The Official 2017 GMG Musical Awards Thread

[milk]

This wild and weird recording is going to make my list this year. Bold stuff, and hits the spot depending on my mood.

[The One]

so if it was released this year I should put it here and not the other one? This is giving me a lot of anxiety 

Exactly why I still have not posted a comprehensive list 

[king ubu]

My list of 2017 classical releases (I don't have one of all acquisitions, so no entry in the other thread I'm afraid ... still buying much faster than I could ever listen, even if I could listen 24 x 7 x 365  )

No label info, but should be clear, if not and you want to know, please ask.



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Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber – Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin
Ann Hallenberg, il pomo d'oro/Stefano Montanari – Carnevale 1729

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Véronique Gens – Visions
Krystian Zimerman – Franz Schubert: Piano Sonatas D 959 & D 960
Freiburger Barockorchester/René Jacobs – Mozart: Requiem
Sarah Laulan – Les Blasphèmes: Mélodies Fin-de-siècle
Gidon Kremer/Kremerata Baltica – Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Chamber Symphonies/Piano Quintet
Lore Binon/Inge Spinette – Les poètes maudits
Georg Nigl/Anna Lucia Richter/Petra Müllejans/Roel Dieltielns/Andreas Staier – Bach Privat
Peter Donohoe – Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues
Orfeo Orchestra/György Vashegyi – Mondonville: Isbé
Le Concert Spirituel/Hervé Niquet – Händel: Messiah (1754)
Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset – Lully: Armide
Trio Zimmermann – Hindemith/Schönberg
Regula Mühlemann, La Folia, Robin Peter Müller – Cleopatra: Baroque Arias
Georg Kallweit/Björn Colell – Passaggio: Eine barocke Alpenüberquerung
Isabelle Faust, Alexander Melnikov, Salagon Quartet – Franck: Sonate pour piano et violon; Chausson: Concert
Giulia Nuti – Le Coeur & L'Oreille: Manuscript Bauyn
Nathalie Stutzmann – Quella Fiamma: Arie Antiche
Irvine Arditti – Caprices: Sciarrino, Carter, Nunes, Boulez
Paul McCreesh – Haydn: The Seasons
Marco Fusi – Pierluigi Billone: ITI KE MI/Equilibrio. Cerchio
Accademia Bizantina/Ottavio Dantone – Bach: The Art of the Fugue
Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini – Bach: Variations on Variations
Carolyn Sampson, Freiburger Barockorchester, Petra Müllejans – Bach: Cantatas for Soprano
La Fonte Musica, Michele Pasotti – Metamorfosi trecento
Anima Eterna/Jos Van Immerseel – Gershwin
Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset – Lully: Alceste
Allabastrina/La Pifarescha/Elena Sartori – Caccini: La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola di Alcina (Firenze, 1625)
Capella de Ministrers/Carles Magraner – Quattrocento
Jan Michiels – Slavic Soul: Antonín Dvorák & Leos Janácek
Pierre Hantaï – Scarlatti: Sonates 5
Ensemble Intercontemporain/Matthias Pintscher – New York
Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber – Brahms: Die schöne Magelone
Ensemble Aurora/Enrico Gatti – The Fiery Angel: Neapolitan Instrumental Music for 1, 2, 3 and 4 Violins
Marianne Crebassa/Fazil Say – Secrets: French Songs
L'Amoroso/Giudo Balestracci – Marcello: Estro poetico-armonico, Sonata a tré
Zefiro/Alfredo Bernardini – Dresden: Califano, Fasch, Heinichen, Lotti, Quants, Telemann, Vivaldi
Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset – Rameau: Pygmalion
Fumio Yasuda – Erik Satie: Musique d'Entracte

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Marie-Claude Chappuis/Luca Pianca – Sous l'emprie d'amour
Thomas Demenga – Bach: Suiten für Violoncello
Daniil Trifonov – Chopin Evocations
Sabine Devieilhe – Mirages
Christiane Karg – Parfum
International Contemporary Ensemble/Steven Schick – Chaya Czernowin: Wintersongs
Anja Lechner/Agnès Vesterman – Valentin Silvestrov: Hieroglyphen der Nacht
Arne Deforce/Benjamin Dieltjanes – Dusapin: Item
Chantal Santon Jefferey – Stradella: Lagrime e sospiri
Philippe Jaroussky/Artaserse – The Händel Album
Barbara Hannigan – Crazy Girl Crazy
Delpine Galou/Accademia Bizantina/Ottavio Dantone – Agitata
Nationales Symphonieorchester des Polnischen Rundfunks Kattowitz, Mariusz Godlewski, Thomas Rösner – Kletzki: Sinfonie Nr. 2, Marek: Sinfonia
Philippe Jaroussky, Emöke Baráth, Diego Fasolis – La Storia di Orfeo: Monteverdi, Sartorio, Rossi
I Fagiolini – Monteverdi: The Other Vespers
Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé – Marc-Antoine Charpentier: La Descente d'Orphée aus Enfers
Sonia Prina, laBarocca, Ruben Jais – Heroes in Love: Gluck Arias
L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar – Händel Goes Wild
Roberta Mameli/Luca Pianca – Anime amanti
Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew – Monteverdi: Madrigali Vol. 3, Venezia
Arditti Quartet/Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Pascal Rophé – Dusapin: Quatuors VI & VII
Collegium Vocale Gent/Philippe Herreweghe – Bach: Du treuer Gott – Leipzig Cantatas (BWV 101, 115, 103)
Julia Schröder, Kammerorchester Basel – Bologna 1666
Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon – Stravaganza d'amore! The Birth of Opera at the Medici Court
Europa Galante/Fabio Biondi – Händel: Lucio Cornelia Silla (London, 1713)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Mendelssohn: Symphonies 1-5
Dorothee Mields/Hille Perl – Händel
Cecilia Bartoli & Sol Gabetta – Dolce Duello
Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante – Leclair: Violin Concertos
Voces Suaves/Concerto Scirocco – Croce: Motetti & Sacrae cantiones

