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Warner Classics & Erato October 2025 releases

Highlights include:

  • A world-premiere recording of a major new choral work by Fazıl Say, featuring Fatma Said, Marianne Crebassa, Pene Pati, and Alexandros Stavrakakis, paired with Mozart’s Requiem
  • A collection of Italian cantatas by the countertenor Philippe Jaroussky, celebrating the 25th year of his career
  • A new arrangement of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for two guitars, performed by Thibaut Garcia and Antoine Morinière on twin guitars crafted from the same tree
  • The complete mono recordings of Sir Thomas Beecham, with more than 600 newly remastered tracks

New titles

Mozart: Requiem, Fazıl Say: Mozart & Mevlana Op.110
Fatma Said, soprano; Marianne Crebassa, mezzo-soprano; Pene Pati, tenor; Alexandros Stavrakakis, bass Rundfunkchor Berlin, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester / Michael Sanderling
CD / LP / digital
Release date: Oct 3

This new recording of Mozart’s Requiem – with a lineup that includes Fatma Said, Marianne Crebassa, Pene Pati, and Alexandros Stavrakakis, the Rundfunkchor Berlin, the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester and conductor Michael Sanderling – is paired with the world-premiere recording of Mozart ve Mevlana by Turkish pianist-composer Fazıl Say. Using the same forces as the Mozart Requiem, this new work is set to the text of two poems by the 13th-century Sufi poet Rumi, translated into Turkish from the original Persian. Say’s composition combines musical references to Mozart’s works (including the Requiem) with instruments, meters, and harmonies from Anatolian culture, whereby Say hoped to “unite East and West in love and friendship through texts from the great philosopher Mevlana and quotations from the music of a composer of genius like Mozart in a fluid musical space.”

Legends
Camille Berthollet, violin and cello
CD / LP / digital
Release date: Oct 10 

French cellist and violinist Camille Berthollet presents Legends, an eclectic collection of repertoire featuring Irish ballads, film soundtracks (including The Last of the Mohicansand Titanic), and pop artists ranging from The Cranberries and Enya to U2 and Sting. Nearly all of the tracks were arranged by Camille herself with pianist Johan Dalgaard, who accompanies her on the recording.

Pianosong
Alexandre Tharaud, piano
Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine / Pierre Dumoussand
CD / LP / digital
Release date: Oct 17 

Alexandre Tharaud’s Pianosong brings together the worlds of French cabaret song and classical music, reinventing famous chansons in new orchestrations by Dimitri Soudoplatoff. The album is dedicated to composers of popular French music, celebrating iconic voices such as Édith Piaf, Barbara, William Sheller, Charles Trenet, Mylène Farmer, Michel Berger, Serge Gainsbourg, and Claude Nougaro.

Gelosia!
Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor
Artaserse
CD / digital
Release date: Oct 24

Philippe Jaroussky’s Gelosia! celebrates the cantata da camera (secular cantata), a popular genre from the 18th century. As well as the world premiere recordings of two works set to Pietro Metastasio’s Gelosia text – composed by Nicola Porpora (1686-1768) and Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785) respectively – the album features music by Vivaldi, Handel, and Alessandro Scarlatti.
Jaroussky made a conscious decision to focus on cantatas written for a string accompaniment. He explains: “Cantatas of this kind often served as a laboratory for new ideas and, I believe, as a kind of personal diary for composers. Being away from opera, with its more academic demands, they could write as they wanted, completely free to express their feelings.”
The album comes as Jaroussky celebrates both the 25th year of his career and the 10th anniversary of the foundation of the Jaroussky Academy.

Liszt: Transcendental Études
Yoav Levanon, piano
CD / digital
Release date: Oct 24 

For Yoav Levanon, Franz Liszt is “an artist whose impact on the music world is immeasurable.” Works by Liszt have graced two of Levanon’s three previous Warner Classics recordings, and now the young Israeli-born pianist has recorded the twelve Transcendental Études. For Levanon, “Each piece is a universe of its own. These works are layered, complex, and endlessly revealing. They invite us into vast inner landscapes, full of hidden colors and meanings that demand something far deeper than brilliance.”

L’Échappée
Mira, piano and composer
Digital / LP
Release date: Oct 24 

Please note there is no booklet for this release

L’Échappée is the first EP by pianist, composer, and content creator Mira, featuring five original instrumental works, each simultaneously inspired by her experiences with synesthesia and her childhood memories.

Goldberg Variations
Thibaut Garcia, guitar
Antoine Morinière, guitar
CD / LP / digital
Release date: Oct 31 

Thibaut Garcia and Antoine Morinière have created their own new arrangement of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for two guitars. Both Garcia and Morinière are French guitarists and have known each other for 15 years, having also studied together at the Paris Conservatoire. On this recording, they also perform on twin instruments, made from the wood of the same tree. According to Garcia, “The two guitars can represent the two hands of the keyboard player as they respond to each other and interweave, simultaneously independent and complementary.”

