September’s New Releases
23/9/2025
Paavo Järvi — Arvo Pärt: Works for Orchestra
Released on 23 September 2025 by Alpha Classics, Arvo Pärt: Works for Orchestra sees Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra honouring the composer’s 90th birthday with a programme spanning 45 years. Featuring Credo, the work that led to the Järvi family’s exile, the album reflects a lifelong connection. “I have the impression the orchestra doesn’t like this chord enough,” Pärt once said in rehearsal. Played “with love”, the same notes revealed a striking transformation.
This album was featured in Gramophone Magazine’s “The five new classical albums to hear this week”
“Credo — sublime orchestral album marks Arvo Pärt’s 90th birthday. Ten works, from the dramatic to the radiant, are given fine performances by the Estonian Festival Orchestra under Paavo Järvi … Here is the essence of Pärt, simple, sublime, profound.”
- FINANCIAL TIMES, September 2025
★★★★
Matilda Lloyd — Radiant Dawn
Matilda Lloyd joins forces with acclaimed vocal ensemble The Gesualdo Six for their new album Radiant Dawn, released on 1 August 2025 by Hyperion Records. Curated by Owain Park, the album showcases a luminous blend of sacred and contemporary repertoire, including works by James McMillan, Alec Roth, Roxanna Panufnik, Judith Bingham, Thomas Tallis and Robert White.
’Trumpeter extraordinaire”
– BBC Music Magazine, September 2025
★★★★★
Alexandre Desplat — Paris – Hollywood
Released on 19 September, Paris – Hollywood is a sweeping retrospective of Alexandre Desplat’s film music career, performed by Orchestre de Paris under his baton. Alongside the focus track The Imitation Game, the album features new concert arrangements from fifteen of his most celebrated scores, including Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Godzilla, Little Women, The Tree of Life, The Queen, The King’s Speech, The Lost King, and a Wes Anderson suite with Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Grand Budapest Hotel and The French Dispatch.
La Néréide — Le Cœur et la Raison
Since creating La Néréide, Camille Allérat, Julie Roset and Ana Vieira Leite have wanted to tell stories about women. On Le Cœur et la Raison the three sopranos trace the imagined life of a young French noblewoman from childhood to adulthood in an emotionally charged recital.
Pene Pati — Serenata a Napoli
On 26 September, Serenata a Napoli, Pene Pati’s third solo-album, was released on the Warner Classics label.
Renowned for his luminous voice — “filled with sunshine” (Le Monde) — Pene turns his artistry to a deeply affectionate tribute to the Neapolitan song. Through beloved classics like “O sole mio” and “Funiculì funiculà”, and lesser-known gems from the golden age of the canzone napoletana, Serenata a Napoli brings together passion, nostalgia, and joy in equal measure.
Supporting Pati is the ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro, with eight instrumentalists led by Naples-born guitarist Antonello Paliotti.
Goldmund Quartet — Dahoam
The Goldmund Quartet pays homage to the tradition of Alpine folk music and its heritage within classical music on their latest release Dahoam (Bavarian for “at home”). By combining arrangements of Bavarian folklore with corresponding pieces by Haydn, Mozart and Schubert, they have created a personal album that reflects on the search for home, identity and belonging. The Süddeutsche Zeitung writes: “They preserve what is fundamentally classical — proportionality, as seen in the finely measured rubati. And yet their deep familiarity with the folkloristic idiom shines through.”
Hildur Guðnadóttir — Where to From
Deep friendships and creative collaboration proved decisive in shaping Hildur Guðnadóttir’s debut studio album for Deutsche Grammophon. Where to From consists of nine intimate and contemplative tracks written, arranged, and produced by the Icelandic composer, whose soundtrack scores have been recognised with, among other accolades, two Grammy Awards® (Chernobyl, Joker) and an Academy Award (Joker). Her new album is a highly personal yet universally resonant collection of works rooted in spontaneous musical ideas originally captured on her smartphone.
The debut single, Make Space, was released on 19 September, and the album is available in all formats from 31 October. The accompanying booklet includes an interview between Guðnadóttir and film director Todd Field (TÁR), as well as contributions from Gisèle Vienne, the artist and choreographer behind the album’s striking cover artwork.
Kristiina Poska — Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 8 (Complete Symphonies, Vol. 3)
Together with the Flanders Symphony Orchestra, Kristiina Poska records Beethoven’s Complete Symphonies. The 3rd volume features Symphony No.5 and 8, following the release of Symphonies No.2 and 3 in the 2nd volume and No.1 and 7 in the 1st volume.
Beethoven’s symphonies have been a point of reference for the orchestra over the last few decades, serving as a bright beacon at the very heart of symphonic literature. In his Symphony No.5, Beethoven showcases a musical work that is, in a sense, conceptual, taking motivic development to the extreme. One idea spans the entire piece, drawing the audience into a hypnotic musical journey. In Symphony No.9, Beethoven challenges the musicians with a difficult and at times seemingly illogical score, in which he looks to the past. He references the classical structures of his predecessors, as if he needed to revisit history in order to recalibrate before taking his next step.
The album, released by Fuga Liberia on 29 August, is available for digital streaming on all streaming platforms.
Taavi Oramo — Lindberg & Aho Clarinet Concertos
Conductor Taavi Oramo joins forces with clarinettist Julian Bliss and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra releasing an album of two Finnish clarinet concertos by Magnus Lindberg and Kalevi Aho.
“In my opinion, the Lindberg & Aho Clarinet Concertos are two of the greatest of the 21st century. These works demand everything from the performer — one moment navigating passages of extreme virtuosity and precision, the next exploring the most beautiful and breath-taking writing. They require total commitment; there’s no holding back, making them both thrilling to perform.” – Julian Bliss
The album, released by Signum on 5 September, is available for purchase and on all streaming platforms.
Eunike Tanzil — The First of Everything
On 12 September, Eunike Tanzil released her debut album, The First of Everything on Deutsche Grammophon. The album’s 12 tracks are musical snapshots of a series of significant firsts in her life, showcasing Tanzil’s storytelling gift, whether writing for stage, screen, or concert hall. Tanzil recorded The First of Everything at Berlin’s Teldex Studios with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester and conductor Anna Handler. She plays piano alongside fellow DG artist Sophie Kauer featured on solo cello for two tracks.
