Metacritic Aggregate: 2022 New Music: Classical/New Age

Notes

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Sub-Lists

Some breakdowns by genre:

Ranking

  1. Hatis Noit: Aura (Erased Tapes) {9}: ACL:5, Cl:*, LQ:34*, Sk:*, W:* -- A:(82/4)
  2. Wild Up: Julius Eastman Vol 2: Joy Boy (New Amsterdam) {8}: JC:+, PO:*; jmt:3, sg_x:+, ysp:* -- A:(80/1), TH:**
  3. Pan Daijing: Tissues (Pan) {7}: ACL:2, BPM:*, SC:*, Sk:* -- A(75/7)
  4. Eliane Radigue & Frederic Blondy: Occam XXV (Organ Reframed) {6}: Mj:*, Pf:*, W:29; aqd:+, sg_x:5 -- A:(80/2)
  5. Carl Stone: Wat Dong Moon Lek (Unseen Worlds) {5}: PO:*, W:10; ysp:* -- TH:B
  6. David Friend & Jerome Begin: Post- (New Amsterdam) {4}: G:*, PO:*; jmt:+ -- A:(80/1), TH:*
  7. Ensemble 0: Music Nuvulosa (Sub Rosa) {3}: PO:* -- TH:**
  8. Keith Kirchoff/Dominic Lash/Steve Noble: Christian Wolff: Exercises and Explorations (Spoonhunt -21) {3}: -- TH:***
  9. Steve Reich: Reich/Richter () {3}: G:*, U:*, W:* -- A:(80/2)
  10. Max Richter: The New Four Seasons: Vivaldi Recomposed (Deutsche Grammophon) {3}: ACL:17; atw:+
  11. Sean Shibe: Lost & Found (PentaTone) {3}: AM:*, G:*, NPR:48 -- A:(85/2)
  12. Wild Up: Julius Eastman Vol 1: Femenine (New Amsterdam -21) {3}: SpL:8 -- TH:[A-]
  13. Cuarteto Latinoamericano: Ruperto Chapi: String Quartets 3 & 4 (Sono Luminus) {2}: AM:*; am:+ -- A:(100/1)
  14. Gewandhausorchester/Andris Nelsons: Bruckner: Symphonies Nos 1 & 5/Wagner: Tristan Und Isolde Prelude & Liebestod (Deutsche Grammophon) {2}: AM:*, G:* -- A:(85/2)
  15. Gewandhausorchester/Herbert Blomstedt: Schubert: Symphonies Nos 8 Unfinished & 9 Great (Deutsche Grammophon) {2}: AM:*; am:+ -- A:(100/1)
  16. Samuel Hasselhorn/Joseph Middleton: Schuert: Glaube, Hoffnung, Liebe (Harmonia Mundi) {2}: AM:*; am:+
  17. Peter Jablonski: Peter Jablonski Plays Grazyna Bacewicz: Piano Works (Ondine) {2}: AM:*, G:* -- A:(95/2)
  18. Johann Johannsson: Drone Mass (Deutsche Grammophon) {2}: NPR:22; sg_x:+
  19. Jean-Effiam Kavouzet/Gabor Takacs-NaZgy/Manchester Camerata: Mozart: Piano Concerto No 22, KV 482; Piano Concerto No 23, KV 488; Overture to 'Der Schauspieldirektor', KV 486 (Chandos) {2}: AM:*; am:+ -- A:(100/1)
  20. Les Cris De Paris/Geoffrey Jourdain: Schutz: David & Solomon; Psalmi; Canticum Canticorum () {2}: AM:*; am:+ -- A:(100/1)
  21. Les Epopees/Stephane Fuget: Monteverdi: Il Ritorno D'Ulisse in Patria () {2}: AM:*; am:+ -- A:(100/1)
  22. Monteverdi Choir/English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner: Bach: St John Passion (Deutsche Grammophon) {2}: AM:*; am:+ -- A:(100/1)
  23. Trevor Pinnock: The Well-Tempered Clavier II (Deutsche Grammophon) {2}: AM:*; am:+ -- A:(100/1)
  24. Wojciech Rusin: Syphon (AD93) {2}: Qt:55; qt_e:+
  25. Gerardo Teissonniere: Beethoven: The Last Sonatas: Piano Sonatas Op 109, 110, 111 (Steinway & Sons) {2}: AM:*; am:+ -- A:(100/1)
  26. John Luther Adams: Houses of the Wind (Cold Blue) {1}: sg_x:+
  27. Federico Albanese: Before and Now Seems Infinite (Mercury KK) {1}: Mj:* -- A:(75/2)
  28. Apartment House: John Cage: Hymnkus/Thoreau Drawings/Two (Another Timbre) {1}: AAJ:*
  29. Johannes Berauer: Vienna Chamber Diaries Plus Strings (Basho) {1}: AAJ:*
  30. Jean-Michel Blais: Aubades (Mercury KX) {1}: Ex:* -- A:(80/1)
  31. Alison Cotton: The Portrait You Painted of Me (Rocket) {1}: Qt:37
  32. Doric String Quartet/Timothy Ridout: Mendelssohn: The String Quartets (Chandos) {1}: AM:*, G:* -- A:(85/2)
  33. James Ehnes/Sir Andrew Davis/BBC Orchestra: Berg: Violin Concerto/Three Orchestral Pieces/Piano Sonata/Passacaglia (Chandos) {1}: G:* -- A:(80/1)
  34. Marie-Laure Garnier/arie Perbost/Aude Extremo/Nikola Nikolov/Xavier Phillips/Heloise Luzzati/David Kadouch/Celia Oneto Bensaid/Marie Vermeulin/Constance Luzzati/Quatuor Hermes/Orchestre National Avignon-Provence/Debora W: Charlotte Sohy: Compositrice de la Belle Epoque (La Boite a Pepites -3CD) {1}: AM:* -- A:(80/1)
  35. Asmik Grigorian & Lukas Geniusas: Rachmaninov: Dissonance (Alpha) {1}: G:* -- A:(100/1)
  36. Yo-Yo Ma/John Williams/New York Philharmonic: A Gathering of Friends () {1}: bn:+
  37. Andris Nelsons/Boston Symphony Orchestra/Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra: Strauss (Deutsche Grammophon) {1}: am:+
  38. Phantasm: John Jenkins: Four-Part Consorts () {1}: IT:* -- A:(100/1)
  39. Quatuor Ebene: 'Round Midnight (Erato -21) {1}: SpL:32
  40. Francois-Xavier Roth/Marie-Ange Todorovitch: Pelleas Et Melisande () {1}: G:* -- A:(80/1)
  41. Kristina Socanski: Philip Glass: Solo Piano (Oclassica) {1}: AAJ:*
  42. Swedish Chamber Orchestra/Thomas Dausgaard: Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 (BIS) {1}: YW:36
  43. John Williams and Berliner Philharmoniker: The Berlin Concert (Deutsche Grammophon) {1}: AAJ:*