The eagerly-awaited season of lists is currently upon us. The list-generating machine at The New York Times is cranking ’em out like crazy, and their “best ofs” are typically far-ranging and unpredictable. The NYT classical CD list – compiled by four of the paper’s classical music writers – has no overlap with the NPR list previously mentioned here.
Most intriguing to me: Jordi Savall’s Francisco Javier: The Route to the Orient, tracing the Jesuit’s journey to Japan in 1594; D’Amore, a reliably eclectic ECM collection of contemporary and centuries-old duets for viola d’amore and cello; and itsnotyouitsme’s Walled Gardens, ambient, “post-minimalist” music for violin and guitar.
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1 Bob Schneider // Dec 24, 2008 at 5:59 PM
I enjoyed reading the New York Times and the NPR “Best Classical CDs of 2008.” My daughter and son-in-law (the violin and guitar ensemble Duo46) and their Strung Out Trio with pianist Nathaniel May perform on a CD, Meyer Media’s Fables, Forms and Fears: The Music of Paul Richards, and deserve to be on a Best Classical CD list, too. (Of course, I am biased.)
2 spitballarmy // Dec 29, 2008 at 12:06 PM
Bob –
That kind of nepotism is allowed, of course. But Fables, Forms and Fears was released in 2007, so wouldn’t have qualified for this New York Times list.
I did think the clips on iTunes sounded nice, once I maneuvered through the Duo46 website and found the link. I preferred the Liderman disc, personally.
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