Classical Music Ins And Outs

[jazzy_dave]

I have had a mercurial affair with the classics over the years. In the seventies, it was Mozart and Tchaikovsky. The Eighties Bach, Mahler and Wagner, nineties I discovered new contemporary classical music and hardly looked back. That was when I started reading The Wire.

So it is mostly the serialists such as Berg and Webern
Mozart and Bach still in as well as Hadyn.
Stravinsky of course. Messiaen of course,  Ligeti, Xenakis, Berio, Stockhausen etc
Shostakovitch, naturally.
Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov are just too passe.
Minimalism and spectralism - oh yes. Glass, Reich, Nyman, and others.
Electronic and electroacoustic are definitely in.  Cage, Tenney, etc.

So, what were the top recommendations by Wire this year?