KOLA 2025: Announcing The Keep On Listening Awards!

David Hurwitz

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Here they are: the best recordings of 2025. Browse the list below and check out the video presentation.

KOLA 2025

Dvořák: Symphony No. 7, Scherzo capriccioso. Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (cond.) BR Klassik

Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony. Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitry Liss (cond.) Fuga Libera

Brahms: Piano Quartets Nos. 2 & 3. Zimerman, Nowak, Budnik, Okamoto. DG

De Hartmann: Symphonie-Poème No. 1; Fantaisie-Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra. Leon Bosch (double bass), Lviv National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Theodore Kuchar (cond.) Toccata Classics

Korngold: String Quartets (3), String Sextet, Piano Quintet. The Pacifica Quartet, et al. Cedille

Carpenter: Krazy Kat, The Birthday of the Infanta, Skyscrapers. The Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose (cond.) BMOP

Ravel: Complete Works With Piano (Piano Solo, Duo, Chamber, Vocal, Concertos). Various Soloists, Philharmonia Orchestra, Simone Menezes (cond.), François-Xavier Poizat (piano) Aparte [6-CDs]

Ginastera: String Quartets Nos. 1-3. Kiera Duffy (soprano), Miró Quartet (PentaTone)

The French in Spain: Debussy: Iberia, Ibert: Escales, Ravel: Alborada del gracioso; Rapsodie espagnole. Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta (cond.) Naxos

Charles Mackerras: The Complete Warner Classics Edition (63 CDs)

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