Life: Busoni, Liszt, Schumann, Bach-Brahms, Wagner-Liszt, Liszt-Busoni, Rzewski, Bill Evans; Igor Levit (Sony)
Cassandra Miller, O Zomer!, Philip the Wanderer, For Mira, Duet for Cello and Orchestra; Apartment House, Philip Thomas, Mira Benjamin, Charles Curtis with Ilan Volkov conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony (another timbre)
Anima Sacra: Jakub Józef Orliński, Il pomo d'oro (Warner)
Mark Turner and Ethan Iverson, Temporary Kings (ECM)
Gabriel Kahane, Book of Travelers (Nonesuch)
Linda Catlin Smith, Wanderer and other works; Apartment House (another timbre)
John Adams, Doctor Atomic; Gerald Finley, Julia Bullock, Brindley Sherratt, Jennifer Johnston, Aubrey Allicock, Samuel Sakker, Andrew Staples, Adams conducting the BBC Singers and BBC Symphony (Nonesuch)
Wang Lu, Urban Inventory and other works; Third Sound Ensemble, Holland Symfonia, Alarm Will Sound, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, ICE, Ensemble Intercontemporain (New Focus)
Debussy: Complete Works (DG)
Previously:
Tyshawn Sorey, Verisimilitude; Sorey, Cory Smythe, Chris Tordini (Pi Recordings)
Bach, Solo Cello Suites; Thomas Demenga (ECM)
Scott Wollschleger, Soft Aberration (various works); Longleash, Anne Lanzilotti, Karl Larson, Andy Kozar, Corrine Byrne, John Popham, Mivos Quartet (New Focus)
Liza Lim, How Forests Think, Aaron Cassidy, The wreck of former boundaries; ELISION Ensemble (Huddersfield Contemporary Records)
Daniel Lentz, River of 1000 Streams; Vicki Ray (Cold Blue)
James Weeks, Mala Punica; Exaudi (Winter & Winter)
Kurtág, Complete Works for Ensemble and Choir; Reinbert de Leeuw conducting Asko / Schönberg and the Netherlands Radio Choir (ECM)
Divine Theatre: works of Giaches de Wert; Stile Antico (Harmonia Mundi)
Sibelius, In the Stream of Life and other songs with orchestra; Gerald Finley, Edward Gardner conducting the Bergen Philharmonic (Chandos)
Weinberg, Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1-4, Piano Quintet (arr. Pushkarev and Kremer); Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica (ECM)
Linda Catlin Smith, Drifter and other works; Apartment House, Bozzini Quartet (another timbre)
Schubert, Piano Sonatas D. 960 and D. 664; Javier Perianes (Harmonia Mundi)
Chaya Czernowin, The Quiet: Works for Orchestra; various orchestras and conductors (Wergo)
Tyshawn Sorey, The Inner Spectrum of Variables (Pi)
Michael Pisaro, the earth and the sky (piano works): Reinier van Houdt (erstwhile)
Schubert, Piano Trios Opp. 99 and 100; Andreas Staier, Daniel Sepec, Roel Dieltiens (Harmonia Mundi)
Bach, French Suites; Murray Perahia, piano (DG)
Bach, Christmas Oratorio; John Butt leading the Dunedin Consort (Linn).
Meredith Monk, On Behalf of Nature (ECM)
Liszt, Transcendental Etudes; Daniil Trifonov (DG)
Liszt, Transcendental Etudes; Kirill Gerstein (Myrios)
Joyce DiDonato, In War & Peace; with Il Pomo D'Oro (Erato).
