Critics Week: A Classical List
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 04:54 PM
Here's a best-of-2008 list from Anne Midgette, chief classical music critic of the Washington Post.
Glass: Songs and Poems for Solo Cello, Wendy Sutter, cellist (Orange Mountain
Music)
Schoenberg/Sibelius: Violin Concertos, Hilary Hahn, violin, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra (DG)
Adams: A Flowering Tree (Nonesuch)
Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated, Ralph van Raat, piano
(Naxos)
Hommage a Messiaen, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano (DG)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, plus excerpts of works by Beethoven contemporaries, Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra (Channel Classics)
Kapell Rediscovered (RCA)
DVD: the Walter Felsenstein Edition from Arthaus Musik (now available in a lower-priced version)
And a total guilty pleasure: Beriot: Violin Concertos 2, 3 and 5, Philippe Quint, violin, Kirk Trevor and the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Comments [1]
How about Simone Dinnerstein's Goldberg Variations?
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