Vsevolod Zavidov (born in 2005 in Moscow) is now considered one of the most promising young pianists to emerge from the great Russian tradition. A pupil of Nelson Goerner's, he made his name on the international stage by winning the very first Radu Lupu Prize in 2024 and the UBS Young Soloists Prize in 2025. He chose to devote his first solo recording to Rachmaninoff with three transcriptions of Bach's violin pieces, the etudes-Tableaux Op. 33 and the Variations on a Theme by Corelli: "Virtually unfathomable music. Not merely a composition, but an entire mythology. Interwoven with countless links to his works of every period, it is like a cipher - filled with disguises, transformations, ironies, reminiscences... yet one and the same story," says Zavidov, who concludes this colourful programme with his own magnificent transcription of the famous Vocalise from 1912. UPC: 3701624512128Label: AlphaRelease Date: 4.24.26Format: CD
She was a great musical talent and a sensitive soul, the child of a socially aspiring family who forbid their daughter to marry the love of her life; instead she was forced into a utilitarian marriage with a respectable husband, but later had an affair with her first sweetheart after all - the stuff of a sentimental novel. Yet Mel Bonis (1858-1937) was no fictional character. She was one of the strongest composers of her time with a focus on piano, chamber music and art songs. She also enriched the repertoire of impressionism with numerous original gems and arrangements for orchestra. Her particularly modern Ophelia, her purring melodie of an enamoured tomcat on a roof at night, her Spanish gypsy waltz and her dances for orchestra are just some of the enchanting discoveries you will find here. Our recording pays a well-deserved tribute to this noble woman. UPC: 761203575220Label: Cpo RecordsRelease Date: 5.22.26Format: CD
Volume 68 in the Liszt Complete Piano Music series features transcriptions of dance works by illustrious colleagues such as Smetana, Weber and Raff, amongst others. The pianist on this volume, Steinway Artist Wenting Shi, has received numerous prestigious awards and accolades throughout her career. UPC: 747313464876Label: NaxosRelease Date: 4.24.26Format: CD
With this album, we enter into the court of the Swedish Queen Christina (1626-1689), who distinguished herself with her passions for the arts and sciences, but also through her exceedingly extravagant court life. A few years before her spectacular abdication and return to Catholicism (1654), she had employed an Italian opera ensemble including the Roman singer Domenico Albrici and his 21-year-old son Vincenzo. The latter had already made a name for himself at home and, within a few years in Sweden, composed many excellent vocal works. Together with several instrumental pieces, these survive in the famous Düben collection at Uppsala University. From around three dozen titles, Manfred Cordes has selected a beautifully melodious anthology, which has become an unmistakable hallmark of Weser Renaissance. UPC: 761203559923Label: Cpo RecordsRelease Date: 5.1.26Format: CD
Rare Italian madrigalsComposers from the upper drawer numbers several well known names (music quality increasing a lot over the century), among them principally Giaches de Wert (1535-1596), Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613), Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) and, not least, Luca Marenzio (1553-1599) to whom the present CD is entirely devoted. In his rather short lifespan he managed to write about 500 madrigals between 1580 and 1599. In those 2 decades his music developed immensely reaching it's climax in the last 10 years of his life. Though continuing to satisfy his great popular following with loads of small lighthearted songs, Marenzio excelled also in writing ambitious madrigal cycles of which 2 are recorded here: Baci soavi e cari (5 6-part madrigals describing several aspects of kissing) and maybe his Magnum Opus, Capitolo - Se quel dolor (10 6-part madrigals delving into one of the periods favourite subjects: Melancholia.) UPC: 5709499935002Label: Danacord RecordsRelease Date: 4.17.26Format: CD
The incredible music on this album feeds into my lifelong fascination with musical connections, especially the complicated relationship between classical music and jazz. My dear friend Joe Makholm, whose pathfinding music I've been performing and recording for over 25 years now, is a master at exploring this occasionally uneasy marriage. In the groundbreaking set of pieces presented here, all superbly crafted and bubbling with inspiration, Joe is at his creative best in a decidedly jazz-centered collection that is full of straight-ahead swinging, deep expression, pianistic imagination, wit, and sophistication.-Willis Delony UPC: 044747418728Label: CentaurRelease Date: 5.1.26Format: CD
ORIGINAL WORKS FROM A VIRTUOSO COMPOSER. Warren Wills blends jazz, chamber music and cinematic soundscapes in a deeply personal collection. From intimate solo piano to soaring choir and ensemble: eleven bold musical visions.