Linda Catlin Smith, Dirt Road; Mira Benjamin, violin, Simon Limbrick, percussion (another timbre)
Jürg Frey, String Quartet No. 3, Unhörbare Zeit; Quatuor Bozzini, Lee Ferguson, Christian Smith (Edition Wandelweiser)
Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith, A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke (ECM)
Michael Pisaro, Continuum Unbound; Pisaro, Greg Stuart, Patrick Farmer, Joe Panzner, Toshiya Tsunoda (gravity wave)
Stravinsky, Threni, Requiem Canticles; Philippe Herreweghe conducting the Collegium Vocale Gent (PHI)
Chris Kallmyer, Julia Holter, Lucky Dragons, Rhyolite (Populist)
Radiohead, A Moon Shaped Pool (XL)
Jean Martinon, Chicago Symphony Orchestra: The Complete Recordings (RCA)
R. Murray Schafer, Apocalypsis; David Fallis conducting various forces (Analekta)
Beethoven, Symphonies Nos. 4 and 5; Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Concentus Musicus Wien (Sony)
Haydn, Complete Symphonies; Christopher Hogwood conducting the Academy of Ancient Music, Frans Brüggen conducting the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Ottavio Dantone conducting the Accademia Bizantina (Decca)
R. Nathaniel Dett, The Ordering of Moses; Latonia Moore, Ronnita Nicole Miller, Rodrick Dixon, Donnie Ray Albert, James Conlon conducting the Cincinnati Symphony and May Festival Chorus (Bridge)
Hans Abrahamsen, let me tell you; Barbara Hannigan, with Andris Nelsons conducting the Bavarian Radio Symphony (Winter & Winter)
Górecki, Symphony No. 4; Andrey Boreyko conducting the London Philharmonic (Nonesuch)
Liza Lim, Winding Bodies, The Heart's Ear, Jon Ølvind Ness, Gimilen; musicians from the Huddersfield Festival (LAWO Classics)
Pachelbel, Un orage d’avril (Suites from Musikalische Ergötzung, Canon & Gigue, Arias); Hans-Jörg Mammel, Amandine Beyer leading Gli Incogniti (Harmonia Mundi)
Anders Hillborg, Beast Sampler, O dessa ögon, Cold Heat, Sirens; Ida Falk Winland, Hannah Holgersson,
Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Swedish Radio Choir, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic conducted by Sakari Oramo, David Zinman, Esa-Pekka Salonen (BIS)
Luzzaschi, Madrigals, Motets, and Instrumental Music; Profeti della Quinta (Pan Classics)
Scott Worthington, Prism (Populist)
Feldman, Rothko Chapel, works of Cage and Satie; Kim Kashkashian, Sarah Rothenberg, Steven Schick, Houston Chamber Choir (ECM)
Bach, Goldberg Variations, Beethoven Diabelli Variations, Rzewski The People United Will Never Be Defeated; Igor Levit (Sony)
Liszt Inspections: music of John Adams, Berio, Cerha, Feldman, Kurtág, Ligeti, Murail, Pesson, Rihm, Sciarrino, Stockhausen, Ustvolskaya, and Liszt; Marino Formenti (Kairos)
Schubert, Sonatas in G (D894) and B-flat (D960), Moments musicaux, Impromptus D935; András Schiff, fortepiano (ECM)
Handel, Early Italian Arias; Julia Lezhneva, Giovanni Antonini leading Il Giardino Armonico (Decca)
Ted Hearne, The Source; Hearne, Mellissa Hughes, Samia Mounts, Isaiah Robinson, Jonathan Woody, Courtney Orlando, Anne Lanzilotti, Leah Coloff, Taylor Levine, Greg Chudzik, Ron Wiltrout, Nathan Koci (New Amsterdam)
The Bad Plus Joshua Redman (Nonesuch)
Joanna Newsom, Divers (Drag City)
Andrew McIntosh, Hyenas in the Temples of Pleasure; Yarn/Wire, James Sullivan, Brian Walsh, McIntosh (Populist)
Anna Thorvaldsdottir, In the Light of Air; ICE (Sono Luminus)
Shostakovich, Symphony No. 10, Passacaglia from Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk; Andris Nelsons conducting the Boston Symphony (DG)
