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This is an ordered list of AllMusic's highest rated albums of 2020. Check out
AllMusic's Year End List
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1
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Eric Whitacre / Los Angeles Master Chorale - Eric Whitacre: The Sacred Veil
August 28, 2020
Choral
,
Modern Classical
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
2
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Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Neeme Järvi - Delibes: Ballet Suites
November 6, 2020
Ballet
,
Orchestral
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
3
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Les Vents Français - Romantique
June 20, 2020
Chamber Music
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
4
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ORA Singers - Thomas Tallis: Spem in Alium; James Macmillan: Vidi Aquam
August 21, 2020
Choral
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
5
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DiDonato / Fagioli / Benoit / Pisaroni / Orliński / Mastroni / Vistoli / Pizzuti / Lemieux / Maxim Emelyanychev / Il Pomo D'Oro - Handel: Agrippina
January 31, 2020
Opera
,
Baroque Music
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
6
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Jupiter String Quartet - Metamorphosis
June 12, 2020
Chamber Music
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
7
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Los Angeles Philharmonic / Gustavo Dudamel - Charles Ives: Complete Symphonies
August 28, 2020
Symphony
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
8
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Philadelphia Orchestra / Yannick Nézet-Séguin - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 8
January 17, 2020
Symphony
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
9
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Mark Elder & Hallé Orchestra - Sibelius: Symphony No. 4; Symphony No. 6
February 7, 2020
Symphony
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
Music
10
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Choir of St John's College, Cambridge / Andrew Nethsingha - Ash Wednesday
February 21, 2020
Classical
,
Choral
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
11
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Daniel-Ben Pienaar - The Long 17th Century: A Cornucopia of Early Keyboard Music
February 7, 2020
Baroque Music
,
Renaissance Music
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
12
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Alisa Weilerstein - Bach
April 3, 2020
Baroque Music
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
13
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Lara Downes - Some of These Days
April 3, 2020
Classical Crossover
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
14
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Edward Gardner & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra - Schubert, Vol. 2: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 6; Overtures in the Italian Style
March 6, 2020
Classical
,
Orchestral
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
15
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Collegium Vocale Gent / Philippe Herreweghe - Bach: Johannes-Passion, BWV 245
February 7, 2020
Baroque Music
,
Oratorio
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
16
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Orchestre Symphonique De Montréal / Kent Nagano - Penderecki: St Luke Passion
June 5, 2020
Orchestral
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
17
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Fatma Said - El Nour
October 16, 2020
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
18
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The Crossing / Donald Nally - James Primosch: Carthage
May 22, 2020
Modern Classical
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
19
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ORA - Thomas Tallis: Spem in Alium; James Macmillan: Vidi Aquam
September 21, 2020
Classical
,
Choral
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
20
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Anna Dennis / Gabrieli Consort / Gabrieli Consort & Players / Mhairi Lawson / Paul McCreesh - Purcell: The Fairy Queen, 1692
April 24, 2020
Opera
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
21
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Thibaut Garcia - Aranjuez
October 3, 2020
Classical
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
22
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Carolyn Sampson, Minnesota Orchestra & Osmo Vänskä - Mahler 4
January 3, 2020
Symphony
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
23
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Sean Shibe - Bach
May 22, 2020
Baroque Music
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
24
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Cappella Amsterdam / Daniel Reuss - Inferno
June 12, 2020
Renaissance Music
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
25
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VOCES8 - After Silence
June 19, 2020
Choral
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 2020.
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