Tracklist:
Hawthorn
Atmos
Your Scent
Aftermatch
Soundtrack X
Family
Sail
Romance
Safe Heavens
All The Stevens
The Final Chapter
UPC: 741869418093Label: Prestige Elite LlcRelease Date: 5.22.26Format: CD
Award-winning pianist Warren Wills transforms beloved classics with jazz virtuosity and concert-hall grandeur. From Send In The Clowns to Windmills Of Your Mind, this is a homage to timeless melodies, brilliantly reborn.
Tracklist:
Moon River
On The Street Where You Live
Send In The Clowns
Satin Doll
What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life
West Side Story
Warsaw Concerto
My Funny Valentine
Windmills Of Your Mind
Homage To Liszt
UPC: 741869418086Label: Prestige Elite LlcRelease Date: 5.22.26Format: CD
Following critical acclaim from The New York Times, Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine for his album Forgotten Sounds, clarinetist Graeme Steele Johnson returns to Delos with Windsync. "A major force in the American chamber music landscape," the wind quintet has performed throughout the United States and abroad, presenting largely self-generated repertoire - commissioned by the group or arranged in-house. On this album, the musicians trace the stylistic diversity of American music back to a single source: not a founding father but a French mademoiselle, Nadia Boulanger. The composer, conductor, music theorist and legendary composition pedagogue wielded immense influence over American music and musicians. The formidable roster of Boulanger students featured on this album bear witness to this: Philip Glass, Elliott Carter, Quincy Jones and Marion Bauer, whose Woodwind Quintet has been revived and recorded here for the first time. On Nadia, Windsync hopes to humanize Mademoiselle, as she was known by her pupils, by telling her story through a century's worth of music written by teacher and students, a legacy of dizzyingly varied American music that reverberates to this day. UPC: 013491361826Label: Delos RecordsRelease Date: 4.10.26Format: CD
This album offers a compelling snapshot of more than a century of Polish composers' contributions to the solo trombone repertoire. The program brings together works in which neoclassical clarity and sophisticated harmonic language intertwine with a neo-romantic spirit-rich in lyrical themes, virtuosic brilliance, and subtle references to folk traditions.Performed by outstanding musicians closely associated with the Poznan concert scene, these interpretations highlight the distinctive warmth, elegance, and expressive power of brass instruments in a refined classical setting. UPC: 5902547022109Label: Dux Recording Prod.Release Date: 5.1.26Format: CD
Following the first three CDs in the Bock reads Bruckner series, which were dedicated to the composer's period in Upper Austria, his existence as a perpetual bachelor on the lookout for a wife, and his veneration of Richard Wagner, this fourth of five readings with music now turns it's focus-again with a cast of readers-to the relationship between Bruckner and the sharp-tongued yet stylistically brilliant critic Eduard Hanslick. Through letters and reviews, it highlights how Hanslick's writings in the second half of the 19th century exerted a dominant influence on the entire Viennese musical world. However, six of his own songs, interwoven into the performance, also reveal him as a composer in his own right. In this fourth instalment of the series, Wolfgang Bock and Thomas Thieme, recitation, Elisabeth Wimmer, soprano, and Daniel Linton-France, piano, transport the audience into the fascinating world of Anton Bruckner in an incomparably authentic manner. UPC: 9003643993716Label: GramolaRelease Date: 5.15.26Format: CD
Wolfgang Kogert - Friedrich Cerha: Complete Works For Organ - Appearing in Cerha's jubilee year, this album pays tribute to an extraordinary late oeuvre by an extraordinary composer. / One of the central figures of European modernism, Friedrich Cerha is known for his monumental Spiegel cycle and his distinctive contribution to postwar music. This album presents his complete works for organ, composed between 2011 and 2020, marking a surprising late turn toward the instrument. Recorded by Wolfgang Kogert in close collaboration with the composer, these pieces reveal Cerha's characteristic clarity, concision, and expressive precision. Appearing in Cerha's jubilee year, this album pays tribute to an extraordinary late oeuvre by an extraordinary composer.
