The local recordings that helped us through 2020
By David Weininger Globe Correspondent,Updated December 17, 2020, 12:00 p.m.
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Memorable releases came from Thomas Adès, Charles Wuorinen, Transient Canvas, Planetary Candidate, Osvaldo Golijov, and David Lang.
Our concert halls went silent in 2020, so it became the year we all had to look elsewhere for musical fulfilment. That meant an almost wholesale migration of live performance to livestreaming, the closest most of us have gotten to live music in 2020. I saw and heard my share, and some will linger long in memory â the Bang on a Can Marathons, Igor Levitâs series of Hauskonzert solo recitals, Metropolitan Opera productions. In the end, though, hunkering down with a laptop and headphones, or trying to fend off distraction in a busy household, only served to remind me how mediated, how