Classical New Releases
Classical New Releases
Below is a list of all classical CD titles released in the last 120 days.
Displaying items 101 to 120 of 172
J. S. BACH
Bach Organ Works, Volume 5 Masaaki Suzuki (organ) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2024 ] Bach's Orgel-Büchlein on an eighteenth-century organ. |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: L'Esule di Roma (complete opera) Nicola Alaimo, Albina Shagimuratova, Sergey Romanovsky, Lluís Calvet / Britten Sinfonia, Carlo Rizzi [ Opera Rara / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Mar/2024 ] To celebrate the 225th anniversary of Gaetano Donizetti's birth, Opera Rara has restored L'esule di Roma (1828), an opera which is considered a milestone in the composer's illustrious career. Set in Imperial Rome, L'esule di Roma is filled with... |
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
Masters of Imitation [ Coro / CD - released 1/Mar/2024 ] Imitation is the ultimate compliment. To take inspiration from someone else's work, to borrow and rework it to form another piece…what could be more flattering? This technique, known as 'parody', was hugely popular in late 16th-century Europe and... |
CLARA SCHUMANN / REBECCA CLARKE
Schumann, (C.) / Clarke: Piano Trios Trio Rigamonti [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Mar/2024 ] This pair of piano trios has become recognised in recent years as among the finest works by their composers, and they make a complementary pairing despite their contrasting idioms. |
MEL BONIS / GABRIEL FAURÉ / REYNALDO HAHN / LILI BOULANGER
Le Temps retrouvé Elena Urioste (violin), Tom Poster (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 23/Feb/2024 ] The three sonatas on this album were all published during the decade 1916 - 26, a musical period to which we often find ourselves drawn, when the world - and the artistic landscape - was changing beyond recognition. |
EDOUARD LALO
Lalo: Symphony in G Minor / Suites Nos 1 & 2 from ''Namouna'' / etc Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi [ Chandos / CD - released 23/Feb/2024 ] "… Conductor Neeme Järvi is a trusted guide through the byways of French repertoire, bringing vigorous joie de vivre to the livelier pieces, such as 'Fête foraine', yet sustaining the controlled insouciance of 'Dolce far niente (La Sieste)'." BBC |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Violin Concerto / Apollon musagète / etc James Ehnes (vioin) / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 23/Feb/2024 ] "…James Ehnes gives a performance of unobtrusive elegance … Ehnes's intonation is, as ever, second to none." Gramophone |
FELIX & FANNY MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn, (Felix & Fanny): Vom Himmel hoch, MWV A 22 / Gartenlieder, Op.3 / Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Op.60, MWV D 3 Julia Doyle (soprano) Mark Le Brocq (tenor) Ashley Riches (baritone) / Crouch End Festival Chorus, London Mozart Players, David Temple [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 23/Feb/2024 ] "There's a wonderful breadth to the sound caught in St Jude-on-the-Hill in Hampstead Garden Suburb by the Chandos team. This new recording is surely the new benchmark." Gramophone |
EDVARD GRIEG
Grieg: Bergliot / Symphonic Dances / etc Juni Dahr (reader) Mari Eriksmoen (soprano) Astrid Nordstad (mezzo) / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 23/Feb/2024 ] "What [Grieg] does with folk material is so enchanting that, in this beautiful incarnation with the Bergen players delivering so freshly and responding so well to Gardner's rhythmic drive in the livelier sequences, you'll be compelled throughout" BBC |
GERMAINE TAILLEFERRE / CECILE CHAMINADE / LILI BOULANGER / Dame ETHEL SMYTH
A Room Of Her Own Neave Trio [ Chandos / CD - released 23/Feb/2024 ] "…These chamber works are still not in the mainstream. The Neave Trio … put their case eloquently." - The Guardian |
MAURICE RAVEL / LENNOX BERKELEY / ADAM POUNDS