Tracklist:
Toccata (2020) for Organ
Neun Präludien (2011/2012) for Organ: I.
Neun Präludien (2011/2012) for Organ: II.
Neun Präludien (2011/2012) for Organ: III.
Neun Präludien (2011/2012) for Organ: IV.
Neun Präludien (2011/2012) for Organ: V.
Neun Präludien (2011/2012) for Organ: VI.
Neun Präludien (2011/2012) for Organ: VII.
Neun Präludien (2011/2012) for Organ: VIII.
Neun Präludien (2011/2012) for Organ: IX.
Neun Inventionen (2011) for Organ: I.
Neun Inventionen (2011) for Organ: II.
Neun Inventionen (2011) for Organ: III.
Neun Inventionen (2011) for Organ: IV.
Neun Inventionen (2011) for Organ: V. (Toccatina)
Neun Inventionen (2011) for Organ: VI.
Neun Inventionen (2011) for Organ: VII.
Neun Inventionen (2011) for Organ: VIII.
Neun Inventionen (2011) for Organ: IX.
Sechs Postludien (2014) for Organ: I. (Ohne Titel)
Sechs Postludien (2014) for Organ: II. Die unbeantwortbare Frage
Sechs Postludien (2014) for Organ: III. Scherzino
Sechs Postludien (2014) for Organ: IV. Capriccio Naturale
Sechs Postludien (2014) for Organ: V. Elegie
Sechs Postludien (2014) for Organ: VI. Endlich Schluss
UPC: 9120010286643Label: KairosRelease Date: 4.3.26Format: CD
'In Mozart's Footsteps' - A Life Between Pop, Jazz and DodecaphonyFew composers have been able to express themselves musically as skilfully as Matyas Seiber: he was the world's first professor of jazz, later becoming active and influential in the International Society for Contemporary Music and a regular presence at major festivals. In his adopted home of England, he turned his hand to a song that can confidently be described as a schmaltzy ballad, subsequently receiving the prestigious Ivor Novello Award for his work. Seiber was also creatively diverse in terms of genres: pieces for an a cappella choir stand alongside chamber and solo pieces, songs, radio and film music, and orchestral works with and without solo instruments. UPC: 881488250534Label: Hanssler ClassicRelease Date: 4.17.26Format: CD
Zhu Xiao-Mei is widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of our time and one of the foremost interpreters of J.S. Bach's music.The Goldberg Variations marked the beginning of her international career and remain, for her, the "greatest musical encounter" of her life.She was the first artist ever to perform the iconic cycle at Bach's final resting place in St Thomas Church, Leipzig.This unforgettable concert is captured in a critically acclaimed and award-winning live recording. UPC: 4260234833386Label: AccentusRelease Date: 4.17.26Format: CD
With this double CD She Composed - Music by Women Composers, an artistically compelling and culturally significant project comes to life - one that combines musical quality, pedagogical vision, and editorial care in an exemplary way. The album presents piano works by women composers from several centuries and diverse cultural backgrounds, thoughtfully arranged in ascending levels of difficulty: from short, characterful miniatures to large-scale works of considerable technical and expressive demands. At the heart of the project lies it's carefully designed pedagogical concept. The selected works accompany pianists from early stages of learning to an advanced, concert-ready level. The result is a musical pathway that makes both technical development and growing expressive depth audible. UPC: 4262353970942Label: Prospero ClassicalRelease Date: 6.12.26Format: CD
This new album by the Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Choir presents Alfred Schnittke's Three Sacred Hymns and his Concerto for Choir, a setting of poems by Grigor Narekatsi (St. Gregory of Narek).Andrei Petrenko, the artistic director of the ensemble, says: "The Concerto is a unique choral canvas that blends musical layers of great profundity. The piece helps it's listeners and performers to transcend their earthly existence and to explore the sublime realms that Narekatsi and Schnittke have revealed. It is an embodiment of spirituality and possesses an endless array of meanings that can only be understood through it's sacred text." UPC: 5400439008656Label: Fuga Libera LabelRelease Date: 4.24.26Format: CD
