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Warner Classics & Erato releases September 2025

Highlights include:

  • Dowland and Purcell from mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre and lutenist Thomas Dunford
  • A selection of Alexandre Desplat’s most famous film scores, conducted by the composer himself
  • Music from the golden era of Neapolitan song by tenor Pene Pati with Il Pomo d’Oro
  • The complete mono recordings of conductor Sir Adrian Boult, including previously unreleased collaborations with Yehudi Menuhin

New titles

Eternal Notre-Dame
Vincent Dubois, organ
CD / digital
Release date: Sep 5

Miraculously, after the catastrophic fire at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in 2019, the grand organ survived. Its 8,000 pipes were affected by lead dust and water from the fire hoses, but the instrument, fully cleaned and restored, was back in action in time for the historic reopening of the great church last December.

On Eternal Notre-Dame, Vincent Dubois – one of Notre-Dame’s four current titular organists – showcases the instrument’s heritage and its technical and musical range. His program features works by César Franck and Charles-Marie Widor, both of whom played on the organ at its inauguration in 1868, and by Louis Vierne, Pierre Cochereau, and Claude Balbastre, all former titular organists of Notre-Dame. Also included are transcriptions by former titular organist Léonce de Saint-Martin and by Dubois himself, with whose arrangement of Bach’s famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor the album concludes.

Songs of Passion: Purcell, Dowland
Lea Desandre, mezzo-soprano
Thomas Dunford, lute
CD / digital
Release date: Sep 12

Songs of Passion is a collection of vocal and instrumental music by John Dowland and Henry Purcell, performed by mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre, lutenist Thomas Dunford, and the Jupiter Ensemble. Repertoire includes Dowland’s Lachrimae and vocal works from his First and Second Book of Ayres, as well as vocal selections from Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and The Fairy Queen. Baritone (and fellow Erato artist) Huw Montague Rendall makes a guest appearance in Purcell’s “Strike the Viol,” and Jupiter Vocal Ensemble members Laurence Kilsby, Jess Dandy, and Alex Rosen join Desandre as soloists on other featured tracks.

Paris – Hollywood
Alexandre Desplat, composer and conductor
Orchestre de Paris
CD / digital
Release date: Sep 19

With two Academy Awards and a host of other international honors to his name, Alexandre Desplat is one of the great modern masters of film music. Marking the 40th anniversary of the start of his career, this celebration of his discography includes excerpts from his most beloved scores, The King’s Speech, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Imitation Game, and Argo among them.

Consolation
Alain Lefèvre, piano
CD / digital
Release date: Sep 19

Pianist-composer Alain Lefèvre presents Consolation, a program designed to offer healing in our post-pandemic world. Comprising eleven original compositions for solo piano, the album was recorded last year at the Athens Concert Hall in Greece.

Serenata a Napoli
Pene Pati, tenor
Il Pomo d’Oro
CD / digital
Release date: Sep 26

On Serenata a Napoli, Samoan tenor Pene Pati explores the Italian art form of canzone napoletana. Characterized by its lyrical expressions of passion, melancholy, and joy, Neapolitan song enjoyed a golden age in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Alongside such beloved hits as “O sole mio” and “Funiculì-Funiculà,” the album includes songs by Francesco Paolo Tosti, Enrico De Leva, Mario Pasquale Costa, Salvatore Gambardella, and others.

Renaissance
Shani Diluka, piano
CD / digital
Release date: Sep 26

Renaissance brings together music by composers of the Renaissance and early Baroque periods with the contemporary insight and sensibility of pianist Shani Diluka. As an aficionado of poetry and visual arts, Diluka sets out to showcase the development of classical music within the larger cultural landscape of the Renaissance era. Repertoire includes works by Henry Purcell, Domenico Scarlatti, George Frideric Handel, William Byrd, John Eccles, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, and J.S. Bach. Seven of the 26 featured works are original transcriptions for modern piano by Diluka herself, who hopes to capture the intimate quality of the period instruments (i.e. harpsichord and clavichord) for which this music was first intended.

Catalogue: boxed sets

Complete Warner Classics Edition – The Mono Recordings
Sir Adrian Boult, conductor
36-CD boxed set
Release date: Sep 12

For more than six decades, Adrian Boult was at the forefront of British music-making. This 36-CD edition includes all the mono recordings he made between 1920 and 1957 for the HMV, Pye Nixa, and Parlophone labels. More than half the material is being made available on CD for the first time, in new high-definition remasterings, created from the original sources by Art & Son Studio. The set also includes several previously unreleased recordings, including Boult’s interpretation of Beethoven’s First Symphony and his collaborations with Yehudi Menuhin on Bach’s First Violin Concerto, Bartók’s Second Violin Rhapsody, and Saint-Saëns’s Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso and Havanaise.

Puccini: Tosca
Antonio Pappano, conductor
Angela Gheorghiu, soprano
Roberto Alagna, tenor
2 CDs
Release date: Sep 5

This 2-CD set represents a re-release of the 2000 recording of Puccini’s Tosca with Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, Ruggero Raimondi, and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, under Antonio Pappano’s leadership. This also served as the soundtrack to Benoît Jacquot’s film of the same name.

Flute Concertos & Concertante Works
Emmanuel Pahud, flute
14-CD boxed set
Release date: Sep 19

On this 14-CD set, Emmanuel Pahud offers a formidable anthology of the flute concerto – a genre spanning three centuries – with examples by Vivaldi, Telemann, Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Khachaturian, Ibert, Penderecki, Dalbavie, and others, all recorded between 1996 and 2021.

