Four Centuries of Great Music December 28, 2025 New Releases in the Months of December and November

Four Centuries of Great Music  12-28-25

Generally this time of month on Four Centuries of Great Music
 I feature the new releases for the month.   But there are never many releases in December so I will use this episode share three December releases and to catch up on some November releases

Lets open with the December 5th release from an album of Brass Concertos

Let’s listen to a WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING of Jennifer Higdon:  Low Brass Concerto
Nashville Symphony  conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero with 
Paul Jenkins and Derek W. Hawkes, Trombones; Steven Brown, Bass trombone and Gilbert Long, Tuba 
Brass Concertos -  Corea, Higdon, Warnaar

Now back to November with an album I featured on Evening Eclectic last month featuring the chamber music of ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD by the PACIFICA QUARTET and guest soloists with a performance  of


ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD
ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD: STRING QUARTET NO. 1 IN A MAJOR, OP. 16
1. I. Allegro molto (8:25) 
2. II. Adagio quasi Fantasia (8:44) 
3. III. Intermezzo. Ziemlich lebhaft, mit Grazie (5:09) 
4. IV. Finale. Allegretto amabile e comodo (10:54) 
PACIFICA QUARTET
THE KORNGOLD COLLECTION


I will close this first hour of Four Centuries of Great Music featuring three December releases and catching up on some November releases with the second December release.   Let’s listen to the first three of Alexander SCRIABIN’s 24 Preludes, Op. 11

SCRIABIN: 24 Preludes, Op. 11  No. 1 in C Major. Vivace
SCRIABIN: 24 Preludes, Op. 11  No. 2 in A Minor. Allegretto
SCRIABIN: 24 Preludes, Op. 11 No. 3 in G Major. Vivo
MIKHAIL PLETNEV, piano 
CHOPIN & SCRIABIN: PRÉLUDES
Also released on December 5th


Let’s open this second hour of Four Centuries of Great Music with a December 9th release by JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra of the album titled "A Hero's Life”.  We will be listening to the title cut of the album Richard Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life)

 
Richard Strauss:  Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life)
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by JoAnn Falletta
A Hero's Life
Beau Fleuve Records

Before the closing work on today’s Four Centuries of Great Music, I would like to play one more of 

SCRIABIN:   24 Preludes, Op. 11  No. 8 in F-Sharp Minor. Allegro agitato
MIKHAIL PLETNEV, piano 
CHOPIN & SCRIABIN: PRÉLUDES

We will close this episode of of Four Centuries of Great Music featuring three new releases from December and to catch up on some November releases with 

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Ethiopia Saluting the Colours, Op. 51
Ulster Orchestra conducted by Charles Peebles
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Orchestral Works
SOMM Recordings