Metacritic/EOY Aggregate: 2024 New Music: Classical/New Age

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Sub-Lists

Some breakdowns by genre:

Ranking

  1. Kali Malone: All Life Long (Ideologic Organ) {16}: G:*, LI:52, LQ:*, LW:43, Mj:*, O:*, Pf:*+, Qt:+, Sk:*, U:*, W:24; ra:*, s_t:+, sg_x:+ -- A:79/9, TH:*
  2. Kelly Moran: Moves in the Field (Warp) {10}: Cl:*, LQ:*, O:*, PM:*; am:*, sg_x:2 -- A:83/6, TH:***
  3. Max Richter: In a Landscape (Decca) {4}: Cl:*, IT:*, RT:30, SC:* -- A:76/6
  4. Philip Glass: Philip Glass Solo (Orange Mountain) {3}: Pf:*, SC:+, U:* -- A:76/4
  5. Yunchan Lim: Chopin: Études (Decca) {3}: G:*; am:+* -- A:100/2
  6. Takacs Quartet: Schubert: String Quartet in G Major D887/String Quartet in B Flat Major D112 (Hyperion) {3}: G:*; am:+* -- A:90/2
  7. Michael Thomas: The Illusion of Choice (Criss Cross Jazz) {3}: -- TH:***
  8. Louise Alder/RTim Mead/Anna Stéphany/Stuart Jackson/Adam Plachetka/Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen: Handel: Theodora, HWV 60 (Alpha) {2}: am:+* -- A:100/1
  9. Jon Batiste: Beethoven Blues [Batiste Piano Series, Vol. 1] (Verve/Interscope) {2}: JC:+, YW:45
  10. Maya Beiser: Maya Beiser x Terry Riley: In C (Islandia) {2}: NPR:+; am;* -- A:80/1
  11. Lea Desandre & Thomas Dunford: Idylle (Erato) {2}: am:+* -- A:100/1
  12. Ensemble 0/Talea Ensemble/Ensemble Dedalus/James Baker: Sarah Hennies: Motor Tapes (New World) {2}: W:41; sg_x:+
  13. Renée Fleming/Kelli O'Hara/Joyce DiDonato/Metropolitan Opera Orchestra/Metropolitan Opera Chorus/Yannick Nézet-Ségun: Kevin Puts: The Hours (Erato) {2}: am:+* -- A:100/1
  14. Jonathan Fournel/Mozarteumorchester Salzburg/Howard Griffiths: Piano Concertos Nos. 18 KV 456 & 21 KV 467 (Alpha) {2}: am:+* -- A:100/1
  15. London Choral Sinfonia/Michael Waldron: The French Album (Orchid Classics) {2}: am:+* -- A:100/1
  16. Los Angeles Philharmonic/Gustavo Dudamel/Maria Dueñas/Los Angeles Master Chorale: Gabriela Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina () {2}: NPR:+; am:+ -- A:80/1
  17. Yannick Nézet-Séguin/Chamber Orchestra of Europe: Brahms: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon) {2}: YW:15
  18. Julian Prégardien/Les Épopées/Stéphane Fuget: Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (Château de Versailes Spectacles) {2}: am:+* -- A:100/1
  19. Jean-Guihen Queyras/Ensemble Resonanza/Riccardo Minasi: Antonin Kraft-Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Cello Concertos (Harmonia Mundi) {2}: YW:20
  20. Caroline Shaw & So Percussion: Rectangles and Circumstance (Nonesuch) {2}: G:*; am:* -- A:85/2
  21. Jonathan Tetelman/PFK-Prague Philharmonia: The Great Puccini (Deutsche Grammophon) {2}: SpL:**
  22. Wee/Swedish Chamber Orchestra/Michael Collins: Henselt & Bronsart: Piano Concertos (BIS) {2}: am:+*
  23. Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin/Bernhard Forck/Ernst Schlader: Mozart Symphonies Nos. 29 & 33, Clarinet Concerto (Pentatone) {1}: YW:64
