I probably listened to more new *classical* music this year than in the past few years…no particular order.
also: things I listened to in 2019
New Music
Anthony Burr & Charles Curtis – Chamber Music_ Alvin Lucier & Morton Feldman
Catherine Lamb – Atmospheres Transparent/Opaque
James Tenney – Changes – 64 Studies for 6 Harps
Michael Jon Fink – Celesta
R. Andrew Lee & Bryan Christian – Each flows into the other
John Luther Adams – Become Desert
Caroline Shaw & Attacca Quartet – Orange
Echo Collective – Jóhann Jóhannsson: 12 Conversations with Thilo Heinzmann
Terry Riley, Amelia Cuni – Lion’s Throne
Kronos Quartet / Terry Riley – Sun Rings
Peter Thoegersen – Three Pieces in Polytempic Polymicrotonality
Frank Zappa – Orchestral Favorites (40th Anv Edition)
Loscil – Equivalents
Jazz
Tyshawn Sorey and Marilyn Crispell – The Adornment of Time
Matt Mitchell – Phalanx Ambassadors
Kris Davis – Diatom Ribbons
John Abercrombie & Don Thompson – Yesterdays
Harvey Valdes – Solitude Intones Its Echo
Pasquale Grasso – Four Blue Note EPs!
Other
Tangerine Dream – In Search Of Hades- The Virgin Recordings 1973-1979