Leonardo Vinci, Catone in Utica; Max Emanuel Cencic, Franco Fagioli, Juan Sancho, Valer Sabadus, Vince Yi, Martin Mitterrutzner, Riccardo Minasi conducting Il Pomo d'Oro (Decca)
Lassus, Missa super Dixit Joseph and motets; Cinquecento (Hyperion)
Robert Jones, Missa Spes nostra, Nicholas Ludford, Ave cujus conceptio, Robert Hunt, Stabat mater; Blue Heron (BHCD)
Mario Diaz de León, The Soul Is the Arena; Claire Chase, Joshua Rubin, ICE (Denovali)
Rihm, Et Lux; Paul Van Nevel conducting the Huelgas Ensemble and the Minguet Quartet (ECM)
Riley, Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector, Cadenza on the Night Plain, and other works; Kronos Quartet (Nonesuch)
Panufnik, Concertos for violin, cello, piano; Łukasz Borowicz conducting the Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin, with Alexander Sitkovetsky, Raphael Wallfisch, Ewa Kupiec (cpo)
Bruckner, Symphony No. 9; Claudio Abbado conducting the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, from his final concert (DG)
Time Present and Time Past: works of Alessandro Scarlatti, Górecki, C. P. E. Bach, Geminiani, Reich, and J. S. Bach; Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord, with Concerto Köln (DG)
Feldman, Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello; Aleck Karis, Curtis Macomber, Danielle Farina, Christopher Finckel (Bridge)
Szymański, Pieces for String Quartet, Mykietyn, String Quartet No. 2; Royal String Quartet (Hyperion)
Mahler, Symphony No. 8, Wagner Overtures; Jascha Horenstein conducting the London Symphony and the Royal Philharmonic, and various other forces (Pristine)
Andrew Norman, Play and Try; Gil Rose conducting the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP)
Héroïque: French Opera Arias; Bryan Hymel, tenor, with Emmanuel Villaume conducting the Prague Philharmonia (Warner Classics)
Schumann, Violin Concerto, Piano Trio No. 3; Isabelle Faust, with Pablo Heras-Casado conducting the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, and with Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov (Harmonia Mundi)
Chris Pitsiokos and Philip White, Paroxysm (Carrier)
John Luther Adams, The Wind in High Places, Canticles of the Sky, Dream of the Canyon Wren; JACK Quartet, Northwestern University Cello Ensemble (Cold Blue)
Agata Zubel, Not I and other works; Clement Power conducting Klangforum Wien, with Zubel as vocalist (Kairos)
Stockhausen, Complete Early Percussion Works; Steven Schick, James Avery, red fish blue fish (Mode DVD)
Ustvolskaya, Violin Sonata, Clarinet Trio, Duet; Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Markus Hinterhäuser, Reto Bieri (ECM)
Ted Hearne, The Law of Mosaics, Andrew Norman, The Companion Guide to Rome; A Far Cry (Crier Records)
Fantasticus: works of Weckmann, Bertali, Buxtehude, Kerll, Schmeltzer, Vierdanck, Oswald; Quicksilver (Acis)
Sibelius, Lemminkäinen Suite and The Wood Nymph; Osmo Vänskä conducting the Lahti Symphony (BIS)
Anna Þorvaldsdóttir, Aerial; various ensembles, including CAPUT, Iceland Symphony, Nordic Affect (DG)
All the Things You Are: works of Bach, Gershwin, Kern, Koston, Mompou, Perle, Kirchner; Leon Fleisher (Bridge)
John Luther Adams, Become Ocean; Ludovic Morlot conducting the Seattle Symphony (Cantaloupe)
Strauss, Elektra; Evelyn Herlitzius, Waltraud Meier, Adrianne Pieczonka, Mikhail Petrenko, Tom Randle, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the Orchestre de Paris, Patrice Chéreau directing (Bel Air DVD/Blu-ray)
Birtwistle, Chamber Music; Lisa Batiashvili, Adrian Brendel, Till Fellner, Amy Freston, Roderick Williams (ECM)
Caccini, L'Euridice; Furio Zanasi, Silvia Frigato, Rinaldo Alessandrini conducting the Concerto Italiano (naïve)
