New Releases

[Brian]

A Maria Tipo complete Warner recordings box is on the way in 2026.

[Todd]

A Maria Tipo complete Warner recordings box is on the way in 2026.

Now there's a set to get.  It will be worth it for the complete Clementi sonatas alone.

[Mandryka]

Interesting because it completes there previous,  excellent, op 33 disc.

[Brian]

Interesting because it completes there previous,  excellent, op 33 disc.

Thanks for this. Did you listen to the Chiaroscuro Op. 33 set? I found they overplayed / exaggerated too many of the jokes. 

[André]

Presto gives a release date of November 28.



Symphonies 29, 55, and 56, plus the finale of the Fifth Symphony of Franciszek Lessel. Lessel was a pupil of Haydn, who gifted him the autograph score of Symphony 56 in 1805. Lessel wrote six symphonies, but from all of them this finale movement is the only thing to survive.

I have a piano concerto by Lessel. It's a fine work.

[Brian]

In addition to the Maria Tipo box and Haydn album above, we now have some more info about...

JANUARY 2026!!!





This is Berlin/K. Petrenko. Paired with the Tragic Overture.



This is Beethoven's Emperor coupled with the premiere recording of Reicha's E flat concerto, written 5 years earlier.







Langsamer Satz and the Quartets No. 1



composers include Avner Dorman, Mikolaj Gorecki (Henryk's son), and 18 more composers, the youngest born in 1995, the oldest born in 1950



Nadia Boulanger: La ville morte

"Long overshadowed by her towering legacy as one of the 20th century's most influential music teachers, Nadia Boulanger's creative voice as a composer is rediscovered in La ville morte (The Dead City) – a haunting opera of passion, loss, and psychological intensity. Composed in collaboration with Raoul Pugno and based on a libretto by Gabriele D'Annunzio, the work was originally slated for its world premiere in Paris in 1914, but the outbreak of World War I silenced it before it could be heard. More than a century later, this long-buried score rises from obscurity, where forgotten desires return to life against the backdrop of ancient ruins. Set in the crumbling city of Mycenae, the opera explores obsession, betrayal, and blurred boundaries, its emotional landscape shaped by impressionistic orchestral textures and arioso-style intimacy reminiscent of both Debussy and Wagner. Here, Boulanger reveals a daring and expressive side that transcends her image as the stern guardian of musical tradition. This landmark recording marks the PENTATONE debut of soprano Melissa Harvey, mezzo-soprano Laurie Rubin, tenor Joshua Dennis, baritone Jorell Williams, the Talea Ensemble, and conductor Neal Goren. The orchestration—by Joseph Stillwell and Stephan Cwik under the supervision of David Conte—breathes new life into the long-silent score. A co-production between Catapult Opera and the Greek National Opera, La ville morte not only resurrects Boulanger's compositional brilliance but also secures her place in the modern operatic repertoire."

[Selig]

There is an earlier CD with suites 1-3, so I wonder if those are included here or if these are new recordings.

[prémont]

There is an earlier CD with suites 1-3, so I wonder if those are included here or if these are new recordings.

The earlier released set of suites 1,2 and 3 from 2018 was also released by the label Atoll just as the newly released set comprising suites 1 - 6. The booklet doesn't mention any recording dates. I think the chances are hundred to one that the two releases of suites 1,2 and 3 are identical recordings.

As to her interpretation it's about a modern setup with "fat" tone and some persistent vibrato. So no scordatura or French "air" in suite 5, and suite 6 is played on a standard cello. First I was irritated by her agogics but I've become used to most of it. What still annoys me is her use of rather wide dynamics and the random way she uses dynamics in a somewhat romantic way, which probably is meant to signalize a degree of spontaneity, but hardly convincing.

[pjme]

Excellent! Dick van Gasteren recorded several very interesting cds with unusual repertoire

https://www.dickvangasteren.nl/kopie-van-contact

I only know a few works by Jacques Castérède - ( works for guiar, brass & organ, the exciting first symphony for strings, also recorded by van Gasteren) and found them to my liking.

Still, there's another symphony for orchestra, concertante works with violin, guitar and piano, plenty of chamber music, only a few large scale works. IHis music should appeal to those who like Honegger, Landowski, early Messiaen, early jolivet etc.

"Composer and teacher, Jacques Castérède was born in Paris on 10th April 1926. He studied the piano (winning first prize in 1948), composition with Aubin and analysis with Messiaen at Paris Conservatory and won the Prix de Rome in 1953. In 1960, he returned to the Paris Conservatory as professor of solfège and was later appointed as Professeur Conseilleur aux Etudes in 1966 and professor of analysis in 1971. The highlights of his career include a production of the ballet But in 1963 at the Paris Opéra and the first performance of Le livre du Job in 1966 at the Concerts Pasdeloup. In analysing his style, one can find features of an almost Honegger-like style when one examines a work such as his Prelude and Fugue for strings – the piece is diatonic, but not in a conventional manner, and it has a rhythmic character which at times is almost neo-Baroque whilst at others is far more reminiscent of the energetic 1920s. He passed away in Dijon on 6th April 2014."

[Daverz]

Today is the release date according to Qobuz, though it's still not available for streaming in the US.

Only Symphonies 5 and 8 remain to be recorded to complete the cycle.