- "Music in Circles" - the "post-genre" chamber sextet hear now berlin plays works from Caroline Shaw, Gabriella Smith, Andrew Norman, Nathan Schram, and Kelly Watson Woelffer in its latest album. Norman's contribution–the longest piece and the source of the album's title–is a wonderful, shape-shifting mess of sound and leans into its juxtaposition of wit and disarray
- "Berg and Strauss" - the Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst's newest recording features Alban Berg's Three Pieces from his Lyric Suite for string orchestra alongside Richard Strauss' Suite from Der Rosenkavalier, two works that wrestle with the theme of love through both composers' unique voices
- "Music for a New Century" - Daniel Hope and the New Century Chamber Orchestra present a fantastic new recording of four recent compositions, commissioned or co-commissioned by the group as a celebration of their thirtieth anniversary. Philip Glass' ruminative Piano Concerto No. 3 opens the album, followed by Tan Dun's Double Concerto and new music from Jake Heggie and Mark-Anthony Turnage
- "of Love." - violinist Curtis J Stewart recorded this album in the childhood apartment he inherited after his mother's passing, weaving between nostalgic music that reminds him of his mother and spoken poetry to create a "digital requiem" of sorts
