Best Classical Recordings of 2012

[MartinT]

This is ArchivMusic's interesting list:

http://www.arkivmusic.com/listpage/2988%26page_size=100-E1062

I must order that Alison Balsom CD - she was utterly mesmerising in concert earlier this year. I also have the new Christina Pluhar (Los Pajaros Perdidos) which is excellent.

Any other nominations for recording of the year?

[daytona600]

HD Tracks top 25 list for you martin

https://www.hdtracks.com/index.php?file=best_sellers&genre=10

[MartinT]

Thanks, Scott. I see THAT recording of the Tchaikovsky 1812 is still selling well :eyebrows:

[daytona600]

do you mean the famous canons martin , must drag out my old telrac Lp martin have the CD somewhere

[MartinT]

I have both the original Telarc recording on vinyl and CD and the later recording (with choir at the end) on SACD.

[Eremite]

This is ArchivMusic's interesting list:

http://www.arkivmusic.com/listpage/2988%26page_size=100-E1062


Rachel Podger's rendition of La Cetra arrived here yesterday and I can thoroughly recommend it. There are some really good Vivaldi recordings around these days, and this is one of them.

I quite like the look of the disc by New York Polyphony; the few extracts I've listened to online sound very promising.

[Eremite]

Any other nominations for recording of the year?

Here's one from left field:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Ce0h8bkBL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

Marcel Peres and the Ensemble Organum have provided us with a whole series of wonderful recordings of medieval music (and sometimes later). This is a requiem mass from the end of the middle ages, from the fifteenth century. If deep basses and the "ison" technique are your cup of tea, take a listen to the opening of the kyrie!

[MartinT]

Thanks, Simon. I'll look it up.