Ravel/Berkeley/Pounds: Orchestral Works Sinfonia of London, John Wilson [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 23/Feb/2024 ] "...perfect interpreters in Wilson and the Sinfonia of London, who luxuriate in Ravel's wondrous Le Tombeau de Couperin and make a persuasive case for Pounds's third symphony in this world premiere recording." Sunday Times |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Cello Concerto / Silent Woods / Romance / etc Zara Nelsova (cello) Ruggiero Ricci (violin) / Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Walter Susskind [ Vox Classics / CD - released 23/Feb/2024 ] Antonín Dvořák's Cello Concerto is considered the finest of his concertos, and arguably the greatest of all such works for the cello, with its majestic character, imposing themes and moods of intense drama and warm lyricism. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Complete Songs Volume 5 Alina Wunderlin (soprano) Kieran Carrel (tenor) Ulrich Eisenlohr (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Feb/2024 ] In grouping his Lieder into sets with opus numbers, Brahms was concerned with thematic unity and poetic contrasts. The theme of Op. 71 is love, whether ardent, ironic or courtly, and contains one of his best-loved songs, Minnelied. |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 8 Carolyn Sampson, Jacquelyn Wagner (sopranos), Sasha Cooke (mezzo), Jess Dandy (contralto), Barry Banks (tenor), Minnesota Orchestra [ BIS SACD / CD - released 16/Feb/2024 ] For its final concert of the 2021-22 season and Osmo Vänskä's last as artistic director, the Minnesota Orchestra chose to present Mahler's mammoth Eighth Symphony, which calls for one of the largest complement of performers in the history of music, a... |
DAVID BRIGGS
Briggs: Hail, Gladdening Light & Other Works The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, Stephen Layton [ Hyperion / CD - released 16/Feb/2024 ] Apocalyptic walls of sound cascade around the Gothic vaults of Saint-Eustache in Paris as Stephen Layton and David Briggs unleash, respectively, the full power of a top-notch Trinity Choir and the mighty van den Heuvel organ of 1989. Trinity College... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Brahms: Cello Sonatas / Schumann: Fünf Stücke im Volkston Christian Poltéra (cello), Ronald Brautigam (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 16/Feb/2024 ] "Superbly recorded, Poltera's cello of 1711 and Brautigam's modern copy of an 1868 piano appear to be in the room with you. The first sonata wins the top prize, culminating in a fantastic fugal allegro." The Times |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: The Great Edition Daniel Adni, Martha Argerich, Wayner Marshall, Marie-Claire Alain, Emmanuel Pahud, Maxim Vengerov, Victoria de los Angeles, Janet Baker, Sabine Meyer [ Warner Classics / 40 CD Box Set - released 16/Feb/2024 ] A child prodigy, Felix Mendelssohn is considered one of Europe's greatest composers. A virtuoso conductor and pianist, he was a respected all-round musician for whom Robert Schumann had great friendship and admiration. This boxed set offers a... |
ALMEIDA PRADO
Prado: Works for Violin and Cello Emmanuele Baldini (violin) Rafael Cesario (cello) [ Naxos The Music of Brazil / CD - released 16/Feb/2024 ] José Antônio de Almeida Prado was one of the most prolific and creative Brazilian composers of the second half of the 20th century, finding inspiration in everything from the birdsong and forests of his native country to a contemplation of the... |
ANTONIN DVOARK
Dvořák: Bagatelles / String Quartet No. 2 / Rondo Fine Arts Quartet, Ryoko Morooka (harmonium), Stepan Simonian (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Feb/2024 ] Antonín Dvořák is revered as one of the greatest composers of late 19th-century Romanticism. He is celebrated for the kind of poignant melodies redolent of Czech folk music found in the utterly charming Bagatelles and Rondo - the haunting tunes and... |
ANTOINE & MAX BOHRER
Bohrer: Grande symphonie militaire Friedemann Eichhorn (violin) Alexander Hülshoff (cello) / Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicolás Pasquet [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Feb/2024 ] The Bohrer family produced a succession of distinguished musicians of whom the brothers Antoine, a violinist who studied with Rodolphe Kreutzer in Paris, and cellist Max were the most eminent. |
