Notable Classical Recordings of 2023 | The New Yorker
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I can’t remember a year of so many pleasure-inducing, addiction-triggering albums.
Save this story Save this story If I were making my usual yearly list of memorable live performances, I would include Michael Tilson Thomas’s buoyant concerts at the L.A. Philharmonic , in January; the première of Salvatore Sciarrino’s enigmatically radiant opera “ Venere e Adone ,” in Hamburg, in May; Andrew McIntosh’s heady traversal of Heinrich Biber’s Rosary Sonatas, in Pasadena, in July; and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra’s feisty farewell at Geffen Hall , in August, with Louis Langrée all but giving the finger to the oblivious leaders of Lincoln Center. This time around, though, I’
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