52 albums for 2027 - one a week.

True listening is never passive: it is a challenge, an invitation, a horizon, and a form of leisure all at once. As the new year approaches, I’d love to invite you to explore these 52 albums - a collection spanning diverse geographies, styles, and eras, records worth living with, each one very dear to me among thousands echoing in my ears and memory. An album a week: that’s my challenge to you. Enjoy!

AO VIVO MONTREUX JAZZ Hermeto Pascoal

UMUT Arif Sağ

SALVATORE SCIARRINO: CHAMBER MUSIC Opificio Sonoro and Marco Momi

AURA Camila Nebbia

EM PORTUGUÊS Rabih Abou-Khalil

MARIA JOÃO PIRES / CARLOS DO CARMO Maria João Pires and Carlos do Carmo

MINAS Milton Nascimento

FEARLESS FIVE Enrico Rava

CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI: MADRIGALS Purcell Consort of Voices and Grayston Burgess

THE PERFECT STRANGER Frank Zappa, Pierre Boulez and Ensemble Intercontemporain

GIACOMO PUCCINI: TOSCA Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala and Victor de Sabata

JESUS’ BLOOD NEVER FAILED ME YET (WITH TOM WAITS) Gavin Bryars

CIRCENSE Egberto Gismonti

FRANCO DONATONI: 10 ANNI DOPO Divertimento Ensemble

INVENÇÕES LIVRES Carlos Paredes and António Victorino D’Almeida

HELMUT LACHENMANN: STRING QUARTETS Stadler Quartett

ASAS FECHADAS Amália Rodrigues

BACH: THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS Glenn Gould

DEBUT João Barradas

IANNIS XENAKIS: PLÉÏADES & PERSEPHASSA Les Percussions de Strasbourg

AQUI ESTÁ-SE SOSSEGADO Camané and Mário Laginha

PASSAGES Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass

AS WE SPEAK Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer, Zakir Hussain and Rakesh Chaurasia

LUIGI NONO: COMO UNA OLA DE FUERZA Y LUZ; SOFFERTE ONDE SERENE; CONTRAPPUNTO DIALETTICO ALLA MENTE Maurizio Pollini, Claudio Abbado, Slavka Taskova, Nino Antonellini, Bavarian Symphony Orchestra

RICARDO TOSCANO QUARTET Ricardo Toscano Quartet

RACHMANINOV: PIANO CONCERTO Nº4 / RAVEL: PIANO CONCERTO IN G MAJOR Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Philharmonia Orchestra and Ettore Gracis

GIUSEPPE VERDI: MESSA DA REQUIEM Wiener Philharmoniker and Herbert von Karajan

EXOTICA Mauricio Kagel

BAD COMPANY Pedro Carneiro and Pedro Melo Alves

LOBOS, RAPOSAS e COIOTES Maria João, Mário Laginha and NDR Radio Philharmonic Radio Orchestra Hannover

MANIFESTO Franck Bedrossian

PASTORAL Emmy Curl

INDIGO Bernardo Sassetti

ESPIÈGLE Mikel Urquiza, C Barré, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart and Sébastien Boin

MUSIC FOR 18 MUSICIANS Steve Reich

KOPATCHINSKAJA-SAY Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Fazil Say

MAR AFORA Guinga & Maria João

RUSHES 10 SONGS FROM RUSSIA Steve Lacy

HOROWITZ & TOSCANINI TCHAIKOVSKY PIANO CONCERTO Nº1 Arturo Toscanini, Vladimir Horowitz and NBC Symphony Orchestra

FORMULA 20 Max Bezhenov

EU VOU MORRER DE AMOR OU RESISTIR Carminho

THE MUSIC OF MARIA SCHNEIDER Dollison and Marsh

PROMISES Pharoah Sanders, Floating Points and London Symphony Orchestra

STEFANO SCODANIBBIO: STRING QUARTETS Arditti String Quartet

ARCHIPELAGO Luís Tinoco

THIS MOMENT Shakti

L.U.M.E. Lisbon Underground Music Ensemble

SÓ NÃO TOCA QUEM NÃO QUER Hermeto Pascoal & Grupo

DAUGHTER OF A TEMPLE Ganavya

EAST TRAVEL Arkè String Quartet and Mario Marzi

CARLOS DO CARMO BERNARDO SASSETTI Carlos do Carmo and Bernardo Sassetti

BERIO TO SING Les Cris de Paris, Geoffroy Jourdain and Lucile Richardot