The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020
Listen to our critics’ favorites from a year in which much of the energy in music came from recordings.
Credit.The New York Times
Dec. 17, 2020
“In Seven Days”; Kirill Gerstein, piano (Myrios)
The composer Thomas Adès and the pianist Kirill Gerstein’s artistically fruitful friendship has given us two essential albums this year: the premiere recording of Mr. Adès’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, featuring Mr. Gerstein and the Boston Symphony Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophon); and this one, which includes a solo arrangement of the harrowing and slippery Berceuse from Mr. Adès’s opera “The Exterminating Angel.”