Quarterly Critic’s Choice

The best and most interesting new releases of the previous three months are awarded a place on the Quarterly Critic’s Choice. Evaluation criteria are artistic quality, repertoire value, presentation, and sound quality. From 2014 onward, the Long Lists are stored directly with each Quarterly Critic’s Choice.

NEW: Long List 2/2024, published on 5th April 2024

Quarterly Critic’s Choice

Keyboard Music

Fantaisies / Piotr Anderszewski

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Fantasie c-moll KV 475, Klaviersonate Nr.14 c-moll KV 457; Robert Schumann: Fantasie C-Dur op.17, Thema mit Variationen Es-Dur WoO 24. Piotr Anderszewski. Warner Classics 9029588855

Keyboard Music

Fortuna Desperata / Daniel Beilschmidt

Organ Music from Gothic and Renaissance. Works by Guillaume de Machaut, Philippe de Vitry, Adam Ileborgh von Stendal, Alexander Agricola, Antoine Busnois, Leonard Kleber, Paul Hofhaimer, Heinrich Isaac, Johannes Buchner and Sethus Calvisius. Daniel Beilschmidt, Veit Heller, Christine Mothes. Genuin GEN 17453 (Note 1)

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