10 Best of 2010?

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  • Michael
    • Jan 2025

    10 Best of 2010?

    I hope you won't mind my posting another 'Best of 2010' selection – this one from theclassicalreview.com, a site that features contributions from writers on both sides of the Atlantic (including several names that will be familiar to regular readers of Gramophone and BBC Music magazines; John Steane, Hugh Canning, Andrew Achenbach and Mike Ashman among them).

    The site launched in April this year and its 'Best of' selection is drawn from the 120 discs reviewed since then.

    You can click through to the original reviews from the list, all of which are considerably more substantial in length than those featured in the two magazines referred to above.

    Even allowing for the subjectivity of such a list (how could it be otherwise?), what do forum members here think of the discs selected?
  • Estelle
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 112

    #2
    Were you going to post a web address?

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    • Michael

      #3
      Sorry Estelle – the web address is: http://theclassicalreview.com/cds-dvds/

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      • Eine Alpensinfonie
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 20575

        #4
        In some ways this is quite an adventurous list. The one I'm most tempted by is the Brendel farewell concert. Lohengrin is my least-favourite Wagner opera; otherwise this might have been a catch.
        Certainly food for thought though.

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        • Alf-Prufrock

          #5
          I am intrigued by the recital by Bejun Mehta. Though interested in early music and historically-informed practice since the sixties, I had not taken to the counter-tenor voice until the 21st century. I thought the sound weak and weedy and certainly not to be compared with the singers who must have sung that material (in opera, at least) in earlier centuries. But Andreas Scholl, Philippe Jaroussky and David Daniels helped change my mind. And then I heard Mehta (a nephew of the conductor, by the way) and heard not just glorious tone but ease and flexibility on the high notes rarely achieved by others of his breed.

          For tasters, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJhvX3ty4SI
          and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avA9P...eature=related

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          • Mahlerei

            #6
            I would certainly recommend the Golijov; it was one of my picks for 2010 as well.

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