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Warner Classics & Erato releases: November 2026

Highlights include:

  • Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto, starring Jakub Józef Orliński and Sabine Devieilhe with Il Pomo d’Oro
  • World premiere recording of Danny Elfman’s Cello Concerto, featuring dedicatee Gautier Capuçon
  • Classical and jazz favorites from trumpeter Lucienne Renaudin Vary
  • Complete recordings of pianist Daniel Adni, to mark his 75th birthday

New titles

On My Mind
Lucienne Renaudin Vary, trumpet
CD / digital
Release date: Nov 6

Trumpeter Lucienne Renaudin Vary performs her favorite classical and jazz selections, exploring the ways the two traditions have influenced and enriched one another over the past hundred years. Featured composers include Grieg, Shostakovich, Tommy Wolf, and Bernd Alois Zimmermann, whose Trumpet Concerto – a work based on the African spiritual “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen” – forms the album’s centerpiece. As well as playing the trumpet, Renaudin Vary sings on two jazz numbers: “Everything Happens to Me” and “Tea for Two.”

Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto
Sabine Devieilhe, soprano
Jakub Józef Orliński, countertenor
Il Pomo d’Oro / Francesco Corti, conductor
3-CD set / digital
Release date: Nov 13 

Warner Classics & Erato release their first complete audio recording of Handel’s beloved opera Giulio Cesare in Egitto, starring countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński in the title role opposite soprano Sabine Devieilhe as Cleopatra. Completing the cast are Beth Taylor (Cornelia), Yuriy Mynenko (Tolomeo), Rebecca Leggett (Sesto), Marco Saccardin (Curio), Alex Rosen (Achilla), and Rémy Brès-Feuillet (Nireno). The recording was made in Warsaw this past February, during Il Pomo d’Oro’s acclaimed European tour. Conductor Francesco Corti says: “Every concert hall, every audience really made us rethink this score and appreciate how beautifully composed it is. … Handel has a sense of humanity that remains very moving today.”

Wintersleep (part two)
Matteo Myderwyk, piano/composer
Digital only
Release date: Nov 13

Dutch pianist-composer Matteo Myderwyk presents Wintersleep (part two) – a collection of beloved seasonal melodies ranging from favorite Christmas carols to Vivaldi’s “Winter” – in original arrangements for solo piano.

Danny Elfman: Cello Concerto & Film music
Danny Elfman, composer
Gautier Capuçon, cello
CD / LP / digital
Release date: Nov 20

French cellist Gautier Capuçon gives the world premiere recording of Danny Elfman’s Cello Concerto, of which he is the dedicatee. The concerto was written by means of a collaborative creative process, born from the mutual admiration and respect that the two artists share. Elfman explains: “Really, my inspiration came from Gautier himself. His amazing musicianship. I was excited to find a way to challenge him.” Gautier comments: “I’ve known his music for a long time, and I love his way of writing. Danny’s music is so personal, so creative, so inspired.” The album also includes a selection of Elfman’s best-loved film and television scores, including those for Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Alice in Wonderland, Batman, and Spider-Man.

Prodiges 2026: Temperamento
Lyam Chenaux, cello
Tatiana Korsunskaya, piano
CD / digital
Release date: Nov 27

Lyam Chenaux, the winner of Les Prodiges 2026 – a French talent show watched by 2.8 million viewers on France Télévisions – makes his recording debut with a celebration of Spanish music. Folk-inspired works by de Falla, Albéniz, and Cassadó meet musical tributes from Ravel, Glazunov, Shchedrin, Fauré, and Piazzolla. Tatiana Korsunskaya accompanies Lyam on piano; cellist Gautier Capuçon joins him for duo arrangements of Schubert and Shostakovich; and guitarist Thibaut Garcia features on Albéniz’s Chants d’Espagne.

Catalogue: boxed sets

Daniel Adni: The Complete Warner Classics Edition
17-CD boxed set
Release date: Nov 6

A pupil of Vlado Perlemuter and Géza Anda, Israeli pianist Daniel Adni launched his international music career in the 1970s and is still considered one of the most remarkable pianists of his generation. In honor of his 75th birthday on December 6, Warner Classics releases a 17-CD boxed set of his complete recordings for the label, all newly remastered from the original tapes, which include several CD premieres.

Dvořák: Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9, “From the New World”; Smetana: Die Moldau
Herbert von Karajan, conductor
Berliner Philharmoniker
2-SACD set
Release date: Nov 6

Made with the Berliner Philharmoniker in the late 1970s, Herbert von Karajan’s recordings of Dvořák’s Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9 and Smetana’s Die Moldau have now been remastered from the original tapes.

Karajan conducts Wagner: Vols I & II
Herbert von Karajan, conductor
Berliner Philharmoniker
2-SACD set
Release date: Nov 13

Karajan’s Wagner recordings with the Berliner Philharmoniker, which include excerpts from Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Der fliegende Holländer, and Parsifal, have all been newly remastered from the original tapes.

LPs

Sixteen Carols for Christmas
The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
Release date: Nov 13

Gathering together recordings made by the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge between the 1960s and 1990s, this 16-track vinyl compilation features three of the ensemble’s iconic conductors: Sir David Willcocks, Philip Ledger, and Stephen Cleobury.

Upcoming January 2027 releases

New titles:
  • Jan 15: Laurence Equilbey, conductor; David Fray, piano – Emilie Mayer: Piano Concerto & Symphony No. 1 (Erato), Assets
Catalogue:
  • Jan 22: Pablo Casals, cello/conductor – Pablo Casals in Concert – Cellist & Conductor (Warner Classics), Assets – Images

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

Associated labels: EuroArts

Melodies of Provence: The Films of Marcel Pagnol
Benjamin Levy, conductor
Orchestre National de Cannes
CD / digital
EuroArts
Release date: Nov 6 
Audio (streaming) [password Provence1!] – Artwork & booklet

Novelist, playwright, and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol sought a genuine artistic collaboration with his composers, resulting in these scores by Vincent Scotto, Arthur Honegger, Henri Tomasi, Paul Misraki, Raymond Legrand, and others. Although many of the original scores were lost, composer and arranger Cyril Lehn has meticulously reconstructed and orchestrated them by means of careful research for this performance by the Orchestre National de Cannes.

Cyberphoria
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Blu-Ray / digital
EuroArts
Release date: Nov 13
Audio (streaming) [password Cyberphoria1!] – Artwork

The Danish National Symphony Orchestra performs the beloved scores for science fiction classics including Inception (Hans Zimmer), The Matrix (Don Davis), Terminator (Brad Fiedel), and Back to the Future (Alan Silvestri).

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