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Julie Boulianne, Clavecin en concert/Luc Beauséjour – Vivaldi, Händel: Arias
Giovanni Antonini/Kammerorchester Basel – Haydn 2032 No. 5: L'Homme de génie
Khatia Buniathisvili, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Paavo Järvi – Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos 2 & 3
Olga Peretyatko – Russian Light
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin – Telemann: Concerti per molti stromenti
MUza Rubackyte/Olivier Vernet – Julius Reubke: Sonaten
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana/Dennis Russell Davies – Now, and Then (Maderna, Berio)
Auser Musici/Carlo Ipata – Händel: Catone
Julia Lezhneva/Concerto Köln/Mikhail Antonenko – Carl Heinrich Graun: Opera Arias

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Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto/Marco Angius – Sciarrino: Altri volti e nuovi
Ann Hallenberg/Collegium Vocale Gent/Orchestre des Champs-Élysées/Philippe Herreweghe – Brahms: Symphony No. 4, Alt-Rhapsodie, Schicksalslied
Natalie Dessay/Michel Legrand – Between Yesterday and Tomorrow

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Some others I've not yet found the time to listen or to listen entirely.

Not quite ready for the late Beethoven quartets I feel (it was amazing hearing No. 13 in concert by the Takács quartet early in the year - thanks to GioCar for that!) as well as for that Kurtág set ... I have explored some Kurtág here and there, and if La Scala will finally produce his opera in the new season, I will do all I can to be be there, that's for sure ... but such a comprehensive edition as the one by de Leeuw is still kind of scaring me off ...

I have also started exploring bits from the LPO/Jurowski set and I guess it's among the finest of the year, all things considered - but it's a semi-archival release either way.

Had plans to squeeze in my very first listen to "Les Troyens" in the past week, but it didn't pan out (instead I went for the glorious Mondonville "Isbé").

Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg/John Nelson – Berlioz: Les Troyens
John Snijders – Morton Feldman: Triadic Memoris (1981) & Piano (1977)
Jared Schwartz/Mary Dibbern – Liszt: Songs for Bass Voice and Piano
London Philharmonic Orchestra/Vladimir Jurowski – 10 Years
Quatuor Mosaïques – Beethoven: The Late Quartets
Prague Philharmonic Choir/Czech Philharmonic/Manfred Honeck – Martinu: The Epic of Gilgamesh
I Barocchisti/Diego Fasolis – Vivaldi: Dorilla in Tempe
Reinbert de Leeuw/Asko|Schönberg – György Kurtág: Complete Works for Enesemble and Choir
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Mikko Franck – Debussy: L'Enfant prodigue/Ravel: L'Enfant et les sortilèges

and a couple of new historical ones ... the Lefébure is amazing from what I've heard (half a dozen to a dozen discs) and read (great booklet, very extensive notes, including printed version of the interviews that are included on disc as well) ... from the Bolet I've played one disc (the third with Chopin and Debussy) only, so far.

Yvonne Lefébure – Une Légende du piano
Jorge Bolet – Liszt, Chopin, Debussy, Moszkowski, Saint-Saëns, Godowsky, Schumann

[milk]

My list of 2017 classical releases (I don't have one of all acquisitions, so no entry in the other thread I'm afraid ... still buying much faster than I could ever listen, even if I could listen 24 x 7 x 365  )


Fumio Yasuda – Erik Satie: Musique d'Entracte

Wow. I'm enjoying this right now Thanks for this one.

[king ubu]

Wow. I'm enjoying this right now Thanks for this one.

That's a fine one indeed! Was in touch with Joachim Badenhorst about some of his releases and ended up buying most of his stuff. He's a jazz/improvising musician but that aspect fits in very well in the Satie project. Not familiar with Yasuda otherwise yet.

[The One]

...Not quite ready for the late Beethoven quartets I feel ...

Quatuor Mosaïques – Beethoven: The Late Quartets

Great 131, the most exciting for me in many years, but I can find faults for the rest.