George Frideric Handel – Imeneo – Magnis Staveland, Ann Hallenberg, Monica Piccinini, Fabrizio Beggi, Cristiana Arcari, Europa Galante/Fabio Biondi (Glossa)
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica (Straight)
Robert Fripp – ND Ateneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 10, 2007 (DGMLive)
Robert Rich – Filaments (Soundscape)
Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra – All My Yesterdays: The Debut 1966 Recordings at the Village Vanguard (Resonance; due Feb. 19)
James "Blood" Ulmer – Odyssey (Columbia)
Beat Furrer – String Quartet No. 3 – KNM Berlin (Kairos)
Grateful Dead – Dave's Picks, Vol. 17: Selland Arena, Fresno, CA 7/19/74 (Grateful Dead/Rhino)
Peter Ablinger – Augmented Study – Johnny Chang (Sacred Realism)
Alison Krauss – I've Got That Old Feeling Again (Rounder)
Leroy Jenkins' Sting – Urban Blues (Black Saint)
Labyrinth by Paola Prestini; Maya Beiser Cornelius Dufallo
Paola Prestini – Labyrinth – Cornelius Dufallo, Maya Beiser (VIA Records)
Polydeuces by Autumn Of Communion
Autumn of Communion – Polydeuces (txt < Bandcamp)
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith – a cosmic rhythm with each stroke (ECM; due March 25)
Ergo – As subtle as tomorrow (Cuneiform)
Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath (Warner Bros./Rhino)
Alexander Scriabin – Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor; Nikolai Medtner – Piano Concerto No. 3 in E minor ("Ballade") – Yevgeny Sudbin, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra/Andrew Litton (Bis)
Christopher Bailey – Glimmering Webs – Shiau-uen Ding, Augustus Arnone, Jacob Rhodebeck (New Focus Recordings)
Kristian Bezuidenhout – Mozart: Keyboard Music, Vols. 8 & 9 (Harmonia Mundi)
Suffocation – Effigy of the Forgotten (Roadrunner)
Heartwork [Full Dynamic Range Edition] by Carcass
Carcass – Heartwork (Earache)
Hans Abrahamsen – let me tell you – Barbara Hannigan, Boston Symphony Orchestra/Andris Nelsons (WCRB live webcast)
Before Nostromo by Stephan Mathieu
Stefan Mathieu – Before Nostromo (Schwebung < Bandcamp)
Gqom Oh! The Sound of Durban by GQOM OH!
Various artists – Gqom Oh! The Sound of Durban (Gqom Oh! < Bandcamp)
Gqom Oh! Sampler by Various Artists
Various artists – Gqom Oh! The Sound of Durban sampler EP (Gqom Oh! < Bandcamp)
Robert Rich – Morphology (Anodize)
Franz Joseph Haydn – Symphonies Nos. 78-81 – Accademia Bizantina/Ottavio Dantone (Decca)
Hélène Grimaud – Water (Deutsche Grammophon)
> Luciano Berio – Wasserklavier; Toru Takemitsu – Rain Tree Sketch II; Gabriel Fauré – Barcarolle No. 3; Maurice Ravel – Jeux d'eau; Isaac Albéniz – Almería; Franz Liszt – Les jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este; Leoš Janáček – In the Mists: No. 1; Claude Debussy – La cathédrale engloutie; Nitin Sawhney – Water – Transitions 1-7
Grigory Sokolov – Schubert//Beethoven (Deutsche Grammophon)
> Franz Schubert – Impromptus (D. 899); Three Piano Pieces (D. 946); Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat (Op. 106, "Hammerklavier"); Jean-Philippe Rameau – Les Tendres Plaintes; Les Tourbillons; Les Cyclops; La Follette; Les Sauvages; Johannes Brahms – Intermezzo in B-flat minor (Op. 117, No. 2)
Oxidation States by Riccardo Dillon Wanke
Riccardo Dillon Wanke – Oxidation States (Glistening Examples < Bandcamp)
ProjeKct Four – 7th Note, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 2, 1998 (DGMLive)
Slayer – Repentless (Nuclear Blast)
Bloodmist – Sheen (5049 Records)
Pacifica Quartet – The Soviet Experience, Vol. 4: String Quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich and His Contemporaries (Cedille)
> Dmitri Shostakovich – String Quartets Nos. 13-15; Alfred Schnittke – String Quartet No. 3
Slayer – Show No Mercy (Metal Blade)
Slayer – Hell Awaits (Metal Blade)
Slayer – Reign in Blood (Def Jam)
Slayer – South of Heaven (Def Jam)
Slayer – Seasons in the Abyss (Def American)
Carcass – Surgical Steel (Complete Edition) (Nuclear Blast)
Testament – Dark Roots of Earth (Nuclear Blast)
Michael Formanek Ensemble Kolossus – The Distance (ECM)
Slayer – Stadium Live, Moscow, Russia, Dec. 9, 2015 (audience video < YouTube)
Kansas – Song for America (Legacy)
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