EOY List Aggregate: 2019 New Music: Classical/New Age

Notes

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Sub-Lists

Some breakdowns by genre:

Ranking

  1. Attacca Quartet: Caroline Shaw: Orange (New Amsterdam/Nonesuch) {17}: NPR:7, Pf:+; jma:+, mu:5, nat:5, npr_th:1, vsd:1, wil:+ -- PJ:206-40-4
  2. Beth Gibbons & the Polish National Symphony Orchestra: Henryk Gorecki: Symphony No 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs) (Domino) {16}: Fp:16, G:+, Mj:+, MO:+, Noj:33, Pf:+, PM:+, PO:+, Q:+, RM:34, U:+, UR:+; am:+, jrw:18, wil:+
  3. John Luther Adams: Become Desert (Cantaloupe) {9}: G:+, NPR:21; aaj:+, jms:7, npr_oh:3, npr_th:2, tg:+
  4. Uri Caine: The Passion of Octavius Catto (816 Music) {7}: JC:+; jkw:1, jls:3, pm_j:+
  5. Sarah Davachi: Pale Bloom (W 25th/Superior Viaduct) {7}: Dr:45, Mj:+, Qt:+, SC:+, TMT:+; ra:++
  6. Kronos Quartet: Terry Riley: Sun Rings (Nonesuch) {5}: PO:+; aaj:+, jms:10, jrw:6, tg:+ -- TH:B
  7. Hevreh Ensemble: A Path of Light (Ansonica) {4}: Tx:4
  8. Philip Thomas: Morton Feldman Piano (Another Timbre -5CD) {4}: W:5
  9. Glenn Branca: The Third Ascension (MVD Audio) {3}: Pf:+; jab:12, mg_n:7
  10. New York Philharmonic/Jaap Van Zweden: Julia Wolfe: Fire in My Mouth (Decca) {3}: nat:1
  11. Cupertinos/Luis Toscano: Manuel Cardoso: Requiem, Lamentations, Magnificat & Motets (Hyperion) {2}: am:++
  12. Danish String Quartet: Prism II: Beethoven, Schnittke, Bach (ECM New Series) {2}: am:++
  13. Mario Diaz De Leon: Cycle and Reveal (Denovali) {2}: ACL:18
  14. El Leon De Oro/Peter Phillips: Amarae Morti (Hyperion) {2}: am:++
  15. Matthias Goerne/Leif Ove Andsnes: Robert Schumann: Liederkreis Op 24/Kerner-Lieder (Harmonia Mundi) {2}: am:++
  16. Franz Halasz: JS Bach: The Lute Suites (BIS) {2}: am:++
  17. Olivier Latry: Bach to the Future (La Dolce Volta) {2}: am:++
  18. Latvian Radio Choir/Sigvards Klava: Tchaikovsky: Liturgy of St John Chrysostom/Nine Sacred Choruses (Ondine) {2}: am:++
  19. Minnesota Orchestra/Osmo Vanska: Mahler 1 (BIS) {2}: am:++
  20. Garrick Ohlsson: Brahms: Late Piano Works: Clavierstucke, Fantasias, Intermezzos (Hyperion) {2}: am:++
  21. Sandrine Piau/Le Concert De La Loge Julien Chauvin: Si J'ai Aime (Alpha) {2}: am:++
  22. The 5 Browns: Christmas With the 5 Browns (Steinway and Sons) {1}: YW:57
  23. Marco Ambrosini Ensemble Supersonus: Resonances (ECM) {1}: YW:125
  24. Mischa Blanos: Indoors (InFine) {1}: xlr:+
  25. Blue Heron: Johannes Ockeghem: Complete Songs Vol 1 (self-released) {1}: tg:+
  26. Richard Bonynge: Alfred Cellier: Dorothy (Naxos) {1}: tg:+
  27. Jeffrey Brooks: The Passion (Innova) {1}: tg:+
  28. Chicago Sinfonietta/Mei-Ann Chen: Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers (Cedille) {1}: tg:+
  29. Oliver Coates: John Luther Adams: Canticles of the Sky + Three High Places (RVNG Intl) {1}: Qt:79
  30. Common Sense Composers' Collective/Friction Quartet: Spark (Innova) {1}: tx_r:10
  31. Adrian Corker: Music for Lock Grooves (SN Variation) {1}: acl_x:+
  32. Colin Currie & Steve Reich: Live at Fondation Louis Vuitton (self-released) {1}: tg:+
  33. Lise Davidsen: Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs/Wagner: Arias From Tannhauser (Decca) {1}: npr_th:8
  34. Jeremy Denk: C 1300-C 2000 (Nonesuch) {1}: tg:+
  35. Bryce Dessner: El Chan (Deutsche Grammophon) {1}: UR:+
  36. Nicholas Deyoe: James Tenney: Changes: 64 Studies for 6 Harps (New World) {1}: W:34
  37. Joyce DiDonato: Songplay (Warner Classics/Erato) {1}: db:+
  38. Duenn: BGM (Line) {1}: YW:127
  39. Fort Smith Symphony/John Jeter: Florence Beatrice Price: Symphonies (Naxos) {1}: tg:+
  40. William Ryan Fritch: Deceptive Cadence: Music for Film Volume I & II (Lost Tribe Sound) {1}: Ex:+
  41. Ricardo Gallen: Leo Brouwer: Guitar Sonatas (IBS Classical) {1}: tg:+
  42. Jess Gillam: Rise (Decca) {1}: TS:+
  43. Hillary Hahn: 6 Partitas by Anton Garcia Abril (Decca) {1}: tg:+
  44. Hauschka: A Different Forest (Sony) {1}: LBF:+
  45. The Ivory Elephant: Stoneface (Kozmik Artifactz) {1}: -- FB:68
  46. Nathalie Joachim With Spektral Quartet: Fanm D'Ayiti (New Amsterdam) {1}: nat:8
  47. Eleni Karaindrou: Tous Des Oiseaux (ECM New Series) {1}: tg:+
  48. Yo-Yo Ma: Salonen: Cello Concerto (Sony Masterworks) {1}: xbl:10
  49. Kyle McEvoy: Always Fading (1631) {1}: YW:123
  50. Paul O'Dette: Albert De Rippe: Un Perfaict Sonneur De Leut (Harmonia Mundi) {1}: YW:101
  51. Vikingur Olafsson: JS Bach: Works & Reworks (Deutsche Grammophon) {1}: jcmb:8
  52. Petr Aleksander: Closer, Still (Nettwerk) {1}: GTV:47
  53. Quatuor Diotima: Bela Bartok: Integrale Des Quatuors a Cordes (Naive) {1}: am:+
  54. Ellen Reid: Prism (Decca Gold) {1}: npr_th:6
  55. Riot Ensemble: Speak, Be Silent (Huddersfield Contemporary) {1}: nat:6
  56. Asya Selyutina: Nikita Koshkin: 24 Preludes & Fugues Vol 1 (Naxos) {1}: YW:117
  57. DJ Sparr: Electric Bands (Innova) {1}: tg:+
  58. St Jacobs Kammarkor/Rebaroque/Gary Graden: GF Handel: Messiah (Proprius -17) {1}: jcmb:10
  59. Aki Takahashi: Morton Feldman: For Bunita Marcus (Mode) {1}: ycy:10
  60. Michael Vincent Waller: Moments (Unseen Worlds) {1}: YW:122
  61. Christian Wolff: Preludes, Variations, Studies and Incidental Music (Sub Rosa) {1}: Qt:48