Given the parametres, here is my 2019 list, reduced to the chamber music purchases (in order of procurement):
Simon Martin: Musique d’Art (Quatuor Bozzini, with Pierre-Alexandre Maranda, cb; éditions qb)
Phil Niblock: Baobab (two works; Quautor Bozzini, éditions qb)
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen: String Quartets Vol. 1 (Nos. 1-6, first recordings; Nordic String Quartet; DaCapo)(this, by the way, was my favorite disc of the past year)
Polaris String Quartet: Flow: New Music for SQ (Six composers; online)
New Orford String Quartet: Par Quatre Chemins (Works by Dompierre, Ichmouratov, Brady (Canadian composers all); Atma)
Peter Eötvös: Two works for string quartet (Calder Quartet; BMC)
Caroline Shaw: Orange (six pieces; Attacca Quartet; Nonesuch)
Krzysztof Baculewski: String Quartets 1-4 (Tana Quartet; Dux)
Tom Johnson: Plucking (four works; Just Strings; Microfest)
Swan Hennessy: Complete works for string quartet, plus string trio (RTÉ Contempo Quartet, RTÉ Lyric)
Gustav Mahler: In meinem Himmel (three song cycles arranged for soprano and string quartet, Leider eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of the Wayfarer), Ruckert-Lieder, and Kindertotenlieder (Kindra Scharich, soprano, Alexander String Quartet; Foghorn Classics))
Common Sense Composers’ Collective: Spark (works by eight composers; Friction Quartet; Innova)
PUBLIQuartet: Freedom and Faith (Recital of works ranging from Hildegard of Bingen to Nina Simone; Bright Shiny Things)
Siggi String Quartet: South of the Circle (works by five Icelandic composers; Sono Luminus)
Juri Seo: Respiri (three works; Argus Quartet; Innova)
Anton Reicha: Quatuor Scientifique (Reicha Quartet; Brilliant Classics)
Hannah Lash: Filigree (four works; JACK Quartet; New Focus Recordings)
Music in the Barns: Two quartets and a quintet (works by Rose Bolton, Scott Godin and Michael Oesterle (three Canadians); New Focus)
Altius Quartet: Quadrants, Vol.3 (another installment from Navona’s series of new quartet music, with eight composers here; Navona)
NeoQuartet: Greek Music (seven Greek composers; Phasma-Music)
Terry Riley: Sun Rings, for string quartet, chorus and “space sounds” (Kronos Quartet; Nonesuch)
Morton Feldman: Piano (five disc set of the complete piano works, including juvenalia, other unpublished material and a ninety minute performance of Triadic Memories; Philip Thomas, piano; Another Timbre)
Sirius Quartet: Playing on the Edge (works by five composers; Navona)
Philip Glass: Annunciation (including String Quartet No.8, Annunciation Piano Quintet and a few other shorter pieces; Brooklyn Rider (sq) and Paul Barnes (pf); Orange Mountain Music)
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Given the parametres, here is my 2019 list, reduced to the chamber music purchases (in order of procurement):
Simon Martin: Musique d’Art (Quatuor Bozzini, with Pierre-Alexandre Maranda, cb; éditions qb)
Phil Niblock: Baobab (two works; Quautor Bozzini, éditions qb)
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen: String Quartets Vol. 1 (Nos. 1-6, first recordings; Nordic String Quartet; DaCapo)(this, by the way, was my favorite disc of the past year)
Polaris String Quartet: Flow: New Music for SQ (Six composers; online)
New Orford String Quartet: Par Quatre Chemins (Works by Dompierre, Ichmouratov, Brady (Canadian composers all); Atma)
Peter Eötvös: Two works for string quartet (Calder Quartet; BMC)
Caroline Shaw: Orange (six pieces; Attacca Quartet; Nonesuch)
Krzysztof Baculewski: String Quartets 1-4 (Tana Quartet; Dux)
Tom Johnson: Plucking (four works; Just Strings; Microfest)
Swan Hennessy: Complete works for string quartet, plus string trio (RTÉ Contempo Quartet, RTÉ Lyric)
Gustav Mahler: In meinem Himmel (three song cycles arranged for soprano and string quartet, Leider eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of the Wayfarer), Ruckert-Lieder, and Kindertotenlieder (Kindra Scharich, soprano, Alexander String Quartet; Foghorn Classics))
Common Sense Composers’ Collective: Spark (works by eight composers; Friction Quartet; Innova)
PUBLIQuartet: Freedom and Faith (Recital of works ranging from Hildegard of Bingen to Nina Simone; Bright Shiny Things)
Siggi String Quartet: South of the Circle (works by five Icelandic composers; Sono Luminus)
Juri Seo: Respiri (three works; Argus Quartet; Innova)
Anton Reicha: Quatuor Scientifique (Reicha Quartet; Brilliant Classics)
Hannah Lash: Filigree (four works; JACK Quartet; New Focus Recordings)
Music in the Barns: Two quartets and a quintet (works by Rose Bolton, Scott Godin and Michael Oesterle (three Canadians); New Focus)
Altius Quartet: Quadrants, Vol.3 (another installment from Navona’s series of new quartet music, with eight composers here; Navona)
NeoQuartet: Greek Music (seven Greek composers; Phasma-Music)
Terry Riley: Sun Rings, for string quartet, chorus and “space sounds” (Kronos Quartet; Nonesuch)
Morton Feldman: Piano (five disc set of the complete piano works, including juvenalia, other unpublished material and a ninety minute performance of Triadic Memories; Philip Thomas, piano; Another Timbre)
Sirius Quartet: Playing on the Edge (works by five composers; Navona)
Philip Glass: Annunciation (including String Quartet No.8, Annunciation Piano Quintet and a few other shorter pieces; Brooklyn Rider (sq) and Paul Barnes (pf); Orange Mountain Music)