Terra Infirma was directly inspired by the experiences of it's creative team. Reena Esmail, who resides in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Altadena, was forced to evacuate her home during the catastrophic fires of January 2025. Kondonassis, a committed advocate for the environment, is founder and director of the non-profit organization Earth at Heart; her initiatives include the widely-praised commissioning project FIVE MINUTES for Earth.Terra Infirma reflects not only the environmental passion and advocacy of both artists, but also their inspiration to innovate and expand the concerto form. In this bold new work, with a title taken from a poem by Robert Walters, the harp symbolizes the protagonist Earth, both fragile and powerful. The towering instrument is moved choreographically by Kondonassis across the stage as she journeys through various arrays of suspended percussion. In the composer's words, the work is "part virtuoso concerto, part performance art, and part theater."Esmail, who is Indian-American, has drawn on her extensive studies of Hindustani music in composing Terra Infirma. Her compositional voice is at once arresting, lyrical, haunting, and fierce. The work, which includes a defining movement titled "Immolation," incorporates elements of Raag Deepak, an ancient collection of pitches believed to invoke fire. Kondonassis, known for "a range of colour that's breathtaking," (Gramophone), brings the work to life with colorful authenticity.Says Esmail, "Terra Infirma sits somewhere between a harp/percussion concerto and a monodrama - Yolanda leads us through the trajectory of a wildfire, starting with the eerie moments before the first spark, and ending with the hope of new growth. The work explores our human relationship to fire - a force that can be at once devastating and illuminating.It has been a dream to work so closely with Yolanda, who has reinvented the role of the harp over and over again throughout her career. We have built the DNA of this piece together overso many years - experimenting in percussion studios, mapping stage plots, pushing our imaginations to the limit. I am so excited to share this work with the world."States Kondonassis, "The personal and musical resonance that I feel with Reena has resulted in a work that's deeply personal, uniquely colorful, and ground-breaking in so many ways. The harp is a highly visual instrument, and Terra Infirma utilizes that element to the fullest. In this work, the harp is actually a character in the musical drama onstage, and that gives me the chance to portray an enormous range of artistic emotion."The new concerto forms the heart of The Terra Infirma Project, a multi-year initiative of the Interlochen Center for the Arts, which boasts Kondonassis as an alumna (class of '82). The Interlochen Orchestra is featured along with Kondonassis and conductor Andrew Grams on the world-premiere recording, released in April 2026 on the Grammy-winning Azica label. The entire process, from initial workshops to the world-premiere and recording, has been captured by the award-winning film crew, Fulvew Productions, for an upcoming documentary to be released for airing on PBS Television in August 2026. The Terra Infirma Project is generously supported by the Allen B. Cutting Foundation. UPC: 787867139226Label: AzicaRelease Date: 5.15.26Format: CD
Music that transcends the bounds of time."For me, the finest music exists in an abstract spiritual world that is inspired by the instruments at hand, but by no means determined by them. Bach had few qualms about rewriting pieces for other instruments as he saw fit, and with many musical ideas, in contrast to virtuosos of the Romantic era, for example, one gets the impression that they were hardly influenced by the constraints of the instruments available. It's like a spirit realm, a large white hall of tones, sounds and voices. That's another reason why I found it so interesting from the outset to collaborate with you on this recording and turn this dream project into reality." Yorck Kronenberg UPC: 881488240290Label: Hanssler ClassicRelease Date: 6.19.26Format: CD
With his concept album PEACE, renowned Austrian violinist and composer Yury Revich (-1991) invites listeners on a journey through the world to explore inner and universal peace through the voices of composers from different backgrounds and cultures. The consistently melodious program also includes compositions by Yury Revich himself: his Impressions - short, connecting pieces of music created especially for this project - as well as two original poems, act as conceptual bridges within the chapters of the album and shape PEACE into a coherent musical narrative. Sensitively interpreted by Yury Revich together with accordionist Basha Slavinska and pianists David Chen and Volodymyr Borodin, the album acquires a special artistic depth and coherence. UPC: 4260052386989Label: Ars ProduktionRelease Date: 6.12.26Format: CD
