AllMusic's Favorite Classical Vocal Albums of 2013
Dec. 12, 2013
Accentus - Janácek: Brumes d'Enfance
Herbert Blomstedt - Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
The Brabant Ensemble, Stephen Rice - Palestrina: Missa Ad coenam Agni
Lucy Crowe, La Nuova Musica, David Bates - Vivaldi: Dixit Dominus; In furore iustissimae irae; Handel: Dixit Dominus
Stéphane Denève - Francis Poulenc: Stabat Mater; Les Biches
Franco Fagioli, Il Pomo d'Oro, Riccardo Minasi - Arias for Caffarelli
Elīna Garanča, Jonas Kaufmann, Daniel Barenboim - Verdi: Requiem
Valery Gergiev - Wagner: Die Walküre
Matthias Goerne, Ensemble Resonanz, Thomas Larcher - Hanns Eisler: Ernste Gesänge; Lieder with piano
The Hilliard Ensemble - Prayers and Praise: Vocal Music by Alexander Raskatov
Wolfgang Holzmair, Andreas Haefliger - Schubert: Winterreise
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Ivari Ilja - In This Moonlit Night
René Jacobs, RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin - Bach: Matthäus-Passion
Marek Janowski - Bruckner: Mass No. 3
Marek Janowski - Wagner: Tannhäuser
Samuel Jean - Bizet: Le Docteur Miracle
The Choir of Kings College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury - Britten: Saint Nicolas
King's College Choir of Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury - Mozart: Requiem Realisations
The King’s Consort, Robert King - Couperin: Trois Leçons de Ténèbres
The King's Singers - Jean Richafort: Requiem - Tributes to Josquin Desprez
Aleksandra Kurzak - Bel Raggio: Rossini Arias
Petra Lang, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer - Wagner: Götterdämmerung; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Siegfried-Idyll
Latvian State Choir, Máris Sirmais - Gabriel Jackson: A Ship with Unfurled Sails
Stephen Layton - Bach: Christmas Oratorio
Václav Luks - Bach: Mass in B minor
Bejun Mehta - Che Puro Ciel: The Rise of Classical Opera
Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, Francois Lazarevitch - Je Voy le Bon Tens Venir
Riccardo Muti - Saverio Mercadante: I due Figaro
Mark Padmore, Britten Sinfonia, Nicholas Daniel - Vaughan Williams: Ten Blake Songs; On Wenlock Edge; Dove: The End; Warlock: The Curlew
Patricia Petibon, Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Järvi - Poulenc: Stabat Mater; Gloria; Litanies à la Vierge noire
Choir of Queen's College, Oxford, Owen Rees, Brook Street Band - Handel, Scarlatti: Dixit Dominus
Owen Rees, Contrapunctus - Libera nos: The Cry of the Oppressed
Choir of Royal Holloway, University of London, Britten Sinfonia, Rupert Gough - Korvits: Kreek's Notebook
Xavier Sabata, Il Pomo d'Oro, Riccardo Minasi - Handel: Bad Guys
Die Singphoniker - Rheinberger: Du sonnige wonnige Welt
Stile Antico - Phoenix Rising
Tenebrae, Nigel Short - Alexander Levine: The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
Michael Tilson Thomas, San Francisco Symphony - Beethoven: Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II; Symphony No. 2
Rolando Villazón, Mojca Erdmann, Yannick Nézet-Séguin - Mozart: Così fan tutte
Vocalconsort Berlin, James Wood - Carlo Gesualdo: Sacrae Cantiones, Liber Secundus