The KOLA (Keep On Listening Awards) Are Here!!! Enjoy The Ten BEST Recordings of 2024!!

[@neiltheblaze]

I'll thank you once again for introducing me to the music of Allan Pettersson. I've been listening to the set I got (on cpo) all year long. This has been a marvelous discovery for me and it's all your fault! ; >

[@Warp75]

Somebody told me Pettersson was too doom & gloom I told them don’t be ridiculous no such thing. I really need to get the BIS box soon

[@andy_pandy88]

I also got into Pettersson thanks to Dave, and he’s now my favourite symphonist after Mahler. He’s been my most played composer this year and yes he is way more than doom and gloom. The 9th is actually boppy and fun and the ending to violin concerto no 2 is - dare I say it - joyful! What a tremendous artist and excellent legacy left for us to embrace

[@mustuploadtoo7543]

Dave Hurwitz is my go to channel to learn about classical music 🙃

[@dennischiapello7243]

You no sooner recommended the MTT box than I bought it, and I've been enjoying it thoroughly and welcoming some of the repertoire that is new to me. It puts me in mind, however, of my treasured Stravinsky in America disc on RCA Red Seal with MTT conducting perhaps the best Agon money can buy. Plus, you get the wonderful cover cartoon of MTT driving Igor through Downtown LA in a convertible. I don't believe you've done a shout-out for this recording, so here I am helping you clear your docket.

[@healthrisingMECFS-FM-longCOVID]

Very well! I will try Pettersson again! 😎and Crumb is on the list too. And then there’s Suppe! Who knew? Thanks for ending it with an eye-opener👍

[@zarg05]

I heard a live broadcast of Starchild when i was around 17. Loved it. Luckily i recorded it on cassete tape as the CD didnt get a recording until the Bridge version. I have most of the Crumb box.

[@tedwilson2805]

Brilliant. What a list! Thanks.

[@waynesmith3767]

Thank you especially for the George Crumb Box.

[@olegroslak852]

That Dvorak 6 by Inkinen is a 2020 release, so perhaps we can add one more to the KOLA list for 2024. My vote goes to Honeck’s Bruckner 7.

[@bl8241]

Another vote for Honeck here

[@DavesClassicalGuide]

Release date is not relevant. It's the date I reviewed it!

[@sylvio1980]

The one we’ve been waiting on ! Thank you for all your work David and introducing me to all the great music. Keep up the great work, all the best in the new year !

[@HoheBrachtAcht]

These are all excellent selections, and they are also an excellent mix (genres) of selections. I will try to recommend to the Utah Symphony that Markus Poschner (its new music director) program the Franz von Suppé Fantasia symphonica. Perhaps even a second commercial recording could be made (on a label like Capriccio or Hyperion, etc.), with the Utah Symphony, led by Poschner.

[@DavesClassicalGuide]

As long as he avoids Tchaikovsky.

[@HoheBrachtAcht]

@@DavesClassicalGuide I understand your criticisms of that release, but I still at times disagree. I have heard Poschner conduct 6 live concerts (plus rehearsals) with the Utah Symphony -- since late 2022. He is a fine conductor -- and, as you well know, they all have strengths and weaknesses in terms of repertoire. I am trying to get him to do a Schubert symphony cycle with the Utah Symphony (all 9 symphonies in one season).

[@Warp75]

My favourite purchase of 2024 is that recent Charles Ives Sony/RCA box probably because most of it was unfamiliar to me.

[@andreashimarknygaard4400]

I am sorry you had to endure our Prince Consort, Dave

[@OuterGalaxyLounge]

They say he's still in the bathroom to this day, lol.

[@paulvandenberg9588]

Thinking of the prince consort gives Dave a British accent.

[@williamevans9426]

Henrik wanted to be a concert pianist and could play. He also wrote poetry - quality unknown!

[@healthrisingMECFS-FM-longCOVID]

😂😂😂😂

[@steveschwartz8944]

"Humble critics." 😂

[@1-JBL]

I bought the whole Complete Crumb Edition as soon as you announced it. And there has been NO Buyer's Remorse, not an iota. I have two discs and a DVD yet to break out, and one of them is the STAR-CHILD album. I've heard MUNDUS CANIS before, and while you were talking about it here, I found myself muttering "Yoda...Yoda...Yoda! BAD DOG." Boy, Crumb was a guy who REALLY lived in "the whole world of sound."

[@williamevans9426]

You tease, Dave. I'm sure you pretended to search for the list at 07:00 to give us the obligatory 'opening of the envelope' moment of tense excitement! ✉😄

[@DavesClassicalGuide]

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