Shostakovich, Six Romances on Verses by English Poets, Scottish Ballad, Suite on Poems by Michelangelo; Gerald Finley, Thomas Sanderling conducting the Helsinki Philharmonic (Ondine)
Liza Lim, Orchestral Works; Christoph Poppen and Lothar Zagrosek conducting the Bavarian Radio Symphony, Rupert Huber conducting the SWR Symphony, Baden-Baden (Hat Art)
Bertali, Instrumental Sonatas; Acronym (Olde Focus)
Brahms, String Quintets; Takács Quartet with Lawrence Power (Hyperion)
Der Wanderer (Schubert Lieder); Florian Boesch, Roger Vignoles (Hyperion)
Carnegie Recital (Scriabin, Liszt, Chopin); Daniil Trifonov (DG)
Adams, The Gospel According to the Other Mary; Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Los Angeles Master Chorale and the Los Angeles Philharmonic (DG)
Lachenmann, String Quartets; JACK Quartet (Mode)
Erin Gee, Mouthpieces (col legno)
Babbitt, All Set and other works; Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP)
Liza Lim, Tongue of the Invisible; Uri Caine, Omar Ebrahim, Ensemble musikFabrik (Wergo)
Schumann, Waldszenen, Piano Sonata No. 2, Gesang der Frühe; Mitsuko Uchida (Decca)
Hot: Ryan Muncy plays works of Aperghis, Cheung, Cassidy, Balter, Czernowin, Donatoni; with Ensemble Dal Niente (New Focus)
John Luther Adams, Inuksuit (Cantaloupe)
Mahler, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Kindertotenlieder, Rückert Lieder; Christian Gerhaher, Kent Nagano, Montreal Symphony (Sony)
Busoni, Late Piano Music; Marc-André Hamelin (Hyperion)
Britten: The Complete Works (Decca)
Verdi at the Met (Sony)
George Benjamin, Written on Skin, Duet; Barbara Hannigan, Bejun Mehta, Christopher Purves, with the composer conducting the Mahler Chamber Orchestra; Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano (Nimbus)
Feldman, Violin and Orchestra; Carolin Widmann, Emilio Pomàrico conducting the Frankfurt Radio Symphony (ECM)
Bach Brandenburg Concertos, Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues; Matthias Maute, Ensemble Caprice (Analekta)
Wagner at the Met: Legendary Performances from the Metropolitan Opera (Sony)
Dutilleux, Correspondances, "Tout un monde lointain...," The Shadow of Time; Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the Orchestre Philharmonique of Radio France, with Barbara Hannigan, soprano, and Anssi Karttunen, cello (DG)
Ferne Geliebte: Songs of Beethoven, Schoenberg, Haydn, Berg; Christian Gerhaher, baritone, and Gerold Huber, piano (Sony)
Charles Griffes, Piano Sonata and other works; Garrick Ohlsson (Hyperion)
Felix Mendelssohn, Quartets No. 2 and 6, Fanny Mendelssohn, Quartet in E-flat; Ebène Quartet (Virgin)
Elgar, The Apostles; Mark Elder conducting the Hallé Choir, Hallé Youth Choir, Hallé Orchestra, and various soloists (Hallé)
Drama Queens: Joyce DiDonato, Alan Curtis and Il Complesso Barocco (Virgin Classics)
Salonen, Violin Concerto, Nyx; Leila Josefowicz, Salonen conducting the Finnish Radio Symphony (DG)
Wagner, Tristan und Isolde; Nina Stemme, Stephen Gould, Kwangchul Youn, Michelle Breedt, Johan Reuter, Marek Janowski conducting the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (PentaTone)
Passion and Resurrection: Music Inspired by Holy Week; Stile Antico (Harmonia Mundi)
Bruckner, Symphony No. 9 (with reconstructed fourth movement); Simon Rattle conducting the Berlin Philharmonic (EMI)
Feldman, Crippled Symmetry; Eberhard Blum, Jan Williams, Nils Vigeland (frozen reeds)
Kristin Norderval, Aural Histories (deep listening)
