The Best Classical Recordings of 2017 (A Compendium)

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Latest Edit: Forbes & Gramophone Re-Releases .

The "Best of 2017" lists... I'll add as I come across further lists. (Still waiting on Alex Ross', for example.) [Ed.: Got it]

New York Times: The 25 Best Classical Music Recordings of 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/13/arts/music/best-classical-music-recordings-2017.html?_r=0

Chicago Sun Times: Ten classical recordings that made 2017 a very good listening year
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/vonrhein/sc-ent-best-classical-recordings-2017-1206-story.html

Gramophone: Recordings of the Year 2017: free digital magazine
https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/61224/spread/1

New: Gramophone: Re-Releases of the Year 2017
https://www.gramophone.co.uk/feature/the-best-reissues-archive-releases-of-2017

WQXR: The Best Classical Recordings of 2017
http://www.wqxr.org/story/best-classical-recordings-2017/

CBC: Our 10 favourite Canadian classical albums of 2017
http://www.cbcmusic.ca/posts/19288/our-10-favourite-canadian-classical-albums-of-2017

Forbes: The 10 Best Classical Recordings Of 2017 (New Releases)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenslaurson/2017/12/13/the-10-best-classical-recordings-of-2017/#3d948e96ebca

New: Forbes: The 10 Best Classical Recordings Of 2017 (Re-Releases)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenslaurson/2017/12/20/the-10-best-classical-recordings-of-2017-part-2/#3d6010bc62d3

Notable Performances and Recordings of 2017 By Alex Ross
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2017-in-review/notable-performances-and-recordings-of-2017

Presto Classical Recordings of the Year 2017 - Our Top 10
https://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/classical/articles/1950--awards-recordings-of-the-year-2017-our-top-10

100 best albums of the year The Times
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/past-six-days/2017-12-03/culture/100-best-albums-of-the-year-2017-lp0wlrkq0
(Not just classical; scroll all the way down for those.)

NPR Music's Top 10 Classical Albums Of 2017 (Tom Huizenga)
https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2017/12/19/570182207/npr-musics-top-10-classical-albums-of-2017
(Almost deliberately modern and eclectic)

Overlap:

Les Troyens: IIIIII
Gerhaher: II
Adams Edition: II
Andsnes Sibelius: III
Rana Goldbergs: II
Italian Job: II
Haydn 2032/4: II
Sibelius/Finley: II
Dvorak Q5ts: Haas Q4t: II
Nelsons/Brahms/BSO: II
Wagner Project Goerne: II
Manfred/Bychkov: II
Bach/Tetzlaff: II
Schubert/Zimerman: II
Gardiner/Midsummer: II
Glass/Ólafsson: II


My wishlist from all this:

Demenga, Bach Suites (ECM)
Weineberg Chamber Symphonies (ECM)
Wagner Project Goerne (HMU)
Scriabin/Gerstein/Petrenko (LAWQ)
Haydn Seasons McCreesh (Signum)
Telemann Reformation Cantatas (Cristoferus)

[The new erato]

Good job Jens! Please keep it updated if you find more.

[Marc]

GMG member Marc - best issues of the year 2017:

http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,27656.msg1113880.html#msg1113880

[The One]

Lovely. Please develop it further

[Biffo]

The French music magazine Diapason had the following as its outstanding discs of 2017

Schutz and his Legacy - Ensemble InAlto/Lambert Colson (Passacaille)

Dowland: Lachrimae - Phantasm et al (Linn)

Telemann & Hotteterre: Works for flute and chalumeau - Giovanni Antonini (soloist) and Il Giardino Armonico (Alpha)

Bach: Sonatas & Partitas BWV 1001-1006 - Christian Tetzlaff (violin) (Ondine)

Brahms: 4 Klavierstucke, Op 76 and Opp1 117 & 118 - Arcadi Volodos (Sony)

Liaponov: Piano works - Florian Noack (piano) (Ars)

Beethoven & Mozart - Quintets for piano and wind - Edoardo Torbianelli (piano) et al (Winter & Winter)

Dvorak: Piano Trios Nos 3 & 4 - Trio Wanderer (Harmonia Mundi)

Brahms, Franck & Debussy - Sonatas for cello and piano - Victor Julien-Laferriere (cello) & Adam Laloum (piano) (Mirare)

Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - John Eliot Gardinder conducted the LSO, Monteverdi Choir & soloists (LSO Live)

Dvorak: Stabat Mater - Czech Philharmonic, Choirs and soloists conducted by Jiri Belohlavek (Decca)

Macmillan: Stabat Mater - The Sixteen & Britten Sinfonia conducted by Harry Christophers (Coro)

Rihm: Gedicht des Malers etc - Vienna Symphony etc conducted by Phillippe Jordan & Myung-Whun Chung (Erato)

Glinka: Russlan and Ludmilla - Vladimir Jurowski conducting Bolshoi Oper forces - DVD of a production by Dmitri Tcherniakov (Bel Air Classiques)

Glass: Einstein on the Beach - Philip Glass Ensemble conducted by Michael Riesman - DVD of a production by Robert Wilson (Opus Arte)

Rudolf Serkin - The Complete Columbia Album Collection (Sony)

Hope there is enough info there to identify the albums

[The One]

NPR Music's Top 10 Classical Albums Of 2017 (Tom Huizenga)
https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2017/12/19/570182207/npr-musics-top-10-classical-albums-of-2017
(Almost deliberately modern and eclectic)

No connection between classical music and NPR exists for a long time now. Just check out their twitter feed. They are like a Reader's Digest version of "culture"

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Forbes second part online: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenslaurson/2017/12/20/the-10-best-classical-recordings-of-2017-part-2/#18b6427562d3

Latest Edit: NPR.

