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Warner Classics & Erato releases: November & December 2025

Warner artists Eric Lu & Vilde Frang triumph at International Chopin Piano Competition & Gramophone Awards

Highlights include:

  • Harpsichordist Jean Rondeau performs the complete works of Louis Couperin on a ten-CD set to celebrate the composer’s 400th anniversary
  • Leif Ove Andsnes and Bertrand Chamayou play Schubert’s music for piano, four hands
  • Gautier Capuçon gives the world premiere recordings of 17 new cello commissions
  • Marking the centenary of his birth on Nov 17, the complete recordings of Sir Charles Mackerras feature new remasterings and previously unreleased material

Warner Classics is thrilled to congratulate two artists who have just been recognized with high honors. American pianist Eric Lu took first prize at the 19th International Chopin Piano Competition, following his earlier victory at the 2018 Leeds International Piano Competition.
Similarly, Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang received the Concerto Award at the 2025 Gramophone Awards for her recording of Elgar’s Violin Concerto with Robin Ticciati and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Released in September 2024, the album also won the Concerto Award at the 2025 BBC Music Magazine Awards earlier this year.

New titles

Gaïa
Gautier Capuçon, cello
With Frank Braley, piano; Ayanna Witter-Johnson, cello; Olivia Belli, piano; Capucelli Ensemble
CD / LP / digital
Release date: Nov 7

“Gaïa is an album dedicated to the Earth, inspired by its beauty, fragility, and strength,” says Gautier Capuçon. On his new album, the cellist performs 17 world premiere recordings by 16 contemporary composers, who explore humanity’s relationship to nature through a multifaceted lens, drawing from different musical genres, aesthetics, and cultural influences. Taking its name from the Greek goddess of Earth, the album showcases diverse new works by innovative contemporary composers, from such luminaries as Max Richter, Ludovico Einaudi, and Joe Hisaishi to emerging talents like Abel Selaocoe and Ayanna Witter-Johnson.

This Christmas
Lyyra, vocal ensemble
EP / digital
Release date: Nov 7

This Christmas is a new holiday EP from Lyyra, the all-women’s vocal ensemble that is already becoming known for its “exceptional versatility and skill” (BBC Radio 3). Featured songs include “Silent Night” and “The Christmas Song,” for which the group is joined by vision string quartet.

Baroque Encores
David Fray, piano
CD / digital
Release date: Nov 14

On Baroque Encores, French pianist David Fray brings together 19 short pieces from five of the greatest composers of the Baroque period – J.S. Bach, Handel, Rameau, Couperin, and Scarlatti – as well as by the lesser-known Pancrace Royer, music master to the children of King Louis XV of France. This program derives from L’enfant oublié, a biographical concert combining music with narration that Fray staged in collaboration with his wife, actor-writer-director Chiara Muti. It tells the story of Louis-Joseph, the eldest son of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. The heir to the throne, Louis-Joseph died aged seven in 1789, just weeks before the storming of the Bastille.

Haydn Op. 76
Quatuor Arod
CD / digital
Release date: Nov 14

In exploring Haydn’s Op. 76 Quartets, the Quatuor Arod sought to be “faithful to both the spirit and letter of these works.” Requiring more lightness and flexibility than was possible with modern bows, which were invented after Haydn’s time, the group commissioned a new set, based on models produced in the 1770s by the celebrated Tourte brothers. According to the quartet: “The impact of the Classical bows was immediate: the articulation became more natural, the responses more flexible, the sound more transparent. The bows transformed our playing, which became lighter, more open and more free.”

Louis Couperin: The Complete Works
Jean Rondeau, harpsichord
10 CDs & 1 DVD / digital
Release date: Nov 14

On this monumental set, harpsichordist Jean Rondeau performs the complete works of Louis Couperin, released in honor of the composer’s 400th anniversary this year. This unprecedented project represents the culmination of years of dedicated, intense musicological preparation by Rondeau, who took eight months away from performing to complete it. The recordings were made at four locations between Normandy and Tuscany, often in challenging conditions, on some of the oldest and rarest organs and harpsichords of Europe. The result is a boxed set of ten CDs and one DVD, offering almost 300 works, including music by twelve additional composers: Couperin’s brothers, contemporaries, masters, and disciples. Rondeau aptly calls it the “project of a lifetime.”

Schubert: Four Hands
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
Bertrand Chamayou, piano
CD / digital
Release date: Nov 21

Composed in 1828, the final year of the composer’s short life, Schubert’s Fantasia in F minor is often described as the greatest of all works for piano, four hands. This piece forms the centerpiece of Schubert: Four Hands, a collaborative new album from pianists Leif Ove Andsnes and Bertrand Chamayou, who first performed it together in 2016. On the recording, Andsnes plays Primo in Schubert’s Fantasia and Rondo in A, D. 951, and Chamayou in his Lebensstürme and the Fugue in E minor, D. 952.
Describing Schubert’s as “some of the most sensitive music there is,” Andsnes explains: “One really needs to feel total sympathy, physically and musically, with the other pianist.” Chamayou agrees: “It’s as if we have to become one, because we are both controlling the same instrument.” He adds: “Leif Ove and I both have this profile of being soloists, but also sharing music with others. … It’s very inspiring for us.”