Bach, St. Matthew Passion; Mark Padmore, Christian Gerhaher, Magdalena Kožená, Topi Lehtipuu, Thomas Quasthoff, Simon Rattle conducting the Berlin Philharmonic and the Rundfunkchor Berlin, Peter Sellars directing (Berlin Philharmonic DVD)
Ligeti, Etudes Books I and II, Beethoven, Sonata Opus 111; Jeremy Denk (Nonesuch)
Shostakovich, Quartets Nos. 1-4, Prokofiev Quartet No. 2; Pacifica Quartet (Cedille)
Beethoven, Diabelli Variations; Andreas Staier, fortepiano (Harmonia Mundi)
Ruggles, complete works; Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the Buffalo Philharmoic, various other musicians (Other Minds)
Cage, The Works for Percussion 2; Third Coast Percussion (Mode)
Berg, Beethoven, Violin Concertos; Isabelle Faust, Claudio Abbado conducting the Orchestra Mozart (Harmonia Mundi)
Schubert, Winterreise; Florian Boesch, Malcolm Martineau (Onyx Classics) [excerpt]
endBeginning: music of Brumel, Crecquillon, Clemens, Josquin, Jackson Hill; New York Polyphony (BIS) [excerpt]
Precipitando: Berg Piano Sonata, Janáček In the Mists, Liszt Sonata; Dénes Várjon (ECM)
Bach, Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II; Peter Hill (Delphian) [excerpt]
Besides Feldman; Rozemarie Heggen, Hilary Jeffery, Pamelia Kurstin, Patrick Pulsinger (col legno)
Vivaldi, Concerti per fagotto, vol. 2; Sergio Azzolini, bassoon, with L'Aura Soave Cremona (Naïve) [excerpt]
Lully, Atys; Bernard Richter, Paul Agnew, Sophie Daneman, Marc Mauillon, Nicolas Rivenq, Cyril Auvity, Stéphanie D'Oustrac, and Jaël Azzaretti, with William Christie conducting Les Arts Florissants (FRA Musica DVD and Blu-ray)
Music for a Time of War: Ives, Adams, Britten, Vaughan Williams; Carlos Kalmar conducting the Oregon Symphony, with Sanford Sylvan, baritone (PentaTone)
Haydn, String Quartets Op. 74; Takács Quartet (Hyperion) [excerpt]
Jonathan Harvey, Bird Concerto with Pianosong and other works; David Atheron conducting the London Sinfonietta, other performers (NMC)
Gioia!: Arias of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, etc.; Aleksandra Kurzak, soprano, with Omer Meir Wellber conducting the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana (Decca)
Alex Mincek, Pendulum V, String Quartet No. 3, etc.; Wet Ink Ensemble, JACK Quartet (Carrier)
Schubert, Piano Sonatas D. 850, 894, and 840, Impromptus D. 899, Drei Klavierstücke; Paul Lewis (Harmonia Mundi)
Ives, Violin Sonatas; Hilary Hahn, Valentina Lisitsa (DG) [excerpt]
Britten, Winter Words, Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo; Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang (Avie) [excerpt]
Björk, Biophilia (Nonesuch)
Fauré, Complete Chamber Music for Piano and Strings; Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Quatuor Ebène, Nicholas Angelich, Michel Dalberto, Gérard Caussé (Virgin)
Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Concerto delle Dame: madrigals for one, two, and three sopranos; La Venexiana (Glossa)
Feldman, Orchestra and other works; Brad Lubman conducting the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (Mode)
Saariaho, Clarinet Concerto, Laterna Magica, Leino Songs; Kari Kriikku, Anu Komsi, Sakari Oramo conducting the Finnish Radio Symphony (Ondine)
Cage, The Works for Percussion 1; Percussion Group Cincinnati (Mode CD / DVD)
Louis Couperin, Pièces de Clavecin; Richard Egarr (Harmonia Mundi, 4 CDs)
Schumann, Humoreske, Busoni, Fantasia Contrappuntistica; Jacob Greenberg (New Focus)
Beethoven, "Archduke" Trio, Mozart, Quintet K. 593; Mitsuko Uchida, Soovin Kim, David Soyer, and various others live from Marlboro (ArkivMusic)
Handel, Ariodante; Joyce DiDonato, Karina Gauvin, Topi Lehtipuu, Alan Curtis leading Il Complesso Barocco (Virgin)
