Notable recordings of 2017 (preliminary)

I have begun compiling my end-of-year list of notable performances and recordings. The following recordings will appear on it:

Tyshawn Sorey, Verisimilitude (Pi)

Divine Theatre: works of Giaches de Wert; Stile Antico (Harmonia Mundi)

Bach, Solo Cello Suites; Thomas Demenga (ECM)

Jürg Frey, Collection Gustave Roud; Frey, Stefan Thut, Dante Boon, Andrew McIntosh, Regula Konrad, Stephen Altoft, Lee Ferguson (another timbre)

James Weeks, Mala Punica; Exaudi (Winter & Winter)

Scott Wollschleger, Soft Aberration; Longleash, Anne Lanzilotti, Karl Larson, Andy Kozar, Corrine Byrne, John Popham, Mivos Quartet (New Focus)

Linda Catlin Smith, Drifter and other works; Apartment House, Bozzini Quartet (another timbre)

Björk, Utopia (One Little Indian)

Berlioz, Les Troyens; Joyce DiDonato, Michael Spyres, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Stéphane Degout, Nicolas Courjal, Marianne Crebassa, Hanna Hipp, Cyrille Dubois, Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Philippe Sly, John Nelson conducting the Choeur de l’Opéra du Rhin, Badischer Staatsopernchor, orchestra and chorus of the Philharmonique de Strasbourg (Erato)