Schubert's late string quartets are important for their unprecedented emotional depth, formal expansion, and daring harmonic language. They transform classical quartet traditions by infusing them with romantic intensity, confronting themes of mortality, inner conflict, and lyric beauty. Through large-scale structures, stark contrasts, and expressive unity, these works reshaped the expressive possibilities of chamber music and influenced the development of the Romantic quartet tradition. UPC: 608917727128Label: Evil Penguin RecordsRelease Date: 5.8.26Format: CD
Following the example of his distant 'great uncle' Felix, Arnold Mendelssohn (1853-1933) was a highly regarded composer, particularly in the field of Protestant sacred music, in which his famous relative had already distinguished himself. In contrast, his serious interest in the classical-romantic instrumental genres only began during the First World War, as if the composer wanted to reassure himself of tradition before all of the old structures collapsed. He was already approaching seventy when he wrote his violin concerto and, immediately afterwards, the second of his three symphonies-two witty masquerades whose broad spectrum between expressive meditation and a cheerful finale offers plenty of room for reminiscence, but not imitation. Mendelssohn juggles with symbols of the past but is never at their mercy. He masters them with ease. UPC: 761203566525Label: Cpo RecordsRelease Date: 5.1.26Format: CD
Zofia Neugebauer, born in Poland in 1994, played at the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic, she was principal flutist in renowned orchestras such as the Lucerne and Basel Symphony Orchestras and performed with renowned conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle and Zubin Mehta?. In 2018, the Mozart Society Dortmund accepted Neugebauer into it's scholarship program, where she discovered her love for Mozart. Together with the Folkwang Chamber Orchestra Essen, directed by Johannes Klumpp, she now presents Mozart's Flute Concertos and two newly written Cadenzas on her album "Il Vento non Scritto". UPC: 885470044798Label: Berlin ClassicsRelease Date: 4.24.26Format: CD
Zuzana Ferjencikova presents Colors and Shadows, the second double SACD in her complete recording of Jean Guillou's organ works. This second volume was also recorded on organs on which Jean Guillou played for many years: the Kleuker organ at the Church of Notre-Dame de Grâce du Chant d'Oiseau in Brussels and the Danion-Gonzalez organ (1966) at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de la Treille in Lille. A special feature of this recording is the numerous world premiere recordings of organ works by Jean Guillou, which were previously only available in manuscript form and are currently being prepared for publication. The recording was produced in stereo and 5.1 multichannel surround sound. UPC: 4026798115012Label: AeolusRelease Date: 4.17.26Format: CD
Internationally acclaimed concert organist Zuzana Ferjencikova, who is currently working on a complete recording of Jean Guillou's organ works for AEOLUS, can be heard on her new album "Legendes" with her own transcriptions of works by Beethoven, Mozart, Schumann, and Liszt. The centerpieces are Beethoven's Grande Sonate Pathetique and Liszt's second legend of St. Francis, as well as Ferjencikova's fascinating arrangement of the aria "Tristis est anima mea" from his oratorio "Christus." The Seifert instrument used for the recording is at the heart of the numerous musical activities of "Orgelwelten Ratingen" and, thanks to it's tonal diversity, is extremely versatile. The new SACD (stereo and 5.1 multichannel surround) reproduces the sound of the instrument, distributed in several locations in the room, in all it's multidimensionality with remarkable plasticity.Die international gefragte Konzertorganistin Zuzana Ferjencikova, die bei AEOLUS an einer Gesamtaufnahme der Orgelwerke von Jean Guillou arbeitet, ist auf ihrem neuen Album "Legendes" mit ihren eignenen Transkriptionen von Werken Beethovens, Mozarts, Schumanns und Liszts zu horen. I'm Zentrum stehen dabei vor Beethovens Grande Sonate Pathetique und Liszts zweite Franziskuslegende sowie Ferjencikovas faszinierende Bearbeitung der Arie "Tristis est anima mea" aus dessen Oratorium "Christus". Das fur die Aufnahme verwendete Instrument der Firma Seifert steht i'm Zentrum der zahlreichen musikalischen Aktivitaten der "Orgelwelten Ratingen" und ist Dank seiner Klangfarbenvielfalt extrem vielseitig einsetzbar. Die neue SACD (Stereo und 5.1 Multichannel Surround) gibt den Klang des an mehreren Orten i'm Raum verteilten Instrumentes in seiner Mehrdimensionalitat außerst plastisch wieder. UPC: 4026798114718Label: AeolusRelease Date: 4.24.26Format: CD
