- Justina Jaruševičiūtė: “Silhouettes” (Piano and Coffee Records)
- Camerata Zürich, Igor Karsko: “Leoš Janáček: On an Overgrown Path” (ECM)
- Golda Schultz, Jonathan Ware: “This Be Her Verse” (Alpha Classics)
Justina Jaruševičiūtė describes the “Wolf Hour” as “that time of night in which people wake up without any particular reason and can’t fall back asleep.” It’s an hour I imagine many of us have grown familiar with over the last two years, though I’m not sure how many of us spent that time as productively as Jaruševičiūtė, who used it to think through the music that forms “Silhouettes.” The album-length work, which came out last March, charts the stretch of time between the hour of the wolf and an eventual, inevitable sunrise. Jaruševičiūtė pays close attention to the stops along the way, as if each one was a station of the cross.