US EditionThe best music of 2025
- Copyright 2025 NPR published a year-end roundup naming the 10 best classical albums of 2025, and the critic said the 10 albums buoyed them and renewed their faith amid a difficult year.
- This year, global events and personal responses drove several artists' projects, as Valentina Goncharova, Kyiv-native violinist, said Oct. 7, 2023 compelled her to return to original material.
- James McVinnie recorded contemporary organ works at St. Alban's Cathedral on an instrument with 4,500 pipes and included solo piano pieces.
- Tania Le�n's album includes multiple recent live premieres that broaden contemporary orchestral repertoire, gathering four works including three world-premiere recordings by the London Philharmonic.
- Upcoming performances and concept projects signal continued audience engagement beyond the year-end list, with Anna Thorvaldsdottir's 45-minute Ubique set for 38 performances across Europe and the U.S.
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The 10 Best Classical Albums of 2025
Discover a broad range of this year's most compelling classical recordings, including symphonic booty-shakers, mystic violin, pipe organ prog and a guided tour of 18th century German chart-toppers.(Image credit: Cover art by Raul Urias)
LISTMANIA 2025: A YEAR-END LIST FROM THE GOAT TAVERN - NO CLEAN SINGING
(Last May we published an excellent interview of the Polish band Polish band Wędrowcy~Tułacze~Zbiegi by a metal enthusiast with some roots in Poland but based in the UK whose moniker is The Goat Tavern. With that as our introduction, today, as part of our 2025 LISTMANIA series, we’re sharing The Goat Tavern’s year-end list of [...]
Year in Music 2025: We will not be dumbed down
How has this been the best year for music so far this decade? The 2020s have been a rough enough ride that you could say that about every year, and I’m hesitant to waste space with a troubled-times spiel, but the amount of great music released in 2025 is at odds with just how drab and anti-art everything seems these days. Yet artists finally seem to be teasing out a happy medium between the realm of the digital, which isn’t always especially mu…
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