John Williams Reimagined: Home Alone
Simone Pedroni, piano/organ/celesta; Sara Andon, flute; Cecilia Tsan, cello
Digital only
Release date: Dec 12

Presenting a new suite of John Williams’s beloved music from Home Alone, arranged for a chamber trio of flute, cello, and keyboard, this EP features the artistic team behind John Williams Reimagined (2024).

Cabinet of Curiosities
Etienne Gara, violin; Delirium Musicum
CD / digital
Release date: Oct 31

This new album from Etienne Gara’s self-conducted chamber orchestra, Delirium Musicum, features pieces that explore the macabre, the unusual, and the unique. The program ranges from well-known classics – Schubert’s “Erlkönig,” Saint-Saëns’s Danse macabre, and Bernard Herrmann’s music for Psycho – together with newer discoveries, including Jisoo Lee’s arrangement of the Korean folksong “Jindo Arirang” and Gabriella Smith’s Cactus Yucca Scrub.

Beyond classical

Things I choose to keep …
Dalal, piano/composer
Digital only
Release date: Nov 7

A new solo piano album from Austrian-American composer and pianist Dalal, Things I choose to keep … represents a heartfelt tribute to the memory of her late mother. The project was conceived during a time of great sorrow, for Dalal began work on the recording shortly after her mother’s death. As the artist recalls, music was her sanctuary at that time. She says: “Music became my place to land, a way to sit with my ruins for a chance to shape them into something beautiful.”

The quiet beauty of familiar places
Mattia Vlad Morleo, piano/composer
Digital only
Release date: Nov 14

Written and performed by Italian pianist and composer Mattia Vlad Morleo, The quiet beauty of familiar places features four original compositions for solo piano, alongside an original work scored for solo piano with tapes, reverbs, and delays. Rooted in minimalism, Morleo’s sound blends classical lyricism with ambient electronic textures.

SEMA
Jacob Mühlrad, composer
Digital only
Release date: Nov 14

Composer Jacob Mühlrad presents two of his recent works on this new album. Inspired by the sound of the Shofar horn, Alarm of the Soul (2023) pays homage to Mühlrad’s Jewish roots. His clarinet concerto SEMA (2024) explores the multiple meanings of the word “sema”: the Ancient Greek word for “sign,” the Turkish word for “listening” (used as the title of the whirling ceremony tradition inaugurated by the scholar and mystic Rūmī), and the idea of “sema-ntics”.

Towards the Beloved City
Kirill Richter, pianist/composer
Digital only
Release date: Nov 28

Paris-based composer and pianist Kirill Richter is known for his distinctive blend of minimalist techniques with bold melodies. Towards the Beloved City is a cycle of piano waltzes, dedicated to those who have experienced heartbreak. Richter says of the project: “When I composed this music, I just wanted to tell these stories so that people would feel less alone, that this music could hold them in their most fragile moments.”

Catalogue

Sir Charles Mackerras: The Complete Warner Recordings
63 CDs
Release date: Nov 7

Sir Charles Mackerras (1925-2010) was a towering figure in the world of classical music, renowned for his versatility, meticulous scholarship, and electrifying performances. Born in Australia, he spent much of his illustrious career in Britain, becoming a principal conductor of the English National Opera and a frequent guest conductor with leading orchestras and opera companies worldwide. In honor of this year’s centenary of his birth, this new set features nearly nine CDs of new remasterings, as well as several recordings that were never previously released.

Holst: The Planets
Simon Rattle, conductor
Berliner Philharmoniker
LP
Release date: Nov 7

Made with the Berlin Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle’s 2006 recording of Holst’s orchestral suite The Planets is now available on LP.

Upcoming January 2026 releases

New titles:

  • Jan 9: Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Éric le Sage (piano), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Trios
  • Jan 9: Quatuor Ébène, Quatuor Belcea, Enescu & Mendelssohn: Octets
  • Jan 16: Riopy (piano/composer), Be Love
  • Jan 23: Elsa Dreisig (soprano), Invocations
  • Jan 23: JB Dunckel (conductor), Paranormal Music Chamber
  • Jan 23: Kenji Miura (piano), Heimat: Beethoven / Schumann / Brahms
  • Jan 30: Eric Lu (piano), Schubert: Impromptus D899 & D935

Catalogue:

  • Jan 23: Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor), Nielsen: Symphonies Nos. 1 – 6, Overtures & Concertos
  • Jan 30: Sir Adrian Boult, The Complete Warner Classics Edition – The Stereo Recordings

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

Associated labels: EuroArts

Signore! Signori! Scusatemi…
Anthony Clark Evans, baritone
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Carlo Montanaro, conductor
CD / digital
Release date: Nov 28

Recorded with the Berlin Radio Symphony, Anthony Clark Evans presents a dazzling panorama of the great 19th-century baritone repertoire. His program ranges from Italian verismo to French opera and Wagner.

September news release
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