Levi Hammer
Spotlight 35
2025 Artist Picks
2025 Top 20s

Cathal Breslin
Cam Butler
Lucía Caihuela
The Westerlies
Chicago Soul Jazz Coll.
Holliger & Schüpbach
Bruce Levingston
Monteiro & Santos
Atlantic Road Trip
Levi Hammer
Larionova, Biondi, Pastine
Phil Sargent
Galán / Spieth / Guentner
Ho & Quilico
Raymond J. Lustig
Veronika Wu
Richard Carrick
Freysteinn
Orli Shaham
Sean Shibe
Paulo Almeida
María Grand
Jakob Bloch Jespersen
Joyful Company of Singers
John Luther Adams
Bill Evans
JoAnn Falletta & BPO
Randall Scotting
Charles Calomiris
Caroline Davis
Da-Hee Kim
Joost Willemze
Elliott Grabill
Les Métaboles
Gustaf Ljunggren
Gil Shaham & VSO
Ryan Blotnick
Giulio Cecchi
Daniel Rotem
Eric Sawyer

























































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2025 Artist Picks
2025 Top 20s

Cathal Breslin: Stories & Soundscapes (Blue Griffin Recording)
Cam Butler: World Forever (Heavy Machinery Records)
Lucía Caihuela, José Antonio Montaño, & La Madrileña: E-Motion (Eudora Records)

The Westerlies: Have You Heard: The Music of Bill Frisell, Vol. 1 (Westerlies Records)

Chicago Soul Jazz Collective: No Wind & No Rain (Calligram Records)
Heinz Holliger & Marie-Lise Schüpbach: Con Slancio (ECM New Series)
Bruce Levingston: The Elastic Heart of Youth (Sono Luminus)
Bruno Monteiro & João Paulo Santos: Late Romantic Music for Violin and Piano (Etcetera Records)

Atlantic Road Trip: Watch As the Echo Falls (Calligram Records)
Levi Hammer: Gershwin in Vienna (decurio)
Tatiana Larionova, Martina Biondi, & Sara Pastine: Cécile Chaminade (Da Vinci Classics)
Phil Sargent: Solo Motions (Phil Sargent)

Galán / Spieth / Guentner: Obreel (Affin)
Alice Ping Yee Ho & Christina Petrowska Quilico: The Imagined (Navona Records)
Raymond J. Lustig: Semmelweis (Sono Luminus)
Veronika Wu: Under the Ocean: Mermaid (Navona Records)

Richard Carrick: l'Algérie (New Focus Recordings)
Freysteinn: Thoughts (Protomaterial Records)
Orli Shaham and members of Pacific Symphony: American Tapestry (Pacific Symphony)
Sean Shibe: Vesper (Pentatone)

Paulo Almeida: Love in Motion (Dox Records)
María Grand: Both Sides (Lilaila Records)
Jakob Bloch Jespersen & Peter Navarro-Alonso: And I gave my heart (OUR Recordings)
Joyful Company of Singers: Uncertain Sea: Choral Music by John Casken (Métier)

John Luther Adams: Horizon (Cold Blue)
Bill Evans: At the BBC (Elemental Music)
JoAnn Falletta & the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra: Stravinsky: Fairy Tales (Naxos)
Randall Scotting: Divine Impresario: Nicolini on Stage (Signum Classics)

Charles Calomiris: Gethsemane, Opera in One Act (Da Vinci Classics)
Caroline Davis: Fallows (Ropeadope Records)
Da-Hee Kim: Nicholas Scott-Burt: 24 Preludes for Piano (Divine Art Records)
Joost Willemze: Rhapsodos (7 Mountain Records)

Elliott Grabill & Civitasolis Reed Quintet: Heroes and Villains / Travilah (Grabill & CRQ)
Les Métaboles: Singing Ravel (b•records)
Gustaf Ljunggren with Skúli Sverrisson: Along the Low Road (April Records)
Gil Shaham, Eric Jacobsen, & the VSO: Coleridge-Taylor, Dvorák, Stewart (Canary Classics)

Ryan Blotnick: The Woods (Fishkill Records)
Giulio Cecchi: UnOriginal – Julian Bream's Unpublished Guitar Transcriptions (Da Vinci Classics)
Daniel Rotem: Solo II – Under Construction at bluewhale (Daniel Rotem)
Eric Sawyer: Civil Disobedience (BMOP/sound)