These are the releases in Dolby Atmos spatial audio you can look out for this week, sorted by release day. Links will take you directly to Apple Music, log in there for a seemless listening experience Friday is the usual release day on streaming services, so set aside some time on August 7!
August 7
Bruce Liu (piano) — Lunaris (Deutsche Grammophon, 2026). An imaginative concept album, suggesting a nocturnal journey, from Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata and Chopin, through Debussy, Scriabin, Mompou, Ligeti, and finally Cage’s Dream. The repertoire’s shifting moods should benefit both from Liu’s coloristic brilliance, and the spaciousness from the Atmos mix.
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Vienna Philharmonic, James Levine (cond.) — My Lucerne (Deutsche Grammophon, 2026). This is the third album of Mutter’s seven-part album series inspired her connections and recordings associated with various cities, earlier in her career. Already in 2006 we had London (Feb.) and Berlin (June). Nearly everything on Lucerne dates from 1993, with James Levine and is remastered for the first time spatial audio (all the Sarasate and Tartini), but you won’t see the Dolby Atmos label on your Apple Music page, because Apple only labels albums where every track is Atmos.
Houston Grand Opera — Missy Mazzoli: Breaking the Waves (Houston Grand Opera, 2026). This is the first commercial recording of Breaking the Waves, which has been called one of the most important American operas of the past decade. On the 10th anniversary of its premiere [checking the math… ].
Oulu Sinfonia, Rumon Gamba (cond.) — Scenes from Finland (Chandos, 2026). Continuing the Chandos survey of Finnish orchestral rarities. This installment offers four colorful suites, opening darkly with the Sibelius Scaramouche, followed by charming and maybe innocuous suites by Selim Palmgren (Cinderella) Einar Englund (film music for The White Reindeer) and Kalervo Tuukkanen (Christmas Suite).
Mark van de Wiel (cl.), Soloists of the Philharmonia Orchestra — Strange Loops – Anna Clyne, Ruth Gipps, Weber (Signum, 2026). Clarinetist Mark van de Wiel and his fellow Philharmonia soloists give the first recording of Anna Clyne’s seventeen-minute Strange Loops (2000). Then look back to clarinet quintets by Ruth Gipps and Carl Maria von Weber.
Jimin Oh-Havenith (piano) — Schumann: CHANGES (audite, 2026). She says “Changes,” these are three sets of variations by Schumann: the youthful Abegg Variations, the Symphonic Études (including posthumous additions), and his strange late work the Ghost Variations. The Seoul-born pianist studied with Aloys Kontarsky.
Fedor Veselov (piano) — The Wind Remembers (Prima Classic, 2026). An attractive program of Russian repertoire, the pianist more identified with modern and Spanish repertoire, returning to his roots. Glinka miniatures, sselections from Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons, Rachmaninov preludes and song transcriptions. Marginal instrument and sonics.
