ Chandos / CD - released 15/Mar/2024 ] The three concertos featured on this album were composed together in 1782 / 83 - shortly after Mozart had left his patron and position in Salzburg to establish himself as a freelance composer and performer in Vienna. The concertos were all performed... |
WALKER / Lili BOULANGER / PRICE / BRITTEN / DEBUSSY / FAURE / TAKEMITSU / etc
Path to the Moon Laura van der Heijden (cello) Jâms Coleman (piano) [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Mar/2024 ] "[Walker's Cello Sonata] a tautly argued piece that's a real discovery, persuasively played here...also a performance of Britten's Sonata that vividly captures its sense of dialogue and a many-coloured one of the 1915 Sonata by Debussy." Guardian |
J. S. BACH
Bach - The Well-Tempered Clavier I Masato Suzuki (harpsichord) [ BIS SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 15/Mar/2024 ] Masato Suzuki tackles the Pianists' Old Testament |
PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY / ERICH KORGOLD
Tchaikovsky & Korngold: String Sextets Nash Ensemble / David Lloyd-Jones [ Hyperion / CD - released 15/Mar/2024 ] The teenage Korngold possessed a compositional fluency and maturity which belied his youth; in contrast, Tchaikovsky feared-wholly unjustifiably-his own creative powers to be on the wane when writing Souvenir de Florence. |
