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Stemme / Brubaker / Schöne / Ulrich / Nuzzo / Schmeckenbecher / Jakobsch / Zeppenfeld / Sacher/ Dickie / Svilpa / Loehle / Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin / Kent Nagano - Zemlinsky: Der König Kandaules
October 4, 2004
Score
100
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2
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René Jacobs - Joseph Haydn: The Seasons
September 4, 2004
Score
100
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3
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Mark Elder & Hallé Orchestra - Elgar: Symphony No. 2 in E Flat; Introduction and Allegro
October 19, 2004
Score
100
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Amazon
4
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Vienna Piano Trio - Dvorák: Piano Trios Vol. 1
August 24, 2004
Score
100
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5
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Charles Mackerras / Czech Philharmonic Orchestra - Dvořák: Symphony No. 6; The Golden Spinning-Wheel
July 27, 2004
Orchestral
,
Romanticism
Score
100
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Amazon
6
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Marc-André Hamelin - Ives: Concord Sonata; Barber: Piano Sonata
August 2, 2004
Classical
Score
100
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Amazon
7
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Maurizio Pollini - Beethoven: Sonatas, Opp. 10 & 13
June 1, 2004
Classical
Score
100
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Amazon
8
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Kłosińska / Rappé / Minkiewicz / Nowacki / Warsaw National Philharmonic Choir And Orchestra / Antoni Wit - Penderecki: A Polish Requiem
November 1, 2004
Choral
,
Modern Classical
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
9
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Emerson String Quartet - Haydn: The Seven Last Words
March 9, 2004
Chamber Music
Score
100
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Amazon
10
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Trio Parnassus - Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Complete Piano Trios
June 29, 2004
Romanticism
,
Chamber Music
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
11
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Véronique Gens / Patrizia Ciofi / Angelika Kirchschlager / Lorenzo Regazzo / Simon Keenlyside / Concerto Köln / René Jacobs - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le Nozze Di Figaro
May 11, 2004
Classical
,
Opera
Score
100
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Amazon
12
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Quatuor Ysaÿe - Robert Schumann: String Quartets Op. 41
May 11, 2004
Chamber Music
,
Romanticism
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
13
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Stephen Hough - Chopin: Four Ballades & Four Scherzos
February 2, 2004
Romanticism
Score
100
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Amazon
14
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Piotr Anderszewski - Bach: English Suite BWV 811; Beethoven: Piano Sonata Op. 110; Webern: Variations, Op. 27
Classical
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
15
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Angela Hewitt - Bach: Fantasia and Fugue in A minor; Aria Variata; Sonata in D major; Suite in F minor and other works
July 5, 2004
Baroque Music
Score
100
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Amazon
16
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Boston Symphony Orchestra / Seiji Ozawa / Krystian Zimerman - Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
February 10, 2004
Orchestral
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
17
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Hilary Hahn / London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis - Elgar: Violin Concerto; Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
September 1, 2004
Score
100
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Amazon
18
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San Francisco Symphony / Michael Tilson Thomas - Mahler: Symphony No. 9
Symphony
Score
100
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Amazon
19
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The King's Singers - Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday
May 25, 2004
Renaissance Music
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
20
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Gustav Leonhardt - Goldberg Variations
March 29, 2004
Baroque Music
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
21
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Sandrine Piau - Haendel: Opera Seria
November 1, 2004
Opera
,
Baroque Music
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
22
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Teedra Moses - Complex Simplicity
August 10, 2004
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
23
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Usher - Confessions
March 23, 2004
Contemporary R&B
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
24
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Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
February 26, 2004
Modern Classical
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
25
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Green Day - American Idiot
September 21, 2004
Pop Punk
,
Alternative Rock
,
Rock Opera
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
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NOTE:
This is not a year end list. This list is ordered by the ratings AllMusic awarded albums throughout 2004.
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