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Huelgas-Ensemble & Paul Van Nevel - Lassus: Il Canzoniere di Messer Francesco Petrarca
June 8, 2004
Renaissance Music
Score
100
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2
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Skip Sempé - Louis Couperin: Suites et Pavane
2004
Baroque Music
Score
100
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3
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Emma Kirkby & Fretwork - Consort Songs
2004
Renaissance Music
Score
100
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4
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Martha Argerich, Mahler Chamber Orchestra & Claudio Abbado - Beethoven: Piano Concertos No. 2 & 3
November 8, 2004
Concerto
Score
100
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5
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Valery Gergiev & Kirov Orchestra - Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4
November 9, 2004
Symphony
Score
100
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6
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Concerto Italiano & Rinaldo Alessandrini - Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine
November 16, 2004
Choral
,
Christian Liturgical Music
Score
100
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7
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Anne Sofie von Otter, Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz, Sandrine Piau, Lawrence Zazzo, Silvia Tro Santafé, Giovanni Furlanetto, Antonio Abete, Les Arts Florissants & William Christie - Handel: Serse
2004
Baroque Music
,
Opera
Score
100
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8
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Patrizia Ciofi, Fabio Biondi & Europa Galante - Vivaldi: Motets
November 2, 2004
Baroque Music
,
Choral
Score
100
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9
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Claudio Abbado & Lucerne Festival Orchestra - Mahler; Debussy
July 19, 2004
Orchestral
Score
100
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10
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Nina Stemme, Robert Brubaker, Wolfgang Schöne, Mel Ulrich, John Ken Nuzzo, Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Randall Jakobsh, Georg Zeppenfeld, Jürgen Sacher, John Dickie, Almas Svilpa, Peter Loehle, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin & Kent Nagano - Zemlinsky: Der König Kandaules
October 4, 2004
Opera
Score
100
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11
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René Jacobs, Marlis Petersen, Werner Güra, Dietrich Henschel, RIAS-Kammerchor & Freiburger Barockorchester - Joseph Haydn: The Seasons
September 4, 2004
Oratorio
Score
100
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12
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Hallé & Mark Elder - Elgar: Symphony No. 2 in E Flat; Introduction and Allegro
October 19, 2004
Symphony
Score
100
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13
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Vienna Piano Trio - Dvorák: Piano Trios Vol. 1
August 24, 2004
Chamber Music
Score
100
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14
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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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15
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Marc-André Hamelin - Ives: Concord Sonata; Barber: Piano Sonata
August 2, 2004
Classical
Score
100
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16
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Maurizio Pollini - Beethoven: Sonatas, Opp. 10 & 13
June 1, 2004
Classical
Score
100
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17
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Izabella Kłosińska, Jadwiga Rappé, Ryszard Minkiewicz, Piotr Nowacki, Warsaw National Philharmonic Choir, Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra & Antoni Wit - Penderecki: A Polish Requiem
November 1, 2004
Choral
,
Modern Classical
Score
100
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18
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Emerson String Quartet - Haydn: The Seven Last Words
March 9, 2004
Chamber Music
Score
100
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19
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Trio Parnassus - Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Complete Piano Trios
June 29, 2004
Romanticism
,
Chamber Music
Score
100
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20
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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
Opera
,
Classical Period
Score
100
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21
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Quatuor Ysaÿe - Robert Schumann: String Quartets Op. 41
May 11, 2004
Chamber Music
,
Romanticism
Score
100
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22
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Stephen Hough - Chopin: Four Ballades & Four Scherzos
February 2, 2004
Romanticism
Score
100
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23
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Piotr Anderszewski - Bach: English Suite BWV 811; Beethoven: Piano Sonata Op. 110; Webern: Variations, Op. 27
2004
Classical
Score
100
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24
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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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25
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Krystian Zimerman, Boston Symphony Orchestra & Seiji Ozawa - Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
February 10, 2004
Concerto
,
Romanticism
Score
100
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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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