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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Carlos GUASTAVINO / Juan ERENA / Manuel María PONCE / Leo BROUWER / etc
Guitar Recital Ausiàs Parej (guitar) [ Naxos Guitar Laureate Series / CD - due 21/Jun/2024 ] Ausiàs Parejo is the winner of the 2022 'Alhambra' International Guitar Competition. In this programme he includes three cornerstones of the Spanish and Latin American repertoire. Combining idiomatic colour and rhythmic vivacity, Guastavino's First... |
FRANZ CLEMENT
Clement: Solo Violin Works Haoli Lin (violin) [ Naxos / CD - due 21/Jun/2024 ] Franz Clement was the first soloist to perform Beethoven's Violin Concerto - 'nature and art vie with each other in making [Clement] a great artist', wrote Beethoven. Clement was a Viennese-born virtuoso who composed his own influential violin... |
BRUCE BROUGHTON
Broughton: And on the Sixth Day / String Theory / Concerto for Horn and Orchestra Olivier Stankiewicz (oboe) William VerMeulen (horn) / London Symphony Orchestra, Jonathan Bloxham [ Naxos American Classics / CD - due 21/Jun/2024 ] Although Bruce Broughton is best known for his many film and television scores, over the past five decades he has composed scores for a diverse array of projects from film and TV to concert music and even theme parks. His work has been recognized... |
Francis POULENC / Agustín BARRIOS MANGORÉ / Albert ROUSSEL / Konstantin BLIOKH / etc
Guitar Recital MarkoTopchii (guitar) [ Naxos Guitar Laureate Series / CD - due 21/Jun/2024 ] This recital by Marko Topchii, winner of the 2023 Guitar Foundation of America Competition, ranges widely across the repertoire, from a Renaissance lute masterpiece by John Dowland, through early 20th-century neo-Romanticism, to the technical... |
FABRICE BOLLON
Bollon: The Folly - Tragedy of Erasmus of Rotterdam Michael Borth (baritone) Zvi Emanuel-Marial (countertenor) Roberto Gionfriddo (tenor) / Philharmonisches Orchester Freiburg, Fabrice Bollon [ Naxos / 2 CD Box Set - due 21/Jun/2024 ] Drawing on historical texts, Fabrice Bollon's opera The Folly focuses on Erasmus of Rotterdam, the influential Renaissance reformer, cosmopolitan humanist and intellectual, who, in old age, reflects on the events of his life. Past and present... |
FERNANDO LOPES-GRACA
Lopes-Graca: Canções portuguesas Coro Casa da Música, Paul Hillier [ Naxos / CD - due 21/Jun/2024 ] Fernando Lopes-Graça's importance to 20th-century Portuguese music cannot be overestimated. His study of native songs and traditions has been compared to that of Bartók, and the soulful melodies of the Três canções corais are an early example of his... |
MARGARET BROUWER
Brouwer: The Art of Sailing at Dawn / Rhapsody, Concerto for Orchestra / Symphony No. 1 "Lake Voices" ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop [ Naxos American Classics / CD - due 21/Jun/2024 ] Margaret Brouwer is a composer renowned for her music's lyricism, imagery and emotional power. The five premiere recordings on this album span 24 years. |
RICHARD DANIELPOUR
Danielpour: Songs in Three Languages Hila Plitmann (soprano) / Tambourine, The Iranshahr Orchestra, Shahāb Pāranj [ Naxos American Classics / CD - due 21/Jun/2024 ] Richard Danielpour has collaborated frequently with soprano Hila Plitmann, and this album features three recent works, two of which were written specifically for her. The song cycles heard here are sung in three languages central to the composer's... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Complete Masses Vol 3 Carolina Ullrich (soprano) lvira Bill (alto) Dominik Köninger (bass) / WDR Radio Choir, Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Christoph Poppen [ Naxos / CD - due 21/Jun/2024 ] The third volume of Mozart's Masses focuses on works written in Salzburg when the composer was in his late teens and early twenties. The Missa in honorem Sanctissimae Trinitatis, a bright celebratory work, is the only Mass setting without soloists. |
MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete String Quartets Quartetto Adorno [ Naxos Guitar / CD - due 21/Jun/2024 ] Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco began to focus on chamber music composition during the late 1920s. From this period comes the String Quartet No. 1 in G major, which offers a countryside panorama with rustic serenades and processional themes reminiscent of... |
