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Warner Classics & Erato releases March 2025

Highlights include:

  • Bertrand Chamayou celebrates Ravel at 150 with transcriptions & homages
  • Beatrice Rana plays Bach concertos
  • Serena Sáenz makes album debut with operatic “birdsong” arias
  • Original Simon Boccanegra from Mark Elder & The Hallé
  • New collections: Claudio Arrau’s Beethoven, remastered, & Michel Béroff’s complete Erato recordings

New titles

Ravel: Fragments
Bertrand Chamayou, piano
Digital / CD
Release date: March 7
Assets

Bertrand Chamayou celebrates Maurice Ravel’s 150th anniversary with Ravel: Fragments. This program comprises Ravel’s piano transcriptions of La Valse and excerpts from Daphnis et Chloé, Chamayou’s own transcriptions of some of the composer’s vocal works, and Ravel-inspired pieces by Arthur Honegger, Joaquín Nin, Alexandre Tansman, Xavier Montsalvatge, Ricardo Viñes, and contemporary composers Betsy Jolas, Salvatore Sciarrino, and Frédéric Durieux.

Bach Keyboard Concertos
Beatrice Rana, piano
Amsterdam Sinfonietta / Candida Thompson
Digital / CD / LP
Release date: March 21
Assets

Beatrice Rana performs four of Bach’s keyboard concertos (BWV 1052 in D minor, 1053 in E, 1054 in D, and 1056 in F minor), all recorded with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta after their ten-date tour. The F-minor concerto was the vehicle for Rana’s first public orchestral performance; describing Bach as “an important figure in my life,” she recalls: “My piano studies began when I was very young and Bach was there from the very start.”

Catalogue

The Complete Erato Recordings
Michel Béroff, piano
42-CD box set
Release date: March 7
Artwork and booklet

Bulgarian pianist Michel Béroff, who won first prize at the inaugural Olivier Messiaen International Competition, was an exclusive EMI recording artist for more than 25 years. As well as three albums’ worth of material that was never previously released on CD, this complete collection includes two never-before-released recordings: a 1978 master tape of a young Béroff’s take on Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Nos. 30 & 31, and a 1969 recording of Bach’s Overture in the French Style.

Beethoven: 12 Piano Sonatas & the 5 Piano Concertos
Claudio Arrau, piano
8-CD box set
Release date: March 14
Artwork

This collection comprises Claudio Arrau’s accounts of twelve of Beethoven’s piano sonatas and all five of his piano concertos. Originally recorded in 1947-60, they were remastered from the original tapes in 192kHz/24-bit by Art & Son Studio in 2022.

Upcoming April 2025 releases

New titles (all TBC):
  • April 4: Félicien Brut, accordion
  • April 4: Lahav Shani & Rotterdam Philharmonic – Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 (“Scottish”)
  • April 18: Aziz Shokhakimov & Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg – Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé
  • April 25: Alexandre Tharaud – Concertos Contemporains
Catalogue:
  • April 4: The Great Cello Concertos by Jacqueline du Pré [2020 and 2022 HD remastering, adapted for Hybrid SACD] (4-Hybrid SACD)
  • April 4: Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht: The Complete Erato Recordings (16CD)

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

Associated labels: EuroArts

Hollywood Gala: Award Night at the Symphony
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Digital / Blu-ray / CD
Release date: March 14
Artwork

Joined by vocal soloists and hosts, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Concert Choir perform music from cinematic classics and blockbusters, including Apocalypse Now, The Godfather, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Dances with Wolves, Titanic, Atonement, and the James Bond franchise.

Serena Sáenz: Birds
Serena Sáenz, soprano
Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra / Clelia Cafiero
Digital / SACD
Release date: March 21
Artwork

Spanish soprano Serena Sáenz makes her album debut with a thoughtfully curated program of operatic arias that capture the sound of birdsong. Featured composers include Gounod, Offenbach, Délibes, Saint-Saëns, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Granados.

Associated labels: Opera Rara

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 original version)
The Hallé / Sir Mark Elder
Chorus of Opera North
Royal Northern College of Music Opera Chorus
Digital / CD
Release date: March 21
Artwork and booklet

First performed in 1857, the original version of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra is a masterpiece of concision and features several important differences from the more familiar 1881 version, including one of the composer’s most innovative central finales. Young Argentinian baritone Germán Enrique Alcántara sings the title role, with Eri Nakimura as Amelia, Iván Ayón-Rivas as her lover Gabriele, and William Thomas as Fiesco, under the leadership of Sir Mark Elder.

January news release
February news release

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