Preliminary end-of-year list

Early selections for my list of Notable Recordings of 2019.

— Bruckner, Symphony No. 9; Manfred Honeck conducting the Pittsburgh Symphony (Reference)

— Weinberg, Symphonies Nos. 2 and 21; Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with the Kremerata Baltica and Gidon Kremer (DG)

— Beethoven, Complete Piano Sonatas; Igor Levit (Sony)

— Prism II: Bach, Fugue in B Minor, Beethoven, Quartet Opus 130; Schnittke, Third Quartet; Danish Quartet (ECM)

— Andrew Norman, Sustain; Gustavo Dudamel conducting the LA Philharmonic (DG, digital only)

— Speak, Be Silent: works of Chaya Czernowin, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Mirela Ivičević, Liza Lim, and Rebecca Saunders; Riot Ensemble (Huddersfield Contemporary Records)

— Morton Feldman Piano; Philip Thomas (another timbre)

— George Benjamin, Lessons in Love and Violence; Stéphane Degout, Barbara Hannigan, Gyula Orendt, Peter Hoare, Samuel Boden, Benjamin conducting the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House (Nimbus)