  24. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet/Manchester Camerata/Gábor Takács-Nagy: Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 10 (Chandos) {1}: YW:101
  25. Claire Booth/Christopher Glynn: Arnold Schoenberg: Expressionist Music (Orchid Classics) {1}: G:* -- A:80/1
  26. Guy Braunstein/Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège/Alondra de la Parra: Abbey Road Concerto (Alpha) {1}: YW:50
  27. Bertrand Chamayou: Letter(s) to Erik Satie (Erato -23) {1}: YW:36
  28. Concerto Copenhagen/Lars Ulrik Mortensen: Champagne! The Sound of Lumbye and His Idols (Dacapo) {1}: YW:76
  29. Erland Cooper: Carve the Runes, Then Be Content With Silence (Mercury KX) {1}: MO:25 -- A:70/1
  30. Emily D'Angelo: Freezing (Deutsche Grammophon) {1}: NPR:+
  31. Danish Chamber Orchestra/Ádám Fischer: Haydn: Late Symphonies, Vol. 3 (Naxos) {1}: YW:34
  32. Estonian National Symphony Orchestra/Naeemi Järvi: French Opera Overtures by Auber, Palnquette and Lecocq (Chandos) {1}: YW:81
  33. Experiential Orchestra/James Blachly/Curtis J Stewart: American Counterpoints: Julia Perry & Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (Bright Shiny Things) {1}: NPR:+ -- A:70/1
  34. Isabell Gustafsson-Ny: Rosenhagtorn (War Winters) {1}: AD:* -- A:100/1
  35. Halle/Sir Mark Elder: Elgar: Symphony No. 1 in A Flat/Symphony No. 2 in E Flat (Hallé) {1}: G:* -- A:100/1
  36. Barbara Hannigan/Bertrand Chamayou: Messaien (Alpha) {1}: G:* -- A:80/1
  37. Janine Jansen/Klaus Mäkelä/Oslo Philharmonic: Sibelius/Prokofiev: Violin Concertos (Decca) {1}: G:* -- A:100/1
  38. Kölner Akademie/Michael Alexander Willens: Mozart: Overtures (BIS) {1}: YW:37
  39. Los Angeles Philharmonic: John Adams: Girls of the Golden West (Nonesuch) {1}: G:*
  40. Sven-Ingvart Mikkelsen: Starway to Bach (Our) {1}: YW:90
  41. Minnesota Orchestra/Osmo Vanska/Jennifer Johnston/Women of the Minnesopta Chorale/Minnesota Boychoir: Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor (BIS) {1}: G:* -- A:80/1
  42. Viktoria Mullova & Alasdair Beatson: Beethoven Violin Sonatas Nos. 6, 1 and 8 (Signum Classics) {1}: G:* -- A:80/1
  43. Vikingur Ólafsson: Continuum (Deutsche Grammophon) {1}: YW:112
  44. Philharmonia Orchestra/Michael Collins: Mozart: Symphonies 34-36 (BIS) {1}: YW:40
  45. Quatuor Bozzini: Jürg Frey: String Quartet No. 4 (Collection QB) {1}: Qt:49
  46. Nemanja Radulovic: Beethoven Violin Concerto & Violin Sonata No. 9 "Kreutzer" (Warners Classics) {1}: YW:73
  47. Hannah Selin: Dream Journal & the Apocalypse (Gold Bolus) {1}: PM:+
  48. Brindley Sherratt/Julius Drake: Fear No More (Delphian) {1}: G:*
  49. Yuuko Shiokawa/András Schiff: Brahms, Schumann (ECM) {1}: am:+
  50. Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Michael Feinstein: Gershwin Rhapsody (Decca) {1}: tms_j:+
  51. Wiener Concert-Verein/Milan Turkovic: Mozart: Nachtmusik (Gramola) {1}: YW:44