By Vivien Schweitzer, James R. Oestreich, Anthony Tommasini, and Allan Kozinn
The end of the CD era, we have long been told, is near. And it's true that the onetime flood has narrowed to a flow, sometimes steady, sometimes faltering. But a few major labels and many small ones keep putting out many excellent recordings, as represented by the two dozen examples here, chosen by classical critics of The New York Times as records of the year.
