These were my favorites:

1. Hilary Hahn & Valentina Lisitsa – Charles Ives: Four Sonatas
2. Oregon Symphony – Music for a Time of War
3. Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson – Berlioz: Les nuits d’été – Handel: Arias
4. Radiohead – The King of Limbs
5. Lise de la Salle – Liszt
6. TV on the Radio – Nine Types of Light
7. Various Artists – Jonathan Harvey: Bird Concerto with Pianosong
8. Thomas Gould & Aurora Orchestra – Nico Muhly: Seeing is Believing
9. Hélène Grimaud – Mozart
10. The Decemberists – The King is Dead
11. Tom Waits – Bad as Me
12. Béla Fleck & The Flecktones – Rocket Science
13. John Adams – Son of Chamber Symphony & String Quartet
14. Alexandere Desplat/Various Artists – Tree of Life Score/Soundtrack
15. Various Artists – The Muppets Soundtrack
16. Los Angeles Philharmonic – DG Concerts: Adams: Slonimsky’s Earbox – Bernstein: Symphony No. 1 “Jeremiah”
17. Okko Kamu & Lahti Symphony Orchestra – Sibelius: The Tempest; The Bard; Tapiola
18. Stephen Malkmus – Mirror Traffic
19. Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi – Rome
20. Thurston Moore – Demolished Thoughts