Classical New Releases
Classical New Releases
Below is a list of all classical CD titles released in the last 120 days.
Displaying items 81 to 100 of 173
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. |
W. A. MOZART / SCHOENBERG / SCHUBERT / HAYDN / BEETHOVEN / DANZI / etc
New Vienna Octet, Vienna Wind Soloists - The Decca Recordings New Vienna Octet, Vienna Wind Soloists [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 18 CD Box Set - released 15/Mar/2024 ] Postcards from Vienna: drawn largely from the supreme players of the Wiener Philharmoniker, collected here are the Decca recordings of Viennese chamber music ensembles, including the New Vienna Octet, Vienna Wind Soloists, Wiener Waldhornverein, etc |
PAUL DUKAS
Dukas: Music for Piano / Orchestral Music / Ariane et Barbe-Bleue Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Jean Hubeau, Martha Argerich, Alexander Rabinovitch (pianos) / Orchestre National de I'O.R.T.F., etc [ Warner Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 15/Mar/2024 ] The composer Paul Dukas was known for abandoning many of his musical undertakings, resulting in a limited output of published works. This collection consolidates the core of his oeuvre in landmark renditions by prominent artists. |
Reto Bieri (clarinet), Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Polina Leschenko (piano)
Take 3 [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 15/Mar/2024 ] The basic idea of this album was to play in threes... Not to play 'something', but to experiment 'in threes' with sound worlds as different as those of Bartok, Poulenc and Schoenfield. With his Contrastes, composed in 1938 for Benny Goodman, Bartok... |
BERLIOZ / DUPARC / KOECHLIN / DEBUSSY / RAVEL / BRITTEN
Reflet Sandrine Piau (soprano), Orchestre Victor Hugo, Jean-Francois Verdier [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 15/Mar/2024 ] "It almost goes without saying that the performances are magnificent...Warmly supported by the Orchestre Victor Hugo under Jean-François Verdier and captured in glowing sound, Piau has created another sublime album." 5/5 BBC Music Magazine |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Peaceful Piano Moods Various Artists including Ludovico Einaudi, Vikingur Olafsson, Ola Gjeilo, Maria João Pires, Martha Argerich, Yuja Wang, Max Richter, Lang Lang, etc [ Deutsche Grammophon / 4 CD Box Set - released 15/Mar/2024 ] Immerse yourself in the most peaceful and chilled-out works written for the piano. Introducing Peaceful Piano Moods, a genre-dissolving compilation - a seamless blend of classical and contemporary piano repertoire. |
FLORENCE PRICE / LEO SOWERBY
Price/Sowerby: Music for String Quartet Avalon String Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 8/Mar/2024 ] Florence Price and Leo Sowerby were both prominent members of the Chicago music community in the 1930s and 1940s, and they are known to have respected each other's work. Most of Florence Price's compositions remained unpublished at her death, and her... |
DOROTHY HOWELL
Howell: Orchestral Works BBC Concert Orchestra, Rebecca Miller [ Signum / CD - released 8/Mar/2024 ] Featuring 4 works receiving their world premiere recording, Signum Classics are proud to annouce the new album 'Dorothy Howell: Orchestral Works' conducted by Rebecca Miller with the BBC Concert Orchestra. Until now these works have rarely been... |
J. S. BACH
Bach - Sonatas and Partitas Franz Halász (guitar) [ BIS SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 8/Mar/2024 ] Bach's Sonatas and Partitas performed on the guitar |
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte [Songs without Words] Igor Levit (piano) [ Sony Music / CD - released 8/Mar/2024 ] "Designed for children and amateurs, their charms are generally underrated by professionals - but Levit finds beauty in them, expressed with a warm touch and pleasing emotional directness." BBC Music |
RICHTER / RACHMANINOV / ARNALDS / ZWART / GLASS / etc
Lavinia Meijer: Winter Lavinia Meijer (harp) / Alma Quartet Amsterdam, Nadia Sirota (viola), Wishful Singing [ Sony Music / CD - released 8/Mar/2024 ] Winter is the culmination of a year-long project taking inspiration from the changing of the seasons, and the effect climate change is having on them. The album features two new compositions by Meijer. |
DOMENICO SCARLATTI
Scarlatti: 52 Sonatas Lucas Debargue (piano) [ Sony Music / 4 CD Box Set - released 8/Mar/2024 ] "Excelling in many of the lesser known sonatas, he revels in Scarlatti's lack of orthodoxy, in the unnerving fluctuation of K250, or in the way contemplation turns into manic bursts of laughter in K242. Sony's sound is superb." International Piano |
MEHUL / ROSSINI / BEETHOVEN / WEBER / MEYERBEER / WAGNER / etc
Michael Spyres - In the Shadows Michael Spyres (tenor) / Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset [ Warner / Erato / CD - released 8/Mar/2024 ] "this is another fine, fascinating album from an unusually interesting and intelligent artist, handsomely recorded." Gramophone |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY / GEORGES BIZET
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake Suite / Bizet/Shchedrin: Carmen Suite Rachmaninoff International Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 8/Mar/2024 ] The popular melodies of "Swan Lake" and "Carmen" recorded by the world-class Rachmaninoff International Orchestra (RIO) under the baton of Mikhail Pletnev. |
DELERUE / LEGRAND / KOSMA / PETIT / YARED / ROUBAIX / etc
Les Choses de la Vie - Cinema II Renaud Capuçon (violin) / Les Siècles, Duncan Ward [ Erato / CD - released 8/Mar/2024 ] Following his beloved and best-selling 2018 album of music from popular films, Renaud Capuçon returns to the magical world of cinema in Les Choses de la Vie - Cinema II. The violinist has dedicated this sequel to 19 titles written by French film... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss,(R).: Josephs Legende ('The Legend of Joseph'), Op. 63, TrV 231 Staatskapelle Halle, Fabrice Bollon [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Mar/2024 ] "Fabrice Bollon's performance is a lyrical and involving one, with excellent playing from the orchestra." Gramophone |
REBECCA DALE
Dale: Night Seasons Steven Isserlis (cello) Guy Johnston (cello) / Tenebrae, Philharmonia Orchestra, Nigel Short [ Signum / CD - released 8/Mar/2024 ] Hailed by Classic FM as "one of today's most exciting young composers" Rebecca Dale is a London based composer, working most often with large orchestral and choral forces in the worlds of cinema and theatre. |
NADIA BOULANGER / GABRIEL FAURE / REYNALDO HAHNI
William Youn - Boulanger, Fauré, Hahn William Youn (piano) / Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Valentin Uryupin [ Sony Music / 2 CD - released 8/Mar/2024 ] "Youn's playing throughout is accomplished and stylish, with a full-value orchestral contribution to match." BBC Music |
EDWARD MacDOWELL / MRS. H.H.A. BEACH / GEORGE GERSHWIN / SAMUEL BARBER
Summer Dreams: American Piano Duets Emma Abbate (piano) & Julian Perkins (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Mar/2024 ] Both Beach and MacDowell were formidably accomplished pianists who wrote concertos in barnstorming virtuoso style, for themselves and their contemporaries to play |
TOMAS LUIS de VICTORIA
Victoria: Tenebrae Responsories I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth [ Coro / CD - released 1/Mar/2024 ] In the late 16th century when vocal polyphony was developing into the excesses of the late Italian madrigal and the powerplay of multi-choir writing in Venice, Victoria, in Rome, chose to write his 18 Tenebrae settings with the simplest texture... |
