- Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You: The Fonotone Years, 1958-1965. John Fahey.
- "89" Metacritic
- "Fahey was capable of fine, bewitching things on a steel-stringed acoustic guitar, and there are performances scattered across these five discs" NY Times
- John Adams: Son of Chamber Symphony/String Quartet. John Adams & St. Lawrence String Quartet.
- "a a fine example of his compositional style" Readings
- Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue/Piano Concerto. Riccardo Chailly, Stefano Bolani & Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.
- "Full of joy, and the cheekiness inherent in Gershwin’s music, this blend of jazz and classical has never been so beautiful." Readings
- Swinging into the 21st - Wynton Marsalis
- "Could there possibly have been a musician on the planet more maniacally productive in 1999 than Wynton Marsalis?" NY Times
- Friedman: String Quartets No2. 2, 3; Remixes. Chiara String Quartet; Matmos
- "Both quartets have an essentially neo-Romantic frame, but Mr. Friedman heads in unexpected directions, with hints of neo-medievalism, modernist effects and occasional rock influences." NY Times
- Gordon: Timber. Slagwerk Den Haag
- "You can think of “Timber” as Steve Reich’s “Music for Pieces of Wood” gone mad, with gradual rhythmic evolution and good old-fashioned compositional manipulation rather than Reichian phasing as its engine." NY Times
- Ives: Violin Sonatas. Hilary Hahn, Valentina Lisitsa
- "References to folk and popular songs are filtered through Ives’s spiky, idiosyncratic brand of modernism, but this is no academic exercise: it’s music to love as much as to admire." NY Times
- Rose of Sharon: 100 Years of American Music. Ensemble Phoenix Munich, Joel Frederiksen
- "From a seemingly unlikely source — the Munich-based Ensemble Phoenix, directed by an American, Joel Frederiksen — this was the gem among recordings of Americana this year." NY Times
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