Now that you’ve had a chance to take in my modest, understated views on this year’s best classical recordings, I feel it only fair to point to a few other top ten lists:

• The list compiled by NPR’s Nadia Sirota puts the emphasis on the postwar avant-garde and is topped by Mode Records’ excellent new recording of the string quartet music of Xenakis played by the up-and-coming JACK Quartet
• The Chicago Tribune‘s John von Rhein tops his list with Alan Gilbert’s new recording of Mahler’s Symphony No.9 with the Royal Stockholm Symphony on Bis, issued in SACD format (I wonder if he’s heard Jonathan Nott’s new recording of the same work in the same format with the Bamberg Symphony on Tudor)
• Geoffrey Norris at the Daily Telegraph weighs in with a concise list
• The Denver Post‘s Kyle McMillan makes his list, checks it twice, and includes John Adams and Béla Bartók discs I enjoyed
• There are a few interesting choices from the New York Times, including a very fine disc of Ge Gan-Ru string quartets on Naxos
• WaPo has published Anne Midgette’s choices — she and I agree on Jenny Lin’s Shostakovich Op.87