Upcoming Releases
Cedille Records (operating organization, Cedille Chicago, NFP) is a Grammy-winning not-for-profit recording company that promotes Chicago’s world class performers and composers by permanently documenting their artistry on high-quality recordings. As a nonprofit funded largely by charitable donations and uninhibited by the need to reach commercially-driven sales targets, Cedille Records is able to provide a renowned platform for these musicians to pursue their artistic visions.
RACHEL BARTON PINE| MUSICAL FRIENDSHIPS — MUSIC OF BRAHMS AND HIS CIRCLE
This double-disc album celebrates the close-knit friendships and musical partnerships among Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Amanda Maier, and Marie Soldat. The project is deeply personal to Rachel Barton Pine, as she performs on the “ex-Bazzini ex-Soldat” 1742 Guarneri del Gesu, a violin chosen by Brahms for Soldat, his protégé and one of the greatest violinists of her day. The program will include five Brahms sonatas and works from Amanda Maier (Violin Sonata in B minor) and Clara Schumann’s only work for violin and piano (Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22).
PROJECTED RELEASE |JULY 2025
PACIFICA QUARTET | ERICH KORNGOLD COLLECTION
The Pacifica Quartet will showcase the compositional excellence of Erich Wolfgang Korngold from his earliest years in Vienna as a burgeoning teenage prodigy to his assured and mature style in Hollywood as a distinguished film composer. In addition to Korngold’s three string quartets, written between 1923–1945, the recording will feature his kaleidoscopic String Sextet (1914) and ravishingly beautiful Piano Quintet (1920).
Supported by Eva Lichtenberg and Arnold Tobin
Photo by Marie Mazzucco
PROJECTED RELEASE | AUGUST 2025
FLUTRONIX, CHICAGO SINFONIETTA, MEI-ANN CHEN | BLACK BEING
Celebrated duo Flutronix (Nathalie Joachim and Allison Loggins-Hull) and Chicago’s leading chamber orchestra, the Chicago Sinfonietta (Mei-Ann Chen, Music Director), join forces on Black Being — an album featuring a work of the same name composed by Flutronix. Through themes of strength, sacrifice, beauty, fear, and survival, Black Being gives voice to the complexities of Black womanhood and provides a musical lens into black female cultural realities and conditions.
Supported by the National Endowment for the Arts
PROJECTED RELEASE | LATE-AUGUST 2025
KARISA CHIU, DO-HYUN KIM| KARISA CHIU: HOME
Cedille Emerging Artist Competition finalist, violinist Karisa Chiu makes her recording debut with a deeply personal album. The repertoire includes pieces her father, CSO violinist Cornelius Chiu, played that sparked her deep love of music, works that helped connect her to her familial roots in Korea and China, and one representative of newer collaborative relationships she formed in Chicago. Altogether, the program explores varied definitions of “home” for Chiu while offering a place of comfort for listeners to contemplate that theme for themselves. The album features works by Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré, Jean Sibelius, Cyril Scott, and Augusta Read Thomas.
Supported by Patricia Kenney & Gregory O’Leary
PROJECTED RELEASE | OCTOBER 2025