Best recordings of 2009?

[Antoine Marchand]

My top five so far (these are the recordings which I will nominate for Recording of the Year on MusicWeb):

[3]. Beethoven - Complete Cello Music twice over (both HIP and non-HIP performances; 4 discs for the price of 2) - David Hardy and Lambert Orkis, Dorian

... and the Beethoven set is invaluable because it has both HIP and modern performances, 2 complete cycles of the cello sonatas for the price of one.

Thanks, Brian. I didn't know this recording. Lambert Orkis did something similar with the Beethoven's Appassionata some years ago (on Bridge). 

[MN Dave]

I haven't purchased many this year but this one is very good.

[Herman]

I don't buy a whole lot of new cd's hot off the press but this is one I'm quite impressed with, particularly with the Fauré and the Ravel.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

I don't buy a whole lot of new cd's hot off the press but this is one I'm quite impressed with, particularly with the Fauré and the Ravel.

This is the disc that won Gramophone's "Recording Of The Year" for 2009.

[Herman]

I know, what can I do?

[MN Dave]

They have to get it right at least once in a century.

[springrite]

They have to get it right at least once in a century.

Boy, they sure got it out of the way too early. Makes for awful reading for the next 90 years.

[Harry]

I have many, but three of them stand out. I sincerely think them the best recordings I bought this year. That is, so far!

[Harry]

And this 5 cd box, which was a gift from a friend living in New York.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

I know, what can I do?

[MN Dave]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=s9_al_bw_feat?ie=UTF8&docId=1000448551&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-8&pf_rd_r=0VT8C2NWKRE8F9KPZ977&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=497928851&pf_rd_i=1252438011

[MN Dave]

http://blog.allmusic.com/2009/07/03/best-of-2009-so-far/

[The new erato]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=s9_al_bw_feat?ie=UTF8&docId=1000448551&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-8&pf_rd_r=0VT8C2NWKRE8F9KPZ977&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=497928851&pf_rd_i=1252438011

Holy smoke! 25 discs of the year? That's easy. What's hard is to pick ONE.

[knight66]

Here is my non-vocal disc of the year.


Music that was new to me and it swept me off my feet in this passionate performance.

Mike

[Franco]

Holy smoke! 25 discs of the year? That's easy. What's hard is to pick ONE.

I dunno, the crediibility of any the Best Classical CDs of 2009 list that includes Stokowsky Bach Transcriptions, Vol. 2 - has been seriously undermined, IMO.

[The new erato]

I dunno, the crediibility of any the Best Classical CDs of 2009 list that includes Stokowsky Bach Transcriptions, Vol. 2 - has been seriously undermined, IMO.

I didn't say I agreed with the list, only that it is FAR easier to pick 25 than one or two.

[MN Dave]

Just downloaded Herman's pick.

[Mandryka]

Alexis Weissenberg,  Bach: Keyboard Works.

It contains Bach transcriptions by Liszt, Siloti and Busoni

This is a recording which I think has only just become available outside Japan -- it has been around in Japan for a couple of years I believe. Before that it was on LP.

It's just amazing. So fast at times, it beggars belief that it is a human being, as opposed to a more advanced alien life form, who is playing. There's one track -- a Bach/Busoni called Rejouissez-vous, Chretiens amies -- which is played so fast that he almost loses his grip on the music. But no -- it all stays together.

Sometimes you hear the tender Weissenberg in these pieces -- the Weissenberg of that really early recording he made of the Scriabin Nocturne for the Left Hand.

Sometimes he's the Man of Steel.

This is one of the best CDs I have heard in years.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bach-Keyboard-Works-Alexis-Weissenberg/dp/B000CSUXZW/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1258736591&sr=8-4

[Herman]

Just downloaded Herman's pick.

I hope you'll like it.

[MN Dave]

I hope you'll like it.

I do! Thank you. I must give it fuller attention soon.