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Highest Rated Albums of 2017

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2017

This is an ordered list of AllMusic's highest rated albums of 2017. Check out AllMusic's Year End List.

1. Nicole Mitchell - Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds

May 5, 2017

Avant-Garde Jazz

Score

100

2. Andris Nelsons & Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 / Wagner: Tannhäuser Overture

May 5, 2017

Score

100

Source →

Amazon

3. Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Bruckner: Symphony No. 9

June 16, 2017

Score

100

4. François-Xavier Roth & Les Siècles - Maurice Ravel: Daphnis & Chloé, Complete Ballet

May 12, 2017

Score

100

Source →

Amazon

5. La Compagnia del Madrigale, Cantica Symphonia, La Pifarescha & Giuseppe Maletto - Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine

April 14, 2017

Score

100

6. Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin - Telemann: Concerti per molti stromenti

April 21, 2017

Score

100

7. Ann Hallenberg & Il Pomo d'Oro - Carnevale 1729

June 16, 2017

Score

100

8. Bunbury - Expectativas

October 20, 2017

Singer-Songwriter

Score

100

9. St. Vincent - MASSEDUCTION

October 13, 2017

Art Pop

Score

100

10. Cécile McLorin Salvant - Dreams and Daggers

September 29, 2017

Vocal Jazz

Score

100

11. Kip Moore - Slowheart

September 8, 2017

Country

Score

100

12. Osmo Vänskä / Minnesota Orchestra - Mahler: Symphony No. 5

August 4, 2017

Score

100

13. Tyler, the Creator - Flower Boy

July 21, 2017

Experimental Hip Hop

Score

100

14. SZA - Ctrl

June 9, 2017

Alternative R&B

Score

100

15. Lorde - Melodrama

June 16, 2017

Art Pop

Score

100

16. The Secret Sisters - You Don't Own Me Anymore

June 9, 2017

Folk

Score

100

17. Jlin - Black Origami

May 19, 2017

Footwork

Score

100

18. La Santa Cecilia - Amar y Vivir

May 12, 2017

Latin Pop

Score

100

19. Café Tacvba - Jei Beibi

May 5, 2017

Pop Rock

Score

100

20. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me

March 24, 2017

Singer-Songwriter

Score

100

21. Arca - Arca

April 7, 2017

Art Pop

Score

100

22. Rhiannon Giddens - Freedom Highway

February 24, 2017

Folk

Score

100

23. Max Richter - Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works

January 27, 2017

Modern Classical

Score

100

24. Moses Sumney - Aromanticism

September 22, 2017

Score

25. Arditti String Quartet - Hans Abrahamsen: String Quartets No. 1-4

September 1, 2017

Modern Classical

Score

Source →

Amazon

NOTE: This is not a year end list. This list is ordered by the ratings AllMusic awarded albums throughout 2017.

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