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Highest Rated Albums of 2023

Decade
Source
Genre
2020s
2020
2021
2022
2023

1.

Anna Lapwood - Luna
September 29, 2023
Classical
Score
100
Source →
Amazon

2.

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.

Piotr Beczała / Helmut Deutsch - Rachmaninoff & Tchaikovsky: Romances
August 25, 2023
Classical
Score
100
Source →
Amazon

9.

Wigmore Soloists - Beethoven; Berwald: Septets
April 7, 2023
Chamber Music
Score
100
Source →
Amazon

10.

Yunchan Lim - Live from the Cliburn - Liszt: Transcendental Etudes
July 7, 2023
Romanticism
Score
100
Source →
Amazon

11.

Hilary Hahn - Eugène Ysaÿe: Six Sonatas for Violin Solo Op. 27
July 14, 2023
Classical
Score
100
Source →
Amazon

12.

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.

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.

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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