Although I've been tracking my listening fairly rigorously in Spotify playlists for a few years now, I haven't been keeping a record of newly released albums (or the odd EP) I've been checking out. So I thought I'd do that this year, on a quarter-by-quarter basis. Here are the new releases I've heard since the beginning of the year. Hat tips as ever to: Ted Gioia, Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone on BBC 6Music, The New Music Show and Record Review on Radio 3, Gramophone, Metal Injection and Boomkat (and various friend and family members, of course!)
J.S. Bach
The Art of Fugue, perf. Phantasm (Linn)
J.S. Bach
A Life in Music, Vol.2, The Weimar Years, perf. Les Arts Florissants (Juno)
Adam Bałdych
Laeta Mundus (Anaklasis)
Béla Bartók & György Ligeti
String Quartets, perf. Marmen Quartet (BIS)
Ludwig van Beethoven
Early String Quartets, perf. Calidore Quartet (Hyperion)
Claire Booth & Andrew Matthews-Owen
Paris 1913: L'Offrande lyrique (Nimbus)
Pierre Boulez
Livre pour Quatuor, perf Quatuor Diotima (Pentatone)
Laura Cannell
A Compendium of Beasts, Vol. 1 (Brawl)
Bertrand Chamayou
Ravel Fragments (Erato)
Claude Debussy
String Quartet & Sonatas, perf Nash Ensemble (Hyperion)
Dirty Projectors/David Longstreth
Song of the Earth (Bandcamp)
Ensemble Peregrina; Ensemble Dragma
The Krasiński Codex - Fifteenth Century Music from Cracow (Raumklang)
Faithxtractor
Loathing and the Noose (Bandcamp)
Golem mecanique
Siamo tutti in pericolo (Bandcamp)
T. Gowdy
Trill Scan (Bandcamp)
David Grubbs
Whistle From Above (Bandcamp)
The Halo Effect
March of the Unheard (Nuclear Blast)
Tim Hecker
Shards (Kranky)
ilinx
Flipperen (Bandcamp)
Patricia Kopatchinskaja/Thomas Kaufmann/Camerata Bern
Exile (Alpha)
K. Leimer
Proximate Forms (Palace of Lights)
Oksana Linde
Travesías (Buh)
Linkin Poe
Bloom (Tricki-woo)
Jan Lisiecki
Preludes by Chopin, Bach, Rachmaninoff, Messiaen and Górecki (Deutsche Grammophon)
Gustav Ljunggren/Emil de Waal
Mikroklima (April)
Malmin
Med Åshild Vetrhus (Bandcamp)
Micro Moon
Figure in a Landscape (Clay Pipe)
Olga Anna Markowska
ISKRA (Norman)
Paleface Swiss
CURSED (Nuclear Blast)
Maurice Ravel
String Quartet, perf Attaca Quartet (Platoon)
Alessandro Scarlatti
Il Giardino di Rose, perf. La Ritirate (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi)
Robert Schumann
Violin Sonatas, perf Ibragimova/Tiberghien (Hyperion)
Dmitri Shostakovich
String Quartets 2, 7 & 10, perf. Jerusalem Quartet (BIS)
Tamara Stefanovich
Organised Delirium (Pentatone)
Tó Tripps & Fake Latinos
Dissidente (Bandcamp)
Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons (& other works), perf Théotime Langlois de Swarte/Le Consort (Harmnia Mundi)
Joni Void
Every Light is a Life (Bandcamp)
John Zorn
The Complete String Quartets, perf. JACK Quartet (Tzadik)
John Zorn
Bagatelles Vol.1, perf. Mary Halvorson Quartet (Tzadik)
John Zorn
Bagatelles, Vol. 2, perf. Erik Friedlander & Michael Nicolas (Tzadik)
John Zorn
Bagatelles, Vol. 3, perf. Trigger (Tzadik)
Various Artists
Korean Soundscapes: Contemporary Piano Solos, perf. Eun-Hee Park (Navona)
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