Metacritic Aggregate: 2023 New Music: Classical/New Age

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Sub-Lists

Some breakdowns by genre:

Ranking

  1. Ryuichi Sakamoto: 12 (Milan) {17}: Cpu:+, HP:42, Ind:32, Jp:22, Pf:40, Rf:39, Sl:24, U:54, W:20, VF:+, YW:78; am_e:+, pf_j:+, sg_x:2, vew:+, vu:+ -- TH:B
  2. Wild Up: Julius Eastman Vol 3: If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? (New Amsterdam) {7}: PO:16; g_c:2 -- TH:***
  3. Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra/Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: The Jungle [Wynton Marsalis: Symphony No 4] (Blue Engine) {4}: BA:+, JC:+; jsw:3
  4. Ensemble 0: Jojoni [Made to Measure Vol 49] (Crammed Discs) {3}: PO:89 -- TH:**
  5. Thomas Bangalter: Mythologies (Erato) {2}: I:27; tmr:+
  6. Los Angeles Philharmonic/Gustavo Dudamel: Thomas Ades: Date () {2}: NPR:+; am:+
  7. Pierre-Laurent Aimard/San Francisco Orchestra/Essa-Pekka Salonen: Bartok: Piano Concertos (Sony) {1}: vjc:8
  8. Peter Herresthal/Arctic Philharmonic/Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra: Missu Mazzoli: Dark With Excessive Bright () {1}: NPR:+
  9. Iceland Symphony Orchestra: Archona/Aion (Sono Luminus) {1}: BA:+
  10. Anna Lapwood: Luna () {1}: am:+
  11. Yunchan Lim: Live From the Cliburn: Liszt: Transcendetal Etudes () {1}: am:+
  12. MIVOS Quartet: Steve Reich: The String Quartets (Deutsche Grammophon) {1}: CE:37
  13. The Norwegian Soloists Choir/Ensemble Allegria/Grete Pedersen: Bent Sorensen: St Matthew Passion () {1}: am:+
  14. Awadagin Pratt: Stillpoint () {1}: NPR:+
  15. Pygmalion/Raphael Pichon: Claudio Monteverdi: Vespro Della Beata Vergine () {1}: am:+
  16. Nurit Stark: Bartok Ligeti Veress Eotvos (BIS -22) {1}: SpL:29
  17. Trio Karenine: Suk/Dvorak () {1}: am:+
  18. Gianluigi Trovesi: Stravaganze Consonanti (ECM) {1}: -- TH:*
  19. John Wilson/Sinfonia of London: Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (Chandos) {1}: am:+