Release Radar

New and upcoming releases worth keeping an eye on

Release Radar isn't about covering every new release. It's about highlighting the ones that deserve your attention.

Claire Chase & JACK Quartet: Terry Riley's The Holy Liftoff

Claire Chase & JACK Quartet

Classical

Coming to Sono Luminus: Terry Riley's open-form score for flute and strings, realised by Samuel Clay Birmaher.

LABEL: Sono Luminus

RELEASE DATE: 17 Jul 2026

True Concord Voices and Orchestra: Here I Am

2 Jul 2026

new release

True Concord Voices and Orchestra: Here I Am

Susanna Phillips,True Concord Voices & Orchestra, Eric Holtan

Classical

Two world premieres from Jocelyn Hagen, one of them built around 47 portraits of women across history whose words become the libretto.

LABEL: Reference Records

RELEASE DATE: 14 Aug 2026

LÁSZLÓ BORBÉLY - Bartók: String Quartets No. 2 & No. 3 for Piano

29 Jun 2026

new release

LÁSZLÓ BORBÉLY - Bartók: String Quartets No. 2 & No. 3 for Piano

László Borbély

Classical

Hunnia Records just published two new piano transcriptions of Bartok's string quartets.

LABEL: Hunnia Records

Dvorak Symphony No. 9 and Carlos Simon's Four Black American Dances

22 May 2026

new release

Dvorak Symphony No. 9 and Carlos Simon's Four Black American Dances

Manfred Honeck, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

Classical

Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra bring their Dvořák 9 to Reference Recordings, alongside the first commercial release of Carlos Simon's *Four Black American Dances*. Recorded live at Heinz Hall in February 2025. Out July 3rd.

LABEL: Reference Records

RELEASE DATE: 3 Jul 2026

Organ Music from the Low Countries/Bernard Foccroulle

5 May 2026

new release

Organ Music from the Low Countries/Bernard Foccroulle

Bernard Foccroulle

Classical

Bernard Foccroulle turns to the Brussels court and its circle of early-seventeenth-century organists. A focused release on a label that knows this repertoire well.

LABEL: Ricecar

Sinfonia of London, John Wilson: French Orchestral Favourites

5 May 2026

new release

Sinfonia of London, John Wilson: French Orchestral Favourites

Sinfonia of London, John Wilson

Classical

Sinfonia of London release their twenty-sixth album on Chandos, and their first devoted entirely to French repertoire. Worth knowing about.

LABEL: Chandos

28 Apr 2026

new release

Thomas de Hartmann: Esther

Corinne Winters (Esther), Yuriy Yurchuk (Assuérus), Andrew Foster-Williams (Mardochée), Bernard Richter (Aman), Olga Bezsmertna (Élise), Edwin Crossley-Mercer (Hydaspe /Asaph), Paul Appleby (Chantre), The Grange Festival Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits

Classical

The first complete recording of de Hartmann's 1946 opera-oratorio, a wartime work of real weight, finally given its due by Karabits and the Bournemouth Symphony on Pentatone.

LABEL: Pentatone