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1
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Michael Jarrell - Michael Jarrell: Cassandre
May 12, 2009
Modern Classical
Score
100
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2
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Steffen Schleiermacher - Morton Feldman: The Late Piano Works 3: Piano; Palais de Mari
November 9, 2009
Modern Classical
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
3
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Quatuor Mosaïques - Haydn: String Quartets opus 20, 33; The Seven Last Words of Our Savior on the Cross opus 51
August 25, 2009
Chamber Music
Score
100
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Amazon
4
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Quatuor Mosaïques - Haydn: String Quartets opus 64, 76 & 77
August 25, 2009
Chamber Music
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
5
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Amsterdams Strijkkwartet - String Quartets Vol. 2
Chamber Music
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
6
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Sharon Kam / Martin Helmchen - Brahms: Sonatas & Trio
September 14, 2009
Romanticism
,
Chamber Music
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
7
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Reto Bieri / Gérard Wyss - Schubert: Music for Clarinet & Piano
April 14, 2009
Romanticism
,
Chamber Music
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
8
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Bente Vist - Per Nørgärd: Seadrift
March 31, 2009
Modern Classical
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
9
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Theatre Of Voices / Ars Nova Copenhagen / Paul Hillier - David Lang: The Little Match Girl Passion
June 9, 2009
Modern Classical
,
Choral
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
10
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Europa Galante / Fabio Biondi / Andrea Rognoni / Stefano Marcocchi / Ernesto Braucher / Maurizio Naddeo / Antonio Fantinuoli - Boccherini: Trio; Quartet; Quintet; Sextet for Strings
February 2, 2009
Chamber Music
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
11
.
Silke Avenhaus / Antje Weithaas - Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Sonatas
February 10, 2009
Chamber Music
,
Romanticism
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
12
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Cinquecento - Vaet: Missa Ego flos campi
March 2, 2009
Choral
,
Renaissance Music
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
13
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Alice Sara Ott - Études d'exécution transcendante
May 8, 2009
Romanticism
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
14
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The Cardinall's Musick / Andrew Carwood - Hodie Simon Petrus
February 0, 2009
Renaissance Music
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
15
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Budapest Festival Orchestra / Iván Fischer / Miah Persson - Symphony No. 4
April 14, 2009
Symphony
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
16
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John Zorn - Femina
October 27, 2009
Modern Classical
,
EAI
,
Experimental
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
17
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Sophie Yates - Johann Christian Bach: Six Sonatas, Op. 5
September 29, 2009
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
18
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Rundfunkchor Berlin / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin / Kent Nagano / Ekaterina Lekhina / Marie-Ange Todorovitch / Danie - L'amour de loin
July 27, 2009
Opera
,
Modern Classical
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
19
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Vladimir Ashkenazy - Josef Suk: Asrael
February 0, 2009
Classical
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
20
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Brad Paisley - American Saturday Night
June 30, 2009
Contemporary Country
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
21
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Baroness - Blue Record
October 13, 2009
Sludge Metal
,
Progressive Metal
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
22
.
The xx - xx
August 17, 2009
Indie Pop
,
Indietronica
,
Dream Pop
,
Alt-Pop
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
23
.
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
June 9, 2009
Indie Pop
,
Progressive Pop
,
Art Pop
,
Math Rock
,
Indie Rock
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
24
.
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
January 6, 2009
Neo-Psychedelia
,
Psychedelic Pop
,
Indietronica
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
25
.
Mark Elder & Hallé Orchestra - Sibelius: Symphony No.1 in E Minor; Symphony No.3 in C Major
May 12, 2009
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
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NOTE:
This is not a year end list. This list is ordered by the ratings AllMusic awarded albums throughout 2009.
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