Updated.

[The One]

Forbes second part online: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenslaurson/2017/12/20/the-10-best-classical-recordings-of-2017-part-2/#18b6427562d3

With this Forbes' adblocker wretchedness I just pass and choose not to read . I wonder what they'll do with the upcoming Chrome browser. This simple mindset separates sets who survives these days.

[The One]

Pity. You could maybe exempt Forbes from the adblocker; their ads are not annoying.

Of course, but it's not what I mind as I'm sure you understand

[SurprisedByBeauty]

With this Forbes' adblocker wretchedness I just pass and choose not to read . I wonder what they'll do with the upcoming Chrome browser. This simple mindset separates sets who survives these days.

Pity. You could maybe exempt Forbes from the adblocker; their ads are not annoying. (Just a welcoming screen you can click-skip through.)
I know I'd like every set of eyeballs on the lists that I work hard to write.
What I find more annoying are their embedded little videos that sometimes seem to start playing... although, as of late, they have done the merciful thing and made them start on MUTE.

Of course, but it's not what I mind as I'm sure you understand

I don't know what you do mind, then. The principle of an adblocker-blocker? 

Isn't The Times behind a paywall? Maybe you should point that out in the post. (£)

I thought you just had to register. Or type the headline into Google-News... people will figure it out, I reckon. (I don't have a subscription, certainly, and I saw it just fine.)

[The One]

I don't know what you do mind, then. The principle of an adblocker-blocker? 

Let adblockers be adblockers!

[The One]

ArkivMusic's 25 most outstanding and memorable recordings of 2017

The Guardian's Andrew Clements' Top 10 of 2017

[Maestro267]

Isn't The Times behind a paywall? Maybe you should point that out in the post. (£)

[mc ukrneal]

Isn't The Times behind a paywall? Maybe you should point that out in the post. (£)

If you mean the NYT, they give you 10 articles free per month (or something like that). After that, you have to pay, so if you exceeded that, I guess just wait until the next period (presumably January).

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Basically this thread, as a Forbes posting:   

A Meta List: The Best-Of-Best-Of The Year In Classical Music



Another list found, from Colorado Public Radio: http://www.cpr.org/classical/blog/cpr-classicals-favorite-albums-of-2017-the-music-we-couldnt-get-of-this-year

[SurprisedByBeauty]

The "Best of 2018" lists... starting with mine. 

ClassicalCritic: Best Recordings of 2018 (New Releases)

New York Times:The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2018

WQXR: The Best Classical Albums of 2018

NPR: NPR Music's Best Classical Albums Of 2018

Chicago Tribune: Best classical recordings of 2018: Rachel Barton Pine, Yo-Yo Ma top the list
(EU-citizens will have to google this, then click on "Cached Link" to avoid the restrictions the EU has laid upon the internet in their name.)

Alex Ross (New Yorker) Notable Performances and Recordings of 2018

[The new erato]

Thank you. I don't know the Luisi Version, but  F.Martin's Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke is perhaps the one greatest work known to virtually nobody in my pantheon. I might have to buy that to add to my other versions.

[Mandryka]

The "Best of 2018" lists... starting with mine. 

ClassicalCritic: Best Recordings of 2018 (New Releases)

New York Times:The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2018

WQXR: The Best Classical Albums of 2018

NPR: NPR Music's Best Classical Albums Of 2018

Chicago Tribune: Best classical recordings of 2018: Rachel Barton Pine, Yo-Yo Ma top the list
(EU-citizens will have to google this, then click on "Cached Link" to avoid the restrictions the EU has laid upon the internet in their name.)

Alex Ross (New Yorker) Notable Performances and Recordings of 2018

Very stimulating selections from the NY Times and WQXR.  Vikingur Olafsson, Johnny Gandelsman, Kris Davis, Lorelei Ensemble, Ingrid Laubrock, Harold Meltzer, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Aizuri Quartet and Engegård Quartet are musicians who I hadn't ever heard before. Unfortunately I can't try Kris Davis's Clusters without buying it and I'm not going to take a punt. Same for Aizuri Quartet's recording, who also sound as though it could be interesting.

Only one mention of Cuarteto Casals's Beethoven.

I can't get into the Chicago website (it's down from here at the moment)

Did NYT do a detailed review of Sabine Liebner's Stockhausen?

[mc ukrneal]

Very stimulating selections from the NY Times and WQXR.  Vikingur Olafsson, Johnny Gandelsman, Kris Davis, Lorelei Ensemble, Ingrid Laubrock, Harold Meltzer, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Aizuri Quartet and Engegård Quartet are musicians who I hadn't ever heard before. Unfortunately I can't try Kris Davis's Clusters without buying it and I'm not going to take a punt. Same for Aizuri Quartet's recording, who also sound as though it could be interesting.

Only one mention of Cuarteto Casals's Beethoven.

I can't get into the Chicago website (it's down from here at the moment)

Did NYT do a detailed review of Sabine Liebner's Stockhausen?

I think I may have a new Bach favorite. Olafsson is phenomenal on that album. I'm in heaven. He performs a wonderful album of Phillip Glass works if that is more of interest as a starting point.

[Mandryka]

I think I may have a new Bach favorite. Olafsson is phenomenal on that album. I'm in heaven. He performs a wonderful album of Phillip Glass works if that is more of interest as a starting point.

And I've been enjoying the Schumann quartets from Engegård Quartet