The music of 2022: Our critics' verdicts on the best songs, albums and acts of the year
Best Of 2022 compiled from lists by Joe Breen, Tony Clayton-Lea, Mick Heaney, Siobhan Kane, Hugh Linehan, Una Mullally, Lauren Murphy, Siobhan Long, Ed Power, Eamon Sweeney.2. Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh and the Irish Chamber Orchestra: Róisín Reimagined2022 was a revealing year. As artists emerged from the lockdown like butterflies from their chrysalises, a tsunami of creative energy erupted, transported on a raft of fresh and bold ideas.
5: Vivaldi Les 4 Saisons; Chevalier de Saint-George Concertos: Renaud Capuçon, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne When I was still at school, a neighbour, a professional musician of extremely conservative taste, posed me a question: weren’t we going to run out of musical material given how many melodies and harmonies had been used already? For some reason – probably the nature of musical training – he didn’t factor in rhythm at all, though rhythm makes music from Jingle Bells to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony memorable in a way that the raw sequence of pitches just can’t.
– A mammoth album with deeply confident songwriting, Síomha Brock has melded Irish ancestry into the cool international modern. Her feckless ambition is delivered with aching perfection, making this album a round, excellent listen from start to finish.– The poetry and raw emotional soundscape are a perfect marriage. I can feel myself walking wet streets, in trysts with imagined strangers. I smell the moment, I can hear the moment.
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