Cabinet of Curiosities
Delirium Musicum
CD / digital
Release date: Oct 31 

Cabinet of Curiosities is a new album from self-conducted chamber orchestra Delirium Musicum. Violinist and Artistic Director Etienne Gara explains: “This album is a beautiful patchwork of short pieces. … You’ll find classical music canons, film-music from Pulp Fiction and Psycho, miniatures by Philip Glass, and small curiosities written just for us that help bridge the gap between classical music and today’s diverse audiences.”

Catalogue: boxed sets

Flute Concertos and Concertante Works
Emmanuel Pahud (flute)
14-CD boxed set
Original release date: Sep 19; now due for October release

A collection of Emmanuel Pahud’s greatest concerto and concertante recordings, featuring works by Bach, Vivaldi, Telemann, Mozart, Fauré, Poulenc, Penderecki, and more.

The Alessandro Scarlatti Edition: Cantatas, Motets, Oratorios, Concerti Grossi, Sonatas
9-CD set
Release date: Oct 17 

This collection showcases the depth of Alessandro Scarlatti’s sacred and secular music though recordings by first-class musicians, including Philippe Jaroussky, Véronique Gens, Fabio Biondi, and more.

Sir Thomas Beecham: The Mono Era on Warner Classics 1926-1959
53-CD boxed set
Release date: Oct 31 

Sir Thomas Beecham was one of the most influential pioneers of the early history of orchestral recording. All his mono recordings made for Columbia Graphophone and His Master’s Voice have been collected in this boxed set as a companion to Warner Classics’ box of all his EMI stereo discs, released earlier this year. Two-thirds of these recordings have been newly remastered in HD from the original sources by Art & Son Studio, and many are released here on CD for the very first time.

Vinyl

Mozart: Concerto for Flute / Harp & Clarinet Concerto
Sabine Meyer, clarinet
Emmanuel Pahud, flute
Marie-Pierre Langlamet, harp
Berliner Philharmoniker / Claudio Abbado
LP
Release date: Oct 3 

This release features two of Mozart’s best-known woodwind concertos, both conducted by Claudio Abbado and available on vinyl together for the first time: Emmanuel Pahud’s recording of Mozart’s Flute and Harp Concerto in C, with harpist Marie-Pierrre Laglamet, and Sabine Meyer’s recording of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A.

Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
London Symphony Orchestra / Sir André Previn
2 LPs
Release date: Oct 31 

A vinyl re-release of André Previn’s landmark 1974 recording of Carmina burana with the London Symphony Orchestra, featuring Sheila Armstrong, Gerald English, and Thomas Allen.

Upcoming Nov 2025 releases

New titles:

  • Nov 7 – Dalal (piano/composer), Things I choose to keep [Warner Classics]
  • Nov 7 – Gautier Capuçon (cello), Frank Braley (piano), Ayanna Witter-Johnson (cello), Olivia Belli (piano), Capucelli Ensemble, Gaïa [Erato]
  • Nov 14 – David Fray (piano), Baroque Encores  [Erato]
  • Nov 14 – Quatuor Arod, Haydn Op. 76 [Erato]
  • Nov 14 – Jean Rondeau (harpsichord), Louis Couperin: The Complete Works (10-CD and 1 DVD) [Erato]
  • Nov 14 – Mattia Vlad Morleo (piano/composer) The quiet beauty of familiar places (Digital-only album) [Warner Classics]
  • Nov 14 – Jacob Mühlrad (composer), SEMA (Digital album) [Warner Classics]
  • Nov 21 – Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Schubert: 4 hands [Erato]
  • Nov 28 – Kirill Richter (pianist/composer), Towards the beloved city [Warner Classics]

Catalogue:

  • Nov 7 – Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor), The Complete Warner Recordings [Warner Classics]

Upcoming U.S. performances by Warner Classics & Erato artists

Associated labels: EuroArts

A Genius Between Times
Mikhail Pletnev, piano and conductor
2 Blu-ray & 4 CDs
Release date: Oct 3

This joint Blu-ray and CD boxset features Mikhail Pletnev’s performances with the Rachmaninoff International Orchestra, performing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concertos and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, and conducting Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake Suite and Bizet/Shchedrin’s Carmen Suite.

Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Lisette Oropesa, soprano; Ștefan Pop, tenor; Mattia Olivieri, baritone; Riccardo Zanellato, bass; Didier Pieri, tenor; Irene Savignano, mezzo-soprano; Dean Power, tenor
Orchestra del Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania / Salvatore Greco
2 CDs
Release date: Oct 31 

A new recording of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, featuring Lisette Oropesa as Lucia and Ștefan Pop as Sir Edgardo di Ravenswood.

August news release
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