British Composers
Sir Simon Rattle, conductor
14-CD boxed set
Release date: Sep 19

Sir Simon Rattle has long been a passionate advocate for British music, championing its rich heritage and contemporary voices throughout his career. As music director of both the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic, he brought British orchestral music to global prominence. This collection presents music by Edward Elgar, Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton, Benjamin Britten, Thomas Adès, and Mark-Anthony Turnage, among others.

Dvořák: Symphonies Nos. 7-9 & Cello Concerto; Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto
Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello
4 Hybrid SACDs
Release date: Sep 19

The Dvořák recordings made by Carlo Maria Giulini for Warner Classics are now available in Hybrid SACD format for the first time. This boxed set uses new HD remastering, as created from the original tapes for Guilini’s Complete Remastered Studio Recordings on Warner Classics boxed set, released this past June.

Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 1-6, Manfred, Francesca da Rimini, Romeo and Juliet
Mstislav Rostropovich, conductor
London Philharmonic Orchestra
6 Hybrid SACDs
Release date: Sep 26

For the first time, Mstislav Rostropovich’s 1976-77 recordings of Tchaikovsky’s music have been remastered in high definition from original master tapes for SACD format, by Studio Circé.

Vinyl

5 Legendary Recordings
Itzhak Perlman, violin
5-LP set
Release date: Sep 5

This new collection of masterworks for violin and orchestra with Itzhak Perlman includes his recordings of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Triple Concerto, Brahms’s Violin Concerto, Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, and Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.

Tartini, Mozart & Debussy
David Oistrakh, violin
Vladimir Yampolsky, piano
LP
Release date: Sep 5

This landmark album presents David Oistrakh in two key works: Tartini’s “Devil’s Trill” Sonata and Mozart’s Violin Sonata in B-flat, K.454. This is the first time either recording has been available on vinyl in stereo.

Arvo Pärt: PAX
Various Artists
LP
Release date: Sep 5

This September marks the 90th birthday of Arvo Pärt, a composer whose music has been called a universal language of peace. To celebrate this milestone, PAX brings together some of his most emblematic works.

Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 9
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Staatskapelle Berlin
3-LP set
Release date: Sep 19

This set makes Daniel Barenboim’s iconic recordings of Beethoven’s Seventh and Ninth Symphonies available on vinyl for the first time. It follows the LP release this past May of his recordings of the same composer’s Third, Fourth, and Fifth Symphonies.

Upcoming Oct 2025 releases

New titles:

  • Oct 3 – Fatma Said, Marianne Crebassa, Pene Pati, Alexandros Stavrakakis, Fazil Say, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Michael Sanderling, Mozart: Requiem, Fazil Say: Mozart & Mevlana Op.110 [Warner Classics]
  • Oct 10 – Camille Berthollet (cello and violin), Legends [Erato]
  • Oct 17 – Alexandre Tharaud (piano), Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Pierre Dumoussand, Pianosong [Erato]
  • Oct 24 – Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Artaserse, Gelosia! [Erato]
  • Oct 24 – Mira (piano/composer), À L’Échappée (Digital EP) [Warner Classics]
  • Oct 24 – Yoav Levanon (piano), Liszt: Transcendental Études [Warner Classics]
  • Oct 31 – Etienne Gara (violin), Delirium Musicum, Cabinet of Curiosities [Warner Classics]
  • Oct 31 – Thibaut Garcia (guitar), Antoine Morinière (guitar), Goldberg Variations  [Erato]

Catalogue:

  • Oct 17 – The Alessandro Scarlatti Edition: Cantatas, Motets, Oratorios, Concerti Grossi, Sonatas (Commemorating the 300th anniversary of his death on Oct 24, 2025) [Erato]
  • Oct 31 – Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor), The Mono Era on Warner Classics 1926-1959 (c. 50-CD box-set) [Warner Classics]

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

Associated labels: MPhil

Glass: Itaipú 
Brad Lubhman, conductor
Munich Philharmonic
CD / digital
Release date: Sep 5

In 1988, when Philip Glass visited the construction site of the Itaipú dam on the Brazil-Paraguay border, he was overwhelmed. He marveled at the boldness and inventiveness of the undertaking and the sheer imagination through which humankind was transforming nature. Written shortly afterwards, his minimalist work Itaipú is based on this experience, offering a symphonic “portrait of nature” for choir and orchestra.

Associated labels: EuroArts

Bellini: Norma
Ștefan Pop, tenor
Melody Moore, soprano
Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra
Pier Giorgio Morandi, conductor
CD / digital
Release date: Sep 12

This new recording of Bellini’s Norma stars Melody Moore in the title role, alongside Adam Lau, Ștefan Pop, Roxana Constantinescu, Noemi Modra, and Esebiu Huțan. Pier Giorgio Morandi conducts the Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir.

Associated labels: Opera Rara

Donizetti Songs, Vols. 5 & 6
Ermonela Jaho, soprano
Carlo Rizzi, conductor
CD / digital
Release date: Sep 26

The fifth and sixth volumes in Opera Rara’s ongoing Donizetti Song Project feature French and Italian songs performed by Ermonela Jaho (one of Opera Rara’s Artist Ambassadors) and Artistic Director Carlo Rizzi.

  • Sign up here for Opera Rara’s free digital launch event for this album on Sep 25.

Associated labels: First Night Records

Les Misérables – The Legendary 10th Anniversary Concert
CD / LP / digital (re-release)
Release date: Oct 3

Les Misérables has been playing continuously in London’s West End since 1985, making it the world’s longest-running musical. To mark the 40th anniversary of its opening, which falls this October 8, First Night Records is re-releasing its recording of the musical’s tenth anniversary concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Now available for the first time on vinyl, the recording has been especially remastered and compiled for two LPs by Cameron Mackintosh and his team. The full recording is also being reissued on CD.

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