Weinberg, The Passenger; Michelle Breedt, Roberto Sacca, Elena Kelessidi, Artur Rucinski, Teodor Currentzis conducting the Vienna Symphony (Neos Blu-Ray) [review]
John Luther Adams, Four Thousand Holes, ...and bells remembered...; Stephen Drury, Scott Deal, Callithumpian Consort (Cold Blue)
Meredith Monk, Songs of Ascension; Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble, Todd Reynolds String Quartet, M6 Voices, Montclair State University Singers (ECM)
Harrison Birtwistle, Night's Black Bird, The Shadow of Night, The Cry of Anubis; Ryan Wigglesworth conducting the Hallé Orchestra (NMC)
Liszt, Harmonies du soir, Ballade No. 2, Six Consolations, etc.; Nelson Freire (Decca)
Strauss, An Alpine Symphony; Andris Nelsons, City of Birmingham Symphony (Orfeo)
Berlioz, Nuits d'été, Handel arias; Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Nicholas McGegan, Philharmonia Baroque (PBP)
Diva/Divo: Arias by Massenet, Mozart, Gluck, Rossini, Gounod, Berlioz, Bellini, Strauss; Joyce DiDonato, Kazushi Ono, Lyon Opera Orchestra (Virgin)
Thomas Tallis and William Byrd, Cantiones Sacrae 1575; Alamire (Obsidian)
Mahler, Des Knaben Wunderhorn; Thomas Hampson, Wiener Virtuosen (DG)
Ives/Brant, A Concord Symphony, Copland, Organ Symphony; Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the San Francisco Symphony, with Paul Jacobs, organ (SFS Media)
Kleiber: Complete Recordings for Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
The Bad Plus, Never Stop (E1)
Vivaldi, Ottone in villa; Sonia Prina, Julia Lezhneva, Verónica Cangemi, Roberta Invernizzi, Topi Lehtipuu, Giovanni Antonini leading Il Giardino Armonico (Naïve)
C. P. E. Bach, Keyboard Sonatas; Danny Driver (Hyperion)
Flights of Fantasy: Early Italian Chamber Music; Monica Huggett leading the Irish Baroque Orchestra (Avie)
Tallis: Missa Puer natus est and other English Renaissance works; Stile Antico (Harmonia Mundi)
Aston: Three Marian Antiphons; Blue Heron (BHCD)
Haydn: Twelve London Symphonies; Marc Minkowski conducting Les Musiciens du Louvre (Naïve)
Victoire, Cathedral City (New Amsterdam)
Ives, Piano Sonatas, with Jeremy Denk (Think Denk)
Muhly: A Good Understanding and other choral works; Grant Gershon conducting the Los Angeles Master Chorale (Decca)
Szymanowski: Symphony No. 3, Violin Concerto No. 1; Pierre Boulez conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, with Christian Tetzlaff, violin (DG)
Chopin, Third Piano Sonata and other works; Stephen Hough, piano (Hyperion)
Thomas Larcher, Madhares and other works; Till Fellner, Kim Kashkashian, the Diotima Quartet, Dennis Russell Davies conducting the Munich Chamber Orchestra (ECM)
Bach, Partitas Nos. 2 and 3 and Sonata No. 3; Isabelle Faust, violin (Harmonia Mundi)
Mozart, Symphonies Nos. 29, 31, 32, 35, and 36; Charles Mackerras conducting the Scottish Chamber Orchestra (Linn)
Timothy Andres, Shy and Mighty; Andres and David Kaplan, pianos (Nonesuch)
Britten, Songs & Proverbs of William Blake and other songs; Gerald Finley, baritone, and Julius Drake, piano (Hyperion)
Bach, Brandenburg Concertos; John Eliot Gardiner conducting the English Baroque Soloists (SDG)
Dvořák, String Quartets Nos. 10, 11, 13, 14, String Quintet in E-flat, Cypresses; Emerson Quartet, Paul Neubauer (DG)
Mahler, Symphony No. 2; Klaus Tennstedt conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, with Yvonne Kenny and Jard van Nes (LPO)
Verdi Arias; Sondra Radvanovsky, Constantine Orbelian conducting the Philharmonia of Russia (Delos)
Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven, Wagner Arias; Jonas Kaufmann, Claudio Abbado conducting the Mahler Chamber Orchestra (DG)
Thomas Adès, Tevot and Violin Concerto; Anthony Marwood, violinist, Simon Rattle conducting the Berlin Philharmonic, etc. (EMI)
John Sheppard, In media vita; Stile Antico (Harmonia Mundi)
Burkina Electric, Paspanga (Cantaloupe)
Colbran, the Muse: Rossini Arias; Joyce DiDonato, Edoardo Müller conducting the Orchestra and Chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome (Virgin Classics)
Xenakis, String Quartets; Jack Quartet (Mode)
Messiaen, Poèmes pour mi; Anne Schwanewilms, Jun Märkl conducting the Orchestra National de Lyon (Naxos)
Othmar Schoeck, Notturno; Christian Gerhaher, Rosamunde Quartet (ECM)
Schubert, Winterreise; Mark Padmore, Paul Lewis (Harmonia Mundi)
Mozart, Piano Concertos Nos. 23 and 24; Mitsuko Uchida, Cleveland Orchestra (Decca)
Edward Elgar, Cello Concerto (arr. Tertis/Carpenter), Schnittke, Viola Concerto; David Carpenter, Christoph Eschenbach conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra (Ondine)
John Cage, Sixteen Dances; Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP/sound)
Bernstein, Mass; Marin Alsop conducting the Baltimore Symphony (Naxos)
Messiaen, St. Francis of Assisi; Rod Gilfry, Hubert Delamboye, Henk Neven, Camilla Tilling, and Tom Randle, with Ingo Metzmacher conducting the Netherlands Opera Chorus and Hague Philharmonic (Opus Arte DVD)
Thomas Adès, The Tempest; Simon Keenlyside, Cyndia Seiden, Ian Bostridge, Kate Royal, Toby Spence, Philip Langridge, Adès conducting the Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (EMI)
Shostakovich, Twenty-four Preludes and Fugues; Jenny Lin (Hännsler Classic)
Sweelinck, Music for Harpsichord; Glen Wilson (Naxos)
David Lang, The Little Match Girl Passion; Paul Hillier, Theatre of Voices and Ars Nova Copenhagen (Harmonia Mundi)
Ann Southam, Simple Lines of Enquiry; Eve Egoyan (Centrediscs)
Xenakis, Hibiki Hana Ma and Polytope de Cluny (Mode)
Mahler, Symphony No. 4; Iván Fischer conducting the Budapest Festival Orchestra, with Miah Persson, soprano (Channel Classics)
Vivaldi, La fida ninfa; Sandrine Piau, Lorenzo Regazzo, Philippe Jaroussky, Topi Lehtipuu, Christian Senn, Veronica Cangemi, Jean-Christophe Spinosi conducting the Ensemble Matheus (Naïve)
Beethoven, Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5; Richard Goode, piano, with Iván Fischer conducting the Budapest Festival Orchestra (Nonesuch)
Unsuk Chin, Violin Concerto, Rocaná; Viviane Hagner, violin, with Kent Nagano conducting the Montreal Symphony (Analekta)
Lamenti: Arias by Cavalli, Monteverdi, Strozzi, Landi, Carissimi, and Cesti; Emmanuelle Haïm conducting Le Concert d'Astrée, with Patrizia Ciofi, Natalie Dessay, Véronique Gens, Joyce DiDonato, Philippe Jaroussky, Rolando Villazón, etc. (Virgin Classics)
Ravel, Debussy, and Fauré, String Quartets; Quatuor Ebène (Virgin Classics)
Song of Songs: Works by Palestrina, Gombert, Lassus, Victoria, Clemens, Guerrero, Lhériter, Ceballos,Vivanco; Stile Antico (Harmonia Mundi)
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Piano Concerto, Helix, Dichotomie; Yefim Bronfman, Salonen conducting the LA Philharmonic (DG)
John Corigliano, Circus Maximus (Symphony No. 3); Jerry Junkin conducting the University of Texas Wind Ensemble (Naxos)
The Bad Plus, For All I Care (Heads Up)
Richard Strauss, Elektra; Astrid Varnay, Leonie Rysanek, Res Fischer, Hans Hotter, Richard Kraus conducting the Köln Radio Symphony Orchestra (Capriccio, new remastering of 1953 classic)
Hommage à Messiaen; Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano (DG)
