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Modern Classical
Critics' Highest Rated Modern Classical Albums of All Time
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra
Promises
88
critic score
(25)
Max Richter
The Blue Notebooks
88
critic score
(9)
Ólafur Arnalds
some kind of peace
85
critic score
(7)
Nils Frahm
Spaces
85
critic score
(20)
A Winged Victory for the Sullen
A Winged Victory for the Sullen
84
critic score
(9)
Ryuichi Sakamoto
async
84
critic score
(14)
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Englabörn
83
critic score
(5)
Max Richter
Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works
82
critic score
(7)
Steve Reich
Radio Rewrite
82
critic score
(5)
Beth Gibbons & the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Symphony No. 3: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, Op. 36
81
critic score
(12)
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Users' Highest Rated Modern Classical Albums of 2022
Perfume Genius
Ugly Season
80
user score
(1,353)
Andrew Wasylyk
Hearing the Water Before Seeing the Falls
76
user score
(33)
Jean-Michel Blais
aubades
73
user score
(41)
SAULT
AIIR
71
user score
(49)
Ludovico Einaudi
Underwater
70
user score
(33)
SAULT
Air
70
user score
(307)
Hatis Noit
Aura
70
user score
(27)
Wojciech Rusin
Syphon
69
user score
(25)
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Recent Modern Classical Albums
Andrew Wasylyk
Hearing the Water Before Seeing the Falls
90
critic score
(2)
Sunda Arc
Night Lands
Clemens Christian Poetzsch
Chasing Heisenberg
70
critic score
(1)
SAULT
AIIR
83
critic score
(4)
I Giardini
Caroline Shaw: The Wheel
90
critic score
(1)
Clarice Jensen
Esthesis
Vicky Chow
Philip Glass: Etudes for Solo Piano, Book 1
90
critic score
(1)
Davóne Tines / Whitney Morrison / Ronnita Miller / Victor Robertson / Joshua Conyers / Jonathan Harris / Boston Modern Orchestra Project / Odyssey Opera Chorus / Gil Rose
Anthony Davis: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
60
critic score
(1)
Los Angeles Philharmonic / Susanna Mälkki
Steve Reich: Runner; Music for Ensemble and Orchestra
80
critic score
(2)
Caroline Shaw & Attacca Quartet
Evergreen
75
critic score
(3)
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Critics' Top Modern Classical Artists
A Winged Victory for the Sullen
Nils Frahm
Max Richter
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Ólafur Arnalds
Hauschka
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