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1
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Anna Lapwood - Luna
September 29, 2023
Classical
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
2
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Lars Vogt / Orchestre De Chambre De Paris - Piano Concertos Nos. 9 & 24
September 1, 2023
Orchestral
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
3
.
Swedish Radio Choir / Kaspars Putniņš - Schumann: Missa Sacra
September 1, 2023
Choral
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
4
.
Semyon Bychkov / Czech Philharmonic - Mahler: Symphony No. 1
September 8, 2023
Symphony
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
5
.
Fleur Barron / Matthew Brook / Giulia Semenzato / Tim Mead / Nicky Spence / La Nuova Musica / David Bates - Purcell: Dido & Aeneas
September 22, 2023
Baroque Music
,
Opera
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
6
.
John Wilson / Sinfonia Of London - Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!
September 15, 2023
Show Tunes
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
7
.
Pygmalion / Raphaël Pichon - Claudio Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine
September 1, 2023
Choral
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
8
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Piotr Beczała / Helmut Deutsch - Rachmaninoff & Tchaikovsky: Romances
August 25, 2023
Classical
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
9
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Wigmore Soloists - Beethoven; Berwald: Septets
April 7, 2023
Chamber Music
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
10
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Yunchan Lim - Live from the Cliburn - Liszt: Transcendental Etudes
July 7, 2023
Romanticism
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
11
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Hilary Hahn - Eugène Ysaÿe: Six Sonatas for Violin Solo Op. 27
July 14, 2023
Classical
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
12
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Escher String Quartet / Colin Currie - Leos Janácek: Kreutzer Sonata; Intimate Letters; Pavel Haas: From the Monkey Mountains
June 2, 2023
Chamber Music
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
13
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Simon Lepper / Christopher Purves - My Soul, What Fear You?
May 5, 2023
Classical
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
14
.
Thomas Hampson / Sunhae Im / Stephanie Houtzeel / Tomasz Konieczny / Orchester Wiener Akademie / Martin Haselböck - Liszt: Orchestral Songs
April 28, 2023
Romanticism
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
15
.
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park - Byrd: Mass for Five Voices
June 2, 2023
Renaissance Music
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
16
.
Los Angeles Philharmonic / Gustavo Dudamel - Thomas Adès: Dante
April 21, 2023
Modern Classical
,
Orchestral
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
17
.
Su Yeon Kim - Mozart: Recital
July 7, 2023
Classical
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
18
.
François-Xavier Roth & Les Siècles - Maurice Ravel: L'Heure espagnole; Bolero
June 16, 2023
Opera
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
19
.
久石譲 [Joe Hisaishi] - A Symphonic Celebration
June 30, 2023
Orchestral
,
Cinematic Classical
,
Modern Classical
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
20
.
María Dueñas - Beethoven and Beyond
June 2, 2023
Orchestral
,
Classical
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
21
.
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet / Adam Walker / BBC Philharmonic / Yan Pascal Tortelier - Pierre Sancan: A Musical Tribute
May 5, 2023
Orchestral
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
22
.
Trio Karénine - Suk - Dvořák
February 3, 2023
Chamber Music
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
23
.
Katelyn Bouska - Women and War and Peace
February 10, 2023
Modern Classical
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
24
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The Norwegian Soloists Choir / Ensemble Allegria / Grete Pedersen - Bent Sørensen: St. Matthew Passion
March 3, 2023
Modern Classical
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
25
.
Rafał Blechacz - Chopin
March 3, 2023
Romanticism
Score
100
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 2023.
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