CARL TEIKE
Teike: Marches Vol. 1 The Royal Swedish Navy Band, Alexander Hanson [ Naxos / CD - due 21/Jun/2024 ] German composer Carl Teike came into contact with military music at an early age, but with his modest temperament he never achieved a high rank during his time in the army. |
GIOACCHINIO ROSSINI
Rossini: Ermione (complete opera) Serena Farnocchia (soprano) Aurora Faggioli (mezzo-soprano) . Moisés Marín (tenor) / Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra, Antonino Fogliani [ Naxos / 2 CD Box Set - due 21/Jun/2024 ] Numerous myths surround the supposed failure of Ermione, and while Rossini himself feared the subject might be 'overly tragic', he was clearly fond of the work, keeping its manuscript until his death. Ermione is set in the aftermath of the Trojan... |
PETROS PETRIDIS
Petridis: Saint Paul Soloists / Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Byron Fidetzis [ Naxos / 2 CD - due 21/Jun/2024 ] Petros Petridis was one of the leading composers of the Greek National School. In Saint Paul he sought to combine the polyphonic approach of Byzantine music with the form of the oratorio. The libretto follows the Acts of the Apostles with fourteen... |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor / etc Emmanuel Despax, piano [ Signum / CD - due 7/Jun/2024 ] Emmanuel Despax's eighth release for Signum Classics delves into the dramatic and visionary world of Franz Liszt, from the great Sonata in B minor to the celestail Benediction de Deur dans la solitude. |
CARL REINECKE / EMIL VON SAUER
Reinecke & Sauer: Piano Concertos Simon Callaghan, Sinfonieorchester St Gallen / Modestas Pitrėnas [ Hyperion / CD - due 31/May/2024 ] This is the fourth Romantic Piano Concerto album from Simon Callaghan, and that combination of talents which made his first three so successful - not least a flair for exploring the neglected byways of the Romantic repertoire, and the technique and... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: String Quartets D112 & 887 Takács Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - due 31/May/2024 ] The 'heavenly lengths' Schumann loved in late Schubert are as much in evidence in the sublime G major quartet as in the other large-scale works of Schubert's final years. The Takács Quartet's earlier Hyperion recordings of Schubert were hailed as... |
LUKAS FOSS
Foss: Ode / Renaissance Concerto / Three American Pieces / Symphony No. 1 in G major Amy Porter (flute) Nikki Chooi (violin) / Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos American Classics / CD - due 24/May/2024 ] Berlin-born Lukas Foss studied music in Paris before settling in Philadelphia in 1937. Though he freely explored diverse compositional styles, three of the works in this recording fall into his early neo-Classical period and exemplify his dictum that... |
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn 2032, Vol. 10: Les heures du jour (LP) Bernarda Fink (mezzo) / Il Giardino Armonico / Giovanni Antonini [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - due 24/May/2024 ] The HAYDN2032 edition celebrates the release of the tenth volume in the complete recording of Haydn's 107 symphonies. Entitled 'The Times of Day', this programme is devoted to Symphonies nos. 6, 7 and 8, whose individual names translate as 'Morning',... |
ALBERT ROUSSEL
Roussel: Violin Sonatas Nos 1 and 2 / String Trio David Bowlin (violin), Tony Cho (piano), with Kirsten Docter (viola), Dmitry Kouzov (cello) [ Naxos / CD - due 24/May/2024 ] Although he is best remembered for his highly regarded stage and orchestral works, Roussel also composed a significant body of masterful yet relatively unknown chamber music. The Romantic early First Violin Sonata is an epic journey of soaring... |
DARON HAGEN
Hagen: Heike Quinto Duo YUMENO / Yoko Reikano Kimura (voice) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - due 24/May/2024 ] Daron Hagen is a multi-award-winning creative polymath whose work is internationally acclaimed for its impeccable craftsmanship, social conscience and emotional accessibility. Embracing the Japanese medieval text The Tale of the Heike, Hagen has... |
