Favourite records 2022

[Alison]

As nobody has yet started a thread….

I’m nominating

Schumann: Complete Symphonies Munich Philharmonic/Heras-Casado

Schubert: Piano Sonatas D664 D894 Stephen Hough

Bruckner: Symphony 4 LSO/Rattle

Mozart: Prussian Quartets Chiaroscuro Quartet


Honourable mention for

Beethoven: Complete Symphonies COE/Nezet-Seguin

[Nick Armstrong]

First one to come to mind:

Poulenc: Les animaux modèles etc. BBC Concert Orchestra/Bramwell Tovey

[Alison]

First one to come to mind:

Poulenc: Les animaux modèles etc. BBC Concert Orchestra/Bramwell Tovey

Oh yes, I’m with you there.

[jayne lee wilson]

JLW RECORDS OF THE YEAR 2022

JS BACH Complete Sonatas for harpsichord and violin
“a cembalo certato e violine solo”
(c/w Scheibe, Graun, Schaffrath, Telemann, CPE Bach…)
Audax, 3CDs

JS BACH Overture-Suites 1-4
Ensembles Masques/Olivier Fortin
Alpha CD

BRUCKNER Symphony No.3 (1873 Original Version)
ORF Vienna RSO/Poschner
Capriccio CD

BRUCKNER Symphony No. 4 (Versions and Variants)
LSO/Rattle
LSO Live SACD

CESAR FRANCK Five Symphonic Poems
Lviv National PO of Ukraine/Francisco Varela
Guild CD

“MOZART 1785”
Concertos 20,21 and 22 & Chamber Works
Mahler CO/Andsnes
Sony CDs

MAHLER Symphony No.4
Les Siècles/Roth
HM/Qobuz 24/96

MALIPIERO Violin Concertos 1&2
Paolo Chiavacci (vn.)/Roma SO/La Vecchia
Naxos CD

JESPER NORDIN
"Vicinities"
Ekdahl/Swedish RSO/Quatuor Diotima/Ens. Inter Contemporain
Harding/Liao/Poletti
KAIROS CD

SCHUMANN Symphonies 1-4 (incl.1841 4th)
SWR/Norrington
SWR Music CDs


*****

BRUNO DE SÁ
with Il Pomo d’Oro/Corti
“Roma Travestita” (18thC Arias for Castrati)
Erato CD

“HORIZON 10”
Recent Contemporary Orchestral Music
RCOA/Various Conductors
CBO, 3 SACDs

HAYDN 2032 Vols 1-10
IGA/KO Basel/Antonini
Alpha CDs

[jayne lee wilson]

Come on musiclovers, any more lists...?

[Parry1912]

Eclipse (Dvorak, Ginastera, Sarasate)
Hilary Hahn/Frankfurt RSO/Orozco-Estrada

Brahms/Rachmaninov
Wang/Capuchon

and one from the tail end of last year:

Bruckner: Symphony No 4
VPO/Thielemann

[Bryn]

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At last, a surround sound recording of Carré to go with the SACD of Gruppen in the Schönberg Ensemble Edition (A Century Of Music In Perspective) boxed set.

[Pulcinella]

I've had a lot of pleasure from the Sibelius symphony set by the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra under Klaus Mäkelä:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9310044--sibelius-complete-symphonies#reviews

Only number 5 doesn't quite hit the spot for me.

[pastoralguy]

I've had a lot of pleasure from the Sibelius symphony set by the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra under Klaus Mäkelä:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9310044--sibelius-complete-symphonies#reviews

Only number 5 doesn't quite hit the spot for me.

[pastoralguy]

The wonderful Alina Ibragimova’s Telemann cd on Hyperion.

[jayne lee wilson]

The wonderful Alina Ibragimova’s Telemann cd on Hyperion.

Yes... frequently my aubade/nocturne on the bedroom system...cool, calm and very quietening to the mind....

[silvestrione]

The Rattle/LSO Bruckner 4, and the Andsnes Mozart 1786 set...

[pastoralguy]

I had to check this cd was eligible for 2022 but it is…

Brahms. String Sextets.

The Belcea Quartet with Tabea Zimmermann and Jean-Guihen Queyras.

I honestly didn’t think that anyone could surpass my absolute favourite of these works played an ensemble led by Renaud Capuçon but the Belcea ensemble is even better!

An embarrassment of riches!

( Mind you, I still have a soft spot for the principal players of the LPO led by Rodney Friend on CfP in the Op.18.)

[Barbirollians]

I get my years mixed up - need to check my Presto/Amazon order history !

[richardfinegold]

I am never sure what comes out in a given year, as opposed to when I acquire it. The second half of the Jordi Savall Beethoven cycle came out this year I think anbd was the most significant purchase of a newish recording for me