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Overall it has been a very good listening year for me. I spent a good bit of time relearning the Shostakovich String Quartets in various recordings, most of all the Fitzwilliam String Quartet. I made more of a concerted attempt to learn the musics of Carl Nielsen and Kalevi Aho and Kurt Weill. Here are some particular recordings that got more than their share of listening time, most but not all of them new releases:
Johann Sebastian Bach, complete cantatas, Masaaki Suzuki.
Beethoven, Complete Trios for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Weiss Kaplan Stumpf Trio. Another example of “the best set of these pieces I ever have heard, and who the heck are these people?” And the same works by the van Baerle Trio.
Mishka Rushdie Momen, Reformation, keyboard works by Byrd, Gibbons, Bull, and Sweelinck.
Debussy Images, by Saskia Giorgini.
Galina Grigorjeva, Nature Morte, by Paul Hillier and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir.
Georg Friedrich Handel, Eternal Heaven, music director Thomas Dunford.
Handel, 8 Great Suites for Harpischord, by Asako Ogawa.
Bruce Liu, Waves, music by Rameau, Ravel, and Alkan.
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns, Symphonic Poems, Le Carnaval des Animaux, other works. That I actually like this music is one of the year’s bigger surprises for me.
Schubert piano trios and assorted works, by Tetzlaff, Tetzlaff, and the now departed Lars Vogt.
Stravinsky, The Soldier’s Tale, with Isabelle Faust and Dominique Horwitz.
Tchaikovsky, symphonies four and six, and orchestral music, conducted by Carlos Paita.
The best recordings of classical music — ever — are being created now. That is not what I would have expected, and it is a good counter to excessively negative cultural generalizations.
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