I don’t do “best-of” lists. “Best” is so subjective that
it implies too many things to too many people. Besides, “best” suggests that
I’ve sampled everything available in a given category, and even though I review
hundreds of discs a year, I confess I have heard but a fraction of what’s
available. Therefore, I prefer to do “favorites” lists. Here are just a few of
the recordings (listed alphabetically, to be fair) I heard last year that I
enjoyed enormously for their performance and sound. OK, I know I’ve forgotten a
few; forgive me. These stood out, some of them new remasters of old favorites.
An English Fancy
Trio Settecento. Cedille CDR 90000 135.
Bach: Air - The
Bach Album
Includes Air, Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2, Largo,
Double Concerto, and Ave Maria. Anne Akiko Meyers, violin;
Steven Mercurio, English Chamber Orchestra. eOne Music EOM-CD-7785.
Bach: Brandenburg
Concertos
Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. Tafelmusik
TMK1004CD2 (2-disc set).
Beethoven: Piano
Concerto No. 5 “Emperor”
Rudolf Serkin, piano; Seiji Ozawa, Boston Symphony
Orchestra. LIM UHD 053.
Beethoven: Symphony
No. 3 “Eroica”
Also, 12
Contredanses and the finale from The
Creatures of Prometheus. Andrew Manze, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra.
Harmonia Mundi HMU 807470.
Eternal Echoes:
Songs & Dances for the Soul
Itzhak Perlman, violin; Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot. Sony
Classical 88725 42006 2.
Holst: The Planets
Andre Previn, London Symphony Orchestra. Hi-Q Records
HIQXRCD3.
Mahler: Symphony
No. 1
Fabio Luisi, Vienna Symphony. Wiener Symphonikor WS 001.
Mozart: Piano Concertos 17 and 22
Also, Rondo in A
major. Kristian Bezuidenhout, piano; Petra Mullejans, Freiburg Baroque
Orchestra. Harmonia Mundi HMC 902147.
Nostalgias Argentinas
Piano music of Argentina. Mirian Conti, piano. Steinway
& Sons 30010.
Pleyel: Symphonies
in B-flat and G
Also, Flute Concerto
in C. Patrick Gallois, conductor and flute; Sinfonia Finlandia Jyvaskyla.
Naxos 8.572550.
Rodrigo: Concierto
de Aranjuez
Also, Concierto
serenata for harp. Narciso Yepes, guitar; Ataulfo Argenta, Spanish National
Orchestra; Nicanor Zabaleta, harp; Ernst Maerzendorfter, Berlin Radio Symphony
Orchestra. HDTT HQCD259.
Salon Mexicano
Music of Castro, Villanueva, Ponce, and Rolon. Jorge
Federico Osorio, piano. Cedille CDR 900000 132.
Schubert: Symphony
No. 7 “Unfinished”
Also, Rondo for
Violin and Strings in A Major; Polonaise
in B flat Major; Concert Piece in D
Major for Violin and Orchestra. Andreas Janke, violin; David Zinman,
Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich. RCA Red Seal 88697 95335 2.
Steiner: Adventures
of Don Juan
Also, Arsenic and
Old Lace. William Stromberg, Moscow
Symphony Orchestra. Tribute Film Classics TFC-1009 (2-disc set).
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