– Henryk Górecki – Three Pieces In the Old Style: II. (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / M.A.T.)
– George Friedrich Haas – Liar (Arditti String Quartet / WDR Köln)
– Matthew Whiteside – Quartet No. 6 (Aurea Quartet)
– Julia Wolfe – A Wild Furze (Crash Ensemble)
– Ryan Lott – Stutter Apertures
– Jim Perkins – Swimmer Amount the Stars (Bigo and Twigetti)
– Richard Skelton – Threads Across the River (Corbel Stone Press)
– Dobrinka Tabakova – Insight (Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra / ECM Records)
– Valgeir Sigurðsson – Dissonance (Reykjavík Sinfonia & Liam Byrne / Bedroom Community)
– Ulfur Hansson – Þýð (Nordic Affect / Sono Luminus)
– Nils Frahm – Our Own Roof (Erased Tapes Records)
– Matthew Whiteside – Three Pieces for Bass Clarinet and Electronics (Joanna Nicholson)
– Vincenzo Lamagna – Antes
– Michael Gordon – Decasia: II (Kasper de Roo & Basel Sinfonietta / Cantaloupe Music
– Olof Cornéer – Waves, Breaths & Dead Cities, Pt. 1 (Valhallakvintetten / Bigo and Twigetti)
– Missy Mazzoli – Vesper for a New Dark Age (Victoire, Glenn Kotche & Lorna Dune / New Amsterdam Records)
– Jessica Meyer – Get Into the Now (Publiquartet / Bright Shiny Things)
– Marino Arcaro – Sanctum Meum (Vitor Noah / archForm)
– Benjamin Tassie – Queen (Benjamin Tassie, Ligeti Quartet & Jonathan Mayer)
– Georg Friedrich Haas – String Quartet No. 2 (Kairos Quartett / Edition Zeitklang)
- John Adams - The Dharma at Big Sur (BBC Symphony Orchestra / Nonesuch)
- Daníel Bjarnason - Bow to String (Saeunn Thorsteinsdottir / Bedroom Community)
- Missy Mazzoli - Vespers for Violin (Olivia De Prato / New Focus Recordings)
- Matthew Whiteside - Exhibition Music
- Olof Cornéer - Waves, Breaths & Dead Cities (Valhallakvintetten / Bigo and twigetti)
- Jóhann Jóhannsson - Good Night, Day (Konzerthausorchestrer Berlin / Deutsche Grammophon)
- Jennifer Higdon - Harp Concerto (Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra / Azica Records)
- Basil Athanasiadis - Clouds That I like (Sargasso)
- HK Gruber - Frankenstein!! VI. Rat Song and CrusoeSong (BBC Philharmonic/ Chandos)
- Matthew Whiteside - …Everyone is a Child of the Inbetween… (Frances Cooper and Joanna Nicholson)
- Apex Twin - Gwely Mernans (Alarm Will Sound / Cantaloupe Music)
- Berio - Folk Songs (Contempoartensemble)
- Caleb Burhans - Beneath (Roomful of Teeth /
- Fiona Brice - String Quartet No. 1 (Bigo and Twigetti)
- Ben Frost - Death No Less (Bedroom Community)
- John Cage - Solo for Voice No. 17 (Lore Lixenberg / Sub Rosa)
- Felix Carey - Nudge
- Corey Dargel - What Will it Be for Me? (International Contemporary Ensemble / New Amsterdam)
- GoGo Penguin - Gbfisysih (Decca Records)
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