Gods, Kings, and Demons; René Pape, Sebastian Weigle conducting the Staatskapelle Dresden (DG)
Jonathan Harvey, Body Mandala and other pieces; Ilan Volkov and Stefan Solyom conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (NMC)
Saariaho, Notes on Light, Orion, Mirage; Karita Mattila, Anssi Kartunnen, Christoph Eschenbach conducting the Orchestre de Paris (Ondine)
Olivier Messiaen: six-CD box set including La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, Des Canyons aux étoiles, Visions de l'Amen, Sept Haïkaï, and Couleurs de la cité céleste, with Reinbert de Leeuw and Pierre Boulez conducting (Naive)
Beethoven, Symphonies Nos. 2 and 7; Osmo Vänskä conducting the Minnesota Orchestra (BIS)
Air: Music for Harp, Flute, and Strings by Debussy and Takemitsu; Joshua Smith, flute, Yolanda Kondonassis, harp, and Oberlin 21 (Telarc)
Schumann, Dichterliebe and other Heine Lieder; Gerald Finley, Julius Drake (Hyperion)
Crystal Tears: Songs of Dowland, Robert Johnson, Byrd, and others; Andreas Scholl with Julian Behr and Concerti di viole (Harmonia Mundi)
Lorraine at Emmanuel: Bach and Handel Arias; Lorraine Hunt Lieberson with Craig Smith conducting the Orchestra of Emmanuel Music (Avie)
Stravinsky, Symphony in Three Movements, Symphony of Psalms, Symphony in C; Simon Rattle conducting the Berlin Philharmonic and Rundfunkchor Berlin (EMI)
Morton Feldman, The Viola In My Life I-IV; Marek Konstantynowicz, viola, with Christian Eggen conducting the Cikada Ensemble and the Norwegian Radio Orchestra (ECM)
Beethoven Piano Sonatas, vol. 4; Paul Lewis (Harmonia Mundi)
Schoenberg and Sibelius Violin Concertos; Hilary Hahn, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Swedish Radio Symphony (DG)
Josquin, Missa Sine nomine and Missa Ad fugam; Tallis Scholars (Gimell)
Heavenly Harmonies (music of Tallis and Byrd); Stile Antico (Harmonia Mundi)
Dowland, Lute Songs, Britten, Nocturnal; Mark Padmore, Elizabeth Kenny, Craig Ogden (Hyperion)
Elliott Carter, Quartets Nos. 1 and 5; Pacifica Quartet (Naxos)
Steve Reich, Music for 18 Musicians, Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble (Innova)
Strauss, Salome, Teresa Stratas, Karl Böhm, Vienna Philharmonic (DG DVD)
Handel Arias, Danielle de Niese and William Christie with Les Arts Florissants (Decca)
John Luther Adams, Red Arc/Blue Veil (Cold Blue)
Mozart, Don Giovanni, René Jacobs conducting (Harmonia Mundi)
Beethoven, Symphonies Nos. 3 and 8, Paavo Järvi conducting the Kammerphilharmonie Bremen (BMG)
John Cage, Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano, Philipp Vandré (Mode)
Common Sense Composers’ Collective, tic, with the New Millenium Ensemble (Troy)
Beethoven, Piano Sonatas vol. 3, Paul Lewis (Harmonia Mundi)
Bach, Goldberg Variations, Simone Dinnerstein (Telarc)
Brahms, String Sextets, Nash Ensemble (Onyx)
Osvaldo Golijov, Oceana, with Dawn Upshaw, Luciana Souza, the Kronos Quartet, and Robert Spano conducting the Atlanta Symphony (DG)
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson: Live from Wigmore Hall, 1998; with Roger Vignoles, piano (Wigmore Hall Live)
Roussel, Symphony No. 3 and Bacchus et Ariane; Stéphane Denève conducting the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (Naxos)
As Steals the Morn...: Handel Arias and Scenes; Mark Padmore, tenor, with Andrew Manze conducting the English Concert (Harmonia Mundi)
Gershwin, Piano Concerto in F, Rhapsody in Blue, Cuban Overture; Jon Nakamatsu, piano, with Jeff Tyzik conducting the Rochester Philhamonic (Harmonia Mundi)
Alexandra Gardner, Luminoso (Innova)
